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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.

Well, this is just spectacular reporting. #RIP

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

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

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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…

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...

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...

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/

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"

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

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

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…

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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.

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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.

‘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…

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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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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."

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...

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.

Is there anyone Reform haven’t blamed for losing the by-election❓

They blamed @bylinetimes.bsky.social👇🏼, family voting, sectarian voting, Muslims, Greens, dogs influencing owners (especially migrant breeds Pugs, Shih Tzu, Afghan hounds etc)

Maybe ppl just don’t like clueless, racist, bigots 🤷🏼‍♂️🙄

"what really matters this morning is that an extreme and divisive candidate, with a history of dabbling in racist comments and discredited race science, has been rejected by voters, while a concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace”, has failed."

Greens Gatecrash Gorton and Denton

NEW EPISODE:

'Greens Gatecrash Gorton and Denton'.

Analysis of #Greens #Byelection victory...

And what it means for #Labour and #Reform

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'Shah, the MP for Bradford West – whose party’s candidate came third in a seat Labour won with a 13,400 majority in 2024 – told Byline Times that the claims by Reform’s candidate Matt Goodwin and his party leader Nigel Farage “demean” voters.'

Greens Gatecrash Gorton and Denton

"The Green Party now has to be to be taken seriously -not perhaps as a party of government, but as a party of potential partnership in government..."

#GortonandDentonByElection @goldbergradio.bsky.social @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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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

📌 ICYMI — 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 that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK…

Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’  – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West informed his insights on class

🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’

The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…

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"

A Letter from America - The Bear Mutated – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition Vladimir Putin’s greatest trick was convincing the West that the Cold War ended in 1991 with a whimper and a Big Mac in Pushkin Square.

🟧 Columnists — @therickwilson.bsky.social — Rick Wilson — Letter from America — (Edition 83)

The Bear Mutated — Vladimir Putin’s greatest trick was convincing the West that the Cold War ended in 1991 with a whimper and a Big Mac in Pushkin Square.

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

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