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The Downfall of Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney Offers a Chink of Light for Keir Starmer  – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The Prime Minister went against his own instincts by deferring so heavily to his former chief advisor – he now has a chance to offer the ‘government of service’ he promised. Adam Bienkov reports

🟨 Print Edition — The Downfall of Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney Offers a Chink of Light for Keir Starmer

The Prime Minister went against his own instincts by deferring so heavily to his former chief advisor – he now has a chance to offer the ‘government of service’ he promised.

Welcome to The Fête of Britain Imagine this. It’s 2029. The General Election is a week away. And the UK feels strangely hopeful.

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✍️ Fête of Britain

Imagine this. It’s 2029. The General Election is a week away. And the UK feels strangely hopeful.

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP

The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100……

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Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

🔎 From the archive: Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny — by Max Colbert

🔁 Relevant again: As Baron Gove of the Spectator attacks journalists again

Shami Chakrabarti:‘We Need a Popular Front Broad Enough to Go From the Left of the Left to Liberal Conservatives’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The Labour peer, lawyer, and rights activist speaks to Hardeep Matharu about why her new podcast – Shami’s Speakeasy – is focusing on human conversations with those of shared values, but differing politics

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The Labour peer, lawyer, and rights activist speaks to Hardeep Matharu about why her new podcast…

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We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott

🔎 From the archive: We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts — by Russell scott

🔁 Relevant again: The Editor of the Spectator still has questions to answer

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’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester.

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✍️ Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes

The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester.

The Downfall of Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney Offers a Chink of Light for Keir Starmer  – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The Prime Minister went against his own instincts by deferring so heavily to his former chief advisor – he now has a chance to offer the ‘government of service’ he promised. Adam Bienkov reports

🟨 Print Edition — The Downfall of Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney Offers a Chink of Light for Keir Starmer

The Prime Minister went against his own instincts by deferring so heavily to his former chief advisor – he now has a chance to offer the ‘government of service’ he promised.

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP

The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

‘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…

‘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…

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP

The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

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

🟩 Relevant again — Reform Attacks Byline Times For ‘Attempting to Derail a Democratic Election’

Analysis of Reform UK’s election rhetoric and its adoption of Trump-style claims about democratic legitimacy.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested for Misconduct in Public Office as Epstein Files Undermine His Virginia Giuffre Denials Virginia Giuffre alleged she was raped by Andrew when she was 17. Key emails in the Epstein files - first revealed by Byline Times - add weight to these claims

📌 ICYMI — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested for Misconduct in Public Office as Epstein Files Undermine His Virginia Giuffre Denials

Virginia Giuffre alleged she was raped by Andrew when she was 17. Key emails in the Epstein files - first revealed by - add weight to these claims

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP

The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

‘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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David Petraeus asked at the beginning of the Iraq War.

“How does this end?”

Nobody before #America attacked Iran has asked that question or got a satisfactory answer if it was asked because this is all they have. A “feeling” by Trump and now chaos because they have no plan and never did. Insanity!

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I wrestled with this article all day - an honest effort to assess the arguments in favour of the war, which I don’t entirely dismiss, and whether they outweigh the arguments against - on which my conclusion is no - largely because I don’t trust this admin’s motives, staying power or competence.

V. good from @alexhh.bsky.social 👇

Kent Smetters, director of Penn Wharton Budget Model, recently told Fortune that total economic toll on US (direct & indirect) could reach as high as $210 billion fortune.com/2026/03/02/h...

Trump's actions don't square will his promise to tackle affordability.

Another reason why Palantir should be nowhere near the NHS

Sun Tzu said two and a half thousand years ago, “tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

'The Justification for the War against Iran Has Changed from Day to Day, with No Clear End Goal or Exit Strategy' From Washington DC, former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall assesses the arguments used to justify the attack on Iran

🔴'The Justification for the War against Iran Has Changed from Day to Day, with No Clear End Goal or Exit Strategy'

Former diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social describes the chaos in Washington

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Important to hear the arguments being made in Washington, in order to combat them

Remember Operation Rolling Thunder? This is Operation Rolling Bullshit.

Excellent piece joining the dots between Surkov’s doctrine, Bannon’s gameplay, and the current US / Israeli strategy of shoot first, spin later, retcon always.

You cannot negotiate away a capability that has not yet come into existence. You cannot declare victory over a weapon that nobody has yet made. The object stays live precisely because nothing can close it. The game, as designed, carries no endpoint.

Very good article.

Operation Epic Fury: A Mass of Shifting Objectives Dr Charles Kriel looks at the Iran War as an information operation and identifies what the West still refuses to understand about it

🔴 Operation Epic Fury: A Mass of Shifting Objectives

Dr Charles Kriel looks at the Iran War as an information operation and identifies what the West still refuses to understand about it

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

"Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't give a damn about the Iranian people - he's been willing to kill a helluva lot of them."

#IranWar @scottlucas.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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