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Brexit Party’s PayPal Funding Methods Slammed by Elections Watchdog – But What Needs to Happen Next?
Turlough Conway, who broke the story of the Brexit Party’s questionable PayPal funding structure, provides an analysis of what must now be done to safeguard our electoral processes.
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AUSTERITY JUSTICE: No Lawyers, No Advice – the ‘Legal Aid Desert’ Created by Cuts
Chris Grayling’s 2013 cuts slashed the legal aid budget by a third – £751 million. Jon Robins examines the toll this is taking on people’s everyday lives.
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THE BORIS JOHNSON SHOW: PART 1 – A Role on which the Curtain Never Falls
As the favourite to become our next Prime Minister launches his leadership bid, Otto English looks back on the life, times and the very many lies of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
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Rory Stewart’s Development Department ‘Spinning Landmark Report to UN on UK Poverty’
Civil servants in the Department for International Development ‘only wanted to hear good news’ to pass on to the UN, says disability charity.
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Citizens Committee Pushing for Public Pressure on Government over Saudi Arms Sales
Faisal Khan reports on the continuing questionable relationship between Britain and Saudi Arabia.
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Charity Watchdog to Condemn Oxfam Over Haiti Sexual Exploitation – But Ignore Global Sexual Abuse of Refugees and Aid Workers
A report by the Charity Commission will single out Oxfam’s failures on sexual exploitation, while brushing aside the much bigger scale of the problem.
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What was the Point in Jailing Natalie McGarry?
With the former SNP MP sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzlement, court reporter James Doleman ponders the utility of incarceration for non-violent crimes.
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London Shell Companies at the Centre of Ukrainian Influence Operations
A cache of hacked documents which allegedly expose an FSB agent has been released by the Distributed Denial of Secrets, but the truth reveals the importance of UK shell companies
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AUSTERITY JUSTICE: ‘The Death of an Idea’ – How Legal Aid Cuts are Causing Systematic Poverty
Jon Robins sets out how the erosion of ‘access to justice’ for huge swathes of social welfare law is having a very real impact on poverty in the UK
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Government tells 3.8 Million Women they had No Right to Know their Pensions were being Taken Away
David Hencke reports from the extraordinary second and final day of a judicial review over the government’s decision to remove the pension rights of the #BackTo60 women born in the 1950s.
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Facebook the ‘Largest Fraud in Corporate History’ – Fake Accounts and Customer Data Theft
Aaron Greenspan, who claims to be the original creator of Facebook, attacked the giants of Silicon Valley in the UK parliament, alleging fraud, dishonesty, and data theft on a massive scale.
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Suspicious Betting Detected across Seven More Countries this Year including the UK, UEFA is told
Football’s European governing body has acted quickly to support Spanish police investigating match-fixing and money laundering. Now matches across Europe are under scrutiny.
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A Sharp Wake Up Call: We need to talk about Amy
Mike Stuchbery on the troubling behaviour of a Brexit activist
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Northamptonshire Child Deaths: Director of Children’s Services Can’t Promise “Same Thing Won’t Happen Again”
Two damning serious case reviews into the deaths of Dylan Tiffin Brown and Evelyn-Rose Muggleton reveal concerns about child protection in Northamptonshire.
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GCHQ’s ‘Ghost User’ Designed to Spy on Encrypted Communications
Tech companies and civil liberties groups condemn British spy agency’s proposal to get around encryption using a hidden group chat facility.
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Veteran MPs Deserve Scrutiny Just as Much as they Win Praise
Iain Overton’s analysis of how Parliament’s 50 MPs with service backgrounds vote on issues such as military intervention, Brexit, immigration and surveillance – and why this should be scrutinised.
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‘Boris Johnson and Michael Gove Must Have Known About Illegality’: Why the Two Vote Leave Leaders are a Threat to Democracy
Shahmir Sanni reveals how two of the contenders to replace Theresa May cannot absolve themselves of responsibility for wrongdoing during the EU Referendum.
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: “It is an Assassination” – Special Rapporteur Hits Back at Maltese Government’s Claims about Murdered Journalist
A new report by Pieter Omtzigt urges the Maltese Government to set up an independent public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s death immediately.
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Billion Pound Judicial Review of Government Pensions Robbery
David Hencke on a key legal case challenging the government’s persistent discrimination against women with changes in the pension age.
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Trump’s Legacy: Corruption, Misogyny, Racism
As Trump heads to the UK for his first official state visit, praising Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, his history of corruption, misogyny, and racism will follow him overseas.
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“This is what a Bankrupt Council Looks Like”
Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj report on the challenges facing children’s services in Northamptonshire.
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‘Oh, he’s Such a Card’ – Boris Johnson the Joker. But Where does he Really Stand?
With Boris Johnson announcing his bid to become Conservative party leader, James Hanning sheds some light on what the ‘blonde buffoon’ actually believes in.
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Journalists Under Threat: Defending Free Speech Needs Actions, Not Words
Why the work of a small group in London, Prisoners of Conscience, is sadly becoming more relevant than ever for persecuted journalists across the world.
