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Articles predominantly based on historical research, official reports, court documents and open source intelligence.
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UK Academics Get Hefty Grant to ‘Reframe Russia’
Sarah Hurst reports on a new British group which criticises pro-European projects and draws the praise of Russian state media.
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Honour the Fallen: They Died For Us
Byline Times pays tribute to the incredible health and care staff who have lost their lives to the Coronavirus while protecting the public.
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PANDEMONICS: The False Choice Between National Wealth and National Health
Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King’s College London, explains why we don’t need to turn a health crisis into an economic depression.
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‘A National Scandal’: A Timeline of the UK Government’s Woeful Response to the Coronavirus Crisis
Ian Sinclair and Rupert Read with comprehensive countdown to how Britain came to have one of highest COVID-19 per capita death rates in the world.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Leaked Home Office Call Reveals Government wants Economy to ‘Continue Running’ as ‘We Will All Get’ COVID-19 Anyway
Nafeez Ahmed reports on Home Office private advice suggesting a ‘zombie herd immunity’ policy risking hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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Nightingale Hospitals Are an Amazing Achievement – But What About Aftercare?
Stephen Colegrave reports ON a new paper that explains what COVID-19 intensive care survivors need to regain their physical and mental health
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Life on the Covid-19 Frontline: Only the Brave
Mark Conrad talks to senior staff about the risks faced by NHS workers tackling the Coronavirus – and precisely why hospitals become virus “hotspots”
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Putin Exports Medical Supplies While Russia Suffers from the COVID-19 Crisis
Zarina Zabrisky reports on the repression of medics and suppression of factual reports from Russia despite its international PR exercises.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Hit it Hard. Hit it Early. New Zealand‘s Response to COVID-19 Puts the UK Government to Shame
James Melville on the fast response of Jacinda Ardern’s Administration which puts the UK Government to Shame
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Herd Immunity has Infected UK Policy – But Who Was Patient Zero for this Toxic Transatlantic Idea?
Peter Jukes finds more evidence that the origin of the disastrous concept can be traced back to the Prime Minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings and his US links.
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‘Digging a Grave’: Russian Ministry of Defence Threatens Journalist who Exposed Italian COVID-19 Intelligence Operation
Officials target Jacopo Iacoboni of La Stampa over his revelations about Russian assistance to Italy, reports Stephen Komarnyckyj
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Disaster Capitalism: Conservative Party Donor Cashes in on UK Government-Made PPE Shortages Amidst COVID-19 Crisis
Nafeez Ahmed reports on a new contract with the giant haulage firm whose executive chairman has donated nearly £1 million to the Conservatives.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Dangerous Crossover Between Climate and COVID Denial
Mat Hope and Zak Derler from DeSmog expose how the groups trying to undermine environmental action are also most likely to call the global pandemic a hoax.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Oxford Model Touting ‘Herd Immunity’ was Promoted by PR Agency Tied to Ministry of Defence and Nudge Unit
Nafeez Ahmed reports on the story behind a new study suggesting that nearly half of the UK population may already have been infected with the Coronavirus and claims that this could provide ‘herd immunity’.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Part Three – Behavioural Scientists told Government to use ‘Herd Immunity’ to Justify Business-As-Usual
In the third part of his investigation, Nafeez Ahmed reveals how laissez-faire attitudes have hampered a proper response to the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Part Two – Government Documents Reveal Concern for ‘Economic’ and ‘Business’ Impacts Prevented Early Action
Nafeez Ahmed on evidence that Boris Johnson’s Government was more focused on saving money than lives when it came to issues such as school closures.
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COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Part One – The Politicised Science that Nudged the Johnson Government to Safeguard the Economy over British Lives
In the first part of his investigation, Nafeez Ahmed looks at the serious flaws of scientific fatalism and inaccurate modelling.
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The Herd Instinct and ‘Herd Immunity’: The Etiology of a Bad Idea
The science didn’t change – the politics did. Peter Jukes follows an inflammatory and disastrous theory as it spread rapidly through the British body politic.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: We Are Right to be Concerned About the Government’s Response
Mike Buckley explains how Boris Johnson’s administration has one of the laxest responses to the pandemic compared to other countries and believes it is unnecessarily putting lives at risk.
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Putin is Changing the Russian Constitution for his Own Ends
Kseniya Kirillova analyses the new laws which enshrine the Russian President’s future power, control of the past and attempts to mobilise Russian expansion.
