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14:07

Nigel Farage Paid by Trump Crypto Adviser Who Worked...

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2026/01/15

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Nigel Farage has been paid by a cryptocurrency adviser to US President Donald Trump, who worked with Paul Manafort – Trump's former campaign chair, jailed for financial crimes after investigations into his Kremlin-aligned influence operations – to lobby the president on Bitcoin policy. David Bailey, chief executive of BTC Inc and a senior cryptocurrency

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15:48

A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump's America

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2026/01/15

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY One year into the second Trump Presidency and America is now a very different place. It may superficially look the same from the outside. Many of us are able to go through the motions of our daily lives in the same ways as before. But, everything is changed on the inside. America has become a place where it is no longer entirely safe to speak freely. Where

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07:35

Protesters With Palestine Action Placards Handed £100...

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2026/01/14

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Protesters in Scotland arrested for carrying signs in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action have been offered £100 fines, instead of prosecution. Critics of PA's proscription say this shows that the use of terrorism legislation on supporters of PA is "ridiculous". Adam McGibbon was first arrested in October last year, for holding up a sign which

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12:31

How Kherson Became a Live Testing Ground for Drone...

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2026/01/13

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Russian forces began using First Person View (FPV) drones to hunt civilians in Kherson in the summer of 2024, a practice first reported by Byline Times on July 29 that year. Known as the human safari, the tactic deliberately targets civilians, emergency workers, and infrastructure staff and has since been recognized as both a war crime and a crime against

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09:02

The EU's 'Farage Clause' Shows the Damage Reform Is...

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2026/01/13

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reports this week suggest that the EU is seeking a so-called 'Farage Clause' in its Brexit reset negotiations with the UK. Under the proposal, Britain would be forced to hand over compensation to the EU if a future UK Government reneges on any deal struck now by Keir Starmer. The news comes some eight months since the last UK-EU summit which unveiled the

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06:50

Storm Goretti Highlights Homelessness Crisis as Rough...

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2026/01/12

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY "I'm f***ing freezing, like an ice cube" says Viktor, a Polish homeless man huddled in Old Street Station to shelter from the bitterly cold weather. Unlike parts of the UK, London has not been covered in snow by Storm Goretti, though it has experienced freezing temperatures, strong winds, heavy rain and a arctic air that means you don't want to be caught

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07:46

'Pig Butchering' Crypto Scams, Money Laundering, and...

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2026/01/09

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Impending spot checks to see how well e-gaming firms and online casinos are deploying measures against financial crimes and terrorism funding have left the Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man badly exposed, a leading authority on Anti Money Laundering (AML), has told Byline Times. "This is where the Isle of Man definitely has a high risk of being

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06:59

100 People Detained in UK Immigration Removal Centres...

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2026/01/09

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY A group of more than 100 detainees say that they have been subjected to extreme physical, psychological and emotional abuse at two immigration removal centres. A report produced by asylum seekers at Harmondsworth and Brook House alleges that guards have intimidated, humiliated and been physically abusive towards them. The group is calling for access to

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25:32

Inside the Silicon Valley Plot to Annex Venezuela for...

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2026/01/07

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY At two in the morning, Venezuelan time, on January 3 the lights went out across Caracas. Within hours, the geopolitical architecture of the Western Hemisphere had been violently rearranged. Under cover of a cyber-induced blackout, the United States launched Operation Absolute Resolve – a massive, multi-domain military intervention that culminated in the

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08:55

Trump and Musk Welcome Russian Propaganda After...

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2026/01/07

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY In what Will Sommer at The Bulwark has described as the first time the "[Trump] administration has offered assistance to someone from Canada", the US State Department has intervened to reinstate the visa of Laura (Lauren) Chen, co-founder of an illegally funded media outlet aimed at reaching American audiences with Russian propaganda. Chen, the Canadian

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03:41

Keir Starmer Says 'All Options Are on the Table' to...

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2026/01/07

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Keir Starmer's spokesman on Wednesday insisted that "all options are on the table" to stop Elon Musk's X site from generating "completely unacceptable" deepfake sexual images of children, but would not commit the UK Government to taking specific direct action against them. Asked by Byline Times why the Government has not followed through on the Prime

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06:08

Boris Johnson's Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost...

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2026/01/07

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Boris Johnson's Government acted in "blind panic" in signing a deal with the Duchy of Cornwall to lease an unusable radon gas filled prison in Dartmoor, which will needlessly cost taxpayers over £100m, a new Parliamentary report has found. An investigation by the Commons Public Accounts Committee reveals for the first time the full scale of the contract to

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07:28

Trump's 'Donroe Doctrine' Is an Existential Threat to...

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2026/01/06

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Like so much that Donald Trump has done since he returned to the White House, the US attack on Venezuela and capture of its President was shocking but not surprising. It was shocking because of its flagrant violation of international and US law. However, it was unsurprising, because Trump has for the past year signalled his aggressive intent towards

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06:18

Reform Chairman Who Boasts of Expertise in Business...

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2026/01/05

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY A Reform UK politician who boasts of skills in business 'compliance' has had at least ten companies struck-off for breaking company law. Paul Donaghy, who stood for the North East Mayoral post and in the Washington & Gateshead South constituency last year, was previously a Conservative councillor until defecting to Reform UK in January 2023, where he

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08:33

'Keir Starmer Must Stop Chasing Reform's Cruelty and...

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2025/12/19

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Prime Minister Keir Starmer is reportedly planning to launch a major Government reset, next year, starting with a King's speech in May. Few would dispute the need. Under current polling the party is on course for a historic routing at next year's local elections. So far, Labour's response to the threat posed by Reform has been to harden its language and

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11:02

Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate...

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2025/12/19

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY When the Nathan Gill bribery story fist hit the headlines, Keir Starmer and his ministers dodged calls from MPs to launch a full enquiry into Russian interference in British politics. So, when the Government this week ordered an urgent review into foreign financial political interference, it came as a surprise to many. However, there was one big snag:

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10:39

Families of Palestine Hunger Strikers Beg for Meeting...

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2025/12/18

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Family members of the Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers have called on Justice Secretary David Lammy to meet with the strikers before any of them die. Speaking at a press conference in Vauxhall on Thursday, the sisters of hunger strikers Kamran Ahmed and Teuta Hoxha and the next of kin of Qesser Zuhrah alleged ill treatment of their relatives by

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05:33

'They've Ruined Christmas': Nigerian Student Blocked...

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2025/12/18

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY A British academic and his Nigerian wife say the Home Office has "ruined Christmas" after refusing a visa for their cousin, a student of prosthetics and orthotics at a top-ranking university. Dr James Pickering and his wife Chioma had booked a return flight for their eighteen-year-old cousin and had stated that they could financially sponsor her

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08:37

Nigel Farage-Backed 'Raise the Colours' Campaign...

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2025/12/18

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY The 'Raise the Colours' flag-raising campaign, which claims to be a "grassroots" campaign for "unity" and has drawn the support of mainstream political parties and widespread coverage in the British media, has pivoted to stabbing through dinghies and harassing and racially abusing migrants and aid workers in the camps of Northern France, an investigation

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08:48

Keir Starmer Is Setting a Trap for Nigel Farage With...

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2025/12/17

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY The announcement that Keir Starmer's Government is launching a review of "foreign financial interference" in British politics didn't make much of a splash in today's paper, but it may turn out to have been one of the most significant political for moments in this Parliament. For years the Labour party has been under pressure to take the issues of foreign

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