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‘Palm Oil is Great Product’: The New Post-Brexit Trade Deal Scandal
Rachel Donald looks at how the Trade Minister’s justification for a zero-tariff trade deal with Malaysia only accelerates global deforestation
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The Starmer Audit: Three Years On, has the Labour Leader Kept his Pledges?
On the three-year anniversary of Keir Starmer becoming Labour Leader, Adam Bienkov analyses whether he has kept to his word or broken it
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Suella Braverman’s Race-Based Approach to Evidence Making
The Home Secretary’s comments about British Pakistanis and grooming gangs are contradicted by evidence uncovered by her own Department, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘It is Not Who We Are’: Government Hostility Towards Asylum Seekers Misreads Public Opinion
As the Government fans the flames of anti-immigration rhetoric, Dorothy Stein looks at the data that suggests the public is unimpressed
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The Game is Finally Up for Europe’s Longest Serving Autocrat
Ever since it emerged out of the collapse of Yugoslavia, Milo Djukanovic has been in power in Montenegro. Nikola Mikovic explores the end of an era and what it means for the future
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Iraqi Kurdistan: ‘A Country Living On Roller Skates’
Hugh Pope finds out why Iraqi Kurds who have migrated to Europe are on their way back to their unpredictable home country
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REVEALED: Leaked Memos Lay Bare Sunak’s War with Johnson over PM Gongs
Correspondence seen by Byline Times reveals all manner of advisors, relatives, friends and animals being lined up for honours by the former Prime Minister
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Watchdog ‘Examining’ BBC Chairman’s Charity over Donations to Right-Wing Political Groups
Richard Sharp pumped money into a group that funds causes like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, Eurosceptics and the BBC-bashing News-Watch. Now the Charity Commission is “engaging” with his foundation
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UK’s Brexit Trade Deal with Malaysia has Potential to Flood Market with Dirty Palm Oil
In a weakened position due to Brexit, the UK has accepted Malaysia’s demands to reduce import tariffs on palm oil from the current 12% to 0%
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Press and Police Corruption: Mail Hearing Reveals More Connections between Murders of Daniel Morgan and Stephen Lawrence
Witness statements on behalf of the claimants against Associated News plunge us straight back into what Gordon Brown once described as the ‘criminal media nexus’
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Bakhmut: Ukraine Fights to the Death while Observers are Split on Withdrawal
As the Russian winter offensive appears to have stalled on the Donbas front, Tom Mutch assesses the military cost to both sides in the war
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What is the Future for British Steel?
Pressures of decarbonisation and evolving international markets could lead to a significant slump in its competitiveness, writes Thomas Perrett
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Why Northern Ireland’s Youth want Reform of the Good Friday Agreement
Emma DeSouza speaks to young people around the 25th anniversary of the power-sharing arrangement that aimed to bring peace
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Farmer’s Weekly Exclusive: Mass Food Fraud and Safety Scandal Engulfs Sector
An in-depth investigation by Abi Kay has revealed that a food manufacturer was passing off huge quantities of foreign pork as British
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Ricin and the Red Tops: How a Made-Up Terror Plot Helped the Media Build the Case for the Iraq War
Josiah Mortimer talks to a leading lawyer who took part in the 2003 ricin trials on the terror cell that never was
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ECHR: The Peace Machine
Seventy-five years ago, Nuremberg prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe – an artisan of the European Convention on Human Rights – spoke in Brussels of his fear that the high ideals of the victors would be forgotten. His grandson explores why his legacy matters now more than ever
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The Fleet Street ‘Friendlies’ Climb On Board Braverman’s Prison Ships
The Home Secretary’s tabloid-pleasing plans to float desperate refugees offshore are designed to distract from the Government’s own failings, reports Adam Bienkov
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The ‘Good Washing Machine’: Gold, God, Politics and Turning Point UK
Katherine Denkinson delves into some of the bizarre connections between right-wing student politics, anti-Drag Queen protestors and allegations of smuggling
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The Real Truth About the European Court of Human Rights? It Hardly Ever Overrules the UK
Per person, the ECHR dealt with fewer human rights challenges concerning the UK than anywhere else in 2022, Josiah Mortimer reports
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Lack of Transparency over Police Forces’ Covert Use of Predictive Policing Software Raises Concerns about Human Rights Abuses
UK police forces are under scrutiny for their lack of transparency regarding the use of harmful technologies known to exacerbate racist policing
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‘Sunak’s Anti-Social ‘Crackdown’ is an Assault on Evidence-Based Policy’
The PM’s tabloid-pleasing ‘War on Yobs’ will only worsen problems in crime-hit communities, writes former Anti-Social Behaviour Officer Nick Pettigrew
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Is Northern Ireland’s SDLP Here to Stay?
