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Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage’s Immoral Mass Deportation Plan?
Keir Starmer’s Government’s refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader’s plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘What’s the Point of the Lib Dems in a Post-Liberal Era?’
As Ed Davey’s Party gathers for its annual conference, Neal Lawson asks whether the party can still prosper in an increasingly illiberal political era
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‘Why I’m Now Scared to Live in Trump’s America’
As a proud naturalised US citizen who has been publicly critical of the President, I am becoming increasingly fearful about my future here, writes Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Trump’s UK State Visit Highlights the Death of US Soft Power’
Trump is not just hostile to the concept of soft power, but actively working to dismantle the institutions which promote it, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk’s Far-Right Hate’
Labour MP Noah Law explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is
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In Absurdia – Age-Old Panic
Despite what creative types may claim, even critics are human beings. And though those scrutinisers often get it right, they can sometimes get it wrong.
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Mandrake – Divided Loyalties
As close as Lord Rothermere was to Geordie Greig, his overarching loyalty to the Conservative Party meant that he had no choice but to sack him as Editor of the Daily Mail when he became too strident in his front-page attacks on Boris Johnson during his period as Prime Minister and Tory Leader.
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The Martyrdom of Lucy Connolly
Otto English dissects how the right united behind a symbol of the ‘free speech authoritarianism’ it claims is terrorising Britain – so real violence and its causes can go ignored
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‘It Is in Much of the Media’s Interest to Drive a Farage Victory’: How Asylum Became the Issue Obsessing Britain
When the press produces a daily stream of ‘invasion’ stories, or seizes on individual incidents involving asylum seekers as emblematic, it sells something people will always buy – fear and scapegoats, writes Jonathan Lis
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Understanding the Pressures That Cost Angela Rayner Her Job
The Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Labour Leader resigned after it was revealed she had not paid enough stamp duty tax on an £800,000 flat that should have been classified as her ‘second home’. Regardless of internal party politics, the dynamics which distort public servants are relevant to consider here, argues Labour’s Clive Lewis MP
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – ‘Anxiety Breeds Anxiety’
Immigration and asylum has replaced Brexit as the rabble-rouser of our times, drowning out almost every other subject and consuming vast government resources.
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‘The BBC’s Language Around Local Palestinian Journalists Reveals Its Egregious Double-Standard’
Usually reporters close to a story and source are celebrated for their insight – in Gaza, it is framed as ‘bias’, argues former BBC journalist Karishma Patel
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – History Lessons
It is exactly 50 years since I went up to university to read history. Almost everything I was taught has turned out to be wrong.
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Letters – October 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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‘Why I Joined the Gaza Aid Flotilla as a Journalist’
The relative lack of media interest in the drone attacks on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza says a lot about the warped priorities of Western journalism, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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‘Peter Mandelson’s Sacking Is an Opportunity for Keir Starmer to Rethink His Trump-Pandering’
Starmer must square his claimed disgust about Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, with his embrace of Trump, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Keir Starmer’s Reluctant Sacking of Peter Mandelson Over Epstein Connections Gives the Lie to His ‘Crackdown on Cronyism’
The Prime Minister and his advisers spent years dismissing questions about Mandelson’s relationship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
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‘There Is Still Time to Save the Labour Party From Itself and Forge a New Political Mainstream’
Keir Starmer is presiding over the decline of social democracy in Britain, but an alternative path is still possible, argues Neal Lawson
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UK Surveillance Flights Over Gaza: Are We Israel’s Useful Idiots?
The UK may inadvertently be helping Israeli forces bomb civilian areas in Gaza, explains Iain Overton
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Angela Rayner: Understanding the Pressures That Cost the Deputy PM Her Job
Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position, argues Clive Lewis MP
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‘The Forgotten Human Impact of Yvette Cooper’s Cruel Anti-Refugee Policies’
The Home Secretary’s decision to stop people fleeing from war and torture from reuniting with their families should shame this Government, argues refugee rights campaigner Nick Beales
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Red Flags: The Far-Right Warning Signs Keir Starmer Is Refusing to See
The Prime Minister must wake up and stop trying to appease the very forces trying to exploit anti-migrant hate in order to destroy his Government, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘The Super Exploitation of the Cheapest Possible Workforce’: The Hidden Cost of University Funding Cuts
A dispute over the marking of a student’s work at one London university illuminates a much bigger problem, writes Mathilda Mallinson
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‘Progressive Parties Must Start Working Together or Concede the Next General Election to the Nationalist Right’
If parties on the left can’t find a way of working together, then the Conservatives and Reform will, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Trump’s National Guard Takeover of Washington DC Threatens a Creeping Tyranny’
What we are starting to witness is the nascent elements of a complete authoritarian takeover, reports Alexandra Hall Hall from Washington
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The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues Otto English
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‘Notting Hill Carnival’s Success Shows That Hate and Division Will Never Win’
Sadiq Khan, Labour’s Mayor of London, writes for Byline Times on why the city’s haters need to admit that “diversity is a strength to be celebrated, not a weakness to be hidden”
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The Trump Administration’s Partisan Global Human Rights Report Will Have ‘Devastating Consequences’
The Trump administration’s attempts to downplay human rights abuses globally suggests they want to make it easier to violate them domestically, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Let No One Believe the Lie That Zelensky Could Have Avoided War by Spurning NATO’
It’s time to bury this myth for good, argues Derrick Wyatt
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Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘These People Can’t Stand What London Represents … It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview
Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, addresses the increasing number of claims about the capital city’s apparent decline
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‘Campaigning for a Curriculum Rooted in Our Communities’
Aditi Banerjee and Amon Chua introduce the Lost Lessons campaign – a youth-led initiative for an education which unites people across differences and embraces our diversity
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Political Economy: ‘Some in Europe Are Starting to Fear the Continent Has Entered Its Own Century of Humiliation’
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 – ‘The Anti-Britain Propaganda is Clearly Working … Where is the Prime Minister’s Vision of this Green, Pleasant and Multicultural Land?’
“How do you cope with those Nigerian gangs roaming round your cities?” asked the immaculately presented American woman across the dinner table, her giant diamond earrings glinting in the evening sunlight.
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Hating the ‘Deep State’ More Than Loving Donald Trump: MAGA and the Epstein Affair
The scandal of the Jeffrey Epstein Files is unfolding against the very real potential for all-out violence by those who have been fervent supporters of the American President, writes CJ Werleman
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The New Left Party That Didn’t Need to Happen
The centralised and punishing approach of Labour under Keir Starmer risks his party losing voters at the next election to more progressive candidates who do not embrace the politics of Reform UK, writes Jonathan Lis
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‘Adapting to the Climate Crisis Needs to be Done in Ways that Tackle Inequality at the Same Time’
Soaring temperatures are pushing us towards environmental crises that the Government is doing little to prepare for – while Nigel Farage weaponises net zero. We need to quickly become resilient to extreme climate, writes Green Party Co-Leader Adrian Ramsay MP
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Mandrake – Slow Responders
Having largely gone along with the Government’s position on Gaza, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey suddenly seemed to awaken to the humanitarian crisis when he called on Keir Starmer to take undefined “sanctions” against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his part in the “ethnic cleansing”.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – An Annual Ritual
Now here we are playing cricket in the south west – Morgan McSweeney territory. The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff is less well-known here than his father, Tim, a Cork-based accountant whose firm makes a fortune housing asylum seekers.
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Letters – September 2025
Letters – September 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 Image Irrelevant Dear Editors, I fail to see the relevance of the well-known 1805 print from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, The Plum Pudding in Danger, in Peter Jukes’…