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UK’s Biggest Climate Change Challenge: Confronting the Gap Between Government Rhetoric and Reality
Thomas Perrett explores the ways in which the UK may be an embarrassing presence when it hosts next month’s COP26 climate change conference
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The Big Political Problem With Boris Johnson’s Wage Pronouncements
The Prime Minister’s latest inaccurate narrative is fraught with potential embarrassments, says Sam Bright
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‘Even Animals Couldn’t Live Like This’: The People Seeking Asylum on Spain’s Militarised Border
People fleeing conflict and the climate crisis reach the Spanish border only to find a militarised, hostile environment where even children are forced to sleep in the open air. Conor Patrick Faulkner reports
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Britain’s Brexit Crises: On the Road to Perdition
Richard Barfield explains how long-term solutions will be required to reverse the labour shortages being experienced by the UK in the wake of EU workers returning to the continent
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More Right-Wing Public Appointments As Two GB News Presenters Awarded Culture Roles
Sam Bright reports on the latest in a string of Conservative allies appointed to public bodies
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Inside the Radicalised Anti-Vaxxer Network ‘Influencing’ Government Vaccine Advisory Panel
As Covid lobbying groups combine to oppose child vaccination, Nafeez Ahmed and Karam Bales investigate how conspiracy theories and pseudoscience disfigure public debate
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Rebalancing the History Books: Why Learning About Colonialism Matters
To mark the start of Black History Month 2021, Almaz Ohene meets inspirational leaders in the younger generation fighting back against the Government’s divisive ‘culture war’
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15 High-Rises Higher Than Five Floors Targeted in May’s Gaza Conflict
Analysis into Israel’s airstrikes against tall buildings during the May 2021 conflict revealed 15 high-rises were hit – with Human Rights Watch asking if four of the strikes constituted a war crime15 high-rises were hit – with Human Rights Watch asking if four of the strikes constituted a war crime
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The Far-Right Co-Option of the Transgender Rights Issue
As political leaders are asked if it’s transphobic to say only women have a cervix, Sian Norris investigates how far-right and religious-right groups are using ‘gender critical’ arguments to further their anti-LGBTIQ agenda
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Preparation for Genocide? Modi Steps Up his Violence in Assam
CJ Werleman fears that the recent violence in India’s eastern state, combined with the construction of ‘transit camps’ for Muslims, is a further step in ethnic cleansing by India’s leadership
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What I Learned Speaking to Anti-Vaxx Protestors
Psychiatrist Benjamin Janaway wanted to understand why people have turned to COVID conspiracy theories. This is what he found
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How Would Proportional Representation Change the Balance of Power in Parliament?
Sam Bright explores why the popularity of electoral reform is surging in the Labour Party
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Why Insulate Britain and XR are Failing to Win Over the Public
Katharine Quarmby finds that eco-activists are divided about the best way forward to raise awareness of climate change
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Big Livestock Corporate Interests Dominate United Nations Summit
Jack McGovan reports on the strength of animal agriculture firms and efforts to convince investors to divest from the sector
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The Government Must Match Labour’s Ideas on Carbon-Free Steel
Cleaning up the industry will require immediate institutional action, says Iwan Doherty
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Risk of Price Hikes Will Continue Without EU-UK Energy Deal, Expert Warns
Sam Bright speaks to a former EU energy chief about the problems posed by Brexit
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After Trump, is Cooperation Blossoming in the Middle East?
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey explores how the power balance in the region has shifted following last year’s US Presidential Election
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Racism, Sexism and School Exclusions
A new report into school exclusions of black and ethnic minority girls exposes again how the Government is wrong to deny systemic racism in the UK
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Life Values: How the British Military Calculated the Cost of an Afghan Life
The Ministry of Defence paid out more compensation for property damage in northern Europe than for the death of an Afghan child, reports Murray Jones
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The IPSO Jewish Chronicle Car Crash Just Gets Worse
The sham ‘regulator’ operated by the corporate press has blundered into one of its worst crises, says Brian Cathcart
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‘Project Fear’ is ‘Project Here’: UK Supply Chains Seize-Up Due to Anti-Immigration Politics
The Chief Executive of Scotland Food & Drink explains how a hard Brexit caused the current crisis, with the lowest stocks in shops and warehouses since records began
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From Spiritual Pilgrimages to Conspiracy: How a former dragon on ‘Dragon’s Den’ Embodies the Crossover of Wellness and Anti-Vaxx
The Citizens explore the overlap between the mind, body and spirit community and those pushing anti-vaxx, far-right conspiracy
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Overseas Assistance Austerity: Government’s Drastic Cuts to Foreign Aid, Health, Climate and Gender Equality Revealed
Official new accounts published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office have revealed some eye-catching changes to the UK’s spending priorities abroad
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The Final Betrayal of Grenfell Victims Looms
Pulling down the Tower would be yet another act of scorn directed at the local community, says Tom Charles
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87% of Afghan Relocation Applications Rejected by UK
As the Government comes under pressure for abandoning its Afghan allies, Sam Bright reveals the number of people turned down by the UK
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‘They Are Keeping Us Here to be Killed’: The Loyal Afghans Abandoned by Johnson’s Government
Katharine Quarmby lays bare the gap between rhetoric and reality in the Government’s Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme
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Can Biden Face Down the Agribusiness Industry which Drives Climate Change?
