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Online Hate and Offline Violence: What We Learnt from the Dan Wootton Saga
Extremist threats are no longer confined to virtual echo chambers but spreading into offline harassment – a phenomenon known as ‘stochastic terrorism’, reports Dan Evans
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Age-Gated: ‘How the Online Safety Act is Distorting Digital Activism’
Some platforms are blocking posts about Gaza and Ukraine, while more innocuous forums have also been restricted as websites ‘over-implement’ the new law
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Unite Union’s War Chest Depleted as Strike Spending Spirals
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked financial reports suggest strike fund that once held over £40m is now spent, with cash to be pulled from Unite’s general reserves
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‘Expect to be Arrested’ Met Police Warns as Hundreds Set to Defy Palestine Action Ban
The Met Police have promised mass arrests as over 500 people are expected to take part in a protest backing the banned direct action group on Saturday
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Elon Musk Has Already Built an Interplanetary Colony: It’s Called X
Caroline Orr explains how Trump has enabled the algorithmic capture of social media platforms, resulting in stealth censorship
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Evangelical Christian Festival Condemned as Exhibitors ‘Brand Palestinians Savage’ and Back Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Creation Fest, a registered charity, has said it will not invite the group back, but questions remain
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The Turning Point Takeover: The Growing Network Bringing Trump’s Politics to the UK
The Women’s Safety Initiative is getting more attention, but its ideological underpinnings deserve serious scrutiny, reports Katherine Denkinson
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‘The Depravity of Gaza’s Aid Crisis Shows What Happens When Profit Comes Before Human Rights’
In just over a month, the UN reports that over 850 Gazans have been killed at, or within close proximity to aid distribution sites in Gaza
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Warning Over UK’s New Genetically-Altered Food Rules as Deadline on New Law Looms
Exclusive: Campaigners raise alarm as regulations allowing lab-altered crops in supermarkets from next year contain no limit on genetic modifications and ‘weak’ safeguards
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How Resident Doctor Strike Exposed a Generational Rift Within The Profession
Pay talks are set to resume after a five-day walkout ended last Wednesday. Maira Rana does the math in defence of the strike
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Reform Council Accused of ‘Trump-Like’ Behaviour Over Pride Flag Ban
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party accused of dodging accountability after removing LGBT+ and Ukraine flags in one of their newly won councils without any formal decision or paper trail
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The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records
The age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers
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Keir Starmer’s Government Still Hasn’t Reviewed Use of Musk’s X Despite Platform ‘Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation’
Downing Street continues to refuse to explore communicating through alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer’s violent disorder
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Mystery at the Heart of £1 Billion UK Legal Offensive Against Top Putin Ally
A sanctioned former Kremlin politician was sued for shares in his multi-billion-dollar fertiliser company. But why did a trio of companies with links to Russian interests in football get involved?
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Reform’s Elon Musk-Style ‘DOLGE’ Team Accused of Making ‘False and Misleading’ Claims About Flagship Council
A Reform report into spending at Kent County Council was based largely on dubious claims made by the party’s own former chairman
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Charities Face £3,000 Annual Bill for Driving Electric Vans This Winter Under Transport for London Plans
Exclusive: Proposals to slash electric vehicle discounts in London will hit food redistribution organisations and charity shops with thousands of pounds in extra costs
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Paying to Play: Europe’s Costly Concessions in Trump’s New Trade War
The US-EU trade deal is a “hopelessly one-sided” agreement, which will ultimately harm the economy on both sides of the Atlantic, argues Simon Nixon
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Aerial Terror in Kherson – A City Under Drone Siege
As Russia declares its intent to destroy Ukraine’s front line city, 60,000 civilians face being cut off by drone attacks
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Trump Made ‘Mistake of Historic Proportions’ on Ukraine Says His Former Ambassador
The United States’ former ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, tells Alexandra Hall Hall that she couldn’t “in good conscience” execute the President’s plans for the country
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‘Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Elder Homelessness’
The number of homeless Americans over 50 is expected to triple by 2030 as Trump unveils massive cuts to social safety net programmes, reports Mary O’Hara
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The Parliamentary Funding Loophole Allowing Murdoch To Dodge Scrutiny
‘MPs engaging with these groups may have no idea whose interests dominate the funding… allowing wealthy interests to quietly steer policy’
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University and College Union Staff Say It Is a ‘Toxic Workplace’ as They Consider Third Round of Strikes
Exclusive: UCU staff say they have been victims of “bullying and intimidation” by management, as they ballot for another set of walkouts
