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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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21:45

Drowning in Denial: One in Five Homes in Reform UK...

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2025/11/20

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemRead our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY More than 700,000 homes across the ten English councils now governed by Reform UK are projected to face medium or higher flood risk by the middle of the century, exclusive analysis of national modelling by Byline Times and Bylines Network shows. That is roughly one in five households in the party's

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11:35

Gaza 'Humanitarian' Hub to Function More as US...

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2025/11/20

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 Leaked US military papers seen by Byline Times suggest that Gaza's newly created Civil-Military Coordination Centre, now endorsed by the UN Security Council as part of Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan, will function more as a US Army command post than a humanitarian hub. Presented publicly as the

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18:24

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon's European Revolution -...

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2025/11/19

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemRead our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Anyone who's seen Alison Klayman's 2019 documentary The Brink will remember the scenes where Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage sit together discussing a pan-European nationalist populist "Movement" - with Bannon calling Farage "the face" of Brexit while they talk about stitching together far-right

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07:23

UK Government Flouted Own Rules Designed to Stop Gaza...

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2025/11/18

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 UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) holds no human-rights risk assessments, ministerial approvals or internal guidance relating to British intelligence-sharing with Israel, despite there having been over 600 RAF intelligence-gathering flights over Gaza, Byline Times can

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07:16

Maurice Glasman and Morgan McSweeney: The...

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2025/11/17

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 'Blue Labour' founder Lord Maurice Glasman - who reportedly met with Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff ahead of the Government's announcement of its tough new asylum policy - told Byline Times that Steve Bannon is one of the greatest politicians of our age, just months before the former Trump campaign

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09:54

Reform Councillor Accused of Flouting Transparency...

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2025/11/13

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A Reform councillor failed to declare a company he owned, triggering a formal complaint from a constituent. Terry Mole (Reform UK, Ramsgate Division) was accused by a constituent of flouting the Localism Act, as he did not disclose his ownership of a delivery firm. Cllr Terry Mole's register of interests - until a complaint was filed

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05:38

Keir Starmer's Post-Brexit 'Reset' With the EU Has...

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2025/11/12

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 much-vaunted post-Brexit "reset" with the European Union has so far resulted in few concrete improvements to the UK's relations with its EU partners, according to a new parliamentary report. The report, Unfinished Business, by the House of Lords European Affairs Committee, welcomes the first UK EU summit last May, the

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08:35

The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the...

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2025/11/11

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Michael Prescott's memo, accusing the BBC of systemic bias, has been incorrectly described by The Telegraph as an "internal" memo. However, this is inaccurate. The document was never commissioned by the BBC, but was authored by Prescott unsolicited and sent to the BBC after Prescott finished his stint as an advisor to the media

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16:40

'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to...

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2025/11/11

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The author of the leaked 'BBC bias' memo, seized on by President Donald Trump to threaten a billion-dollar lawsuit against the broadcaster, is a right-wing lobbyist whose firm is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by US tech and media giants with close ties to Trump, to whom they have donated millions. One of them, Oracle,

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08:09

Decent Housing? A Privilege - Especially for the...

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2025/11/07

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY When it comes to housing, I appreciate that I have the basics: a roof over my head and heating (although, these days, that is not a given due to the extortionate rise in costs). These things should never be considered a privilege for any human being - but the most basic of rights. Yet, in the dark labyrinth of this hypocritical

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09:17

'The SNP Isn't a Threat to the Security of Any Nation...

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2025/11/06

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY On Wednesday David Lammy said at Prime Minister's Questions that the Scottish National Party was a threat to the UK's national security, in what amounts to a drastic escalation of Labour's anti-independence rhetoric. To be clear he - and in fact, two other cabinet ministers before him - didn't just say that SNP policies risked

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04:14

Sadiq Khan Urges New Yorkers to Reject 'The Politics...

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2025/11/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Sadiq Khan wants New Yorkers to "see through the politics of hatred and fear" and back the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York, while rejecting those seeking to "weaponise" his Muslim faith against him. A source close to the London Mayor told Byline Times that Khan wants New Yorkers to reject the "divisive and desperate" tactics

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11:45

Challenger to Lead Britain's Biggest Union Vows to...

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2025/11/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY A left-wing challenger to lead the UK's largest trade union is pledging to ramp up industrial action and overhaul its relationship with Labour if she wins. Andrea Egan, a socialist social worker from Bolton, is challenging the re-standing General Secretary of Unison for the leadership, and is convinced she will win. Andrea Egan is

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09:41

Follow the Money: How the Right Weaponises the Costs...

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2025/11/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY In the lead-up to what promises to be a consequential budget, the money spent on supporting disabled people is constantly questioned, often in the most simplistic terms. Thus, to the glee of right-wing politicians and journalists, the National Audit Office has recently reported that local authorities spend £2 billion every year on

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07:30

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk...

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2025/11/04

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The UK has become too dependent on Elon Musk and his Space X company for the success of its space programme, and must urgently seek greater independence from it in order to stop the "politicisation" of these services by the far-right billionaire, a new Parliamentary report has warned. The report, by the House of Lords' UK Engagement

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14:29

Russia's 'Phase Zero' Is Here and War With NATO Is...

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2025/11/03

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Unidentified drones overflew a military base in northeast Belgium on Sunday. The affected Kleine-Brogel Air Base hosts Belgian F-16 planes and is also believed to store US nuclear weapons. The Belgian Defence Minister did not directly blame Russia for the incident but said the tactics point towards it. Recent months have seen

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04:39

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for...

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2025/11/03

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Government should consider cutting the minimum wage for young people in order to raise "aspiration" and boost business, Nigel Farage has said. Speaking at a press conference in the City of London, the Reform leader called on the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to either cut the minimum wage for young people or lift the cap at which

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