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Robert Jenrick and the Conservative Party’s Embrace of ‘Blood and Soil’ Nationalism
The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be so worried about, argues Jonathan Portes
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The Alaska Summit: ‘You Can’t Negotiate With a Lion When Your Head Is Inside Its Jaws’
Denis Mikhailov, a Russian dissident lawyer now exiled to Poland, explains how Trump’s generosity to Putin only solidifies his tyranny
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Trump and Putin Meeting in Alaska: ‘Chess With the Bear’
The summit’s optics could reshape alliances, potentially moving the US closer to Russia, and sidelines Europe at a moment when transatlantic unity is critical, writes Zarina Zebrisky
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‘Why Optimism of the Intellect Is Needed to Counter Britain’s Spiral Into Despair’
From public support for progressive policies to the courage of Palestine Action defenders, signs of a better future are emerging despite Labour’s authoritarian drift, argues Compass director Neal Lawson
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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 by those in the media and politics of the capital city’s apparent decline
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‘BBC’s Language Around “Palestinian Journalists” Is an Egregious Double-Standard’
Usually reporters close to a story and source are celebrated for their insight — in Gaza, it is framed as ‘bias’, argues Karishma Patel
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Inside the Hall of Mirrors: The Telegraph’s Dangerous Games Over Online Harms
The paper which acted ‘grossly irresponsibly’ during Covid is now doing the same thing with the Online Safety Act, argues Julian Petley
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The Media Distortion Warping Britain’s Views on Immigration
Unbalanced coverage of migration is twisting the public’s perspective, argues Christian Christensen
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European Threats to Free Speech? JD Vance Should Look in the Mirror
While the US Vice President warns about censorship, the CEO of Index on Censorship is again wary of visiting America after writing this piece
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The Trump Putin Alaska Summit and Europe’s Munich Moment
“The uncomfortable truth is this: if Ukraine falls, Europe won’t be debating whether to confront Russia, but when”
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‘Clickbait and Chaos’ — 100 days of Reform UK Running Kent County Council
Saturday marks 100 days since Reform UK won 57 of the 81 seats at Kent County Council. The Greens’ local leader looks at how it’s going so far
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Lessons from Fire: What Hiroshima, Tariffs and Japan’s Rising Far Right Have in Common
On the 80th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and as Japan’s far-right surges, author Iain MacGregor reflects on what Japan must never forget
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‘The Depravity of Gaza’s Aid Crisis Shows What Happens When Profit Comes Before Human Rights’
In just over a month, the UN reports that over 850 Gazans have been killed at, or within close proximity to aid distribution sites in Gaza
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Why Did the ECHR Deny Us the Right to Know the Full Extent of the Russian Attack on British Democracy?
Whistleblower Sergei Cristo argues that the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights serves to protect Kremlin meddling
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How Resident Doctor Strike Exposed a Generational Rift Within The Profession
Pay talks are set to resume after a five-day walkout ended last Wednesday. Maira Rana does the math in defence of the strike
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‘Keir Starmer’s Palestine Recognition Delay Is Obscene – The UK Must Act Now Without Conditions’
We cannot justify waiting a single day more while Israeli forces level Gaza, before finally choosing to act, argues Linsay Taylor
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Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain
Keir Starmer has signalled the direction of his Government by appointing a former Editor of The Sun newspaper – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor, writes Emma Jones
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‘Free Speech for the 0.1%: Why the Online Safety Act Is Failing’
This broken law isn’t only failing to prevent the spread of hate and misinformation, it’s actively protecting the ability of the most powerful and privileged to do so, argues Kyle Taylor
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‘A Government That Crushes Dissent and Eliminates Hope Will Never Prosper’
The authoritarian impulse to eliminate disagreement and dampen hope will only push voters towards the extremes, argues Neal Lawson
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‘How the Green Party Should Respond to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s New Left Party’
The creation of a new explicitly left party means that any attempt by the Greens to compete on the same ground is now a dead end, argues Rupert Read
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‘Britain Has Abandoned Its Soft Power for the Demands of the Military-Industrial Complex’
Keir Starmer’s decision to cut humanitarian aid in order to fund military spending is already having a deeply damaging impact, argues Iain Overton
