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‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to conduct mass deportation. Nafeez Ahmed reports

🟨 Print Edition — ‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent

The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform…

01.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 29    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 1
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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.

28.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Latest in my ‘Unofficial Byline Times Public Transport Giveaway’ campaign… 💜 🚆

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

@bylinetimes.bsky.social

27.02.2026 09:01 — 👍 42    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 0
March Cover of the byline times.
Picture of Trump,  melania, Epstein,  ghislaine Maxwell,  mandelson and Andrew Windsor. 
DARKNESS VISIBLE 
Picture of Virginia Giuffre and her brother & sister.

March Cover of the byline times. Picture of Trump, melania, Epstein, ghislaine Maxwell, mandelson and Andrew Windsor. DARKNESS VISIBLE Picture of Virginia Giuffre and her brother & sister.

#EpsteinFiles not going away.
#TrumpEpsteinFiles

27.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 42    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0
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Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections

Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat

28.02.2026 14:11 — 👍 66    🔁 18    💬 5    📌 2
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Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

Really saddened to hear of the death of the legendary Paul Conroy at just 61 - one of the bravest, best and kindest of people and an astonishingly good photographer to boot.

Here is his last work for Byline Times.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/paul-conro...

01.03.2026 10:51 — 👍 350    🔁 76    💬 8    📌 1
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From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition In 1976, Peter Jukes wanted to be Travis Bickle. A decade later, he realised the Taxi Driver anti-hero was a psychopath. Now he suspects Bickle’s dangerous saviour complex underpins the architecture of our tech platforms

🟩 Evergreen from Print — From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence

In 1976, Peter Jukes wanted to be Travis Bickle.

🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/from-underground-man-to-internet-man-apocalyptic-cleansing-violence/

01.03.2026 14:35 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

📌 ICYMI — Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory

A concerted political and media campaign to scare…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/

01.03.2026 13:01 — 👍 132    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 2
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The BBC Becomes a Scapegoat in Its Attempts to Appease the ‘Coup’ Against It – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition With its political independence undermined from within – and its continued reliance on the agenda set by right-wing newspapers – the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, writes Adam Bienkov

🟩 Evergreen from Print — The BBC Becomes a Scapegoat in Its Attempts to Appease the ‘Coup’ Against It

With its political independence undermined from within…

🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/the-bbc-becomes-a-scapegoat-in-its-attempts-to-appease-the-coup-against-it/

01.03.2026 10:45 — 👍 60    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 1

Paul Conroy — a brilliant photojournalist who documented wars & human chaos for decades — has passed away. He was injured in the same attack in Homs that killed Marie Colvin & he just carried on travelling to conflict zones.

May he rest in peace.

01.03.2026 00:55 — 👍 134    🔁 58    💬 0    📌 0
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‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’ Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across Greater Manchester.

📚 Weekend Reads — Zeitgeists & Series (Edition 83)
✍️ Andy Burnham

Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across Greater Manchester.

01.03.2026 08:45 — 👍 35    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2
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‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across Greater Manchester. A day after he was blocked from standing as the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham gave the opening address

🟨 Print Edition — ‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’

Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across…

01.03.2026 07:45 — 👍 65    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

Beautifully written and as a very long time friend and visitor to the country, I felt and smelled and saw every sentence here. I too have witnessed the decay of Cuba into the rusty shell it is today. No threat to anyone. And certainly deserving of our support.

01.03.2026 01:52 — 👍 71    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

Well, this is just spectacular reporting. #RIP

01.03.2026 01:25 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Paul asked us to wait to publish this until he was out of Cuba and safe from harm

Well, he’s safe from harm now forever, god love him

01.03.2026 01:17 — 👍 432    🔁 178    💬 6    📌 7
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Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

🔴 Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning,

Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

01.03.2026 00:11 — 👍 192    🔁 103    💬 4    📌 8
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‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to conduct mass deportation. Nafeez Ahmed reports

🟨 Print Edition — ‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent

The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform…

28.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 43    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 1
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Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’ The Labour MP told Byline Times that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK claims

Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’  – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/n...

28.02.2026 11:49 — 👍 41    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections

Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/r...

28.02.2026 12:16 — 👍 18    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

📌 ICYMI — Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory

A concerted political and media campaign to scare…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/

28.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 150    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 2
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Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’ The Labour MP told Byline Times that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK claims

🔴 Naz Shah MP on Gorton & Denton Claims: 'How Do Supposedly Sectarian Muslims End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?'

The MP for Bradford West told Byline Times: "I know what clan-based politics looks like, I have a history of fighting it, this isn't what this is"

27.02.2026 17:26 — 👍 271    🔁 94    💬 9    📌 6
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Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections

🔴 Reform Attacks Byline Times For 'Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election' – Before Blaming "Family Voting" and "Muslim Sectarianism" for Gorton and Denton Defeat

After DOGE and ICE, Nigel Farage's party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections

27.02.2026 16:36 — 👍 246    🔁 101    💬 37    📌 10
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The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

28.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 3287    🔁 823    💬 281    📌 129
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More Government Reforms the Media Doesn’t Mention – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition Josiah Mortimer has been keeping note of the policies introduced by Keir Starmer’s administration that you probably haven’t heard much about

🟩 Evergreen from Print — More Government Reforms the Media Doesn’t Mention

Josiah Mortimer has been keeping note of the policies introduced by Keir Starmer’s administration that you probably haven’t…

🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/more-government-reforms-the-media-doesnt-mention/

28.02.2026 10:45 — 👍 34    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2
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‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’ Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across Greater Manchester.

📚 Weekend Reads — Zeitgeists & Series (Edition 83)
✍️ Andy Burnham

Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across Greater Manchester.

28.02.2026 08:45 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across Greater Manchester. A day after he was blocked from standing as the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham gave the opening address

🟨 Print Edition — ‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’

Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across…

28.02.2026 07:45 — 👍 49    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0
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Subscribed a little too late to get this months edition so got @bylinetimes.bsky.social from Sainsbury’s

27.02.2026 12:18 — 👍 46    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0
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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."

27.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 157    🔁 57    💬 59    📌 13
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Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’ – Before Blaming ‘Family Voting’ and ‘Muslim Sectarianism’ for Gorton and Denton Defeat Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections

@peterjukes.bsky.social & @bylinetimes.bsky.social have a great article that Farage & fellow travelers, like Bannon’s pal, Raheem Kassam are now playing the maga/bannon/trump “stolen election!” re the Green Party win last night bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/r...

27.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 56    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

It's always someone else's fault! Doesn't that sound like the right wing? It comes right out of the Trump playbook.

Look at yourselves Reform.

27.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 65    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0