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08:09

Decent Housing? A Privilege - Especially for the...

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2025/11/07

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY When it comes to housing, I appreciate that I have the basics: a roof over my head and heating (although, these days, that is not a given due to the extortionate rise in costs). These things should never be considered a privilege for any human being - but the most basic of rights. Yet, in the dark labyrinth of this hypocritical

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09:17

'The SNP Isn't a Threat to the Security of Any Nation...

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2025/11/06

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY On Wednesday David Lammy said at Prime Minister's Questions that the Scottish National Party was a threat to the UK's national security, in what amounts to a drastic escalation of Labour's anti-independence rhetoric. To be clear he - and in fact, two other cabinet ministers before him - didn't just say that SNP policies risked

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04:14

Sadiq Khan Urges New Yorkers to Reject 'The Politics...

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2025/11/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Sadiq Khan wants New Yorkers to "see through the politics of hatred and fear" and back the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York, while rejecting those seeking to "weaponise" his Muslim faith against him. A source close to the London Mayor told Byline Times that Khan wants New Yorkers to reject the "divisive and desperate" tactics

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11:45

Challenger to Lead Britain's Biggest Union Vows to...

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2025/11/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A left-wing challenger to lead the UK's largest trade union is pledging to ramp up industrial action and overhaul its relationship with Labour if she wins. Andrea Egan, a socialist social worker from Bolton, is challenging the re-standing General Secretary of Unison for the leadership, and is convinced she will win. Andrea Egan is

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09:41

Follow the Money: How the Right Weaponises the Costs...

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2025/11/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY In the lead-up to what promises to be a consequential budget, the money spent on supporting disabled people is constantly questioned, often in the most simplistic terms. Thus, to the glee of right-wing politicians and journalists, the National Audit Office has recently reported that local authorities spend £2 billion every year on

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07:30

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk...

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2025/11/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The UK has become too dependent on Elon Musk and his Space X company for the success of its space programme, and must urgently seek greater independence from it in order to stop the "politicisation" of these services by the far-right billionaire, a new Parliamentary report has warned. The report, by the House of Lords' UK Engagement

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14:29

Russia's 'Phase Zero' Is Here and War With NATO Is...

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2025/11/03

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Unidentified drones overflew a military base in northeast Belgium on Sunday. The affected Kleine-Brogel Air Base hosts Belgian F-16 planes and is also believed to store US nuclear weapons. The Belgian Defence Minister did not directly blame Russia for the incident but said the tactics point towards it. Recent months have seen

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04:39

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for...

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2025/11/03

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Government should consider cutting the minimum wage for young people in order to raise "aspiration" and boost business, Nigel Farage has said. Speaking at a press conference in the City of London, the Reform leader called on the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to either cut the minimum wage for young people or lift the cap at which

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07:16

How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of...

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2025/11/03

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY For my entire time as the climate columnist for The Independent, I was allowed complete editorial freedom to cover the issues I thought most important, except for the one key issue that I thought was the most important. I was constantly blocked from mentioning the visceral opposition or complacency of the powerful UK and global

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06:58

'Geert Wilders' Far-Right Retreat Leaves a Very Dutch...

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2025/10/31

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Geert Wilders' PVV may have lost ground in this week's Dutch parliamentary elections, but the truth is that, contrary to all the talk in the international media, this modest European nation has not suddenly discovered how to defeat the extreme right. In reality, these elections merely confirm that politics in the Netherlands remains

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09:35

Reform UK Just Won Britain's Least-Prestigious Award...

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2025/10/29

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reform UK has received an award for being the organisation that engaged in the "most prolific promotion of pseudoscience" during 2025. Each year the UK's long-running publication for analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal, The Skeptic magazine, names their pseudoscientist of the year, and awards

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12:54

'No Faith' in X and Meta to Tackle Abuse in Politics,...

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2025/10/29

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Politicians should "feel empowered" to leave platforms like X - formerly Twitter - if they believe it presents a greater risk than benefit to their work, according to a damning new report from the House of Commons' speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle. The report includes the strongest nudge yet for politicians to consider leaving X or

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11:44

Russia is Using Drones and Deportations to Empty...

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2025/10/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Byline Times first reported on Russia's "human safari" attacks on Ukrainians back in July 2024. At the time, Putin's drones attacks on civilians in Kherson City seemed to be a series of isolated atrocities, too brutal to form a pattern. However, more than a year later, the "human safari" has been officially recognised not only as a

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17:57

Reform UK Treasurer Profited From Financial Ties to...

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2025/10/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Nigel Farage's Reform UK claims to represent a people's revolt against the political elite. But documents reviewed by Byline Times, alongside corporate and regulatory filings in London and the United States, reveal that the party's own Treasurer was recently invested with the same Silicon Valley donor bloc - including Elon Musk -

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09:33

'How to Stop Labour's Autumn of Discontent Turning...

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2025/10/27

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. We look back to make sense of complex and bewildering moments. As we face exactly such a time now, my mind keeps drifting back to the late 1970s and the foreboding gloom that something still opaque, still nascent was starting to cast its dark shadow over our lives and our country

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13:19

Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia?

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2025/10/27

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY From the top floor of Tashkent's Hotel Uzbekistan, one of the most striking Soviet Modernist buildings in Central Asia, twenty-seven cranes can be seen stretching out against the skyline, still busy even as the sun sets on the city below. They are busy building not the Madrassas and Mosques that draw countless tourists to this

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08:47

The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result...

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2025/10/24

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY In the run up to Thursday's Caerphilly by-election there was acres of media coverage suggesting that the Welsh constituency was about to be taken by Reform. "Reform could make massive Welsh breakthrough TODAY" shouted the Daily Mail as it insisted that "Nigel Farage's party is leading the race" for the seat. Reporters, who previously

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09:37

Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts...

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2025/10/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reform's flagship 'cost-cutting' Kent County Council leadership has started approaching opposition parties for help finding extra cash, after struggling to identify the tens of millions of pounds in budget savings they promised, Byline Times can reveal. The newly-won Council was heralded by Nigel Farage as a symbol of what the party

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06:17

Michael Gove Lobbied Government Officials to Hand...

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2025/10/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Michael Gove personally lobbied Government officials to ensure that the award of a multimillion pound Covid testing contract to a Conservative donor and Brexit supporter was "unblocked". On March 31 2020, one week after the UK entered into the first national lockdown, the then Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove received an email

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08:44

The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won't Tell You About

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2025/10/22

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Many British people will be completely unaware of the fact that the UK's national electricity grid was privatised by the Conservatives back in 1990. Nor are they aware of the scandalous fact that, just like the water industry, the privatised industry has pocketed huge profits, while failing to fulfil its core mission - to build a

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