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Who Killed David Holden? How the Murder of a Sunday Times Reporter has Lessons for Journalists Today
With journalists increasingly assassination targets, Peter Gillman, a former staff member on the Sunday Times’ Insight team, looks at the murder of his colleague in Egypt in 1977.
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Russia Didn’t Need to Hack Votes to Help Elect Trump – It Hacked Voters’ Minds Instead
By overstating the threat, or continually pushing the idea, that Russia hacked votes in the 2016 US presidential election, we may be playing right into our adversary’s hands
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Thousands of British Citizens Living in EU would have to Re-take Driving Tests in ‘No Deal’ Brexit Chaos, says Government
New guidance published by the Department for Transport reveals the upheaval a ‘no deal’ Brexit will cause for those looking to drive in EU countries.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: How the Cash-Strapped Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is No Longer Independent or Doing Its Job
Jon Robins explores the state of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and the dwindling number of potential miscarriages of justice being referred to the Court of Appeal.
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GEORGE OSBORNE: ‘I Am Not an Expert in Producing a Newspaper’
As an ex-journalist becomes PM, James Hanning’s interview with ex-MP-turned-editor George Osborne explores the London Evening Standard’s commercial dealings, independence and his ‘spiky’ approach to the newspaper.
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Hate Crime Rise During the Trump Era is No Hoax
US Conservatives and anti-social justice warriors are pushing a false narrative about hate crime hoaxes to distract from the alarming reality.
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Life on the Street: 24 Hours in Manchester – ‘EVENING’
Byline Times’ regular cartoonist Slymoon, who has worked with homeless people and experienced periods of homelessness himself, starts his picture essay on Manchester from street level.
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The Life of a Court Reporter: Sentenced to a Year of Terrible Legal Arguments
Byline Times’ court reporter James Doleman documents a bizarre run of cases on his return to the press gallery after a hiatus from the courts.
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Ignore the Squealing Landlords, Rent Control offers the Chance of a Better Society
Tom Cordell on why the Mayor of London’s plans to control private rents in the capital could be the revolution required to break through the housing crisis.
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While Austerity is Intellectually Dead, it is Far from Over in Reality
Jonathan Portes on why ideology, short-termism and a relentless focus on Brexit has resulted in economic hardship continuing in the UK long after the Coalition Government.
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Electing Trump was About White Supremacy Not ‘Making America Great Again’
CJ Werleman on the US President’s worrying attempts to gain support by tapping into deeply-rooted anxieties and prejudices concerning race.
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‘We’ve Been Misled’ – Brexit Party MP Hopefuls Left Out in the Cold
Otto English continues his investigation into how Nigel Farage’s party is recruiting potential MPs – who have to pay a non-refundable £100 upfront…
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Unspeakable Suffering: How Afghan War Novels Express 40 Years of Conflict
Hizbullah Khan explores how fiction is helping the victims of Afghanistan’s decades of war to face up to the past.
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Australia’s Journalism Crisis is Threatening its Democracy
With Rupert Murdoch’s chosen government waging a war on journalists in Australia, democratic values in his country of birth are in peril, writes CJ Werleman.
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Three Men to Stand Trial for Murder of Malta’s Most Prominent Journalist
Nicola Driscoll-Davies on new developments in the investigation of the murder of Malta’s most prominent journalist.
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The Diary of a Homeless Man
Canadian Drew B explains his experience of sleeping rough in London and his battle on the streets against being deported.
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New Analysis of Hacked Documents from ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ Takes Us Into the Heart of Russia’s War Machine
A new report, co-authored by a Conservative MP, sheds more light on Vladimir Putin’s sinister hybrid war, which – tested in Ukraine in 2014 – was then brought to Britain, the EU and the US.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Brexiters’ Persistent Myths of Empire
Britain has not really faced up to losing an empire and the unresolved cost is playing out through the traumas of Brexit.
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Ed Davey: ‘I’ll Push for Formal Remain Alliance if Johnson and Farage do Election Deal’
Stephen Colegrave speaks to Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat Party leadership contender about climate change, green party deals and what will happen if Johnson and Farage form an electoral pact. Ed Davey is preparing for an election. Not his party’s leadership election, but a general election. He knows that Brexit will be the big issue and…
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Councils Monetising Housing to Pay for Public Services in an Age of Austerity
Tom Cordell continues his series on the housing crisis by looking at plans in Lambeth, south London, to use land assets to plug the gap in Government funding for local services.
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Science Museum Under Fire for Propping Up Arms Companies as Artists’ Group Pulls Out of Exhibition
A new exhibition on concerns around privacy in a digital age at London’s Science Museum is being sponsored by a company selling arms reportedly used to slaughter civilians in Yemen.
