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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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10:07

'Keir Starmer's Government is Sleepwalking Britain...

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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 Compare the UK Government's recent announcements on AI with the US tech industry's press releases and it can often be hard to tell the difference. This week the Technology Secretary announced a new 'partnership' with OpenAI - a multi-billion dollar tech giant that has aligned itself closely with US President Donald Trump. "This

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14:38

'How the Green Party Should Respond to Jeremy Corbyn...

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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 Ten years ago, whilst Labour was undergoing a leadership contest following Ed Miliband's tenure, I wrote an article for the New Statesman asking what would be left for the Green Party if Jeremy Corbyn were to win party leadership. Of course, he did and looking back at my article now, it does seem rather prophetic. The Green Party

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10:14

Labour MP Accuses Environment Secretary of Misleading...

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2025/07/24

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A Labour MP has accused the Environment Secretary of misleading Parliament for claiming that nationalising the water sector in England would cost £100 billion for the Treasury. The figure amounts to roughly the annual spend of the Department for Education, though nationalisation would be a one-off move. On Monday in the House of

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16:53

Zelensky Struggles to Stem Backlash After Joining Bid...

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2025/07/24

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY On Tuesday night, in the largest public demonstration since Russia's full-scale invasion began, thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets of the capital to protest against a controversial new law that threatens to dismantle the country's hard-won anti-corruption infrastructure. Earlier in the day Ukraine's Parliament voted 263 to

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11:26

Caroline Lucas and Campaigners Consider Appeal on...

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2025/07/24

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Former MPs including Caroline Lucas are considering whether to appeal a landmark ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that (ECHR) which found the Government had not failed to investigate Russian interference in British politics. Ex-MPs Ben Bradshaw (Labour), Caroline Lucas (Green Party) and Alyn Smith (SNP) brought a case

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08:30

UK Charity Sanctioned Over 'Distressing' Fundraising...

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2025/07/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Charity Commission has issued an Official Warning to a British charity that raises funds for Israeli soldiers, citing serious governance failings after a fundraising video was found to contain distressing imagery - footage first exposed in a Byline Times investigation. The regulator said the trustees of the UK Friends of the

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11:57

Reform Council Bans All Mentions of Climate Change...

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2025/07/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Reform UK-run council in West Northamptonshire is systematically removing all references to climate change and net zero from its strategies, website and documents, Byline Times can reveal - while simultaneously continuing to take Government cash for green projects. The move follows the council scrapping its net zero targets, in a

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13:23

'Britain Has Abandoned Its Soft Power for the Demands...

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2025/07/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The UK Government has now confirmed what many suspected: Britain's global priorities are shifting. A new Foreign Office report reveals that foreign aid spending will be slashed by 40%. The cuts will hit hardest in Africa, with children's education, women's health and access to clean water all facing steep reductions. Funding for the

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07:10

'Why We Need a Coordinated Media Revolution'

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2025/07/22

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY At the epicentre of today's most urgent global crises - climate breakdown, rising inequality, war, and social division - stands a captured media. Driven by political and industrial interests, and propelled by algorithmic manipulation, it amplifies deceitful narratives that serve the interests of its owners and sponsors. Despite UN

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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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