Hardeep Matharu

Powerfully struck by @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social piece in this month’s @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Particularly the gathering-in of ideas around ‘hypernormalisation’. How we come over all passive re #Epstein & #Cummings.

Power. & lies.

Could be because she was speaking at a conference in the United States.

[Many others commenting in reply to my post about the reliability of the "Daily Mail" - it is reporting on a conference in America which Turness spoke at. It is not an interview with her]

BBC newsroom is anti-Reform, ex News chief admits Deborah Turness, who quit as the BBC's News CEO after a Panorama scandal over a Donald Trump speech edit, has opened up about attitudes at the corporation.

Striking 👀

Ex-BBC News CEO: "I personally overruled internal editorial policy to give Nigel Farage primetime exposure... he ought to be on Question Time... to get a big Panorama interview. Even though the math didn't say he earned it... look at the polling. We will be out of step with the public."

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This week's topic: 'The Lure of Perfection'

The aesthetic rat race on social media takes a toll on us all. What do the cultivated vignettes of people's lives online do to our minds and our society? And how do people end up "looksmaxing" or on raw meat diets?

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Very useful look at the Greens - @adambienkov.bsky.social’s piece particularly - which may give clues as to why the party (whether you like them or not) has won its first UK by-election

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Odd: lots of talk in the media about how the press should be more critical of Royals and less collusive (a "conspiracy" says David Dimbleby). But no mention I've heard of Prince Harry's sustained critique of the relationship between the Palace and the tabloids which is a notable theme of Spare.

Even if we question what we are being told, we do not expect much to be done about it. So we either accept that or – increasingly – switch off from it altogether. We detach and protect. We allow the contempt that power wields to make us powerless – not only through the structures we must live in, but in our sense of ourselves.

I see so much of this—people shutting out politics because they feel helpless. The politicians are fine with that, because it lightens their responsibility, takes the spotlight off their weaknesses or criminal behavior.

Copy of March’s edition of Byline Times with Epstein story on the front cover and the words Darkness Visible in large letters.

Don’t think I’ve read an issue of @bylinetimes.bsky.social so quickly before! This is outstanding!

Do get a copy if you can. 👍

“Justice may yet be hard-won, but the modus operandi of contempt and powerlessness which the powerful rely on to sustain their corruptions has been exposed.”

Excellent and inspirational column from @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

Just landed on my door mat!

What a sagacious front page, Byline Times!

Well done!

Looking forward to some great insightful reads and a break from a forest project of lino cutting oak leaves 😊

This is why living in a country, however imperfect, where the rule of law matters, matters.

Front cover of Byline Times’ March 2026 edition with delivery envelope. Headline ‘Darkness Visible’ featuring in ‘Visible’ section images of Virginia Giuffre and family members, with images of Mandelson, Trump, Melania, Epstein, Andrew and Maxwell in ‘Darkness’.

Delivered today: March edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social - excellent, timely, and independent.

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The Epstein Files: From Darkness To Light

"We only have the #EpsteinFiles because survivors kept speaking truth to power - power that has abused and corrupted..."

@peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social

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Popped through my door this morning.

Thank you @bylinetimes.bsky.social for investigating and reporting on what matters in our corrupt world 👏

I subscribed to get physical copies today. Looking forward to reading this

Thanks, as always, Margaret for reading and sharing.

We could organise one down the Duke of York.

Former public prosecutor Nazir Afzal on the speed at which the police have acted on Andrew's misconduct allegations compared to the Epstein trafficking allegations:

"When the state is the alleged victim, the state moves at pace. When women are the alleged victims, the state takes its time"

We internalise being powerless at our peril. You are @peterjukes.bsky.social have said this to me many a time, Anthony.

We went back and forth on this headline. But when @peterjukes.bsky.social said it, in many ways, the entire framing of the edition became very clear.

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Timely arrival this morning @bylinetimes.bsky.social

"Like other men with no connection to the real world most of us live in, accountability and exposure remain abstract notions; darkness becoming visible a distant and unlikely turn of events.
But no longer."

Excellent analysis by @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social

As usual.

King Charles expresses "deepest concern". That the "law must take its course". And "meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all".

This hardly begins to be adequate accountability as to an heir now being in police custody. The press must do its job: scrutinise power.

"Justice may yet be hard-won, but the modus operandi of contempt and powerlessness which the powerful rely on to sustain their corruptions has been exposed."

In light of Andrew's arrest, read our latest edition – a dive into the Epstein Files – online.

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: How Power Protects Itself Through Contempt As the eighth in line of succession to the British throne is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Hardeep Matharu explores how elite impunity is built on creating a sense of powerless...

"Holding on to small & significant truths, especially when difficult, can make the difference. Virginia Giuffre did, as she had no choice. Because of the survivors, the Epstein Files were released. They made darkness visible for us all"

My editorial on Andrew, contempt – and creating powerlessness:

Editorial from March's Byline Times; no words needed.

I don't necessarily feel relief or satisfaction either. But losses in my personal life, and my work as a journalist, have shown me that once we give up any sense that we can move closer to what is good, that really is it. The arrest isn't everything. But it is something. I choose to focus on that.