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‘House of the People’ Citizens’ Assembly Provides Alternative to UK’s Far-Right Descent’
The first sitting of the assembly recommended a ‘People’s Charter’, backed a wealth tax and an arms embargo on Israel
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Secret Report Reveals British Army’s Culture of Harassment and Hostility Towards Women
Male soldiers routinely sent explicit photographs to female colleagues and stalked them on WhatsApp, the report reveals
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‘Keir Starmer’s Government is Sleepwalking Britain Into the Grip of Trump-Supporting Big Tech’
The new ‘partnership’ between the UK Government and OpenAI is in reality a sellout to the one-sided interests of US tech corporations, argues Donald Campbell
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Labour MP Accuses Environment Secretary of Misleading Parliament Over ‘£100bn Cost’ of Nationalising Water
Clive Lewis says Steve Reed’s figures are ‘for the birds’ as Thames Water is valued at £21bn despite coming close to collapse
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Zelensky Struggles to Stem Backlash After Joining Bid to Neuter Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Agencies
Ukrainian protesters and MPs fear that hard fought progress against systemic corruption in the country is being undone by allies of the President
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Caroline Lucas and Campaigners Consider Appeal on Russian Interference Case After European Ruling
Former MPs lose case arguing Government failed to properly investigate Moscow’s election meddling, despite judges acknowledging ‘shortcomings’ in ministers’ response
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UK Charity Sanctioned Over ‘Distressing’ Fundraising Video for Israeli Military
The action by the Charity Commission followed a Byline Times investigation into the video, which appeared to show a Palestinian being hit by Israeli munitions
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Reform Council Bans All Mentions of Climate Change While Quietly Taking Green Funds From Government
Reform-run West Northamptonshire is removing all references to ‘climate change’ and ‘net zero’ from official documents, yet continuing to take government green grants
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‘Why We Need a Coordinated Media Revolution’
Alternative media platforms cannot thrive in a vacuum and policy reforms will not succeed without grassroots pressure, argues Tom Hardy
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Palestine Campaign Group Says It Has Been ‘De-Banked’ by Virgin Money With ‘£10,000 Trapped’
EXCLUSIVE: Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine says their account was frozen without explanation days after Palestine Action was proscribed, preventing aid donations from reaching Gaza
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Andy Burnham: These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call for Radical Change of Our Politics
From imposter syndrome and proportional representation, to fixing the fundamentals and the ‘incestuous’ Westminster media-political class – Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor believes the right can be defeated at the ballot box if bold changes to connect with the public and their day-to-day lives are made now
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‘What Trump’s Ukraine U-Turn Really Tells Us About His Psychology’
Trump’s shift from betraying Ukraine to turning on Putin reveals a lot about the man and his Presidency, argues George Llewelyn
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‘Grassroots’ Pressure Group Opposing Equality Act Is Bankrolled by Tufton Street-Linked Funder
EXCLUSIVE: Supposedly independent campaign group Don’t Divide Us, is funded by body that has anonymously funnelled millions to right-wing groups
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British Lords Under Fire for Serving on Hong Kong Court Which Sentences Democracy Activists, While Swearing Allegiance to China-Controlled Region
EXCLUSIVE: Peers earn tens of thousands of pounds from roles as Beijing tightens its grip, imprisoning journalists and human rights campaigners
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The New Left: Could a Jeremy Corbyn Led Party Really Break the Duopoly?
There are huge barriers to creating new parties of the left, but it just might be possible, argues Neal Lawson
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Tax-Dodging Billionaires Are Being Let off the Hook by HMRC, Warn MPs
Prosecutions of wealthy tax evaders have collapsed, with MPs warning that UK authorities are failing to keep track of those avoiding their dues
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Reform’s Darren Grimes Seeks Help From European Convention on Human Rights After Previously Calling It ‘Utterly Bent’
EXCLUSIVE: The former GB News host wants to rely on the same European laws he has campaigned against
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A Year Since the UK Riots, Elon Musk’s X Is Still ‘Profiting From Anti-Muslim and Anti-Migrant’ Hate
Report finds X is still failing to take down calls for violence against Muslims and migrants despite the messages “clearly violating” the platform’s own rules
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Srebrenica: Thirty Years of Denial
On the anniversary of the Srebenica massacre, Chris Keulemans reflects on three decades of trauma, insult and neglect
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‘MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders – This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work’
The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they’re not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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First Past the Post to Be Scrapped for English Mayoral Elections in Bid to Reverse Conservative ‘Gerrymandering’
The move reverses changes made by the last Conservative Government, which was accused of seeking to “stitch up” elections in its own favour
