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A Hospital on the Edge of Civilisation
Iain Overton reports on a medical centre in eastern Ukraine which was caught in an unexpected war – a war which transformed everything.
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Football Leaks ‘Whistle-Blower’ Hit with 147 Hacking and Extortion Charges
Portuguese prosecutors this week charged Rui Pinto with 147 alleged offences, including claims he hacked the emails of a major football club and sports investment firm.
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The Great Suffocator: How Nothing Else Matters in Brexit Britain Anymore
From defence to the environment, poverty to animal welfare, for three years now Brexit has suffocated debate and reform in equal measure – but for how much longer will this continue?
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How Donald Trump Became a Vision of Hope for the Hong Kong Protestors
Steve Shaw sat down with political activist Edward Chin in Hong Kong to discuss how the protests taking the island by storm have a different feel from those which occurred five years ago.
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Supreme Court Prorogation Case: The ‘Mother of Parliaments’ Shut Down by ‘the Father of Lies’
Day two of the momentous Supreme Court hearing on whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in advising the Queen to suspend Parliament.
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Lord Andrew Adonis to Step Down from House of Lords if Elected Labour MP in Kate Hoey’s Constituency
Lord Adonis spoke to Oliver Murphy about potentially becoming the first life peer to hand back his peerage to sit in the House of Commons.
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Lessons Not Learnt from Windrush Scandal over English Language Tests Cheating Claims, MPs Warn
The Home Office has made no effort to identify overseas students wrongly accused of cheating in oral exams, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
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Supreme Court Prorogation Case: ‘No Prime Minister has Abused his Powers in this Way in the Last 50 Years’
day one of the momentous hearing at the UK’s Supreme Court to determine whether the Prime Minister acted unlawfully in advising the Queen to suspend Parliament.
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: ‘Maltese Authorities Still Won’t Tell Us Who Wanted her Silenced’
Updates on the lasting legacy of the murdered Maltese journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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Pro-Trump Entities Weaponising Twitter to Promote a Hard Brexit, New Analysis Shows
The same online forces supporting the policies of US President Donald Trump are also bolstering those of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according to an expert examining propaganda on social media.
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No Expatriate is Safe from Having their Human Rights Violated by the Emirates
While the UAE’s mistreatment of migrant labourers is well documented, CJ Werleman shines a spotlight on the abuse being perpetrated against other visitors to the Emirate.
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Why Boris Johnson’s Funding from Hedge Funds is a Matter of Public Interest
Following Byline Times’ story on the donors to the Prime Minister we provide more information on our findings and the importance for British politics
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Beyond Brexit: 44 MPs Rebel to Save our Planet as Parliament is Prorogued
Some MPs can see past Brexit to the bigger issue of saving the planet, reports Stephen Colegrave, who headed to Parliament for an Extinction Rebellion meeting on the day it was suspended.
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DYING QUIETLY: The Cost of Staying Alive
In their series exploring the deaths that go unnoticed, Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj examine the impact of austerity and the shrinking of state social safety nets.
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Hong Kong Protests: ‘The City is Starting to Feel Like a Police State’
Steve Shaw on worrying developments in Hong Kong residents’ fight for freedom – a quest which has now gone beyond concerns about the island’s controversial extradition bill.
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The Return of the Taliban’s Reign in Afghanistan?
A report from Kabul on what a post-peace environment in Afghanistan could look like – and the main players looking for power.
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The Insider who Revealed the Russian Money Nexus in Latvia
15 years ago, John Christmas blew the whistle on fraud at Latvia’s Parex bank. But some of the players he exposed are still at the forefront of Putin’s destabilisation of the West.
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‘Democracy Dies when Fact and Information is Denied’
Stephen Colegrave speaks to crossbench peer Lord Victor Adebowale about how our democracy is teetering dangerously on the edge of a cliff.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: Why the Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is in Crisis
Jon Robins on the case of Oliver Campbell and what it reveals about our creaking criminal justice system.
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Boris Johnson’s No Deal Brexit Plot for the Lords Crashes and Burns
The fatal flaw in the Prime Minister’s plans to create 100 new ‘no deal’ Brexit-supporting peers.
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The Day I Met Gavin Williamson – Westminster’s Machiavelli
Oliver Murphy begins his political reporting for Byline Times with a look back at his run-ins with our elected representatives.
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Brexit Party Paypal Investigation: Rampant Impermissible Donations Revealed by Watchdog’s Visit Tip of the Iceberg?
Byline Times’ exclusive report on the loopholes in the Brexit Party PayPal funding led to a visit from the elections watchdog which subsequently revealed impermissible donations – but questions remain.
