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Extremism Tsar Met Anti-Muslim Witch-Hunt Agency Advised by ‘White Genocide’ Believer
The Government’s Commission for Countering Extremism appears to be consulting academics enthralled by far-right Great Replacement theories, even as it holds closed meetings with Britain’s security services
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Five Things Ukrainians Want You To Understand Now
Chris York provides an insight into Ukrainian perceptions of the war, and how they believe it is being misrepresented abroad
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Private Schools Attended by Cabinet Ministers Increase Assets by £300 Million in Six Years
Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin report on the burgeoning wealth of Britain’s elite, fee-paying institutions, and the character of the politicians they have created
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‘A Crime Against Humanity’: New Study Finds ‘Explicit’ Proof of Live Organ Harvesting by Chinese State
CJ Werleman reviews a new Australian National University report, providing horrific new details of China’s abuse of political prisoners
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Boris Johnson is Fighting a ‘Culture War’ to Cling On to Power
The Prime Minister’s divisive comments about trans people are part of a broader attempt to replace his losing political war with a winning cultural war, reports Adam Bienkov
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The Collapse of ‘Brand Rishi’: Majority of Voters Don’t Trust Chancellor
Exclusive polling for Byline Times by Omnisis shows the Chancellor’s plummeting levels of popularity
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Voters Don’t Trust Johnson to Tell the Truth After ‘Partygate’
An exclusive poll for Byline Times suggests the Prime Minister may still pay the price for lockdown-breaking parties on his watch
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‘Another Shocking Example of Waste’: UK Spends At Least £23.4 Million to Dispose of Unused PPE
The Government has spent billions on PPE from the private sector, and is now spending tens of millions recycling the equipment it doesn’t need, Sam Bright and John Lubbock report
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How an Influential Pro-Russian Business Network Worked Silently Within Westminster for Decades
TJ Cole explores how the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce has attempted to shape UK politics and trade for more than a century
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How Hungary’s LGBT Activists Took on the State and Won
In an exclusive UK interview with Sian Norris, Hungarian LGBTIQ activists tell how a campaign filled with hope and collaboration stopped Orbán from winning an ugly referendum
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The Non-Dom Conservative Oligarchy
Playboys and plutocrats are now the natural constituency of Boris Johnson’s party, argues Sam Bright
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Has Austerity Made it Harder to Find Dirty Money?
Sian Norris asks if cuts to the criminal justice system, and wealthy oligarchs spending big bucks on the best lawyers to protect their riches, have impacted efforts to go after financial crime
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Levelling Down: Government Energy Inaction Will Hit the Poorest People and Regions
Spiralling household costs will undermine Boris Johnson’s promises to ‘Red Wall’ voters, reports Thomas Perrett
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How Johnson’s Government is Using Oligarchs in its Attempt to Rebuild the ‘Red Wall’
Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin explore how the Government is inviting questionable regimes into Britain’s former industrial heartlands
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Why I’m Scared To Open Instagram Message Requests
A new report by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate has found women are being targeted with misogynistic abuse on Instagram’s direct message function – something Sian Norris knows all too well
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From Nostalgic Disability Direct Action On Screen – To Rishi Sunak’s Cold Shoulder in the Spring Budget
A new BBC film, ‘Then Barbara Met Alan’, looking at the beginnings of disability direct action, contrasts sharply with Rishi Sunak ignoring disabled people from his Spring Statement, says Penny Pepper
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Probe of ‘Criminal’ Health Worker Deaths from Airborne COVID Transmission Blocked by Government
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the UK has been failing to fully protect frontline staff from the pandemic, and is now trying to deny its culpability
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‘De-Nazification’ and Putin’s Disinformation War
Using an example of local vigilante violence in Ukraine and its exploitation by Putin’s propaganda machine, Max Colbert explores Russian disinformation techniques
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‘There Is No Way to Switch the War Off’: The Real Price of Ukraine’s Information Victory
Oleksiy Pluzhnyk shares his insights on the incessant media chaos all Ukrainians are going through
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‘Trapped in a Cocoon of my Own Grief’: Putin’s Promise of ‘Liberation’ Brings Terror to Donbas
Tom Mutch reports on the plight of Ukrainian families that remain trapped in Russian-controlled enclaves
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Official Documents Show Government is Falling into Another Russia Trap – With Saudi Arabia
The Byline Intelligence Team has obtained internal official briefing notes showing how the Government is making overtures to Saudi Arabia on multiple fronts
