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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sanctioned six times by the Kremlin, banned from both Reform and Conservative Party Conferences… what better time to support @bylinetimes.bsky.social by subscribing to our monthly newspaper

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 8d

"What goes in the basket is constantly changing and can reflect different parts of your life, experience, aspiration, your choice. Identity is not just about ethnicity"

I spoke to Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti about flags and fixed identity, and why she thinks comparisons to the 1930s are valid 👇

Shami Chakrabarti: ‘We Need a Popular Front Broad Enough to Go From the Left of the Left to Liberal Conservatives’

The Labour peer, lawyer and human rights activist speaks to Byline Times’ Editor-in-Chief Hardeep Matharu about why her new podcast – Shami’s Speakeasy – focuses on having human conversations with tho...

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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 1d

"Both in opposition and in Government, the Labour frontbench has, in my view, with its language and policies, directly contributed to the resurgence of authoritarian politics in this country."

An excellent interview by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu speak to the backbench Labour MP to understand why the Government is focusing on how to ‘stop the boats' rather than fixing people's everyday lives

Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’

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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 1d

"By vowing to tackle our “island of strangers” through tougher immigration, Keir Starmer is keeping us all trapped on it – by not offering any solutions to the real reasons that explain our estrangement."

An excellent article on the futility of blaming immigration, by @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · May 26

🔴 How Our Politicians Created an 'Island of Strangers' So They Don't Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

"By vowing to tackle our 'island of strangers' through immigration, Starmer keeps us trapped on it – by not offering solutions to the real reasons for our estrangement" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic polit...

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 1d

"The people criticising it are all the sophisticated experts on the outside - but they're not the ones living this conflict."

Former UK diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social on #GazaCeasefire

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Byline Podcast: Trump's Gaza Peace Plan with Alex Hall Hall

Former UK ambassador Alex Hall Hall assesses the prospects for Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan.Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices....

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 1d

British Journalism isn’t even trying to redress the balance. It is a lost cause which is why the @bylinesnetwork.co.uk and @bylinetimes.bsky.social and other independent groups are crucially important. They are vital for a healthy democracy because they are doing what MSM is failing to.

East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

British journalism has been through a shameful era – bending the knee to Downing Street.

Can it ever recover its dignity? Peter Thurlow wonders.

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

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John Topham @johntopham.bsky.social · 1d

A great roundup of Farage and russian interference in both Brexit and the US election in @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 1d

“The Five Questions Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia”
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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia

As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with

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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 23h

There's an excellent discussion of exactly this problem in the UK by @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · May 26

🔴 How Our Politicians Created an 'Island of Strangers' So They Don't Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

"By vowing to tackle our 'island of strangers' through immigration, Starmer keeps us trapped on it – by not offering solutions to the real reasons for our estrangement" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic polit...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22h

For more on Nadia Sass/Borodi's role at the heart of a pan-European Russian influence machine, read more here

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 1d

Great interview on LBC this morning with @matthew-wright.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social exposing the Russian links to cuddly old NiGel's party. More of this!

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu speak to the backbench Labour MP to understand why the Government is focusing on how to ‘stop the boats' rather than fixing people's everyday lives

Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Byline Times has been told by various sources that Farage has maintained a close interest in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia…
But Farage’s ignorance of this particular set of pro-Russian influencers around Nathan Gill is even more questionable….

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: It took Nigel Farage over two weeks to finally respond to Nathan Gill’s conviction for eight counts of bribery for taking payments from a pro-Russian Ukrainian MP and close associate of one of Putin’s closest allies, Viktor Medvedchuk. Now new information has come to light.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about Gill's pro Russian statements

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

🔴UPDATE 🔴

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about Gill's pro Russian statements

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

🔴How Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Could Quickly Crumble

The President’s America-first, Palestine-last plan for Gaza risks collapsing under its own contradictions, argues Rana Sabbagh

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How Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Could Quickly Crumble

The President's America-first, Palestine-last plan for Gaza risks collapsing under its own contradictions, argues Rana Sabbagh

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

🔴How Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Could Quickly Crumble

The President’s America-first, Palestine-last plan for Gaza risks collapsing under its own contradictions, argues Rana Sabbagh

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How Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Could Quickly Crumble

The President's America-first, Palestine-last plan for Gaza risks collapsing under its own contradictions, argues Rana Sabbagh

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 13d

‘“Wanker” or not – a term that sounds over-familiar and informal given the context – Glasman’s willingness to engage with Yarvin around their shared interest in AI is indicative of how those with race science beliefs are being normalised, unwittingly or not, in elite company.’

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17d

Lord Glasman "sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers" JD Vance, Steve Bannon... Curtis Yarvin and "as @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel"

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'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 16d

Reading this excellent deep dive into the links between Glasman, 'Blue Labour', Thiel, Bannon, Yarvin etc., it's not hard to understand why Labour is apparently hell bent on alienating most of its natural supporters.

Disturbing, to say the least.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17d

Lord Glasman "sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers" JD Vance, Steve Bannon... Curtis Yarvin and "as @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel"

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'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 17d

'..the “Dark Enlightenment” – a blueprint for dismantling democracy and national borders, and replacing them with a “patchwork” of thousands of corporate monarchies each governed by a “joint-stock corporation” which operates “without regard to the residents’ opinions”.'

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17d

Lord Glasman "sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers" JD Vance, Steve Bannon... Curtis Yarvin and "as @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel"

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

🔴Kyiv Blackout As Putin Escalates His Attacks on the Ukrainian Grid

As temperatures drop, so too are Russian bombs on Ukrainian infrastructure, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

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Kyiv Blackout As Putin Escalates His Attacks on the Ukrainian Grid

As temperatures drop, so too are Russian bombs on Ukrainian infrastructure, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d

🔴 The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Some complained that @zackpolanski.bsky.social wasn't given a fair hearing last night on #BBCQuestionTime

Fear not - you can hear the #GreenParty leader talking in depth here with @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Zack Polanksi: New Green Party Leader

Podcast Episode · Byline Podcast · 09/09/2025 · 34m

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