Unless the US President’s ‘Green New Deal’ deals with the stranglehold that big business has on food production, his climate emission targets aren’t going to be met
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Three-Quarters of Police Officers Guilty of Gross Negligence in Sex Crimes Kept their Jobs
Freedom of information requests analysed by the Byline Intelligence Team reveal that police officers are failing in their duty of care to vulnerable victims and witnesses when investigating claims relating to sexual assault
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The Real Culture Divides Being Masked by the Government’s ‘Culture War’
Nadine Dorries’ appointment as Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary is said to be turbo-charging the culture war – but a new report has found the real issue facing the cultural sector is structural inequality not ‘wokery’
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The Brexit Tax: How Boris Johnson Broke his Promise on Energy Prices
In May 2016, the future Prime Minister promised that fuel bills would be slashed after Brexit – Sam Bright explores why the opposite has occurred
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Food or Fuel? The Human Cost of the Energy Crisis
Rising gas prices have prompted panic about Brexit, bail-outs and bills – but for poor families and the NHS, this crisis could not come at a worse moment
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More Than Half of Met Police Officers Found Guilty of Sexual Misconduct Kept their Jobs
A Freedom of Information request analysed by the Byline Intelligence Team reveals the extent to which the capital’s police officers work in a culture of impunity around sexual misconduct
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Metrified – or Petrified? The Return of Imperial Measures is the Ghost of a Dead Cat
Though it stands no chance of return, trading standards officer Pippa Musgrave explains why the nostalgia for imperial measures is a deflection from the problems of Brexit
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The Digital Dogs of War
Iain Overton considers how London’s biggest arms trade fair reveals the true face of modern conflict – and why civilians will bear the brunt of this autonomous, distanced new form of warfare
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The Sound of Silence: My Joey Doesn’t Need to Speak to be Heard
Stephen Unwin explores non-verbalism and how societal debates around disability are still too binary
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‘Everyone Is Forgetting About Us’: New Research Highlights how Government’s Social Care Reforms Sideline those with Learning Disabilities
Saba Salman reports on a forthcoming independent study, part-funded by the Department of Health and Social Care – the findings of which are in stark contrast to messages from Boris Johnson’s administration around adapting to the Coronavirus and reforming adult social care
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Murdoch and Morgan: The Reunion From Hell
Mic Wright unpicks the announcement of a new right-wing, Rupert Murdoch television station in the UK – and how it may have spotted a gap in the market following events at a certain beleaguered anti-woke news channel
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Arms Versus Asylum: In the Shadow of a Weapons Bonanza Live the People Fleeing War
The Byline Intelligence Team attended the opening day of London’s controversial Government-backed arms fair to witness the protests and hear the voices of those who have fled the bombs now on sale
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AUKUS Launches Cold War Against China
CJ Werleman reports on the announcement of a new strategic alliance between Australia, the UK and the US which is likely to tackle threats posed by Beijing
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A Digital Danger: Nadine Dorries is the Last Person who Should be in Charge of Data Privacy
The appointment of the Conservative MP as the new Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary has been questioned by those familiar with her track record in the areaala
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Polish Foreign Minister with History of Homophobic Remarks Addresses Polish-British Forum
The Belvedere Forum invited Zbigniew Rau to speak alongside UK politicians, despite him referring to LGBTIQ rights as creating a “civilisation of death”
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Up to Six Million People: The Unrecorded Fatalities of the ‘War on Terror’
Nafeez Ahmed examines the direct and indirect deaths of the post 9/11 era, as a new kind of state-sanctioned mass violence became globalised and normalised
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Poorly Pooches Abandoned by Brexit
David Hencke reports on the national vets shortage, caused by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, the Coronavirus crisis and a rise in the number of people buying pets
