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Russian War Crimes in Ukraine: Torture as a Propaganda Tool
Zarina Zabrisky talks to survivors of the newly liberated Kharkiv region and discovers a terrifying logic of ‘psyops’ in Russian atrocities
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The ‘Syndemic’ of Poverty and Mental Health in Young People
A higher number of poorer children are being referred for mental health support in England, compared to young people who live in the richest areas, new analysis shows
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Liz Truss’ False Energy Bill Cap Claim has Misled Public, Poll Finds
Six in 10 voters believe the Prime Minister’s false claim that the Government is capping total household energy bills at £2,500 a year, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘Lies and Deceit’: Top Russian Oligarch Indicted for US Criminal Sanctions Violations had Role in Russia Interference Report
The indictment of Oleg Deripaska is the latest in a string of judicial decisions which lead back to Putin’s interference in US elections, reports Heidi Siegmund-Cuda
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Tax Cuts For The Rich, Benefit Cuts For The Poor?
Following news that benefits may rise with earnings, not inflation, Sian Norris and the Byline Intelligence Team asks: who will be hardest hit? And is this an inequality economy?
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Conservative MPs Fear Liz Truss is Pushing the UK Economy to Disaster
The Prime Minister’s Brexit-driven ideology is pushing the UK economy off a cliff and her own MPs fear they may not be able to stop her, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘Operation Red Meat’ Continues Despite Asylum Crackdown Failures
Sascha Lavin reports on how the Home Office is pursuing flawed migration policies to retain a base of reactionary support – no matter how ill-conceived
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‘The Iceberg Heading Straight Towards the Government is Housing Market Crash’
Experts explain how ‘the wheels could come off’ the British economy as a result of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s reckless approach, reports Sam Bright
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‘There is a Connection Between their Roots in Fascism and their Embrace of these Ideas’: Italy’s Drift to the Far-Right
Adrian Goldberg spoke to David Broder – author of Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Fascism In Contemporary Italy – for the Byline Times Podcast about the historical roots of the country’s new far-right leadership
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‘I Could See the Last Seconds of My Life’: Iranians Speak of the Terror of Protest
Guy Taylor speaks to a former political activist from Iran and hears the shocking stories of people currently on the ground
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How Austerity has Endangered Britain’s Ability to Safeguard its Natural Environment
Debilitating cuts have reduced regulators’ role in safeguarding the natural environment and stymied the Government’s approach to net zero, reports Thomas Perrett
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Climate Activists Evicted from Labour Conference Fringe Event Sponsored by Power Station Firm
The campaigners argued that the party should not be aligning itself to the company, which emitted million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere last year
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Conservative MP Blaming ‘Islamist Extremists’ for Leicester Violence Funded by Organisations Tied to Hindutva Militants
Bob Blackman, who is the executive secretary of the influential 1922 Committee, has had a number of visits to India hosted by pro-RSS groups
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‘Ministers Can Make it Mean Anything they Want it To’: The Realities of Citizenship-Stripping in the UK
Faima Bakar speaks to experts about the Government’s removal of citizenship without notice and its disproportionate impact on British Muslims
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The Tufton Street Elite Takes Back Control of the Brexit Project
The libertarian ideologues in Downing Street are taking a hammer to Boris Johnson’s Brexit coalition, says Sam Bright
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Keir Starmer’s Labour is Starting to Believe it is Heading for Government
Hope is overcoming fear for Labour delegates in Liverpool as they watch Liz Truss’ Government begin to implode just weeks after its inception, reports Adam Bienkov
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Funding Ties with Dirty Canadian Pipeline Giants and Palm Oil Deforestation
Rees-Mogg’s appointment as Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary suggests the Government is not committed to its own net zero aims, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Contract-Winning Firm Owned by Tory Donor Sees Major Financial Boost
Max Colbert reports on the millions gained by one of the Government’s PPE suppliers
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Kwarteng Rewards Wealthy Men While Punishing Poorer Women
The mini-budget is another worrying sign that the new Government is downgrading the importance of women’s rights, reports Sascha Lavin
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Liz Truss’ Economic Shock Doctrine Will Only Help the Richest
The Chancellor has announced a series of massive tax cuts for high earners and corporations, which have seen the pound slump and the value of Government bonds fall. Why is the Prime Minister risking turning an economic crisis into a disaster?
