Mo Kanjilal Williams

It's our 5th birthday! 🎉🎂🍾
A massive thank-you to all our contributors - writers, editors, and proofreaders, for building a brilliant Bylines over the past five years, and here's to the next five! @sussexbylines.co.uk goes from strength to strength @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Wow 5 years! I remember launch day

The soccer world is behind Jess Carter ❤️

Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.

"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many employees dismissed by DOGE initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process..."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

First 2 speakers announced for this year's Brighton Summit. And one of them is @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Editor at @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme Despite praise for Sure Start from some in the Labour party, there are also concerns that resuming the service would be difficult and costly

Sure Start was a huge success in the years it ran, raising so many children out of poverty and giving families support when they most needed it. I hope the government listens to these recommendations, whatever the cost, and helps a new generation benefit
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Sounds like a plan

In Parliament this week, I called for the planned cuts to disability benefits to be scrapped.

We should not be balancing the books on the backs of the poorest. Instead, we should be taxing the wealthiest.

If the Government does not drop its plans, I'll be voting against the cuts.

Care work is a migration route that is desperately needed, has helped at least stem the sector's recruitment crisis, has a knock-on effect on A&E/ambulance wait times, and isn't particularly unpopular voters.

yeah let's hammer it

For anyone who visits care homes regularly, you will know how much of a disaster this is

No trade deal can ever make up for losing our place in the EU single market - which is much more than a trade deal, it is a border free market of almost half a billion people, on our doorstep.

Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base

www.politico.eu/article/elon...

💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."

My book, 'Anywhere But Here', is finished! It will take you inside the Home Office and behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time.

You can pre-order from
Waterstones: bit.ly/4gBxHTV
Foyles: tinyurl.com/3n7p3w3h
Amazon: amzn.to/3XuF7Q8

Transphobes in parliament square holding grim signs saying that women are at risk from immigrants / foreign nationals.

Sunday Times op-ed by transphobe Kathleen Stock wanging on about ethnicity being a crucial driver of grooming.

Scratch a transphobe, a racist bleeds.

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

89% of the world's population want stronger measures on climate change, but believe they're in the minority. This extends to 62% of REFORM VOTERS.
So where does this rhetoric of climate action being 'woke nonsense' come from? (*cough*Oil companies*cough*). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yorkshire Bylines celebrates five years of citizen journalism The Bylines Network turns five: from democratic deficit to 18 million hits, citizen journalism is alive and kicking – and needs your support

🎂 Yorkshire Bylines celebrates five years of citizen journalism

The Bylines Network turns five: from democratic deficit to 18 million hits, citizen journalism is alive and kicking – and needs your support

By Louise Houghton for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...

The mainstream media is letting the country down. Badly.

If you support Bylines Network as a citizen journalism (ie democratic and pluralistic) alternative...

...then please chip in! We're changing the system. 👇

Tariffs on imported semiconductor chips coming soon, Trump says The president’s pledge means the exclusion of smartphones and computers from his reciprocal tariffs on China is likely to be short-lived.

Trump Turmoil.

After announcing tariff exemptions for smartphones and computers Trump has changed his mind. New tariffs are coming.

No business can plan. No challenge from US Congress as the self-appointed King makes laws. The cult followers love it. Oblivious to economic and political damage.

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

A week after my remarks on the Senate floor I am more energized then ever to continue to fight for Americans on Medicaid, Americans worried about Social Security, Americans looking for opportunity in their local economy.

With bills having gone up, it’s time to take energy back into public ownership The obscene profits of the energy industry show the sector is broken

Privatisation Racket.

20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24.

Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%.

They get subsidies too.

More in the linked article.

Taxing wealth is better than a wealth tax Inequality of wealth matters more than inequality of income. We should tax the rich more. But a blanket wealth tax is not the solution.

The richest 10% own 57% of all wealth, but most of it isn't earned – it’s inherited or inflated by rising asset prices. Yet we tax income, not wealth. That’s not just unfair, it’s bad economics. But there are better solutions than wealth taxes | Stephen McNair

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Rachel Sylvester named Observer political editor as around half staff leave title Rachel Sylvester named Observer political editor as less than half existing staff make the move across to Tortoise Media.

More blood loss at the Observer. No jobs would be lost they said, as the Observer New Review & mag ate both gutted. Less than half the staff electing to go. Senior Times journalists in pretty much all roles.
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Trump tariffs list: The US global tariffs plan at a glance Japan will face different tax rates than Australia under Trump's plan - here's what else to know.

Trump launches trade wars.

10% tariff on imports from UK, 20% from the EU, 54% from China.

25% on all auto imports. Repairs/Insurance costs will increase.

$660bn a year cost hike for US customers/businesses.

Retaliation inevitable.

New alliances will be forged.

This month is the 5th birthday of the Bylines Network! 🎉

So please celebrate by making sure you're following all the publications of the network -- and a few others that we rank as top public good journalism. 👇👇

Photo of Mo, Allegra and Kaia Brighton Girl awards winner Professional Service Of The Year

Photo of Kaia Winner Brighton Girl awards Brighton Girl Of The Year

Just recovering from celebrating two @watchthisspce.bsky.social award wins!

Professional Service Of The Year for Watch This Sp_ce

Brighton Girl Of The Year for Kaia Allen-Bevan

At the Brighton Girl Awards.

Time for a rest this weekend 😁

Save the Children says this could be the first Labour government to “oversee a rise” in child poverty rather than a decline. Still, I’m sure disabled mums can comfort their hungry children with the news Rachel Reeves has managed to stick to her fiscal rules.

Keir Starmer's Government's welfare cuts will push 250,000 more people into poverty, including 50,000 children, according to the DWP's own impact assessment

Trump’s Team Calls Europe ‘Pathetic’ in Leaked Signal Group Chat Messages (Gift Article) Trump officials have demanded more European military spending and questioned the continent’s values. Leaked messages show the depth of the rift.

PAY ATTENTION

“It is clear that the trans-Atlantic relationship, as was, is over, and there is, at best, an indifferent disdain,” said Tocci, who formerly advised a top E.U. official. “And at worst, and closer to that, there is an active attempt to undermine Europe.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...