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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 45m

🔴Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to Run for Parliament, as Party Rides a New ‘Green Wave’

EXCLUSIVE: New Green leader eyes a Westminster run, and accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of using “racist rhetoric” in chasing Reform UK

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Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to Run for Parliament, as Party Rides a New 'Green Wave'

EXCLUSIVE: New Green leader eyes a Westminster run, and accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of using "racist rhetoric" in chasing Reform UK

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🔴‘Robert Jenrick’s Authoritarian Plans for the Justice System Are Straight Out of the Trump Playbook’

Just look at America to see what happens when an authoritarian narcissist, decides that he is more powerful than any court of law, argues Gareth Roberts
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'Robert Jenrick's Authoritarian Plans for the Justice System Are Straight Out of the Trump Playbook'

One only has to look at Trump's America to see what happens when a government, led by a narcissist with an authoritarian bent, decides that he is more powerful than any court of law, argues Gareth Rob...

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🔴The Human Cost of the Gaza Tragedy

Two years on October 7, @alexhh.bsky.social relates three stories from those affected by what has happened since

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The Human Cost of the Gaza Tragedy

Two years on October 7, Alexandra Hall Hall relates three stories from those affected by what has happened since

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h

"Last year the Byline Times published an embarrassing story about Conservative party councillors pretending to be ordinary folk during a televised election campaign event. A year later, Bienkov is suddenly off the invite list."

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Free speech tested at party conferences - Index on Censorship

Political parties in the UK must allow critical voices in

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 16h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 14h

Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jones’ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more:https://www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 20h

As temperatures fall and Putin's strikes on the grid escalate, Ukraine prepares for a winter of severe hardship, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

Winter Is Coming: Can Ukraine Keep the Lights On?

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woopdiddyscooppoop.bsky.social @woopdiddyscooppoop.bsky.social · 22h

Plenty of news resources out there calling it what it is.

They just aren’t billionaire owned.

The various @bylinetimes.bsky.social publications are where it’s at. Journalistic excellence and fearlessness personified.

You won’t get that kind of reporting from a mainstream publication anymore.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon....

And why it was finally time to leave.

Me for

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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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

🔴 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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🔴Winter Is Coming: Can Ukraine Keep the Lights On?

As temperatures fall and Putin’s strikes on the grid escalate, Ukraine prepares for a winter of severe hardship, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

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Winter Is Coming: Can Ukraine Keep the Lights On?

As temperatures fall and Putin's strikes on the grid escalate, Ukraine prepares for a winter of severe hardship, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 8d

1. 🧵On Global Insights this week, @bylinetimes.bsky.social’s
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social and @josbetts.bsky.social join Kwangu Liwewe to discuss the British right’s evolving relationship with identity and race.

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 4d

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

"They Were Thick As Thieves"

@peterjukes.bsky.social exposes #Farage links with Reform's bribe-taking Russian stooge Nathan Gill.

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Byline Podcast: Farage "Thick As Thieves" with Reform's Russian Stooge

Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes joins Adrian Goldberg to discuss the links between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the party's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, who has admitted acce...

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

"Stupid, spurious and absurd."

@peterjukes.bsky.social reacts to claims by #ReformUK that #Farage barely knew convicted Russian stooge Nathan Gill.

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BYLINE TIMES PODCAST: Farage "Thick As Thieves" with Reform's Russian Stooge

Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes joins Adrian Goldberg to discuss the links between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the party's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, who has admitted acce...

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

"Let us not pretend that we are talking about ways of reversing the genocide...Rather, the discussion is about more or less murderous ways of completing the destruction and replacement of Palestinian Gaza"
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'Donald Trump's Plan Will Not End the Gaza Genocide'

The author of The New Age of Genocide, Martin Shaw, on why Trump's 'peace' plan will allow the ongoing destruction and replacement of a Palestinian Gaza

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference

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BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

🔴‘Donald Trump’s Plan Will Not End the Gaza Genocide’

The author of The New Age of Genocide, @martinshaw.bsky.social on why Trump’s ‘peace’ plan will allow the ongoing destruction and replacement of a Palestinian Gaza

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'Donald Trump's Plan Will Not End the Gaza Genocide'

The author of The New Age of Genocide, Martin Shaw, on why Trump's 'peace' plan will allow the ongoing destruction and replacement of a Palestinian Gaza

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SEND HT @wsu-albion.bsky.social · 1d

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social get to the bottom of this
“This weekend, we not only revealed that Reform’ Nathan Gill pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight counts of Kremlin bribery – was one of Farage's closest aides”

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#NoStoneUnturned – Byline Times Shop

#NoStoneUnturned Help Byline Times go where others dare to tread. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed. Byline Times is asking for your support to advance ...

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

"Stupid, spurious and absurd..."

@peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social reacts to claims by #ReformUK that #Farage barely knew convicted Russian stooge Nathan Gill.

With @goldbergradio.bsky.social

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BYLINE TIMES PODCAST: Farage "Thick As Thieves" with Reform's Russian Stooge

Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes joins Adrian Goldberg to discuss the links between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the party's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, who has admitted acce...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll have a lot more detail about this apparently random encounter in the next edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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And then there's this intriguing Tweet from Koloshyn's wife @NadinSassy who fled Ukraine along with him to Belarus just before Russia's full-scale invasion. It was taken in 2018 and posted in April this year. What does it mean? 11/12

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

NEW EPISODE: "Thick as thieves"

Exposing #Farage links with Reform's Russian stooge.

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

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Byline Podcast: Farage "Thick As Thieves" with Reform's Russian Stooge

Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes joins Adrian Goldberg to discuss the links between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the party's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, who has admitted acce...

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

Far from being a distant colleague, insiders told Byline Times that Reform's former Welsh leader, convicted of bribery, was a close Farage aide and worked on the Kremlin's plan to crush Ukraine

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

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🔴Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to Run for Parliament, as Party Rides a New ‘Green Wave’

EXCLUSIVE: New Green leader eyes a Westminster run, and accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of using “racist rhetoric” in chasing Reform UK

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Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to Run for Parliament, as Party Rides a New 'Green Wave'

EXCLUSIVE: New Green leader eyes a Westminster run, and accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of using "racist rhetoric" in chasing Reform UK

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

"It is a fact that the VIP Lane was unlawful, and it is a fact that being on the VIP Lane did offer some advantage..."

@russellscott1.bsky.social investigates the #PPE scandal and calls for accountability.

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Byline Podcast: PPE, The Pandemic and Cronyism with Russell Scott

Adrian Goldberg hears from Russell Scott, author of 'VIP Lane – Cronysim and the Pandemic', which is out now via Byline Books.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn mor...

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