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11 Loopholes in Labour’s Elections Bill which MPs are Pushing to Close Labour MPs break ranks to demand ‘Representation of the People’ law is tightened up to tackle crypto donations, AI deepfakes and more

📌 ICYMI — 11 Loopholes in Labour’s Elections Bill which MPs are Pushing to Close

Labour MPs break ranks to demand ‘Representation of the People’ law is tightened up to tackle crypto donations, AI deepfakes and more

‘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…

11 Loopholes in Labour’s Elections Bill which MPs are Pushing to Close Labour MPs break ranks to demand ‘Representation of the People’ law is tightened up to tackle crypto donations, AI deepfakes and more

🔴 11 Loopholes in Labour’s Elections Bill which MPs are Pushing to Close

Labour MPs break ranks to demand ‘Representation of the People’ law is tightened up to tackle crypto donations, AI deepfakes and more – @josiahmortimer.bsky.social

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

🔴Operation Epic Fury: A Mass of Shifting Objectives

Dr Charles Kriel examines the Iran War as an information operation and identifies what Western StratCom still refuses to understand about it

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Welcome to ‘Byline Times Substack’ Byline Supplement is evolving. Byline Times Editor-in-Chief, Hardeep Matharu explains how and why

Now, imho, the best and most important journalism source in the UK - and have often provided critical reports months or even years before anyone else picked that it really, really matters

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The Afghan Data Breach Victims Who Say They Have Been Abandoned by Britain The unprecedented data breach left many Afghans who worked for the UK military in fear for their lives. A year on and they tell Byline Times they have been abandoned by the British state

🔴The Afghan Data Breach Victims Who Say They Have Been Abandoned by Britain

The breach left Afghans who worked for the UK military in fear for their lives. Now they tell Byline Times they have been abandoned by the British state @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
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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…

The Afghan Data Breach Victims Who Say They Have Been Abandoned by Britain The unprecedented data breach left many Afghans who worked for the UK military in fear for their lives. A year on and they tell Byline Times they have been abandoned by the British state

📌 ICYMI — The Afghan Data Breach Victims Who Say They Have Been Abandoned by Britain

The unprecedented data breach left many Afghans who worked for the UK military in fear for their…

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Trump's Iran War Revives Israeli Plan to Remake Middle East that Drove Post-9/11 Invasions A Bush era neoconservative network has reorganised under Trump and is now directing the exact same regime change playbook against Tehran

🔴Trump’s Iran War Revives Israeli Plan to Remake Middle East that Drove Post-9/11 Invasions

A Bush era neoconservative network has reorganised under Trump and is now directing the exact same regime change playbook against Tehran

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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

📌 ICYMI — 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

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.

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

How can the #USA and #Israel justify war on #Iran ?

And what might peace look like after the conflict?

Listen now to @scottlucas.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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EA-Byline Times VideoCast: "An Illegal War" - Israel, Trump, and Iran - EA WorldView 32-minute analysis of the reasons for Israel-US "illegal war" on Iran, assessment of the consquences, and having no Plan B if regime resists

EA-Byline Times VideoCast: “An Illegal War” — #Israel, #Trump, and #Iran (Scott Lucas w Adrian Goldberg)

#IranWar

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This is a good move. I always worry about how war/conflict affects the wildlife and natural habitat as much as how it affects people. God knows we're hard enough on wildlife without war invloved. It really doesn't need that added pressure.

'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

"The most important part of the international refugee protection order is the principle that it provides protection."
My piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on how inhumane and counterproductive Labour's latest changes to the asylum system are in every possible way.
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A super fine idea if Ukraine can win this one, AND get funds from Russia. The latter is going to be the hardest challenge here I fear.

My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

#Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for #Ecocide

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Screenshot of The Byline Times 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 Stuart Spray 3 March 2026

🚨 Ukraine has seen vulnerable habitats consumed by wildfires, plants & animals pushed to the brink of extinction, widespread soil & water contamination & an estimated 237m tonnes of conflict-related CO₂ emissions.
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‘Hope for Cynics’ (and Everyone Else) – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition Being told to have hope when the world feels like a dumpster fire is a bit like being asked to admire the view while the train you’re on is visibly accelerating towards a cliff.

📙Enjoyed this piece by Kyle Taylor in @bylinetimes.bsky.social on "Hope for Cynics"

"Hope...It is the insistence that reality can be named honestly - & that naming it is the first step in changing it" 🎯

This speaks to me as a change pro'. Worth the subs👇

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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…

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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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