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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.
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‘Profiting from Destruction’: French-Based Insurance Giant Accused of Destroying Palestinian Livelihoods
AXA and its affiliates are heavily invested in occupied territory settlements and illegal Israeli Security Wall.
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A Duty to Inform or Channel for Disinformation? BBC Defends Bannon’s ‘Build the Wall’ Interview
The public service broadcaster still refuses to explain how it agreed to stage Jon Sopel’s interview at the under investigation ‘WeBuildtheWall’ fundraising event near El Paso.
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Brexit Party MP Candidates – Chums and Comrades: The Intrigue Continues
Otto English’s investigation into the parliamentary candidates selected so far by Nigel Farage’s party – and those who paid the non-refundable £100 online application fee but haven’t made the cut.
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‘We are Not in the Battlefield, We Are Not Fighters, Why they are Killing Us?’ The Human Cost of the Quest for Peace in Afghanistan
Sayed Jalal, based in Kabul, explores how the Afghan civilian population is living through a conflict which impacts ordinary people the most.
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Criminal Investigation Launched into Money Raised to Build Trump and Bannon’s US-Mexico Border Wall
‘We Build the Wall’ is having questions asked about how it spent $1.7 million of the funds it raised.
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The El Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror
Robert Evans, who first analysed the role of 8chan in online radicalisation after the Christchurch attacks, looks at how far-right terrorism ‘body counts’ have been turned into an online game.
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‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ – Steve Bannon’s Brexit Catastrophe was All Part of his Wider Plan
Peter Jukes dissects the populist, nationalist ideologue’s BBC performance and the Prime Minister’s failure to account for his relationship to him and his company Cambridge Analytica.
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Behind Boris Johnson’s Rhetoric of Home Ownership, His Government Promises a Far Crueller Society
Tom Cordell on how the new Government’s plans to increase home ownership will only result in housing inequality rising further in the UK.
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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.
