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11:56

Nigel Farage's £9m Donor Profits From Putin...

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2025/12/16

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Nigel Farage's record-beating election war chest is being bankrolled by a donor whose fortune is entangled with a major video platform which has hosted Russian state broadcasters supporting Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine and an influence operation hatched by Russian intelligence. Christopher Harborne - the Thailand-based billionaire who has given Reform

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09:08

The World Upside Down: How a Top Official at Trump's...

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2025/12/15

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY In the past week a top official at Trump's FBI helped to launder a right-wing disinformation narrative, claiming at a congressional hearing that the antifascist movement known as "antifa" is the biggest domestic terrorism threat in the United States. Michael Glasheen, the director of operations in the FBI's National Security Branch, told lawmakers that

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16:34

What Putin Really Wants From Trump's Ukraine...

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2025/12/15

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Talks about negotiations over Ukraine have now become a daily fixture in the public sphere - not only among experts, but also in the media and in official statements. Dozens of analysts discuss diplomatic moves by Russia, the United States, Ukraine, and European leaders every day, closely tracking new meetings between special envoys, official drafts of

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14:55

'The Trump Administration Must Abandon Its Delusions...

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2025/12/12

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Members of the Trump administration are guilty of making the same mistake as backers of Brexit in the UK, in assuming other people share their own prejudices about the European Union. This perception bias has led the administration to conclude that Europeans are yearning to be "free" from the "shackles" of the EU, and that the US has a crucial role to play

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05:48

Nigel Farage Accepts Another £135,000 From Gold...

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2025/12/11

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Nigel Farage has accepted another £135,000 from a firm selling gold bullion, for working just four hours per week over a three month period. The latest register of interests published by the House of Parliament shows that the Reform UK leader continues to earn huge sums of money from second jobs outside his role as the MP for Clacton. Farage, who acts as

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05:13

Nigel Farage's Russian Influence Advent Calendar

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2025/12/10

Advent Calendar 25 Times Nigel Farage Has Been a Gift to Vladimir Putin (chronological). Click a door to flip it. 1 2013 Byline Times: Farage lies about "meeting the Russian ambassador" Open story 2 31 Mar 2014 Guardian: relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny Open story 3 1 May 2014 GQ (archived): Putin is the leader Farage most admires Open story 4 21 May 2014 HuffPost: Prince Charles Shouldn't Criticise Putin Open story 5 2014 (archived) The EU provoked Russia's invasion of

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10:22

'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give...

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2025/12/10

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY I've held back from commenting on the revelations about Nigel Farage's past racism. Not because the story shocked me. For many in this country, it merely confirms what we've suspected for years. But some will be hearing these allegations for the first time, and it's to you that I want to speak. Over the past weeks we've seen a steady stream of former

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11:39

The UK's Shrinking Army Is Conducting Secretive...

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2025/12/09

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Britain's Army is shrinking to its smallest size since the Napoleonic wars, struggling to recruit and unable to modernise at the pace its own commanders say is required. Yet despite this contraction, new Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures obtained by Byline Times suggest that the UK is quietly extending its global reach by sending military reservists into

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11:55

Elon Musk Has Made X a Threat to Democracy and His...

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2025/12/08

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY In December 2025, the European Commission fined X €120 million under its new Digital Services Act (DSA) - the EU's flagship online safety law, which requires the biggest platforms to be transparent about how they amplify, advertise and police content. It was the first ever non-compliance ruling under the DSA, and it focused on three design choices at the

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09:23

The Government's 'Integrity Gap' Is Leaving the Door...

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2025/12/08

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Downing Street's electoral strategy is no longer a mystery. Labour's leadership has decided the safest route to power is to narrow politics to the smallest possible space: mimic just enough of Reform UK's rhetoric to neutralise them, reassure the bond markets, and run out the clock. This is not a strategy of renewal. It is crisis management masquerading as

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15:20

'Keir Starmer's Brexit Blind Spot Leaves Britain With...

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2025/12/05

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Two British Prime Ministers gave foreign policy speeches recently. Only one of them was any good. Unfortunately, it was not the speech given by the current Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Starmer's address to the Lady Mayor of London's Banquet at the Guildhall on Monday was a patchwork quilt of small ideas, sown together, like a student essay, with a few

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08:37

The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into...

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2025/12/05

Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY There was fervour in Chelmsford's Tindal Square - and a sea of pink. Hot pink berets. Baby pink Union Jack flags. Dogs with pink rain jackets. This was the 'Pink Ladies' protest, an anti-migrant group who portray themselves as being ordinary women trying to "save our kids". The organiser of last week's rally was Orla Minihane, Reform UK's vice-chair for

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09:34

Reform UK Builds Towards £40 Million Election War...

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2025/12/04

Read our Digital & Print EditionsAnd support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reform UK has received the most donations of any political party by far so far this year according to data released on Thursday by the Electoral Commission. Over the last quarter Reform UK was the biggest recipient of political donations out of any UK political party by a long way. At a total of £10,293,511, Reform received almost four times the donations

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06:21

Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as...

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2025/12/04

A Thailand-based crypto investor and former Conservative donor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, as its leader Nigel Farage backed his company and called for deregulation of the currency, telling an industry conference earlier this year that "I am your champion". Read our Digital & Print Editions And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system SUBSCRIBE TODAY British-born Christopher Harbone previously funded Farage's attendance at

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15:38

The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to...

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2025/12/02

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Read our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Nationalist vigilante 'street patrol' groups with ties to Reform UK and the far right are falsely claiming to be working with the police, while seeking to infiltrate local school networks in order to "protect" women and children, Byline Times can reveal. Earlier this year we revealed how one such

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13:40

Trump Envoy Has Financial Ties With Former Adviser to...

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2025/12/01

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Read our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Faena Miami Beach hotel gets thousands of five-star reviews online. It is arguably the most luxurious hotel in the city - certainly up there with the Miami Beach Edition. So, if you were the US Representative for Florida's 13th congressional district and in town on the weekend of 25 October this

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11:49

Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the...

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2025/11/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Read our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY When veteran Labour peer Alf Dubs first heard the Government's hardline proposals to transform the asylum system, he was shocked. Lord Dubs, who arrived in Britain as a child refugee from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939 on the Kindertransport and has since spent his life campaigning on behalf of

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11:56

'Nigel Farage's Plan to Scrap Nature Protections...

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2025/11/25

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Read our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Mist gathers over a chalk stream at first light, the surface broken by rising mayflies. A barn owl drifts low over a hedgerow. These moments of quiet resilience are becoming rarer. One in six UK species is now at risk of extinction and average populations have fallen by 19% since 1970 - evidence of a

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09:31

'The 'Eco-Populist' Cost-Cutting Budget Rachel Reeves...

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2025/11/25

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Read our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY This week's budget provides a real opportunity for the UK to adopt an eco-populist approach to consumer energy bills. This eco-populist energy system would be green, energy independent, secure, efficient, cheap for industry, eliminate fuel poverty and any extra costs would fall on the rich. Yet how

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11:42

Reform UK's 'Cost Cutting' Council Prepares to Raise...

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2025/11/24

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Read our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reform UK's flagship Kent County council has been accused of "hurtling towards financial oblivion" after new financial documents released show that Nigel Farage's supposedly "cost-cutting" local authority has racked up a £46.5m budget overspend forecast for this financial year. The overspend

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