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“Indescribably Hideous” – China’s Harvesting of Uyghur Muslim Organs
CJ Werleman reports on China’s horrific persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
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Katie Hopkins on White Minorities and the Great Replacement Theory
Footage reveals the British commentator, promoted by Donald Trump, promulgating the conspiracy theory of Muslim immigration that inspired the Christchurch terror attack.
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The Times uses ‘Freedom of Expression’ as its Defence in Transgender Case
At an employment tribunal in Edinburgh, the Murdoch owned broadsheet was accused of inaccurate, misleading and prejudicial reporting of trans issues.
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Ex-MEPs Head to Lisbon to Demand Release of Football Leaks Whistle-blower
Members of the EU’s anti-corruption committee warn Portugal over treatment of Rui Pinto ahead of crunch meeting tomorrow.
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Is Pakistan Winning its Fight to Tackle Corruption?
Faisal Khan on Pakistan’s long history of corruption and Imran Khan’s quest to tackle it.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: A Miscarriage of Justice is a Lifelong Sentence
The injustice of how our justice system deals with its own errors was a key theme at the launch of Proof magazine this week.
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‘My Three-Year Battle with the DWP Over PIP: I Just Didn’t Want to Go On’
‘My Three-Year Battle with the DWP Over PIP: I Just Didn’t Want to Go On’
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Senior Figures Warn of Imminent ‘Penal Populism’ and Attack on Liberalism
Experts across the board fear a Trump-style Boris Johnson Government would be a threat to the criminal justice system.
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Who are the 112 Brexit Party MP Candidates? It’s Anyone’s Guess
Otto English on his attempts to discover who Nigel Farage’s parliamentary candidates – announced by the Brexit Party leader last month but never formally identified – actually are.
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A Fresh ‘Failing Grayling’ Ferry Fiasco?
A report by the Public Accounts Committee reveals that time is running out for the Transport Secretary to re-order contracts to bring in supplies if the Hallowe’en Brexit deadline is met.
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The Trials of ‘Tommy Robinson’: How Yaxley-Lennon was Always Going to be Convicted
Byline Times‘ court reporter James Doleman looks at Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s weak defence and shaky demeanour throughout his long-awaited contempt of court Old Bailey trial. It was an odd couple of days at the Old Bailey. When I arrived on Thursday morning, the first thing I saw was that the normally busy street was closed off…
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How the Shooting Down of a Malaysian Jet Reveals Corbyn’s Putin Problem
Paul Canning reveals the Labour Leadership’s alarming tendency to mitigate the crimes of the Kremlin.
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‘We would Rather Die Now than be Kept in Here Forever’ – Life Inside a Saudi Detention Centre for Rohingya Refugees
CJ Werleman documents his conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a Rohingya Muslim who has been held in the kingdom’s notorious Shumaisi detention centre for the past six years.
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The Myths of Immigration Just Don’t Add Up
Jonathan Portes, Professor of economics and public policy at King’s College London, on why the UK has long been a country shaped by immigration and immigrants – and how the reality of this is not as bad as the rhetoric portrays.
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Haringey – Reinforcing Not Breaking the Power of the Market Over Housing
Tom Cordell reports on an endangered proposal by local people in north London to force developers to provide genuinely affordable homes.
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Brexit Party Parliamentary Candidates: Another Money-Making Scheme?
After an Electoral Commission investigation into Brexit Party PayPal donations, Otto English has questions about their recruitment of MPs.
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‘This could Deter Black and Ethnic Minority Women from Seeking Help’: The Fight to Save a Vital Women’s Refuge
Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj report on the campaign to keep London Black Women’s Project running its specialist refuge service in east London.
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Condemnation of Maltese Government’s Attempts to Deny Daphne Caruana Galizia was Assassinated
Nicola Driscoll-Davies gathers reactions to the attempt by a government spokesman to deny the political motives behind the murder of Malta’s most famous journalist.
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Campaigners for British Ex-Pats Condemn Boris Johnson’s “Do-or-Die” Brexit Threat
Alex Varley-Winter reports on how British Citizens resident in the EU are left in a ‘void’ by UK politicians about the risk of being made ‘illegals’.
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‘Jirga’ Provokes New Thinking on War and PTSD
CJ Werleman speaks to the Australian filmmaker Benjamin Gilmour about his new film Jirga.
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UK DETENTION CAMPS: Home Office Exposes Trafficked Children to Abuse
With US ‘migrant detention centres being compared to concentration camps, Alex Varley winter reports on how Britain has its own problem with non-criminal prisons.
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AUSTERITY JUSTICE: On the Edge of Homelessness with No Legal Aid
Jon Robins spends a day at a court in east London where a number of tenants about to be evicted – who should be provided with legal aid – are relying on a duty lawyer.
