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Articles predominantly based on historical research, official reports, court documents and open source intelligence.
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BBC Chairman Donated Tens of Thousands of Pounds to Right-Wing Group Funding Criticism of BBC
Richard Sharp has pumped money into a group that almost funds organisations like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, Eurosceptics, and the BBC-bashing News-Watch
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Brexit Britain: Half of Brits Would Choose to Leave UK
An exclusive poll for Byline Times finds only a minority of voters would choose to remain in the UK if given the option to emigrate to another country
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Boris Johnson Urged to Come to Parliament to Defend Millions in Outside Earnings Amid Bill to Ban MPs’ Second Jobs
The MP has earned £4.8m since he left office last September, more than 50 times his salary as a backbench MP, reports Josiah Mortimer
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Met Police Cannot Say How Many Officers Disciplined for Inappropriate Sexual Relationships
A refused FOI request to understand the scale of inappropriate behaviour by police officers makes it harder to hold the Met to account, reports Sian Norris
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Bereaved Families Hit Out at COVID Inquiry Lawyer who Suggested they are ‘Confused’ about Role of PR Firms Linked to Government
‘What exactly aren’t we understanding? It is a fact these companies worked with the Government’, a campaigner who lost his key worker father, told Byline Times
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Design Company Awarded £25m PPE Contract Applies to be Struck Off Without Submitting Any Accounts
Luxe Lifestyle Ltd, which provided 9m unusable items during the Coronavirus crisis via a ‘VIP lane’, has applied to be struck off without reporting how the money was spent
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BBC Chair Richard Sharp Previously Put on Bank of England Watchdog Committee Despite Lucrative Conflicts of Interest
When questioned, a spokesperson for Richard Sharp referred Byline Times to the Bank of England
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GOP Congressional Hearing Accidentally Debunks ‘Twitter Files’: Trump — Not Biden — Tried to Censor Tweets
Elon Musk’s selective leaks suggested Twitter ‘censored’ Conservatives, but evidence shows they refused to boost a right-wing disinformation campaign around Hunter Biden’s laptop
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Putin’s Energy Attack: Surviving a Warm Winter Battle is Not Winning the War
Though gas prices have fallen they are expected to rise again this Summer, so Europe can waste no more time diversifying its energy market, says Mark Temnycky
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Secret Saudi Arms Sales Court Hearing
Anti-arms trade campaigners say UK-made weapons are contributing to thousands of civilian deaths in the devastating Middle Eastern war
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‘A Blank Cheque Placed in the Hands of Ministers’: Lords Slam Government’s Plan to ‘Sunset’ Thousands of EU Laws
One of the central promises of Brexit is being violated by the Government, a new report has suggested
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Hundreds of ‘Toxic’ North Sea Oil Spills Since 2019
Sam Bright reports on the scale of pollution being pumped into the North Sea
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Majority of Brits Report Winter Crisis is Impacting Health and Wellbeing
New ONS data reveals how cold homes and food insecurity is impacting people’s physical and emotional health
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For Thousands of Young Children, Poverty is All they have Known
New data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals the extent of poverty in families
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Minutes of Boris Johnson Meeting with Cambridge Analytica ‘Would Directly Undermine Trust Between the UK and US’
UK-US relations would be harmed by the details of Johnson’s summit with the now-disgraced data firm, an independent regulator has concluded
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Two to Three Police Officers in Court on Criminal Offences a Week
Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley tells the London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee of the worrying rates of criminal cases against Met officers, Sian Norris reports
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Death of Rwandan Journalist – Another Red Flag for UK’s Flagship Deportation Scheme
John Williams Ntwali joins a list of critics who have died or disappeared in Rwanda
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The Rise of Fringe Science, Contrarian Doctors, and the Threat to Public Health
Dr David Robert Grimes looks at the partisan polarisation and obsession with scientists rather than science that makes us prone to medical misinformation and anti-vaccine propaganda
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Nadhim Zahawi’s Tory Leadership Bid Funded by Offshore-Linked Investor
The then-Chancellor was given more than £60,000 by an individual listed in the Paradise Papers
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Fresh Concerns About Risk to LGBTQ+ and Middle Eastern Migrant People in Rwanda
Buried in the High Court judgment which found the Rwanda scheme to be lawful are claims that LGBTQ+ and Middle Eastern asylum seekers have faced discrimination
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‘Farcical’: Government Slammed for Pledging Millions in ‘Levelling Up’ Funding to Tackle Dover Brexit Queues
Money promised to deprived areas after Brexit is instead being used to deal with the aftershocks of leaving the EU, reports Sam Bright
