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07:16

How the Not-So Independent Media Censors Criticism of...

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2025/11/03

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY For my entire time as the climate columnist for The Independent, I was allowed complete editorial freedom to cover the issues I thought most important, except for the one key issue that I thought was the most important. I was constantly blocked from mentioning the visceral opposition or complacency of the powerful UK and global

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06:58

'Geert Wilders' Far-Right Retreat Leaves a Very Dutch...

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2025/10/31

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Geert Wilders' PVV may have lost ground in this week's Dutch parliamentary elections, but the truth is that, contrary to all the talk in the international media, this modest European nation has not suddenly discovered how to defeat the extreme right. In reality, these elections merely confirm that politics in the Netherlands remains

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09:35

Reform UK Just Won Britain's Least-Prestigious Award...

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2025/10/29

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reform UK has received an award for being the organisation that engaged in the "most prolific promotion of pseudoscience" during 2025. Each year the UK's long-running publication for analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal, The Skeptic magazine, names their pseudoscientist of the year, and awards

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12:54

'No Faith' in X and Meta to Tackle Abuse in Politics,...

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2025/10/29

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Politicians should "feel empowered" to leave platforms like X - formerly Twitter - if they believe it presents a greater risk than benefit to their work, according to a damning new report from the House of Commons' speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle. The report includes the strongest nudge yet for politicians to consider leaving X or

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11:44

Russia is Using Drones and Deportations to Empty...

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2025/10/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Byline Times first reported on Russia's "human safari" attacks on Ukrainians back in July 2024. At the time, Putin's drones attacks on civilians in Kherson City seemed to be a series of isolated atrocities, too brutal to form a pattern. However, more than a year later, the "human safari" has been officially recognised not only as a

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17:57

Reform UK Treasurer Profited From Financial Ties to...

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2025/10/28

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Nigel Farage's Reform UK claims to represent a people's revolt against the political elite. But documents reviewed by Byline Times, alongside corporate and regulatory filings in London and the United States, reveal that the party's own Treasurer was recently invested with the same Silicon Valley donor bloc - including Elon Musk -

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09:33

'How to Stop Labour's Autumn of Discontent Turning...

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2025/10/27

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. We look back to make sense of complex and bewildering moments. As we face exactly such a time now, my mind keeps drifting back to the late 1970s and the foreboding gloom that something still opaque, still nascent was starting to cast its dark shadow over our lives and our country

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13:19

Is Russia Losing the Great Game in Central Asia?

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2025/10/27

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY From the top floor of Tashkent's Hotel Uzbekistan, one of the most striking Soviet Modernist buildings in Central Asia, twenty-seven cranes can be seen stretching out against the skyline, still busy even as the sun sets on the city below. They are busy building not the Madrassas and Mosques that draw countless tourists to this

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08:47

The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result...

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2025/10/24

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY In the run up to Thursday's Caerphilly by-election there was acres of media coverage suggesting that the Welsh constituency was about to be taken by Reform. "Reform could make massive Welsh breakthrough TODAY" shouted the Daily Mail as it insisted that "Nigel Farage's party is leading the race" for the seat. Reporters, who previously

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09:37

Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts...

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2025/10/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Reform's flagship 'cost-cutting' Kent County Council leadership has started approaching opposition parties for help finding extra cash, after struggling to identify the tens of millions of pounds in budget savings they promised, Byline Times can reveal. The newly-won Council was heralded by Nigel Farage as a symbol of what the party

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06:17

Michael Gove Lobbied Government Officials to Hand...

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2025/10/23

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Michael Gove personally lobbied Government officials to ensure that the award of a multimillion pound Covid testing contract to a Conservative donor and Brexit supporter was "unblocked". On March 31 2020, one week after the UK entered into the first national lockdown, the then Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove received an email

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08:44

The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won't Tell You About

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2025/10/22

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Many British people will be completely unaware of the fact that the UK's national electricity grid was privatised by the Conservatives back in 1990. Nor are they aware of the scandalous fact that, just like the water industry, the privatised industry has pocketed huge profits, while failing to fulfil its core mission - to build a

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07:55

Two Major Ukrainian Cities Lose Power Overnight as...

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2025/10/21

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Russian forces renewed their campaign to knock Ukraine's interior lights out on Monday, striking at the heart of civilian life in the northern city of Chernihiv and the eastern hub of Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs aimed at combined heat and power (CHP) plants. The blasts caused partial power outages in both cities, underscoring

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10:41

Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After...

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2025/10/01

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Anti-corruption campaigners and the Liberal Democrats are calling for fresh investigations into Russian interference in British politics, after Reform UK's former leader in Wales admitted to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia. Last Friday's guilty plea in the trial of Nathan Gill, Reform UK's former leader in Wales,

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06:01

Peter Thiel's Race Science Network Extends Its Reach...

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2025/09/18

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Trump-supporting Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is set to extend his financial reach into the UK, after Keir Starmer and the US President announced a new transatlantic tech partnership incorporating his data mining company Palantir. As part of the deal Thiel's company will invest a further £1.5 billion into Britain, on top of

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13:43

'Why I'm Now Scared to Live in Trump's America'

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2025/09/18

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Last week I finally deactivated my X account for good. It's still going to take a few weeks for the content to be permanently deleted, because Elon Musk's website gives you up to 30 days to change your mind. However, this time, I am determined not to go back. The immediate cause was a feeling of both shock and shame at the extreme

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10:34

Trump Protest Van Highlighting Epstein Links Was...

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2025/09/17

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY An advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was taken away from the scene by police after travelling around Windsor as President Trump stayed with King Charles at Windsor Castle. Journalists nearby who were covering the intervention by viral protest collective Everyone Hates Elon were

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12:54

'Trump's UK State Visit Highlights the Death of US...

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2025/09/17

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Donald Trump's state visit to the UK is the ultimate demonstration of soft power - combining the pomp and circumstance of the British Monarchy, with a series of events designed to showcase British pageantry and history at its finest. The visit will include overnight stays at Windsor Castle, cannon-fired royal salutes, military bands

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07:04

Anti-Racist Protesters Accuse Met Police of 'Two...

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2025/09/17

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY Anti-racist campaigners have accused the Metropolitian Police of adopting a 'two tier' approach to policing, after hundreds of people were arrested at a peaceful pro-Palestinian protest in the capital, followed by only relatively small numbers of arrests of far right rioters at the 'Unite the Kingdom' rally last Saturday. On Saturday

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10:04

Reform UK Council Backs Climate Denial Motion Saying...

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2025/09/16

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media systemPacked with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Reform UK-led Kent County Council has put forward a motion which questions whether climate change is anthropogenic and relies on discredited sources as its evidence, with the aim of rescinding the council's 2019 declaration of a climate emergency. The motion, proposed by two of Reform's Kent councillors Chris Hespe and Paul

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