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Anti-Corruption Cops Swoop on ex-Real Madrid ‘Galacticos’
Kick Back: Two ex-Real Madrid players arrested as part of crackdown on corruption, money laundering and match fixing.
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SMART CITIES and AUTOMATED RACISM: How IBM Designed China’s Surveillance Regime
Nafeez Ahmed on how western companies have aided and adopted Huawei’s terrifying and ubiquitous authoritarian tech.
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Dispossessed, Disenfranchised, Denied My Vote
Chani Klapka, one of the 3.1 million EU citizens resident in the UK and eligible to vote in the Euro Elections, describes her Kafkaesque experience.
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A Moment of Peace in Trump’s Visit: When they Go Low, We Go High
The Women’s Peace Council is inviting everyone to share a ‘People’s Banquet’ in Parliament Square as an alternative form of protest to Donald Trump’s state visit.
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Universal Credit: Traumatised Rape Survivor had Benefits Stopped Indefinitely after Missing Meetings, Committee Hears
Parliament’s Work and Pensions Committee heard evidence on an alleged increase in the number of women entering prostitution as a form of ‘survival sex’ after having their benefits cut.
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‘It’s Just Crazy, People are Going Hungry’ – A Day in the Life of Food Bank Britain
A Human Rights Watch report accused the Government of breaching its international duty to keep people from hunger through its “cruel and harmful policies”. Sadly, it will come as no surprise to those using the West Favell food bank in Northampton.
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‘PayPal Man’ – Questions the Electoral Commission Must ask the Brexit Party
Turlough Conway, who broke Byline Times’ exclusive investigation into the Nigel Farage and PayPal affair, says the Electoral Commission have a duty to check key elements in the Brexit Party’s funding.
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Don’t Let Brexit Sabotage Scotland’s Action on Climate Change, Nicola Sturgeon Warns Westminster
Scotland’s First Minister said the country’s membership of the single market had been key to it investing in clean energy. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged the Government not to let Brexit imperil Scotland’s plan to reach ‘net zero’ carbon emissions by 2045. In a speech last week at Glasgow’s All Energy Conference, Ms…
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INSIDE PREVENT: A Racist Policy of Social Control?
Hardeep Matharu explores why those in the Muslim community believe that the Government’s controversial counter-terrorism strategy is doing more harm than good.
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INSIDE PREVENT: Far Right and ISIS Extremism Fuel Each Other
A ‘symbiotic’ relationship has developed between Far Right and Daesh-inspired forms of extremism referred to the controversial Prevent Strategy, a leading police officer has warned.
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Benefits Claimants Waiting Too Long for Poor Quality ‘Fit-to-Work’ Assessments, New Figures Reveal
Benefits claimants are regularly waiting too long for ‘fit for work’ assessments to be conducted – the quality of which are not good enough, Byline Times can reveal.
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‘Scurrilous’ Evidence from Former News of the World Journalist in Pointless Court Case
High Court Judge describes court action as “futile” and characterises part of former tabloid journalist’s evidence as “irrelevant” and “scurrilous”.
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Brexit Party Donations – Farage’s Miracle Claims Do Not Add Up
Following yesterday’s revelations that the ‘Donate’ and ‘Registered Member’ functions on the Brexit Party site were open to abuse with multiple donations, Turlough Conway finds another huge anomaly in the party’s crowd funding claims.
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DEMOCRACY IN DARKNESS: Hiding the Truth of Britain’s Brexit Inaction from Parliament and the World
Though Theresa May’s Government gave itself a deadline of July 2019 to report on progress against UN Sustainable Development Goals, it now seems to be hiding its lack of action.
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THE JUSTICE TRAP: ‘Our courts will bend over backwards to uphold a conviction which is obviously unsafe’
Jon Robins explores why Tony Stock has spent more than 40 years fighting to clear his name for an armed robbery a supergrass admits he had nothing to do with.
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UPDATE: Brexit Party Donations – “It Couldn’t Be Less Secure”
“It couldn’t be less secure” is Turlough Conway’s conclusion as he looks at Nigel Farage’s “Never seen anything like it” claim of mass donations to his new party.
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‘Dodgy Money and Dirty Data’: MP Looking to Future-Proof Elections Suspicious of ‘Brexit Cover-Up’
In an exclusive interview, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock questions why nothing has been done about allegations of electoral wrongdoing in the 2016 Referendum and speaks about how his new parliamentary inquiry will be on the case.
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AstroTurfers of Britain: the Brexit Party’s Artificial Grass Roots Part One
Otto English on the PR person behind the apparently spontaneous Leavers for Britain movement and her Westminster Think Tank connections.
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Christchurch Summit: Mainstream News Sites also ‘Perpetuating Hate’ and Violent Extremism
G7 leaders will gather to discuss calls for a ‘Christchurch Call’ to combat terrorism and violent extremism on social media – but what about the news sites of the traditional press?
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Cradle of Industrial Revolution Lagging Behind in Restoration of Woodlands and Re-wilding
The Government’s ‘Clean Growth Strategy’ will not honour the Paris Accords, MPs are warned.
