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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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Mo Kanjilal Williams @mokanjilal.bsky.social · 6d

'What If?' Brighton Summit
- What's In A name?
- What if journalism is not about truth?
- What if there were no journalists?
3 of the speakers...
Sheela Banerjee, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social and Clive Myrie BBC
@sussexbylines.co.uk
www.brightonsummit.com

Brighton Summit 2025 – a business conference by Brighton Chamber

Brighton Summit is an annual conference that brings together our city’s diverse business community for a day of networking, ideas and action. And when a community like ours comes together, great thing...

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 7d

🔴 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 @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social about the 'differing politics but shared values' approach to her new podcast Shami's Speakeasy

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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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 8d

Starmer tells the Labour Conference that Nigel Farage's politics is based on "grievance" and the "competition of victims". But *why* some people identify with this seems to be the key question. We have had the reasons for years - especially since the Brexit vote. A vision and action is necessary.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 10d

Interested in Keir Starmer's comments criticising the BBC's Reform coverage & heading to Labour Party Conference in Liverpool?

Come and join me and a range of speakers at the Fabian Society's fringe event: 'Restoring Trust and Standards in the UK's Media' 👇

12.30pm on Monday at Bluecoat Liverpool:

Pressing Issues | Fabian Society

Fabian Society

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 23d

Join me and @nafeez.bsky.social at London's Gower St Waterstones on 23 September to explore the rise of the far-right in the political mainstream – the history and connections of which are explored in his revealing book, 'Alt Reich: The Network War to Destroy the West From Within'

Tickets here 🔽

Alt Reich: The Network War to Destroy the West from Within - An evening with Nafeez Ahmed | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Alt Reich: The Network War to Destroy the West from Within - An evening with Nafeez Ah...

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 23d

Indeed. It laid the groundwork for 'from Maggie to MAGA'.

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 23d

Why thank you, Ian.

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Interesting in depth conversation of the complexities, nuances and sometimes problematic issues of identity and belonging really worth listening to.

bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · Aug 28

"The only time the issues of belonging or community or identity are discussed is around immigration..."

@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social says it's time for a different conversation about identity.

With @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Byline Podcast: The UK's Identity Crisis with Hardeep Matharu

Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times editor in chief Hardeep Matharu about why identity matters in modern Britain.Produced by Harvey White and Sean Byrne Roberts. Recorded at the Byline Festival a...

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 26d

FROM MAGGIE TO MAGA

The new Byline Times print edition has gone to press – exploring how the radical-right are the true heirs to Thatcher. When politicians can no longer offer tangible solutions to people's lives, a constant carousel of scapegoats is required 👇

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Sep 5

The far-right's network war – exposed in @nafeez.bsky.social's Alt Reich – is rapidly accelerating.

On 23 Sept, Ahmed joins Byline Times editor-in-chief @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social at Waterstones Gower St to unpack his explosive exposé.

Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/alt-r...

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · Aug 28

"The only time the issues of belonging or community or identity are discussed is around immigration..."

@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social says it's time for a different conversation about identity.

With @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Byline Podcast: The UK's Identity Crisis with Hardeep Matharu

Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times editor in chief Hardeep Matharu about why identity matters in modern Britain.Produced by Harvey White and Sean Byrne Roberts. Recorded at the Byline Festival a...

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · Aug 25

"I can be British, English, a Londoner. I can be Indian...even my father's East African heritage."

@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social tells @goldbergradio.bsky.social why identity in the UK today isn't black and white.

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Byline Podcast: The UK's Identity Crisis with Hardeep Matharu

Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times editor in chief Hardeep Matharu about why identity matters in modern Britain.Produced by Harvey White and Sean Byrne Roberts. Recorded at the Byline Festival a...

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Aug 14

LAWLESS BRITAIN?

New Byline Times has gone to press on the authoritarian forces – here & abroad – driving this narrative 👇

"Anti-Britain propaganda is clearly working... Where is Starmer's vision of this green, pleasant & multicultural land?" (Sonia Purnell)

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Aug 13

Powerful words by London Mayor Sadiq Khan
@london.gov.uk in Byline Times on claims of 'lawless London' 👇

"These people can't stand what London represents... They believe a city as diverse & progressive as ours cannot be allowed to thrive. If it does, it makes a mockery of their entire worldview"

‘These People Can’t Stand What London Represents… It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview’

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, addresses the increasing number of claims by those in the media and politics of the capital city’s apparent decline

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Alan Tilmouth @alantilmouth.bsky.social · Aug 1

Excellent read and goes a long way to explain much of what we’re seeing and experiencing across many issues.

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Addressing real psychological & sociological needs is something those false, misinformed beliefs are doing. We actually need to try to tackle the underlying social problems, like alienation, people are grappling with"

My in-depth essay with brilliant insights from LSE's Prof J McKenzie Alexander ⬇️

The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation

From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Aug 1

"David Dinsmore is emblematic of everything that has gone wrong with the relationship between power and the press"

Starmer has appointed a former Editor of The Sun – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor.

Again, as always, the water we swim in.

Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain

Keir Starmer has signalled the direction of his Government by appointing a former Editor of The Sun newspaper – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications adviso...

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Jon Bloomfield @jonbloomfield.bsky.social · Jul 31

How far the Tories have moved. Impossible to imagine Badenoch or Jenrick saying that.

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Jul 30

Interesting to speak to former Conservative Deputy PM Lord Heseltine for this latest edition...

"Oswald Mosley marched against the Jews in the 1930s. Enoch Powell made the 'rivers of blood' speech in the 1960s. And Nigel Farage represents a new incarnation of that degree of prejudice & bitterness"

davidcamburn.bsky.social @davidcamburn.bsky.social · Jul 30

The latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social has arrived. There’s never been a better time to subscribe!

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Jul 30

It is. Particularly his take on further regional devolution as a possible (long-term) solution - to fix all the issues the Brexit vote already highlighted nearly a decade ago... Thanks for reading and spreading the word!

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Jul 30

Interesting to speak to former Conservative Deputy PM Lord Heseltine for this latest edition...

"Oswald Mosley marched against the Jews in the 1930s. Enoch Powell made the 'rivers of blood' speech in the 1960s. And Nigel Farage represents a new incarnation of that degree of prejudice & bitterness"

davidcamburn.bsky.social @davidcamburn.bsky.social · Jul 30

The latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social has arrived. There’s never been a better time to subscribe!

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Jul 30

We need more writing about our humanness, what it lies in, how it challenges us, what it requires of us. We don't think about this enough, in my view.

Stephen's book on his journey with his son Joey, who has severe learning disabilities, is for everyone - exploring 'the last taboo among liberals' 👇

Stephen Unwin @stephenunwin.bsky.social · Jul 27

Delighted to have an excerpt from my book in the new Byline Times

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · Jul 25

We were quite fortunate to have Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham for the closing session of this summer’s #BylineFestival. We were even more fortunate that Byline Times editor-in-chief Hardeep Matharu also sat him down for an exclusive interview on the state of our politics today.

Andy Burnham: These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call for Radical Change of Our Politics

From imposter syndrome and proportional representation, to fixing the fundamentals and the 'incestuous' Westminster media-political class – Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor believes the right can be ...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jul 30

If we want to defend democracy and reduce harm, media literacy must be taken seriously, at school, at home, and across society. The Lords report backs that fully. The time for action is now, while we still have a government who don't call fact checks fake news.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jul 30

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk.
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Media literacy - Committees - UK Parliament

This inquiry will seek to establish a clear vision for what good media literacy would look like in the UK, and examine the barriers to achieving this vision. The committee will consider the roles and ...

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