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From Lawnmower Mishaps to Expenses Scandals: 10 Fresh Embarrassments for Reform UK
Nigel Farage’s newly-expanded party is already struggling with costly U-turns, police investigations and increasingly bizarre behaviour
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‘Traditional Gender Norms Are the Exact Opposite’ of What UK Economy Needs, New Report Finds
A gender equality study shows that gender inequality is worsening financial hardship in deprived regions
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Refugee Week 2025: ‘We Cannot Leave This Global Problem Up to Our Idiotic Policymakers’
Community is key to solving the issue of immigration, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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Gambling Firm 1XBet Branded ‘The Wagner Group Of Sports Betting’
Gambling industry experts suggest 1XBet is the world’s biggest ‘visible illegal sports betting operator’ in the world
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Americans Oppose Trump Joining Israel-Iran War and Do Not See the Iranian Nuclear Program as an Immediate Threat
New polling suggests that voters do not want the President to further involve the US in the Middle East conflict
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BBC Admits ‘Regret’ After Again Failing to Disclose British Colonel’s Links to Israeli Defence Force
The broadcaster failed to inform listeners of Colonel Richard Kemp’s connections to the IDF, despite an earlier rebuke from the Charity Commission, following an investigation by Byline Times
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How Negative Media Headlines About Small Boat Crossings Are Turning Brits Against All Migrants
New research finds that disproportionate coverage of the relatively low numbers crossing the English channel is turning British people against all incomers
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An Island of Neighbours: Rebuilding Labour from the Ground-Up
Clementine Boucher and Luke Hurst, of the cross-party think tank Compass, share practical insights from its conference in London in May, focusing on how a ‘decade of radical renewal’ can become a reality
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UK Government ‘Blocking Debt Relief’ for World’s Poorest Countries Following Corporate Lobbying
Aid groups accuse Keir Starmer’s Government of undermining poorer nations due to the influence of City lobbyists
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Reform UK Councils Are Facing Protests After Cancelling Climate Change Preparations
Nigel Farage’s party is culling anything to do with tackling climate change, including local planning for rising sea levels
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US Journalist Austin Tice’s Family Throw Doubt on Syrian Claim He Was Executed
An upcoming BBC podcast about the reporter’s disappearance in August 2012 has unearthed new details of his case – some of which his family has dismissed
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Resignations, Cancelled Meetings and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos
Nigel Farage’s band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle, reports Josiah Mortimer
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JD Vance’s ‘British Sherpa’ Chairs Organisation Funded by Billionaires Urging a Second US Civil War
The man described as the Vice President’s “philosopher king” is linked to a series of right-wing billionaires who have condemned democracy and called for a “limited dictatorship” in the US
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The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent”
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A Toxic ‘Sewage Sludge’ is Covering Britain’s Crops in Microplastics – Then Flowing Into Our Rivers
Campaigners including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Caroline Lucas warn that decades-old testing rules need to be urgently updated
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Russia Ramps Up Overnight Attacks as It Prepares for a New Summer Offensive Against Ukraine
Ukrainians are enduring a significant increase in the scale and frequency of Russian attacks, reports George Llewelyn
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‘Nigel Farage’s Patronising Coal Mine Fantasy Says a Lot About What He Really Thinks of Working People’
The Reform leader’s pledge to restart Welsh blast furnaces ignores the practical realities of flooded pits, collapsed infrastructure – and the actual wishes of working people, argues Josiah Mortimer
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BBC Scraps Pledge to Show Gaza Medics Documentary ‘As Soon as Possible’
The BBC has shelved plans to broadcast the harrowing ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ documentary pending an “ongoing review” into its coverage of the conflict
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‘Geert Wilders Thought He Could Finally Push Through His Destructive Agenda – But He Ran Out Of Patience’
No government in recent history has produced so little new legislation – yet the damage caused is immense, writes Chris Keulemans
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Reform UK’s Elon Musk-Style ‘Doge’ Team Is in Turmoil Following Major Resignations
The team set up by Nigel Farage to slash spending in the local authorities his party now runs across England is already falling apart
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Retaliation? Putin ‘Closely Monitors’ Criminal Strikes on Civilians in Kherson
Following the UN and Human Rights Watch identifying Russian drone attacks in Kherson as war crimes and crimes against humanity—the Russian military launched a massive combined assault on the city’s central district
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Jordan Official Threatens to ‘Mobilise the Army’ If Israel Expels Palestinians