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Government Wasting Billions on Brexit Preparations and Drowning the Nation in Red Tape
The National Audit Office reveals the haemorrhaging of taxpayers’ money and the draining of resources from public services reports Stephen Delahunty.
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Conservative Party Receives £1.5 Million from Big Polluters in Three Months
New analysis by DeSmog raises more questions about the Prime Minister’s commitment to tackling the climate emergency.
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Big Lies and Rotten Herrings: 17 Kremlin Disinformation Techniques You Need to Know Now
As the US Presidential elections approach, Russian Intelligence expert Zarina Zabrisky provides a comprehensive guide to Putin’s latest propaganda ploys.
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Nine Trillion Dollars: Global Trade Hi-Jacked By Criminals
As Boris Johnson plans controversial Free Trade Zones, Mark Conrad reports on how UN Sustainable Development Goals are at risk due to the expansion of trade fraud.
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Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain’s Poor
Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.
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Brexit is Costing the UK More than All its Payments to the EU Put Together
James Melville on how the £200 billion cost of four years lost growth equals the entire UK contribution to the EU budget since it joined.
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Underground Russian Influence: Johnson and the Ghost Station
Turlough Conway on how a new legal case against Boris Johnson raises more questions about money laundered in London and Conservative connections to Russia.
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The Beautician and the Beast: Danielle Hindley v the Mail on Sunday
Brian Cathcart on how the Sunday tabloid admitted that it published a false defamatory story about a member of the public, but still dragged her through court.
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Poverty in the UK is a Government-Created Crisis
If the success of a government is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable in society, our decade-long Conservative Government has utterly failed, argues James Melville.
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Spending Promises Don’t Mean Austerity Is Over
Despite the Government’s various spending announcements, Iwan Doherty considers whether austerity is really over.
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Tip of the Iceberg: More Connections Between Boris Johnson and Russian Influencers Emerge
Turlough Conway investigates a new network of connections with the Prime Minister which lead back, via senior Russian oligarchs, to the alleged agent Joseph Mifsud
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Governments and Banks Want to Keep Us in Debt
Iwan Doherty investigates why our economy hates saving and loves credit and the consequences of the private debt bubble that enslaves us.
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Distorting Mirror: Court Exposes a Corporate Phone Hacking Cover-Up
Brian Cathcart asks when an institution involved in wholesale lawbreaking will begin to take some responsibility.
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Trump Impeachment: Separating Fact from Fiction in the Biden Burisma Affair
With his expertise in Ukraine, Paul Niland dissects the disinformation about the Oil and Gas company and highlights the real corruption Trump ignores.
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The Poverty Business Impoverishes Us All
Iwan Doherty investigates how businesses profit from poverty and billions are invested to increase indebtedness.
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Black Cube Employee Working for Harvey Weinstein also Targeted Carole Cadwalladr over the Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Peter Jukes on evidence that a former Guardian writer working for the Israeli security company threatened the award-winning Observer journalist.
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Russian Blasphemy Laws: Criminalising Comedy – ‘I Did Nazi that Coming’
As Putin seeks to extend his power in perpetuity, Sarah Hurst reports how a comedian is forced to flee the country for mocking the Russian President.
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Russian Government Bank Deposited $500 Million into Deutsche Bank Subsidiary as it Lent to Trump
Forensic News has more revelations about Donald Trump’s finances in 2013, just as he hit a debt crisis and visited Moscow.
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The Myth of Boris Johnson’s 20,000 New Police Officers Debunked
The new police officers promised by the Conservatives over the next three years won’t be fully qualified and will only be increasing the number of officers to 2010 levels.
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History Isn’t ‘Woke’ – It’s the Best Defence we have Against Tyranny and Hate
Hardeep Matharu explains how Laurence Fox’s myopia about the role of Sikh soldiers in World War One is a wider British problem of imperial amnesia.
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Piers Morgan and Phone Hacking: What Even He Can’t Deny
There is a lot of evidence about the former Mirror editor and hacking, but how much has he already admitted? More than you might think reveals, Brian Cathcart…
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Election Unease: How IDOX Conspiracy Theories Undermine Genuine Concerns
Though there are legitimate questions around the election management IT system, Brendan O’Brien explains how disinformation inhibits valid analysis.
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Johnson’s Bridges to Nowhere: Six Lessons from History
With Boris Johnson’s promise of great infrastructure projects, Will Jennings looks at the Prime Minister’s track record for what could lie ahead.
