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10:47

'Keir Starmer Is Out of His Depth and Out of His Time'

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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 It's hard in modern politics not to think constantly about leadership. It's little wonder. Traditional politics feels incapable of dealing with the complexities and the sheer scale of the challenges we face. So, we look to roll the dice, again and again, to find a leader capable of leading us. What we don't do is stop and

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07:54

Public Trust in Government Collapses to Record Low as...

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2025/06/25

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY The National Centre for Social Research has today published findings that should give pause to anyone concerned with the health of British democracy. Their latest British Social Attitudes survey, based on responses from over 3,000 UK adults, reveals a political system struggling to maintain public confidence and legitimacy in an era

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07:16

£2 Billion of Fraudulent Covid Loans Remains At Large...

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2025/06/25

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY MPs on the Commons Public Accounts Committee have severely criticised the UK Government for its "dangerously flatfooted approach" in failing to recover nearly £2 billion in suspected fraudulent business loans lent by the last Conservative government five years ago. The money handed out at the height of the Covid pandemic was aimed

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09:48

No Kings! Trump's Military Parade Couldn't Drown Out...

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2025/06/24

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY It was meant to write itself. The tanks. The planes. The marching soldiers. The Dear Leader on the podium, the roar of the cheering crowds. President Donald Trump's military parade in Washington DC on June 14, which just happened to coincide with his 79th birthday - was expected to confirm people's worst fears; a North Korea-style

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13:25

Cambridge University Takes Own Professor to Court for...

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2025/06/24

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY The University of Cambridge has been accused of stifling protest in a game of "cat and mouse politics" by one of its own academics who is facing legal action from one of its colleges for participating in pro-Palestine protests. Hank Gonzalez, an Associate Professor in Caribbean History, was served with an interim injunction by St

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13:23

From Lawnmower Mishaps to Expenses Scandals: 10 Fresh...

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2025/06/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A week is a long time in politics and never has that been more the case than with Reform UK. In recent weeks we've been closely following the party's dozen councils they took control of back in May and detailing the many scandals, resignations, cancelled meetings and culture wars they have been getting themselves involved in. After

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07:19

'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of...

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2025/06/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY Not so very long ago, our capital stood as a model for all that was great and good about Britain. Sitting at the heart of an Empire upon which the sun never set, it moved at its own inimitable pace as men in bowler hats, pearly kings and queens, flying nannies and Antipodean chimney sweeps went about their business. Gaiety hung in

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10:33

'Traditional Gender Norms Are the Exact Opposite' of...

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2025/06/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY As the far right movement gathers pace in the UK, and violence and hostility towards women deepens, a new study has found that gender inequality is worsening financial hardship in economically deprived regions. The findings, from Kings College London, come weeks after polling by IPSOS for JOE Media Group of Gen Z voters revealed

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11:50

Refugee Week 2025: 'We Cannot Leave This Global...

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2025/06/21

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY This article will not be about how closed borders don't work. The verdict for that was in long ago, and (while suicidal policymakers keep pinning their political fates on 'taking back control') the annual displacement report confirms it. I will go into the data (briefly), but I will not waste time arguing a historical truth so

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08:04

'Israel's Strikes on Iran Will Have Consequences for...

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2025/06/21

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY Even during the 2003 Iraq war, the people of the Middle East did not appear to feel as terrified and alarmed as they have been since Israel's aggression against Iran kicked off on 12 June. What is extraordinary is that this is barely reflected in the western media obsessed with the threat to Israel or western interests. Many

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09:50

Americans Oppose Trump Joining Israel-Iran War and Do...

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2025/06/20

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY Polling from the Economist/YouGov and the Washington Post shows that contrary to President Donald Trump's demand for Iranian unconditional surrender, most Americans oppose involvement in the conflict between Iran and Israel and do not see the Iranian nuclear program as an immediate threat to the United States. Even Republicans who

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06:50

Will a New Staging of 'The Line of Beauty' Satisfy...

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2025/06/20

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY If Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities defined the 1980s in America, then Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty did the job for us here. Both novels captured the feeling of that decade - the heady materialism, unapologetic greed and the sense, too, that on both sides of the Atlantic a great many people had got into the business

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09:38

How Negative Media Headlines About Small Boat...

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2025/06/19

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features… SUBSCRIBE TODAY Media reporting of small boat crossings appears to be reducing support for all forms of immigration - even for those groups who arrived in the UK through regular approved routes, new research suggests. Migrants arriving by small boats make up just 2% of all immigration to the UK, but have become dominant in the coverage of migration

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11:04

Non-Disabled People's Delusions That Disability 'Is...

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2025/06/19

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.For digital and print editions, packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, features, and columns…. SUBSCRIBE I can't believe I'm asking this question again. Who the hell are the disabled? In light of recent announcements by the Government, and darker responses from some non-disabled people, it plainly

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07:55

An Island of Neighbours: Rebuilding Labour from the...

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2025/06/19

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. For digital and print editions, packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, features, and columns…. SUBSCRIBE When Labour returned to power last July it spoke of 'national renewal'. But, almost a year on, that promise feels a bit thin. There have been commendable moves - including the partial

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16:52

UK Government 'Blocking Debt Relief' for World's...

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2025/06/18

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. For digital and print editions, packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, features, and columns…. SUBSCRIBE The UK Government is one of the biggest obstacles to the world's poorest countries securing debt relief, according to a coalition of aid organisations ahead of a crucial international development

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07:42

Hundreds of Local Authorities Remain on the Brink of...

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2025/06/18

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. For digital and print editions, packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, features, and columns…. SUBSCRIBE Hundreds of councils remain on a financial cliff edge and could go bust within the next two years, despite extra relief handed to them by Keir Starmer's incoming Government, MPs on the

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09:32

Reform UK Councils Are Facing Protests After...

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2025/06/17

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. For digital and print editions, packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, features, and columns…. SUBSCRIBE Reform UK's influx of newly-elected councillors are facing rising local anger in parts of the country after scrapping local preparations to deal with catastrophic man-made climate

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09:26

Labour Apart: How Morgan McSweeney Levered the Left...

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2025/06/17

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. For digital and print editions, packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, features, and columns…. SUBSCRIBE The book Get In, about Keir Starmer's rise to power, has been sitting on my bookshelf since it was first published back in February. I had avoided reading it in part because I pretty much knew

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08:53

JD Vance's 'British Sherpa' Chairs Organisation...

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2025/06/16

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. For digital and print editions, packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, features, and columns…. SUBSCRIBE The man dubbed Vice President JD Vance's "philosopher king" is the UK chair of an organisation funded by a series of right-wing billionaires who have variously condemned democracy as

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