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Mandrake – Splitting Heirs
With a piece not so long ago by its star columnist Richard Littlejohn headlined “Please don’t pretend two dads is the new normal”, the Daily Mail has scarcely been at the forefront of the campaign for gay rights. Soon, however, the media empire may find itself leading very much by example.
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – Social Immobility
The UK is a country bursting with talent, innovation, and creativity – but a lot of it is wasted. If you are born poor or with limited horizons to make use of those qualities, that is more than likely how you will die.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Merger and Assignations
Rather than challenge a morally corrupt system, Keir Starmer has chosen to become part of it
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Labour’s Biggest Problem Is Not a Lack of Leadership but a Lack of Ideas
Until Keir Starmer’s party decides what it really stands for, the question of who leads them will remain a hollow one, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘The UK’s Suspension of Intelligence Sharing Over Trump’s Caribbean Boat Strikes Risks a Transatlantic Rift’
Keir Starmer’s Government risked being implicated if the President’s attacks were found to break international law, reports Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘The BBC’s Surrender to Trump Is a Moment of Existential Weakness’
This latest attack will leave an already weakened BBC in a perilous fight for its future, argues journalist and presenter Matthew Gwyther
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The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
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Decent Housing? A Privilege – Especially for the Disabled
‘Every man’s home is his castle’ – but what if you just want the basic human right of shelter?
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‘The SNP Isn’t a Threat to the Security of Any Nation I Want to Be Part Of’
Labour’s attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UK’s national security is a drastic escalation of Labour’s anti-independence rhetoric, argues Adam Ramsay
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Follow the Money: How the Right Weaponises the Costs of Supporting Learning Disabled People
If politicians are worried about the costs of support for the learning disabled, society must become more transparent about where the money is being spent
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How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of Its Billionaire Owners
Former Independent columnist Donnachadh McCarthy on how the UK’s billionaire-owned media silences those journalists trying to speak out against them
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‘Geert Wilders’ Far-Right Retreat Leaves a Very Dutch Political Mess’
The advance of centrist parties in the Dutch elections will not be enough to produce a new stable governing coalition, argues Chris Keulemans
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‘How to Stop Labour’s Autumn of Discontent Turning Into Farage’s Winter of Despair’
Keir Starmer’s Government must learn the lessons of history, or risk paving the way for an authoritarian future under Nigel Farage and Reform, argues Neal Lawson
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‘How to Convert the Success of the No Kings Protests Into a Nationwide Anti-Trump Uprising’
The scale of protests against the President show he can still be beaten, but only if his opponents start offering a coherent alternative, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
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The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won’t Tell You About
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK’s transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues Donnachadh McCarthy
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Letters – November 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
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Humanism: The Inhumane Alternative
Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s attacks on Gaza show how the political philosophy of humanism continues to ‘play both sides’ – resulting in no deeper inquiry or solutions, writes Rafael Holmberg
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We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality?
Penny Pepper shares her experiences of recruiting migrant care workers, who can find themselves enduring exploitation and abuse for their efforts
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‘The Conservative Plan to Leave the ECHR Marks the Crossing of a Rubicon’
Brexit – although seldom mentioned in British political life – continues to influence policy on the right, writes Chris Grey
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‘The Integrity Gap: Starmer’s Government Risks Building the Authoritarian Future We Fear’
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in politics is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state
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Political Economy: ‘The UK’s Political Class Has No Plausible Alternative to the Old Thatcherite Economic Model’
The US market is simply too big and too important for trading partners to risk losing access. And many countries, not least in Europe, are dependent on America for security guarantees. That has given Trump considerable coercive power which he has not been afraid to deploy indiscriminately against both allies and adversaries.
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage
My occasional encounters with former or serving intelligence officers over the years suggest that they are prone to talking in riddles. But the sixtysomething greybeard I met late in 2016, when I was researching my Second World War spy book, A Woman of No Importance, spoke all too plainly.
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In Absurdia – A Lord’s Purpose
When Baroness Mone gave her maiden speech in the House of Lords on 7 March 2016, it must have felt like all the years of networking had finally paid off.
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Mandrake – Liberal Candidates
Disproportionately represented in the House of Lords before last July’s General Election – when they had just 11 MPs in the Commons – the Liberal Democrats have some making up to do now they have 72 MPs. Leader Ed Davey does not, however, appear spoilt for choice when it comes to finding suitable candidates for…
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – The Leper in the Commons
When I was appointed political correspondent of the Evening Standard in the early 1990s, I knew very little about the House of Commons and urgently needed to remedy my lack of knowledge.
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit Is Bad, Let’s Make It a Bit Worse’ Strategy
The Chancellor just admitted that Brexit has been an economic disaster. It’s time the Government stopped making it even worse by imitating Nigel Farage’s damaging anti-migration agenda, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘The Stolen Children Scandal in Syria Exposes a Deeper Problem in SOS Care’
Investigations revealed how children disappeared by Bashar al-Assad’s regime were transported to facilities run by a global charity
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‘The Conservative Party Must Log Off Social Media and Start Engaging Again With the Real World’
Conservative Party member and whistleblower Sergei Cristo, reports from the empty halls of its conference in Manchester and finds a movement that is fast running out of supporters and ideas
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How Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Could Quickly Crumble
The President’s America-first, Palestine-last plan for Gaza risks collapsing under its own contradictions, argues Rana Sabbagh
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‘Donald Trump’s Plan Will Not End the Gaza Genocide’
The author of The New Age of Genocide, Martin Shaw, on why Trump’s ‘peace’ plan will allow the ongoing destruction and replacement of a Palestinian Gaza
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How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists
Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert
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‘Morgan McSweeney’s Factional Labour Takeover Has Left Keir Starmer Looking Increasingly Alone’
Labour’s conference showed a party leadership doubling down on a strategy that has left the Prime Minister with few remaining supporters either in or outside the party, argues Neal Lawson
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Gaza: Is There a Way Out?
On Yom Kippur, Eric Lee examines the horrors of the conflict and asks whether we could now finally see a turning point towards peace
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Keir Starmer’s Farage-Dominated Conference Takes Labour Up a ‘Darker Path’ Towards a Reform Government
The Prime Minister’s condemnations of Reform’s racist rhetoric, was undermined by him accepting the central premise of Nigel Farage’s anti-migrant politics, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘Why I Support Trump’s Gaza Plan’
Former UK Foreign Office diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall makes the case for why America’s ‘long shot’ strategy could be the best hope of delivering peace
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‘The Media Lets Misogyny Thrive – It’s Their Job To Call It Out’
The media must not allow Reform UK to push the narrative that immigrants are putting women and girls in danger, argues Helena Wadia
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Curtis Yarvin: How the Alt-Right Gets In
Following his appearance on a panel with Alastair Campbell, Byline Times examines the writings of the thinker who is apparently inspiring Silicon Valley Tech Bros and the Vice President of the United States