The SDLP served as a bridge between communities during Northern Ireland’s peace process but is now in the fight for its life, reports Emma DeSouza
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Grenfell Council Returns to ‘Business as Usual’ with Community Asset-Stripping Plans
Tom Charles reports on a proposal by Kensington and Chelsea Council to redevelop one of the last standing community spaces in the borough
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Britain’s Top Lawyers Sign Climate Declaration Refusing to Prosecute Activists
The 120 lawyers signing a ‘Declaration of Conscience’ are slammed by Daily Mail as ‘woke’
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‘If we Complain about the Hotel, We’re Told Home Office will Move us to Rwanda’
A new report has lifted the lid on the degrading situations the Home Office is placing vulnerable people seeking asylum in
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Braverman Praises Rwanda while US State Department Slams Human Rights Abuses in the East African Nation
Brian Latham reports on the dangers facing migrants deported to Rwanda, and an overlooked clause which allows Rwandan refugees to be resettled in the UK
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The Downfalls of Johnson and Truss ‘Have Not Brought UK’s Constitutional Chaos to an End’
Nearly 100 areas of concern for UK democracy are highlighted in a worrying new report
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James Cleverly Signs ‘Roadmap’ with Israel which Threatens to Undermine ‘Apartheid’ Criticism and Human Rights Investigations
The British Government is signing up to a post-Brexit agreement seen by many as an unconditional endorsement of the dangerous direction the Israeli government is taking, reports Ben Gelblum
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In Deep Water: As Europe’s Drought Worsens, the Government Remains Silent on Water Company Failures
The Conservatives’ inaction to alleviate droughts in England is indicative of the party’s wider ideological failings, writes Iain Overton
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Boris Johnson Rewrites History at the Privileges Committee
The former Prime Minister’s refusal to accept responsibility for his own actions only adds insult to the injury of all those forced to make huge sacrifices during the pandemic, writes Adam Bienkov
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Trump’s Various Legal Entanglements
Heidi Siegmund Cuda reviews the former US President’s multiple legal cases, separating fact from the unreality he promotes on his propaganda platform Truth Social
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Labour has ‘More Seats to Gain by Rejecting Brexit than it would Lose in Red Wall’, New Poll Suggests
Keir Starmer could win an increased majority by turning against Brexit – but party officials are still rejecting any notion of rejoining the EU
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‘Ukraine Fatigue?’ Thousands are Still Fleeing Putin’s Brutal Invasion
Three of the thousands of Ukrainians still living in temporary refugee centres in Warsaw, Poland, share their stories, experiences and hopes to find safety and stability in the UK
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PM’s Power to Preside Over Breaches of Ministerial Code Should be Removed, Proposes New Bill
‘We can’t continue to have a situation in which the government is allowed to set and mark its own homework’, says campaigner Jennifer Nadel
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Boris Johnson’s ‘Bombshell’ Dossier Blows Up His Own Partygate Defence
The Former Prime Minister’s evidence to the Privileges Committee only confirms his complicity in events inside Downing Street during lockdown, writes Adam Bienkov
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‘Anywhere But Here’
Europe and the UK are both looking to push migration concerns back beyond their own borders – the human cost is devastating, reports Simon Speakman Cordall
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Starmer Under Pressure to Commit to PR Voting System and Breaking Up Media Giants from Labour Grassroots
The party’s consultation process for the next manifesto has just closed – as democracy groups call on the Labour Leader to seize the mantle of reform, Josiah Mortimer reports
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New GB News Director is a Tory Peer and Financier
Invited to Rwanda by Suella Braverman and backed by wealthy Conservatives, the broadcaster’s ‘anti-establishment’ credentials are waning
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Can Plans to Decarbonise Heavy Industry in South Wales Deliver?
Andrew Taylor-Dawson reports on £30bn plan which relies on controversial ‘carbon capture’ and appears to be dependent on developing a deregulated Welsh freeport
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Georgian Government Drops ‘Foreign Agents’ Bill, but the Fight Against Kremlin Influence Continues
Mark Temnycky looks at the turbulence in Tbilisi, Georgians’ desire to join the EU, and the authoritarian drift of the ruling Dream Party
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Save Our Statues: But Cut Down the Trees
After 110 trees were felled overnight in Plymouth, Katherine Denkinson looks at the city’s climate-change-sceptic head of Council and his links to the Tufton Street network of lobbyists
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MP’s Daughter Denies Actions Akin to ‘Blackmail’ of PPE Boss for VIP Lane Commission
Instead, Victoria Aitken insists she is pursuing a ‘legitimate claim’ against Euthenia Investments, reports Stephen Delahunty