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Inside Generation Identity: What Next for the Far-Right Group in the UK?
Ben van der Merwe, who spent five months infiltrating Generation Identity, the international far-right group linked to the Christchurch terror attacks, looks at the future of the UK group after its split from Europe.
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DYING QUIETLY: ‘If You Cut Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services, People Will Die’
In their series exploring the deaths that go unnoticed, Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj examine the impact of the scarce support available for those with problematic drug use.
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‘Children Dying from Deep Fake Videos and Anti-Vaxxer Messages Spread on Social Media Platforms’
The threats posed by technology to our democratic processes will only get worse in the years to come unless action is taken, MP Damian Collins warns.
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Marching for Freedom in Hong Kong
Steve Shaw reports from Hong Kong on the revolution sweeping the streets of the island and its fight for democracy.
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Other Democracies Won’t Stop India’s Warehousing of ‘Undesirables’
As well as its aggression in Kashmir, India has been rounding up and detaining Muslims in Assam since 2016 – but what’s to stop it doing so?
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‘We Need a Moratorium on Facebook Political Ads to Keep our Elections Safe’
“Facebook should be nowhere near politics,” warns investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr.
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From Professional Armed Robber to the ‘Black Widow’: The Story of Linda Calvey
Crime writer Duncan Campbell explores the societal perception of women and illegality.
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‘Tommy Robinson’ and the Boys in Blue
Those close to the EDL founder claim that police officers often expressed sympathy for his right-wing politics and that the support could include the passing on of confidential information.
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‘Tommy Robinson’: The Making of a Martyr
Byline Times’ exclusive interview with the man who made Stephen Yaxley-Lennon rich and an international phenomenon.
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Making Crime Pay for ‘Tommy Robinson’: How YouTube Rewards Violent Radicalisation
The confessions of Tommy Robinson’s filmmaker show how Google’s video site drove them to produce ever more extreme content, and rewarded the EDL founder with a quarter of a million pounds in the four days after he was sent to jail.
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DYING QUIETLY: Exploring the Deaths that Go Unnoticed
In a new series, Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj will explore why the number of people dying in the UK is on the rise.
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India’s Actions in Kashmir are Finally Opening the World’s Eyes to the Struggles of a Forgotten People
How recent events in Kashmir are shining a light on the plight of Muslims living there – and doing untold damage to the reputation of the world’s largest secular democracy.
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UK Real Estate Giant to Build Child Detention Centre for Donald Trump’s Controversial Family Separation Policy
Savills will be contributing to the US Government’s policy of punishing refugees seeking asylum in America by separating children of all ages from their parents.
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Brits Seeking to Live and Work in Europe after No Deal’Brexit will be Left in ‘Purgatory’ as Member States Plan to Tighten Up Laws
David Hencke’s analysis of the restrictive measures being drawn up by European countries and EU member states on the post-Brexit fate of British nationals seeking to make their lives there.
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‘Doctors Forced to Carry out Practices they Believe to be Unethical’ for Counter-Terrorism
How is the duty on healthcare professionals to refer individuals vulnerable to terrorism under the Prevent strategy injecting racialised interactions between doctor and patient into the NHS?
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‘It’s Not Democracy and It’s Not the Law’ – Legal Action to Stop Boris Johnson Suspending Parliament for No Deal Brexit Given Go Ahead
A cross-party group of 75 MPs argued that proroguing Parliament would be a breach of the British constitution.
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Al Qaeda: In Search of a Home in Asia
Sayed Jalal Shajjan’s analysis on why the quest for peace in Afghanistan also requires attention to be paid to the competing desires of India and Pakistan.
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Deep Damage: The Ecological and Economic Tug of War for Seabed Mining
If we wish civilisation to keep functioning, with all the technology currently at our disposal, then we need minerals – but at what cost to the environment?
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Was a British Shell Company Used to Funnel Funds for Russian Manipulation of the Trump Campaign?
Stephen Komarnyckyj tracks the financial dealings of Aleksandr Torshin, the banker behind the Russian Agent Maria Butina, to the UK.
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Web of Businesses Financing Myanmar’s War Crimes Exposed
The United Nations has urged the international community to sever ties to companies linked to the Myanmar military, which has perpetrated genocide towards its Rohingya population.
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Life on the Street: 24 Hours in Manchester – NIGHT & MORNING
Byline Times’ regular cartoonist, who has worked with homeless people and experienced periods of homelessness himself, continues his picture essay on Manchester from street level.