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Putin Allies Linked to Forced Deportation of Ukrainian Children
A new report has identified how high-powered Russian individuals in Government and business are responsible for human rights violations, Byline Times reports
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Scandal of the Moonlighting MPs: Conservatives Take Jobs Worth £700,000 Working for Party Donors
The Labour Party told Byline Times there is ‘no reason why a serving constituency MP needs to make thousands and thousands of pounds as a consultant or by lobbying on behalf of businesses’
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‘The Brexit Lies that Literally Made Us All Poorer’
Iain Overton examines the lack of consequences for the Brexiters that promised us sunny uplands
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Special Investigation: The Vested Private Interests Behind Westminster’s Influential Lobbying Groups
Sam Bright investigates a murky aspect of our political system, where landlords fund private rental research and fossil fuel firms donate to environmental groups
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Millions Could Lose Right to Vote as Vast Majority Still in Dark Over Voter ID Change, New Poll Shows
Up to two million people could be denied a vote unless they apply for ID – with public awareness about the new rules worryingly low, polling for Byline Times has found
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Conservatives Accused of ‘Camouflage’ Campaign Tactics After Imitating Green Party Leaflets
A number of Conservative candidates appear to have suddenly dropped the party’s blue branding, reports Max Colbert
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Senior Government Figures Meet with Lobbying Group Funded by Private Healthcare while NHS Crisis Continues
Sam Bright reports on the influence held by a parliamentary lobbying group backed by private health interests
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‘Enemies of the NHS are Softening It Up for Destruction’
Opponents of free universal healthcare hope the current crisis will open the door to killing off the NHS altogether, writes Adam Bienkov
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Number of Single Parent Households in Severe Food Insecurity Doubles
New data shows the number of people going without food has increased by 100% since before the pandemic, with health outcomes for the poorest households worsening
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The US Far-Right Cheerleaders of the Attack on Brazil’s Democracy
The links between Brazil’s far-right leaders and the US Stop The Steal activists suggest a globally-connected movement determined to attack democracy, reports Sian Norris
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‘Crisis? What NHS Crisis?’ It’s Been 12 Years in the Making
Consultant David Oliver looks at the chronic depletion of NHS investment, pay, training and staffing levels which have led to the current emergency
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Debunking the Biggest NHS Myths
Some on the right are using the current NHS crisis to suggest a different health system is required – but how much of this is built on fact?
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The NHS and Brexit: What We Now Know
Sam Bright examines the contribution of Brexit to our current healthcare crisis
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Income Inequalities in Britain’s Public Service Pay
Now the gap between the lowest and highest paid in the UK is one of the highest in the OECD, Iain Overton looks at the role of public sector pay in widening the disparities
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Byline Times’ New Findings Reveal ‘Epidemic of Sexual Abuse in Hospital Settings’
New data from the Metropolitan Police shows the scale of sexual violence in London’s hospitals
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Energy Firms’ Fossil Fuel Investments Radically At Odds with Climate Change Obligations
Big energy companies are piling money into increasingly inefficient oil and gas investments, reports Thomas Perrett
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MPs’ Debate Welcomed on Ban of ‘Indiscriminate and Cruel’ Animal Capture Method
The controversial practice of snaring will now be considered in the heart of power, writes Stuart Spray
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Macron, McKinsey, and the British State
The French President is facing allegations of corruption over his relationship with US consultancy firm McKinsey, which in turn is increasingly embedded in the British state
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Exclusive Byline Times Poll: Only 2% Trust the Press to Tell the Truth about Nurses’ Strikes
From the weekly Bienkov Briefing on Byline Supplement. The vast majority of those polled – 84% – back nurses’ strike action for a bigger pay rise and trust striking rail workers over the Government
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Conservative Party Propped Up by Financiers, Property Developers and Fossil Fuel Interests
Bankers have contributed a-third of the party’s income over recent months, amid plans to remove the cap on their bonuses, reports Sam Bright
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More Men are Killed in Households Each Year Than Women
With a post Pandemic rise in home-based male homicides, Iain Overton argues that confronting domestic abuse against women goes hand in hand with addressing male-on-male violence at home
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‘We Are Not Done’: Conservatives Remain in Thrall to Tufton Street
Sam Bright reports on the Conservative Party’s enduring alliance with the libertarian lobbying groups that ‘crashed the economy’
