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10:34

'Giving the Vote to 16 Year Olds Is a Big Step...

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2025/07/17

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY When the Scottish Parliament introduced votes at 16 for the 2014 independence referendum, there were those who argued that 16 and 17-year-olds weren't mature enough to think seriously about the world. Some Conservatives complained that this was a partisan move, designed to drive-up support for the 'Yes' side. But during the

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16:21

'Grassroots' Pressure Group Opposing Equality Act Is...

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2025/07/17

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A group claiming to be an independent grassroots critic of Britain's Equality Act is actually being bankrolled by a charity spun out of Tufton Street's right-wing Centre for Policy Studies think tank, Byline Times can reveal. Don't Divide Us (DDU) claims to be a "grassroots movement" composed of "all sorts of people who first came

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16:08

British Lords Under Fire for Serving on Hong Kong...

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2025/07/17

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Two serving members of the House of Lords are under fire for serving on Hong Kong's top court - despite China imposing ever-tightening control over the province. House of Lords members David Neuberger and Leonard Hoffmann - both former senior British judges and now crossbench peers - serve as foreign judges on Hong Kong's Court of

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10:47

'The Government's Call for Evidence on Islamophobia...

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2025/07/16

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY In an era where British Muslims face rising levels of hostility - from hate crime in the streets to institutional discrimination - one might expect that a Government working group tasked with producing a definition of Islamophobia or 'anti-Muslim hate,' might be a good-faith effort. Unfortunately, the recent call for evidence by the

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10:34

The New Left: Could a Jeremy Corbyn Led Party Really...

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2025/07/16

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Labour Party? You can't live with it, and you can't live without it. Debate about whether progressive change happens with or without Labour is as old as the hills. Since its formation, from the Independent Labour Party onwards, socialists have debated whether to change Labour or replace it. This eternal debate has been given a

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09:52

'Keir Starmer Must Break His Silence on the Climate...

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2025/07/16

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY This coming weekend is the third anniversary of UK temperatures hitting 40C hit for first time ever. Since then, countless new records have been broken. In 2023, some areas had a quarter more rainfall than normal, making the year one of the ten wettest for England and Northern Ireland since 1836. May 2024 was the warmest on record

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06:53

Tax-Dodging Billionaires Are Being Let off the Hook...

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2025/07/16

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY MPs today criticised UK tax authorities for failing to chase billionaires to ensure they pay their taxes, and not even knowing how many are failing to do so. The report from the Public Accounts Committee comes as pressure mounts on the Government to introduce a wealth tax, and as Chancellor Rachel Reeves desperately tries to find new

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06:45

Reform's Darren Grimes Seeks Help From European...

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2025/07/15

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reform's Durham County Council deputy leader Darren Grimes, who has previously described the European Convention on Human Rights as "utterly bent" is now planning to use it in a move which will make it easier to dismiss complaints by voters. "Beard removal is now 'torture' under the ECHR", Grimes complained on June 25. He's also

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13:26

A Year Since the UK Riots, Elon Musk's X Is Still...

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2025/07/15

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Elon Musk's X platform continues to be a breeding ground for violent anti-Muslim & anti-migrant hate, according to a new report from counter-hate researchers. Analysis by the the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) - an organisation despised by far-right billionaire Musk - found that in the aftermath of the Southport murders

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06:01

Nigel Farage Says He Wants to Scrap the Two-Child...

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2025/07/14

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Nigel Farage has been making headlines recently by calling for the two-child benefits cap to be scrapped. The limit, introduced by the Conservative Government under David Cameron in 2017, restricts support in Universal Credit and tax credits to two children in a family. Once families grow above this level, they get no additional

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22:02

Srebrenica: Thirty Years of Denial

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2025/07/14

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY "We were beautiful and as such we should be remembered." Her green eyes beam. Tea Tupajić looks at the man sitting next to her and her face is aglow. She is a Bosnian theatre director, who experienced the siege of Sarajevo as a child. His name is Olaf Nijeboer, and he is the chairman of the assocation Dutchbat III. Back in 1995, he

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09:39

'MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as...

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2025/07/14

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The past week has been a big one for disability-blaming. Forget migrants (for a moment), disabilities are now apparently the reason our economy and public services aren't working. 'Benefits Pay More Than Being In Work', said Thursday's Telegraph front page, furious that the sickest, or most disabled Brits, may receive more from the

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07:21

Lacking in Laughs and Access: The Disneyfication of...

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2025/07/11

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY If the old oxymoron about Britain and America being divided by a common language is true, then it can also be said that our culture is coming between us. Specifically, our sense of humour. Quite what a chasm it has become was brought home to me when I had to sit through two-and-a-half hours of Hercules at the Theatre Royal in Drury

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11:29

First Past the Post to Be Scrapped for English...

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2025/07/10

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Government will scrap the use of First Past the Post in mayoral elections in England, in a surprise move as part of Labour's flagship devolution bill. Under the English Devolution & Empowerment Bill - published today - the Supplementary Vote (SV) will be reinstated for Mayoral elections, replacing First Past the Post (FPTP) after

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22:08

The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly...

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2025/07/10

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Killing People In the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, I interviewed an NHS nurse who told me that "people are being taken into hospitals and murdered". Those in her profession were running "death camps" that were "no different" to those of "the Third Reich", Kate Shemirani said. "When I liken this to Auschwitz and the

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17:40

From Srebrenica to Gaza: Genocide Denial and the Long...

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2025/07/10

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY July 11 is an international day of commemoration for the thirtieth anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide, the largest mass killing in Europe since 1945. In mid-July 1995, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys were murdered by the VRS, the army of Republika Srpska (RS), the statelet which Bosnian-Serbian nationalists, in

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04:01

Keir Starmer's Government Says Elon Musk's X AI...

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2025/07/09

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Keir Starmer's spokesman has declined to condemn Elon Musk's X after the site's official AI chatbot posted a series of antisemitic comments, which endorsed Hitler and appeared to call for a second holocaust. The comments, which reportedly followed a change to the social media platform's 'Grok' service, led to global outcry, including

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07:36

Worth Reduced to Work: A Disabled Person's Experience...

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2025/07/09

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The lead-up to the vote on the Government's welfare cuts - particularly to the Personal Independent Payment (PIP) - was a hellish time for me and, most likely, for many disabled people. Even with a climb-down in the face of a backbench revolt that saw concessions made, including the dubious announcement that only new PIP claimants

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07:09

Fraud-Spotting Data Analytics and AI Could Close £6...

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2025/07/09

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Keir Starmer's government could recoup billions of pounds by using digital technology and AI to tackle rampant fraud across Whitehall, a new report by the National Audit Office suggests today. The disclosure comes after the Government was forced to drop plans to abolish the winter fuel allowance and cuts to disabled people, leaving

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10:19

'Supreme Court Gender Decision Achieved Nothing and...

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2025/07/07

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY We typed 'woman' into Google News this morning: it gave us one woman beaten, another poisoned by an unlicensed botox clinic, several women pictured for an objectifying Daily Mail article about 'sex faces'… and an op-ed in the Spectator titled: 'Ofcom still isn't sure what a woman is'. The latter involves some bloke called Toby

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