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07:10

Democracy in Crisis as Half of Young People Fail to...

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2025/07/21

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Young people are failing to register to vote because they do not see politics as representing them, or offering anything substantive to their lives, a new report by MPs has warned. The House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee found that eight million people did not register to vote at the last

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08:46

Palestine Campaign Group Says It Has Been 'De-Banked'...

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2025/07/21

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A group campaigning and raising money for the Palestinians say they have had their bank account frozen by Virgin Money with over £10,000 in funds trapped - much of which was destined as aid to Gaza. Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine says the bank, which is now owned by Nationwide, has provided "absolutely no explanation" for

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11:38

'Keir Starmer Must Start Listening to His Labour...

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2025/07/21

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Following the controversial suspension of four prominent Labour backbenchers last week, including welfare reform rebel-in-chief Rachael Maskell, three leading left-wing groups united to release a joint condemnation of the Government's latest misstep. Compass, Open Labour and Momentum joining together on this is a clear signal that

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27:56

Andy Burnham: These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call...

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2025/07/19

Andy Burnham is Labour's Greater Manchester Mayor. He was the Labour MP for Leigh from 2001 to 2017, and served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Culture Secretary, and Health Secretary in Gordon Brown's Cabinet. He sat down for an interview at the 2025 Byline Festival with Hardeep Matharu, Editor-in-Chief of Byline TimesHM: You have had an interesting political journey. You are currently Labour's Greater Manchester Mayor. You were a Labour MP and Cabinet minister for many years. You

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12:48

'Why Fixers Who Help War Correspondents Deserve More...

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2025/07/18

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY It was as I was reading the horrifying details of the Afghan data leak that I got the alert. 'BBC BREAKING NEWS: Thousands of Afghans relocated to UK under secret government scheme after defence data breach'. In a second, the BBC had taken a story about the UK endangering tens of thousands of Afghans - many of whom had worked for the

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09:44

Beyond Division: 'Multicultural Nationalism' and the...

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2025/07/18

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 regret at talking of an "island of strangers" was widely seen as a defeat for the newly resurgent 'Blue Labour' faction - even if his Government's white paper still claimed that immigration has caused "incalculable damage". But the partial retreat leaves fundamental questions unanswered. What should Labour's

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07:45

Why the 'Lack of Loyalty' Trope in Lord Tebbit's...

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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 Drummers banging out Bhangra beats. Blue-shirted, brown-skinned fans cheering and chanting, dancing and singing, from opening bell to stumps. India's tricolour waved in all corners of the ground. Sweltering heat and humidity with the occasional driving downpour. If it wasn't for the £5 samosas and Brummie burrs you'd be forgiven for

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11:18

Bungs from Billionaires: Do Labour's Political...

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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 Democracy campaigners have, on the whole, enthusiastically welcomed the Government's political reforms outlined in a major new election strategy today. As has been widely-reported, 16 and 17-year-olds will be given the right to vote in all UK elections, bringing UK-wide elections in line with Scotland and Wales. It represents the

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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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