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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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06:34

Palestine Action Ban Branded 'Absurd and Dangerous'...

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2025/07/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the High Court today in support of direct action group Palestine Action's attempts to temporarily reverse the Government's bid to ban them as a terrorist organisation . Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, asked the High Court to impose an interim suspension on the proscription ahead

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08:22

'Progressives Must Unite Against Nigel Farage and...

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2025/07/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY What do this sequence of numbers represent and do they matter: 4, 5, 6, 9, 72,121 and 411? The politically eagle eyed amongst you would know that these are the seats for the main parties and blocks in Parliament. Let's go through the numbers to understand what if anything they mean and tell us. 411 is the number of Labour MPs. It's a

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07:16

The £350 Billion a Year Lost to Corruption, Tax...

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2025/07/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Economic crime, corruption and a lack of financial transparency could be costing the UK up to £350 billion a year, a new report suggests. The All Party Parliamentary Groups on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax and Fair Banking report argues that recovering money lost in the system and preventing future losses could be the key to

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07:21

Patel, Braverman and Jenrick Immigration Scheme Led...

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2025/07/03

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Conservative hardliners on immigration oversaw a large, uncontrolled rise in overseas skilled workers entering Britain while in charge of the Home Office between 2020 and 2024, a report by the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee reveals today. Successive Home Secretaries, Priti Patel and Suella Braverman, and Immigration

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08:20

Kemi Badenoch Refuses to Sack London Conservative...

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2025/07/03

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Kemi Badenoch has been told to "show some backbone"and expel their London Assembly leader Susan Hall, after she joined the advisory board of a far-right group demanding the mass deportation of millions of people living legally in the UK. In a post on social media, expelled ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe said that he was "absolutely

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09:54

The Decades-Long US-Israeli Plan for Regime Change in...

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2025/07/02

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The shaky and fragile ceasefire between Israel, and its US partner and benefactor, and Iran, continues to hold for now. However, while the world remains apprehensive about what many believe was a dangerous military gamble by both Tel Aviv and Washington in their recent attacks on Iran, events are unfolding just as planned by both

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10:33

Lucy Connolly, Bob Vylan and the False Claims of a...

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2025/07/02

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY I would wager that most of the people currently hammering on their keyboards about the punishment that should be meted out to, in no particular order, the BBC, Bob Vylan and the organisers of Glastonbury, probably didn't actually catch the set by the London based punk/rap duo, in which, during the course of their performance they led

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09:49

Leading Lawyers Back Open Letter to Home Secretary...

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2025/07/01

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Thousands of Brits, including leading barristers, have signed an open letter to Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper opposing the planned ban on Palestine Action. The letter argues that in banning the non-violent civil disobedience group, the Government is dangerously "conflating peaceful protest with the real dangers of genuine

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08:16

Another Future Is Possible for Keir Starmer's Government

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2025/07/01

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY "I believe another future is possible", declared Keir Starmer as he launched his campaign to become the next Labour leader back in 2020. Promising to make "the moral case for socialism", Starmer pledged to heal the division of the Corbyn years and unite his party behind a clear plan for radical, but deliverable change. Fast forward

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17:29

11 More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Wanted to...

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2025/07/01

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY This Friday marks a year since the Labour Government took office. It's not been smooth sailing, and we've covered scandals, policy rows, and the headwinds PM Keir Starmer has faced extensively at Byline Times. But the Government has certainly been busy - even if much of it does not make it on to the front pages of Britain's largely

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09:11

The Law That Will Allow the UK Government to Ban...

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2025/06/30

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Government has laid down the law that will see the civil disobedience group Palestine Action banned across the UK - alongside two neo-Nazi groups which glorify racist murder. On Monday (30 June) Ministers laid a 'statutory instrument' - a form of law-making by ministers that means MPs and peers cannot amend the legislation, but

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15:38

Budapest Fights Back and Defies Orban's Pride Ban...

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2025/06/30

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY "I suggest that the organisers of Budapest Pride don't put much effort into planning this year. It is a waste of time and money." - said Viktor Orbán in late February in his annual address to his faithful. A few months later, his party, Fidesz, modified the Hungarian constitution so that "the display and promotion of homosexuality"

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08:08

Claims that Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown...

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2025/06/30

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Cato Institute has just published a long paper arguing that public concern around misinformation is overblown, politicised, and harmful to free speech. It's slick, readable - and fundamentally misleading. Here's why. One of the author's central complaints is that no one agrees on what "misinformation" actually means. And he's

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07:17

How Billionaires 'Look Sideways as People Die in the...

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2025/06/27

Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on 'what the papers don't say' - without fear or favour. To support its work, subscribe to the monthly Byline Times print edition, packed with exclusive investigations, news, and analysis. Help us build the better media Britain deserves. A wealthy heir to a major German chemicals manufacturer has detailed just how heartless the super-rich can be in prioritising

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08:02

Reform UK's Darren Grimes Seems to Have Forgotten...

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2025/06/27

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reform councillors appear to be missing out some fairly basic information from their public registers of interest. In Reform-controlled Durham County Council, three of ten council cabinet members in Durham do not declare they are members of any political or professional organisations…including Reform UK. In addition, Adult and Health

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08:57

Cryptocurrency Loophole Could Allow Foreign...

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2025/06/26

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Campaigners have called for a legal loophole to be closed which potentially allows foreign donations to flow into UK parties via cryptocurrencies. In a new warning from the non-profit watchdog Spotlight on Corruption, researchers note that the risk of funds of criminal origin, or from hostile foreign actors entering UK politics has

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11:44

Misinformation on ECHR Fuels 'Hostility, Mistrust,...

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2025/06/26

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY Successive UK Governments have dismantled British safeguards against wrongful immigration decisions - forcing claimants to rely solely on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Amnesty International argues. It comes as the Labour Home Secretary reviews the human rights framework Britain helped establish. The Government has

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