The fragile 30 year peace between Jordan and Israel could soon be brought to an end by the actions of Netanyahu’s Government, reports Rana Sabbagh
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Wales Offered Stark Choice Between ‘Reform-Led Government or Plaid Cymru’ – as Labour’s 26-year Rule Starts to Crumble
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says Nigel Farage’s party could ‘undo Wales’s fledgling democracy’ as polling shows dramatic shift away from Labour
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‘My Partner Turned Out to Be an Undercover Cop – Now I’m Exposing the Truth’
The activist who helped expose Britain’s ‘spy cop’ scandal discusses her new book on state-sanctioned betrayal, and why she thinks politicised policing still continues today
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How Ukraine Used Cheap Drones and a Lot of Ingenuity to Strike a Major Blow Against Russia
“I spent most of the early hours of Saturday in my hallway feeling the walls shake as the ballistic missiles exploded”, Chris York reports from Kyiv
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Whistleblower Alleges Systemic Failures in UK-Approved US Biofuel Sustainability Certification
Ex-auditor claims compliance has been ‘eroded into a rubber-stamping process’
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Nigel Farage’s ‘£7 Billion DEI Savings’ Don’t Actually Exist
The media is widely reporting Reform UK’s claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer
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UN Confirms Russian Drone Attacks on Kherson are Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
Zarina Zabrisky, who first exposed the “human safari” in Kherson for Byline Times in July 2024, reports on the UN’s historic confirmation that Russia deliberately targeted civilians in a campaign of terror.
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Keir Starmer Will Trigger Voter Backlash if He Breaks Warm Homes Pledge, Polling Suggests
Over half of Labour voters say that mooted plans to cut funding for home insulation would hit their trust in the party
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Israel’s ‘Grotesque’ Detention of Palestinian Bodies Is Intended to Silence and ‘Traumatise Families’
Since the October 7 attacks, the number of Palestinian bodies held by Israeli state incommunicado has soared
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How Russia’s Fake Spirituality Became a Key Weapon in the Kremlin’s Disinformation Toolbox
Under Putin, Christianity has been turned into a political tool to spread false narratives about the war in Ukraine
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Gaza Tribunal Gathers in Sarajevo in Attempt to Hold Israel to Account Over ‘Genocide and War Crimes’
One Gaza doctor told the Tribunal that he witnessed “mass casualty events” multiple times a day.
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Matt Hancock and Three Conservative Peers Referred 60 Suppliers Onto the PPE COVID VIP Lane
Officials have told the COVID Inquiry that not all VIP suppliers have been ‘recorded’ and the true scale of its operation remains unknown
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Government Urged to Adopt Automatic Voter Registration to Fix ‘Woefully Inefficient and Outdated System’
Campaigners believe ‘millions more could be enfranchised with no additional burden on individuals or extra cost’
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Failing Celebrity-Run Care Home for Girls Permanently Shut to Keep Children Safe
Court upholds Ofsted’s decision to close AP Care Homes with judge scathing about owner Ampika Pickston’s professional conduct exposed during an 18-month Byline Times investigation into the crisis-hit facility
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Government Accused of ‘Facilitating Genocide’ in Gaza Over Shipment of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel
The Government were taken to court in a bid to block the supply of parts campaigners believe may be used to commit war crimes in Gaza
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‘Google’s Illegal Monopoly and How US Court Decision Comes at a Critical Time for UK and EU Policymakers’
A landmark antitrust decision against Google in the US will have profound iImplications for the digital economy in the UK and beyond, writes Stephen Kinsella and Tim Cowen
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How Wales Became the Target of a Right Wing Culture War
Rachel Morris on the politicians and media organisations now cynically trying to exploit Wales for their own political gain
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‘I Was Targeted by a Hostile Crypto Spambot Swarm That Revealed How X’s Algorithm Has Been Truly Broken’
The automated block attack tricks the algorithm into thinking your account should be suppressed, reports Iain Overton
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‘How Trump Fumbled the Ukraine Peace Talks in Istanbul and Emboldened Putin — Yet Again’
The Kremlin is now so emboldened by the Trump administration’s position that it’s as if three years of Ukrainian resistance, backed by the West, never even happened, writes Chris York from Kyiv
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‘MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster
Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change
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Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship
Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country
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How French Activists Are Leading an ‘Urgent’ Fight Against the Surging Far Right
Melissa Chemam details the multifaceted resistance mobilising against far-right groups, Islamophobia and racism across the Channel