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Selling Smoke: The Forgotten Child Victims of Taliban Rule
A cruel new era of Taliban rule is turning the clock back in Afghanistan. Angelo Calianno reports from Bamiyan, where more than the world-famous giant Buddhas were destroyed
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A Great British Unwelcome: Family Wanting to Help Ukrainians ‘Stuck in Catch 22’
Vicky Sargent shares one family’s account of trying to navigate the “impossible” Government scheme for settling Ukrainians in homes across the UK
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GB News Lost £3 Million Before Launch
Sam Bright tracks the financial fortunes of the right-wing broadcaster
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The West is Playing Chess, While Russia and China are Playing Checkers
Events over the past two months have flipped the perception of the geopolitical world on its head, says CJ Werleman
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Our Future is Being Gambled On by a Government in Blissful Ignorance
‘A’ level students Thomas Heath and Tom Marshall expose the Department for Education’s data-free approach to the impact of COVID-19 on learning
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Macron and the Long March of the French Far-Right
Radical right-wing forces in France will not be buried by a second Macron presidency, says Shafi Musaddique
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Disinformation and Deceit: How Russia Attacked Western Democracy
The disinformation tactics used by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine are familiar to anyone who observed them in Syria, the US election and Brexit reports Sian Norris
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Very Inefficient Process: Watchdog Exposes Government’s PPE Failures
The National Audit Office has produced more shocking statistics on the £13 billion of contracts awarded to personal protective equipment suppliers, reports Sam Bright
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Boris Johnson’s Partygate Lies Have Brought Disgrace to his Office
The Prime Minister repeatedly lied to Parliament and the public about the lawbreaking that took place in his own house, reports Adam Bienkov
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Wheat Wars: How the Conflict in Ukraine is Afflicting North Africa
Dimitris Dimitriadis and Iain Overton consider the ways in which violence in Ukraine may provoke social and economic unrest across the globe
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‘Government Risks Damaging Democracy for Generations to Come’, Warns New Report on Citizenship Education
Citizenship should be redefined to promote a more positive form of it and should not be linked with opposing extremism, according to peers
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‘Close to Useless in Every Way’: The Government is Pursuing Economic and Climate Disaster
Thomas Perrett reviews Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement and how it affects the UK’s climate change commitments
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‘They Have their Own Version of the Truth. We Are Living Ours’: Sandbagging in Odessa
Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko has vowed to be a ‘professional witness’ of the war in Ukraine. Here, she journeys through Odessa. Translated from Russian by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
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Chornobyl and Nuclear Terrorism
Zarina Zabrisky speaks to an engineer at the Ukrainian nuclear plant about the risks posed by Russia’s invasion and control of the facility
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How Can We Solve the House of Lords Problem?
John Lubbock speaks to parliamentarians about how the Upper Chamber could be reformed to reflect the modern age
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28 Days: 28 Pictures – Documenting the War in Ukraine
Tom Mutch has spent the first month of Russia’s war against Ukraine depicting the lives of ordinary people facing Vladimir Putin’s onslaught, and it is a portrait of both horror and hope
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Rishi Sunak’s Russian Hypocrisy Shows Who he is Really Protecting
The Chancellor told UK firms to cut ties with Russia – while his own family has kept hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in a company still operating in Moscow
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‘There is no Mariupol. I Don’t Even Know How to Express this with Words’
Chris York speaks to mothers and children who have fled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and arrived in Poland
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‘Completely Inhumane’: Government’s Relaxed Approach to COVID Represents a Regression for Disabled People’s Rights
By asking people with learning disabilities and their families to live in a ‘constant state of lockdown with no support’, the Government is following an approach to the vulnerable that should be consigned to the past, says Saba Salman
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All the Bad News Rishi Sunak Buried in his Spring Statement
Finer details in the Chancellor’s budget statement reveal that taxes will rise, incomes will fall, and the young and poor will pay the price
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Will Voters Back Putin’s Parties in Europe?
In the coming weeks, France and Hungary will cast their votes for either far-right, pro-Putin candidates or the opposition. Will the elections create the Europe the Kremlin wants to see?
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‘Violent’ Climate Activists Next Global Threat, says Lobbying Group Funded by Russia and Big Oil
What do NATO and Putin have in common? A mortal fear of climate protestors rooted in their systemic fossil fuel addiction, reports Nafeez Ahmed
