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17:11

Unite Union's War Chest Depleted as Strike Spending...

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2025/08/07

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY One of Britain's biggest trade unions faces claims of financial mismanagement embroiling the current leadership, amid heavily increased spending on strikes and staffing. The Unite union's dispute's fund - a war-chest for funding strike pay during industrial action and which grew to over £40 million under former General Secretary

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06:48

'Clickbait and Chaos' - 100 days of Reform UK Running...

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2025/08/07

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The first 100 days of the Reform UK administration at Kent County Council can be summarised as clickbait and chaos. We were told that Reform UK would act in the interests of the residents of Kent but instead we have only seen chaotic management, bigotry and empty soundbites that help no-one. The start of the Reform UK administration

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08:02

'Expect to be Arrested' Met Police Warns as Hundreds...

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2025/08/06

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Campaigners are bracing for potentially hundreds of arrests this Saturday in Parliament Square, after 500 people committed to holding up signs in support of the banned direct action group Palestine Action. Activists will join a peaceful protest outside Parliament at 1pm on Saturday, organised by the Defend Our Juries campaign, where

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18:05

Elon Musk Has Already Built an Interplanetary Colony:...

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2025/08/05

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY For over a decade, Twitter served as a virtual town square where everyone from celebrities, journalists, and influencers, to politicians, entertainers, and heads of state congregated alongside the rest of us. Twitter became like the public record - a place for news, information, argument and dissent. It was real-time, fast-paced, and

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17:01

The Turning Point Takeover: The Growing Network...

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2025/08/05

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY In the six years since its formation, US hard-right group Turning Point has become a fixture on campuses at multiple UK universities. Using the so-called 'culture war' to promote itself as a "grassroots conservative and free speech activist organisation", TPUK has been the driving force behind a growing network of well-placed

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12:57

Why Did the ECHR Deny Us the Right to Know the Full...

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2025/08/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY In another attempt to delay the moment of reckoning, the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on 22 July 2025 in Bradshaw and Others v. United Kingdom seems to serve as an attempt to protect the legitimacy of governments in European countries where Russian interference in democratic processes has been particularly

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10:42

'Keir Starmer's Palestine Recognition Delay Is...

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2025/08/01

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that the UK Government will unilaterally recognise the State of Palestine. However, the announcement was tainted by a grim caveat: that his Government will move down this path unless Israel takes "substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza" and commit to a two state solution,

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12:47

The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over...

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2025/07/31

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Privacy campaigners have told Byline Times of their concern that millions of Britons are being forced to hand over sensitive personal data to opaque overseas firms with questionable privacy records, due to the new Online Safety Act. From 25 July 2025, social media companies operating in the UK have been compelled to block under-18s

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10:56

'Free Speech for the 0.1%: Why the Online Safety Act...

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2025/07/31

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A new UK parliamentary report has confirmed what many of us in civil society have been saying for years: the Online Safety Act isn't working. But it's not just failing to stop harmful misinformation and abuse - it's failing to even understand how those harms spread. Here's the crux of it: 0.1% of users are responsible for 80% of the

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23:07

Mystery at the Heart of £1 Billion UK Legal Offensive...

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2025/07/30

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY For decades, London's courthouses have served as cherished hubs for powerful Russian interests seeking to advance their business, shield their assets, silence critics, and shuffle dirty cash around. Drawn by the UK legal system's reputation as a global leader in dispute resolution, coupled with the capital's less illustrious role as

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09:42

Labour MP Speaks Out About Keir Starmer's 'Punishment...

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2025/07/30

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY "You have to assume that at some point something's going to be cooked up about you - some sort of smear - or there will be another vote, and then they will suspend you." I'm speaking to a Labour MP who voted against the Government's recent disability benefit cuts and now fears they will be the next victim of what they describe as the

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08:26

'A Government That Crushes Dissent and Eliminates...

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2025/07/30

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Apparently if you're awful enough to cut the legs off one side of a spider then it walks round in circles. It's this image that sticks in my mind as a tiny faction of the Labour right looks to sever the link to anything that can discernibly be called left wing in the party. The latest manifestation of this operation to separate

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10:24

Charities Face £3,000 Annual Bill for Driving...

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2025/07/29

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Charities who say they have "done the right thing" by investing in electric vehicles will face a new daily charge of £9 to drive a zero-emissions van in central London from December. The charge from Transport for London could add over £3,000 to the annual running costs of each electric van - a major financial hit at a time when they

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11:38

Aerial Terror in Kherson - A City Under Drone Siege

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2025/07/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A charred car, struck by a Russian FPV drone, caught Ukrainian photojournalist Ivan Antypenko's eye as he drove along the Kherson-Mykolaiv highway. "Bad news," he wrote on social media. Reporting from the south of Ukraine since the start of the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022, Antypenko has documented dozens of drone-struck

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12:23

Trump Made 'Mistake of Historic Proportions' on...

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2025/07/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY American diplomat, Bridget Brink, resigned in April from her position as US Ambassador to Ukraine, after she concluded she could no longer conduct the Trump administration's policy towards that country in good conscience. Since then, she has decided to run for public office, as a Democrat Party candidate for the US House of

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17:08

'Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Act Is a Ticking Time...

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2025/07/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The United States is in the throes of an unprecedented homelessness crisis that is about to be made drastically worse by Donald Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' (OBBBA) signed into law earlier this month, housing campaigners have warned. Older Americans, including those on low incomes reliant on social safety net programs, are

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08:28

The Parliamentary Funding Loophole Allowing Murdoch...

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2025/07/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A new tool collating data on the funding of All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) over the last three years highlights transparency loopholes in the rules surrounding their funding. The tool, from the consultancy Cast From Clay, alerted Byline Times to two loopholes in the transparency rules of APPG funding. Companies such as

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06:43

University and College Union Staff Say It Is a 'Toxic...

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2025/07/26

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Staff working for the University and Colleges Union say it is a "toxic" workplace where junior staff are subjected to "managerial bullying and intimidation" with workplace racism as its "worst expression". The staff, represented by Unite, are balloting for a third round of strike action over the claims. The Health and Safety

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06:14

'House of the People' Citizens' Assembly Provides...

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2025/07/25

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The first sitting of the House of the People, a citizens' assembly initiative by the group Assemble has recommended a "People's Charter" of citizen-led policy proposals. These include a wealth tax, strengthening anticorruption laws to prohibit lobbying, an immediate arms embargo for all countries acting in violation of international

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14:16

Secret Report Reveals British Army's Culture of...

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2025/07/25

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY In a virtual corner of Whitehall, buried within the Ministry of Defence's digital filing system, a cultural audit of the British Army sat, unread by the public. Written in 2022, by Professor Anthony King, then Chair of War Studies at the University of Warwick, the report, 'To Fight and Win', would have stayed in the shadows, until it

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