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‘The Liberal Centre Must Find a Different, More Honest and Realistic Way to Talk About Immigration’
Instead of pandering to the hard-right’s framing of the issue – as the Labour Government seems to be doing – progressives need to find another narrative, writes Chris Grey
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Letters
Letters 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 Covering Farage Dear Editors, Oh, the irony of it: the June edition, which mainstreamed the way the British media has been giving Farage and Reform UK undue publicity, had at least 14…
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‘Why We Need a Coordinated Media Revolution’
Alternative media platforms cannot thrive in a vacuum and policy reforms will not succeed without grassroots pressure, argues Tom Hardy
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‘Europe has to Give Up Its Freudian Denial About What’s Happening in the United States and Mobilise’
Heidi Siegmund Cuda, an award-winning journalist who left the United States after the re-election of Donald Trump last November, speaks to European intellectual historian Marci Shore on where Europe finds itself amid the aggression of Vladimir Putin
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From American Support to Scorn: the Continent Needs to Up its Game
Americans do not want the US to retreat from the world but don’t see Europe as a priority – its countries need to quickly learn some lessons, writes Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Keir Starmer Must Start Listening to His Labour Critics Rather Than Expelling Them’
The hope we offered voters at the last general election is rapidly slipping away and it’s time to change course, argues Labour councillor James Barber-Chadwick
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‘The Great Reset’ Europe Trims to the Trumpian Winds
Olly Haynes reports on the transatlantic traffic in far-right ideas
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‘When Charity Becomes the Default Response to Poverty, It Risks Normalising Deprivation’
Nick Gardham of Community Organisers – the non-profit membership and training body for community organising in England – sets out why alternative systems of support in local areas have to be seen as a means not an end
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‘Give Me Your Undesirables, Your Disloyal, Your Foreign-Born Masses’
Donald Trump’s ICE deportations will accelerate after the passing of his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’. The US’ actions now resemble those of any authoritarian regime America has ever condemned or propped up, writes CJ Werleman
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‘The Campaign to Rejoin the EU Must Never Stop’
In a world of bristling weapons and right-wing aggression, isolation from our neighbours is a sort of blasphemy against reason, writes AC Grayling
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In Absurdia – A ‘Critical’ Eye
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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‘The UK Government has taken its strongest action not against the Israeli Government, but against that Government’s opponents’
Two moments in recent weeks have crystallised a phenomenon so perverse in Britain’s political and media ecosystem it defies rational explanation.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – An Unintelligent Intervention
Before Donald Trump launched his illegal attack on Iran, Sir John Sawers, former head of MI6, popped up on the Today programme to prod him into action.
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – From its agrarian past, Ireland has emerged from the shadow
Three topics under discussion that memorable afternoon were particularly striking.
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Mandrake – Hereditary Fears Disappear
It was payday for a great many of Keir Starmer’s Camden cronies, party donors, and other Labour place men and women when he dished out peerages for them shortly after he became Prime Minister.
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‘Why Fixers Who Help War Correspondents Deserve More Credit – And to Tell Their Own Stories’
The Afghan data leak has shed light on the role of interpreters and local journalists and why they deserve much better, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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‘What Trump’s Ukraine U-Turn Really Tells Us About His Psychology’
Trump’s shift from betraying Ukraine to turning on Putin reveals a lot about the man and his Presidency, argues George Llewelyn
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Bungs from Billionaires: Do Labour’s Political Funding Reforms Really Pass the ‘Musk Test’?
Josiah Mortimer investigates whether the Government’s new reforms will stop the likes of billionaire X owner Elon Musk from funnelling millions of dollars into British politics
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‘Giving the Vote to 16 Year Olds Is a Big Step Forward – Now Give It to Migrants Too’
The same arguments for extending the vote to younger people, should apply to other groups that remain disenfranchised too, argues Adam Ramsay
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‘The Government’s Call for Evidence on Islamophobia is a Rigged Box-Ticking Exercise’
Ministers are effectively blocking the voices of victims, while ‘soliciting those of the perpetrators’, argues the CEO of Muslim Engagement & Development, Linsay Taylor