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It’s Time for an Apology From the Trump Apologists
The politicians and commentators who mocked those warning about the threat posed by the US President as being “hysterical” need to face up to their own role in the calamity now unfolding, argues Adam Bienkov
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Mandrake – Open Secret
On a point of order, Martin Clunes will not be the first actor to play Huw Edwards in the forthcoming Channel 5 drama, Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards.
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Letters – February 2026
Submit a letter for consideration about this month’s edition by emailing the Editors: Miss Hardeep Matharu and Mr Peter Jukes on letters@bylinetimes.com
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On the Record – Not A Lot of Yours Truly’s Fault
When I was approached last year to become the General Secretary of the Islington North Allotment Association (INAA), I unhesitatingly accepted the role.
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That’s True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Seeking Attention
For example, as one of the constituencies most prone to flooding in the whole of England, it is on the frontline of the climate crisis – yet voted for a party that, with its pledge to rip up green energy policies, would make that crisis, and the town’s vulnerability, even worse.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Telling Silence
The collapse of mass party membership and the long assault on trade unions have left both the Conservatives and Labour hopelessly dependent on donor cash.
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A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump’s America
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports Alexandra Hall Hall
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The EU’s ‘Farage Clause’ Shows the Damage Reform Is Already Doing to the UK
As well as making us poorer each year, Farage’s Brexit is also making us more vulnerable to those who wish to do us harm, argues Chris Grey
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Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Is an Existential Threat to NATO and Europe
The US President’s plans to capture Greenland pose a grave threat to Europe’s future that its leaders can no longer afford to ignore, argues Simon Nixon
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‘Keir Starmer Must Stop Chasing Reform’s Cruelty and Embrace the Compassionate Politics His Own Voters Demand’
New polling suggests a progressive majority could come back to Labour if the PM embraces a more compassionate form of politics, argues Jennifer Nadel
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Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
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I Met Migrant Women in Calais Hoping to Reach the UK and This Is What I Learnt
It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism”, argues Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward
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What Putin Really Wants From Trump’s Ukraine ‘Negotiations’
For the Russian leader, Trump’s proposed ‘peace deal’ is merely a way to continue his war by other means, writes Denis Mikhailov
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How the Light Gets In
This time last year, I spent a memorable 40 minutes in a recycled whisky barrel buffeted by a brisk winter wind wearing nothing but a swimming costume and a woolly hat.
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‘Hope for Cynics’ (and Everyone Else)
Being told to have hope when the world feels like a dumpster fire is a bit like being asked to admire the view while the train you’re on is visibly accelerating towards a cliff.
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For Better Or For Worse – A Boring, Violent Life
As those on the right claim the UK has ‘gone to the dogs’ and life was better in the 1970s, and some on the left articulate a return to an old-school style of collective politics, our intergenerational panel asks: Is nostalgia for the 1970s justified?
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That’s True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Imagining the Possibilities
Perhaps it’s not facts that we lack, but the imagination to believe that the world could be different. And for that, we need not just the scientific experts, but the artists and writers and poets as well.
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Is Nigel Farage a Changed Man?
Recent revelations about Nigel Farage’s past racism merely confirm what some of us have suspected for years. Others will be hearing these allegations for the first time.
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Letters – January 2026
Submit a letter for consideration about this month’s edition by emailing the Editors: Miss Hardeep Matharu and Mr Peter Jukes on letters@bylinetimes.com
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Mandrake – Vacant Chair
Dimbleby had in the past talked about the monarchy as ‘an irrational system’ and turned down an offer to front the King’s Coronation
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On the Record – The Truth About Nigel
Despite what you may have read in the Marxist press, Reform UK is not a ‘one-man band’ led by an authoritarian leader who spends all his time flogging gold bullion in between popping over to Florida in the desperate hope of bumping into President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – A Dangerous Sponsor
It is becoming hard to avoid the conclusion that the United Kingdom is complicit in two ongoing genocides: Sudan as well as Gaza
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‘The Trump Administration Must Abandon Its Delusions About Destroying the EU’
The European Union is far stronger and more united than those inside the Trumpian echo chamber have fooled themselves into believing, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘If Nigel Farage’s Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse’
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP
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The Government’s ‘Integrity Gap’ Is Leaving the Door Open for Nigel Farage
By offering watered down Faragist rhetoric combined with a programme of managed decline, Keir Starmer’s Government has left a political vacuum which the Reform leader is now stepping into, argues Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Imitating the Populist Right: The Politics of Shabana Mahmood
The Labour Home Secretary has spent her first months in the job actively enabling the forces of the populist right, argues Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
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‘Keir Starmer’s Brexit Blind Spot Leaves Britain With a Major Missed Opportunity’
It was striking that the most impressive recent speech on Britain’s future in Europe came not from our current Prime Minister, but from one of his Conservative predecessors, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader’s closest aide to the Kremlin, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle
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Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
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‘Rachel Reeves Buys Herself Some Time With a Calculated Bet on the UK Economy’
The Chancellor’s measured statement was quite different from what the weeks of media hype about it had suggested, argues Simon Nixon
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Budget 2025: ‘Rachel Reeves Bakes an Economic Pudding With No Theme’
The seeds of the Government’s current political and economic difficulties were sown a long time ago, argues Neal Lawson
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The Good News in Rachel Reeves’ Budget
From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to taking on the media-backed gambling lobby, there was much to praise and far less to criticise in the Chancellor’s annual statement, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘Scrapping Jury Trials Is an Attempt to Fix a Broken Justice System by Smashing It to Pieces’
Taking away the fundamental right to be tried by a jury of your peers would be a disastrous move by Keir Starmer’s Government, argues barrister Gareth Roberts
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‘The ‘Eco-Populist’ Cost-Cutting Budget Rachel Reeves Should Really Deliver’
Only a radical approach to our broken privatised energy system can make British bill-payers genuinely better off, argues Donnachadh McCarthy
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Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin
Reform UK’s former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo
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That’s True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Politics with a Difference
Byline Times is delighted to welcome former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas to our roster of regular columnists. Her monthly musings will be ‘in pursuit of pluralism’ – an approach to politics, and life, more necessary than ever.
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On the Record – A Friend for Fergie
Nobody has been more affected by the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein affair than me, and I am very grateful to Byline Times for allowing me to put the record straight.
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‘Brook House is a Money Machine’
Private contractors are taking hundreds of millions of pounds from a system critics believe incentivises maximising profits by keeping people trapped in it. Ruth Hopkins reports
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What Kind of World Am I Leaving For My Children?
With the number of hate crimes, including offences motivated by race and religion, recorded by the police in England and Wales rising for the first time in three years, Nikesh Shukla reflects on the conversations we all need to be having around racism and the rise of the far-right
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Letters – December 2025
Submit a letter for consideration about this month’s edition by emailing the Editors: Miss Hardeep Matharu and Mr Peter Jukes on letters@bylinetimes.com