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Why is Scottish Government Spending £10,000 to ‘Support Dialogue’ Between Abortion Protestors and Patients?
Is mediation really the answer when it comes to groups holding extremist views and women accessing safe, legal healthcare?
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Alone and Ignored: How the Cost of Living Crisis is Impacting Students
Orla McAndrew speaks to students about their fears for the future as the Government once again turns a blind eye to young people
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Can We Trust Truss? All the False Claims During her Campaign to Become Prime Minister
The Conservative leadership frontrunner claims she is “honest” and “straightforward” but has repeatedly misled the public during her bid to succeed Boris Johnson
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Treated as Second-Class Players: Women’s Football Teams Speak Up After Success of Lionesses
Carrie Dunn explores the problems that have been plaguing the women’s game for years, which are now finally starting to receive attention
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The Memes Fighting Russian Propaganda
Chris Hamill-Stewart explores how a decentralised network of meme-makers is subverting Putin’s online trolls
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Solar and Wind Power Now Deliver ‘More than Double’ the Net Energy Produced by Oil, New Study Finds
New research confirms that renewables have been generating far more net energy than fossil fuels for years, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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How the Human Rights Act Helps Disabled People Live the Lives they Want
Saba Salman reports on concerns that the Government’s new Bill of Rights will leave vulnerable people without the support and opportunities they require to lead fulfilling lives
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‘The Stakes Are High’: Concerns Over UK Nuclear Security Inspections
Use of outdated security documents has escalated concerns about a ‘poor organisational culture’ in the nuclear regulator, reports Wil Crisp
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‘Myanmar’s Military Regime is in a Fight for Survival, and Will Do Anything to Cling to Power’
Dominic Hauschild reports on the arrest and detention of former British Ambassador to Myanmar Vicky Bowman
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‘The Chances of Coordinated Industrial Action are Real’
As Liz Truss vows to crackdown further on union action and the cost of living crisis escalates, Josiah Mortimer reports on the prospects of a general strike
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‘The Government’s Post-Brexit Immigration Policy is a Rare Success’
Jonathan Portes answers the criticisms of those who claim that what the Brexit campaign was really promising was lower levels of immigration
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Boris Johnson is Trying to ‘Silence’ Questions About Evgeny Lebedev
A Labour MP says the Prime Minister and his friend tried to stop him from asking questions about lavish parties held at the newspaper proprietor’s Italian villa, reports Adam Bienkov
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The Rich are Getting Richer – and They Spend Their Money on Power
Sascha Lavin examines how, even in this cost of living crisis, the rich keep getting richer – and they use their cash for political leverage
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A Climate Crisis is Becoming a Crisis for Gender Equality
Sian Norris reports how news that East Africa’s drought is entering its fifth year spells danger for women and girls
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‘I Do Not Know If My People Will Survive’ – A Fifth Year of Drought Is Coming to East Africa
Iain Overton reports from Kenya’s Masai region, where a fifth year of drought is devastating lives and livestock
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Government ‘Undermining’ Asylum System by Rapid Removal of Albanian Migrants
A new deal with the Albanian Government will see Albanians crossing the Channel facing ‘fast tracked deportation’ – but campaigners warn this could undermine our asylum system
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On the Frontline of Exposing the Truth About Russia and Brexit
Four years ago, Tom Mutch thought he had the ‘scoop of the century’ blowing open Russia’s involvement in Brexit. Now, after the UK has left the European Union and Putin wages genocidal war in Ukraine, he wonders whether we are any closer to knowing the truth
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Military Spending on Recruitment Adverts Far Outstrips Teaching and Health
A new investigation by the Byline Intelligence Team and The Citizens reveals the ongoing challenge, and expense, of recruiting personnel to the armed forces
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Online Propaganda: A Gateway into the ‘Pro Russian Ecosystem’
Matt Bernardini investigates the influential academic website Swiss Policy Research which claims to expose ‘geopolitical propaganda’ but seems more intent on spreading it
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How Overruling Roe is Already Risking Women’s Lives
It’s two months since the US Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion, and the horror stories are already piling up. Worse is yet to come, reports Sian Norris
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‘Global Britain’, and its New Blue Passport, is Falling Behind
In terms of its access to the world, the UK is struggling to keep up with its peers, observes Professor Christopher Phillips
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How the Energy Crisis Became a Crisis of the High Street
While the Conservative leadership election drags on, local newspaper coverage reveals widespread closures of cafes and restaurants, threatening the recovery of the high street, reports Sian Norris
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The Wizard of Oz: How the Crosby Gang Captured Conservative Politics
Max Colbert of The Citizens explores the decades-long influence of the notorious Australian political strategist
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How Can We Guard Against the Climate Crisis When Defence is Our Biggest Carbon Emitter?