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Fabricated Buildings: The Conservative NHS Investment Myth
As the latest Conservative regime takes office, Rachel Morris considers one of the starkest failures of its predecessor
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An Alternative Budget: How Much Could be Raised Through Wealth and Profit Taxes?
Sam Bright considers the benefits of taxing the richest people and corporations
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Fracking Minister Funded by Fossil Fuel Investor
Nafeez Ahmed investigates Jacob Rees-Mogg’s relationship with his former hedge-fund mentor and political donor Robin Crispin Odey
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Three Years On from ‘No Deal’ Emergency: Operation Yellowhammer is Our Reality
We are now living through the bleak predictions made in the Brexit contingency report in 2019, says TJ Coles
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‘The First Time Politics in Our City was Played on Religious Grounds’
A number of arrests have followed violence between Hindus and Muslims in Leicester – a city traditionally associated with successful multiculturalism. Adrian Goldberg speaks to Shockat Adam, a Muslim community activist, who grew up in the east of the city, for the Byline Times Podcast, about his belief that the fires are being stoked by…
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Government Refuses to Release Correspondence Sent to The Times Over Axed Carrie Johnson Story
Under pressure from Downing Street, the newspaper withdrew a story about Carrie Johnson being offered a lucrative role by her future husband when he was Foreign Secretary
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Yemeni Children Live in Nests, but the UK is Open for Saudi Business
As Labour’s Chris Bryant accuses Liz Truss of misleading a select committee about her challenging Gulf leaders on human rights, Sian Norris reports on the impact of Saudi Arabia’s armed violence on Yemen’s children
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The Military-Political Complex: Armed Service Trumps Public Service in Truss’ Cabinet
While the highest offices in Whitehall are well populated by military veterans, there are dwindling numbers of former key workers. Why?
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Armenia is Turning its Back on Russia
The era of Russian dominance in the South Caucasus is coming to an end, reports Nikola Mikovic
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Winds of Stagnation: What a Far-Right Victory in Italy Would Mean for Women and LGBTIQ Rights
Francesca Visser speaks to activists about the forthcoming elections and how a far-right coalition could lead to stalling progress on human rights
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Will Museums be a Casualty of the Cost of Living Crisis?
High energy bills and pressure to provide warm banks for the public are threatening the cultural sector’s recovery from the pandemic
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Putin’s Real War and His War of Words
Sian Norris considers Martha Gellhorn’s classic 1966 examination of propaganda, Real War And War Of Words, and updates it for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
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What Does the New Prime Minister Mean For Britain’s Oligarchy Problem?
Oliver Bullough considers how a changing of the guard in Downing Street may influence attempts to crack down on kleptocrats
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Do Tax Cuts for the Rich Boost Growth? This New Study Says Not
Liz Truss’ proposal to end the cap on bankers’ bonuses is unlikely to spur economic growth, reports Sam Bright
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Sweden Democrats Latest Far-Right Party to go Mainstream in Europe
The electoral success of a formerly neo-Nazi party in Sweden – which has ties to the UK Conservatives – is part of a Europe-wide pattern where the extreme has become mainstream politics
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The Chris Kaba Shooting and the Shocking Reality of Armed Policing in Modern Britain
Iain Overton reports on the statistics that reveal the police’s institutional racial bias
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Near the Russian Border, a Ukrainian Hospital Under Bombardment
Natalie Vikhrov reports from a village north of Kharkiv where doctors have stopped counting the number of times they have been shelled
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12 Years of Conservative Failure on Renewables is Costing the Environment and the Economy
Thomas Perrett tracks the administrative missteps that have incubated the current energy crisis
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American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party: A Network of Influence
A special investigation by Nafeez Ahmed exposes the transatlantic connections between an extremist US pro-Trump lobby and organisations influencing Liz Truss’ Conservative Cabinet
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‘My Allegiance is to These Islands, Not the King’
Adrian Goldberg speaks to Paul Powlesland, who was threatened with arrest for suggesting that he may write ‘not my King’ on a sign
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‘People Feel Guilty’ – The Seven Emotions of Odesans At War
Chris York samples the mood of Ukrainians in the Black Sea city after 200 days of war, and finds conflicting feelings of fear, suspicion, hope, sadness and defiance
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‘Ecological Disaster’: Sewage Pollution in the North Sea
Stuart Heaver looks at the failures of regulation and enforcement against Northumbrian Water, owned by a Hong Kong based billionaire
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Seven Decades of Social Progress – But is the UK Heading Backwards?
The Byline Intelligence Team digs into the story of the past 70 years in data
