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Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’ With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war

🔴Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’

With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war

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Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

🔴Nigel Farage’s Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections

The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party’s election defeats on “cheating” by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found, reports @josiahmortimer.bsky.social

'Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Plans Will Put Lives at Risk for No Purpose' The Government talks about wanting to reduce division and increase integration and then implements policies which will do the complete opposite, argues Daniel Sohege

🔴‘Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Plans Will Put Lives at Risk for No Purpose’

The Government talks about wanting to reduce division and increase integration and then implements policies which will do the complete opposite, argues @danielsohege.bsky.social

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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.

‘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…

Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration

📌 ICYMI — Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders

The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/tommy-robinson-amplifies-death-threat-against-keir-starmer-during-us-tour-with-trump-ins…

Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration

📌 ICYMI — Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders

The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration

Reform UK and a ‘British ICE’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition Could a version of the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency come to the UK under Nigel Farage? Olly Haynes reports

🟨 Print Edition — Reform UK and a ‘British ICE’

Could a version of the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency come to the UK under Nigel Farage? Olly Haynes reports

Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration

🔴Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders

The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration

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Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

🔴Nigel Farage’s Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections

The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party’s election defeats on “cheating” by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found, reports @josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Nigel Farage Claims 'Corruption' in the UK’s Postal Vote System – and Suggests Trump Lost to Biden due to 'Ballot Harvesting' Nigel Farage echoes Trump supporters’ conspiracy theories about electoral fraud in 2020 and makes unevidenced claims of corruption in the UK postal voting system

🔎 Archived from June 2024: Nigel Farage Claims ‘Corruption’ in the UK’s Postal Vote System – and Suggests Trump Lost to Biden due to ‘Ballot Harvesting’

Farage's party claimed to be victims of "cheating" in Gorton & Denton by-election last week.

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"It's Illegal" - Trump's War On Iran

NEW EPISODE. "It's illegal - #Trump War on #Iran"

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social hears from @scottlucas.bsky.social

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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 short time 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 short time after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

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Paul Conroy: 'The Funniest, Most Beautiful Man To Be In Hell With' John Sweeney remembers his friend and colleague, the celebrated war photographer, Paul Conroy

🔴Paul Conroy: ‘The Funniest, Most Beautiful Man To Be In Hell With’

John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social remembers his friend and colleague, the celebrated war photographer, Paul Conroy

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Nigel Farage Claims 'Corruption' in the UK’s Postal Vote System – and Suggests Trump Lost to Biden due to 'Ballot Harvesting' Nigel Farage echoes Trump supporters’ conspiracy theories about electoral fraud in 2020 and makes unevidenced claims of corruption in the UK postal voting system

🔎 Archived from June 2024: Nigel Farage Claims ‘Corruption’ in the UK’s Postal Vote System – and Suggests Trump Lost to Biden due to ‘Ballot Harvesting’

Farage's party claimed to be victims of "cheating" in Gorton & Denton by-election last week.

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DAD’S THE WORD: The Byline Times’ Josiah Mortimer has returned to work after three months of shared parental leave, and he’s calling on more dads to utilize the scheme

Thanks Politico for the shout out this morning. Now back at the @bylinetimes.bsky.social desk.

(DM me or comment if you have any questions about shared parental leave and I'll do my best to answer)

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…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/naz-shah-mp-on-gorton-and-denton-claims-how-do-sup…

‘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…

Greens Gatecrash Gorton and Denton

"The selection of Matt Goodwin was a real factor in this election. Goodwin represents the politics of hate..."

#GortonDentonByElection with @adambienkov.bsky.social
@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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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…

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.

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

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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

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

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.

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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/

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/

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/

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.

‘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.