Iain Overton examines the Ministry of Defence’s carbon footprint, and asks whether plans to boost military spending are compatible with the Government’s net zero targets
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What a New Polish Textbook Tells Us About Education’s Culture Wars
A bizarre history book is set to be introduced to Poland’s secondary schools – with its reactionary content symbolic of a wider battle for values in global education
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak Refuse to Correct Boris Johnson’s Lies
The candidates are refusing to correct the record on any of the Prime Minister’s false claims in Parliament, Adam Bienkov reports
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‘Swamping the Land and Ocean’: UK Beach Pollution Recorded by Citizen Audit
Stephen Delahunty has the details of a new report documenting the companies whose products keep washing up on domestic shores
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‘They Took Everything From Us’: Russia’s Long War Against Ukraine
Larysa Deshko’s Ukrainian family has long resisted persecution from Moscow. The grandmother is continuing that tradition, as she explained to Maria Romanenko
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The New Mass Movement Rallying Against the Failures of Westminster
Taj Ali reports on the ‘Enough is Enough’ campaign, that is attempting to give a voice to those suffering from the worst excesses of the cost of living crisis
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Resistance Grows to Liz Truss’ Plans to ‘Rob’ Workers of their Rights
If the Conservative leadership frontrunner gets her way and imposes new laws on trade unions it won’t stop wildcat and unofficial strikes, warn union sources
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‘I Am Scared’: LGBTIQ and Abortion Activists Respond to Kenya’s Elections
Speaking exclusively to Byline Times, LGBTIQ and pro-choice activists express their fears for a William Ruto presidency in Kenya. Sian Norris reports
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The Conservative Leadership Contest has Exposed the Big Lie About Brexit
Voters were promised better-funded public services and stronger employment rights after Brexit – Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are now offering us the opposite, reports Adam Bienkov
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Things Can Only Get Worse: The Dangers of a Truss Premiership
With Boris Johnson’s demise, the true believers of the Brexit revolution have sensed their opportunity, writes Jon Bloomfield
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Vulnerable Migrants Cut Out of Cost of Living Support
The ‘no recourse to public funds’ condition means migrant people who are destitute or on very low incomes will not be entitled to Government help
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The Children of Afghanistan Continue to be Caught in the Crosshairs of Conflict
A year on from the Taliban’s return, Natasha Phillips explores how young people’s lives have been turned upside-down in Afghanistan
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Where is Owami Davies? The Missing Nurse who has been Left Off the Headlines
When women of colour are missing, so is media coverage. Sian Norris reports
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Where is Britain’s Liz Cheney?
Alexandra Hall Hall explores the worrying trajectories of the US Republicans and the UK’s Conservative Party
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Liz Truss’ Claim About Productivity of Workers Outside London is Economically Illiterate
The Conservative frontrunner’s belief that Londoners simply “graft” harder than people outside the capital does not stand up against evidence on regional inequalities, says Sam Bright
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How the Tabloid Press Misleads on Migration
The Byline Intelligence Team take a look at how media reporting on immigration and asylum can spread misinformation about the weaponised issue
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Liz Truss’ ‘Lazy Brits’ Comments Expose her Own ‘Plastic Patriotism’
A leaked recording of the Tory leadership frontrunner deriding UK workers for lacking “graft” gives the game away about her real views of the British people, reports Adam Bienkov
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How Ukraine’s Southern Offensive Could Lead to the End of the War
Brian Frydenborg looks at the routes open to the Ukrainian Army if they succeed against Russian forces on the Kherson front, leading to an isolated Crimea and pushback in the Donbas
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The Government’s ‘Jet Zero’ Plan Won’t Reduce Airline Emissions
Thomas Perrett unpicks the proposal to achieve ‘net zero aviation’ by 2050 – and the gap it falls into between rhetoric and reality
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Beware the Charter Cities Conspiracy Theory
Chris Grey explores the various claims around Freeports and Charter Cities – and whether they are an extreme manifestation of a libertarian Brexit
