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“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters
"Britain has spent the post-war period trying to convince itself that proximity to American power is itself a form of power." ✍️ @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/88/a...
A ‘Special’ Relationship, Indeed – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
James Bloodworth explores whether Britain and the United States can ever mature their mutual fascination with each other into more than symbolic fantasy
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"Prediction markets threaten to subsume the remaining parts of American civic and community life into a commercialised, cheapening logic – grief, death, war, elections, and culture all quantified and turned into products." ✍️ @mattmgallagher.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/88/t...
The Casino Republic – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win
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America: ”the financialisation of everything”, on steroids in the age of Trump, Musk and the other billionaires - the needs and hopes of ordinary people monetised, Elon’s suckers provide the ’dumb money’. And we are not immune.
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3w ago🟡 MAGAZINE: The Casino Republic Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win Read the full story below.
🟡 MAGAZINE: The Casino Republic Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win Read the full story below.
The Casino Republic – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Matt Gallagher explores how the American Dream’s next evolution is selling a ‘permanent underclass’ a route out of a rat race they won’t ever win
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🚨 #PoliticalDonations ➡️ #MoreReform #Reform has so far raised more than £30mn in declared donations since 2024. 💥 It is vital that the party should be able to demonstrate exactly where all of that money originated from💥 Excellent piece! 🙏 @mattmgallagher.bsky.social FYI @rbrooks45.bsky.social
Jon Owen@anotherjon.bsky.social · 4w ago"Navigating the labyrinth of influence and financial connections beneath the surface of Reform UK, cryptocurrency really does seem to appear at every turn." - A great piece, this, by @mattmgallagher.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
Nigel Farage’s party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding... reports @mattmgallagher.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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"Navigating the labyrinth of influence and financial connections beneath the surface of Reform UK, cryptocurrency really does seem to appear at every turn." - A great piece, this, by @mattmgallagher.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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"A political movement promising to take on 'the establishment' has been unusually reliant on an industry built around borderless capital, fragmented regulation and financial opacity." ✍️ @mattmgallagher.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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🔴 The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage’s Crypto Insurgency Nigel Farage’s party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports @mattmgallagher.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage's Crypto Insurgency
Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher
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A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Does any other country get this swarm of Trump pardoned felons and fraudsters lining up to make political donations? Does any other party than Reform UK? Don Vito Corleone was revered for having politicians and judges in his pocket Now it seems dirty money can buy a whole party
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4w ago🔎 From the archive: Robert Jenrick's Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme — Matt Gallagher 🔁 Relevant again: Following news of a Met investigation
🔎 From the archive: Robert Jenrick's Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme — Matt Gallagher 🔁 Relevant again: Following news of a Met investigation
Robert Jenrick's Alleged £40k Donor Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud in California Ponzi Scheme
Police are examining allegations that the Reform UK MP's Conservative leadership campaign was unlawfully funded by a US-based investor who pled guilty to fraud
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"Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket." ✍️ @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/08/n...
Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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🔴 NEW: Nigel Farage’s ‘Pro-Sleaze’ By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam… Read the full story below.
Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
Hello, I am a centrist Democrat. I appeal to 'the center,' which is an ambiguous blob-like thing that exists only in the minds of Democratic strategists whose brains stopped working in the 1990s. Progressives keep winning. Feel my fear! My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
I am a centrist Democrat and I am terrified of success | Opinion
Hello, I am a centrist Democrat who is terrified that progressive liberal candidates keep winning primary elections.
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Very sad news - our great reporter David Hencke passed away peacefully yesterday evening at home with his family at his side. Will have more to say about this legend later but meanwhile - rest in peace, David
🔴The Real ‘Moral Bankruptcy’ That Brought Down Keir Starmer’s Premiership The Prime Minister promised to restore morality to our politics, but ended up falling far short of his own standards, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/22/k...
The Real 'Moral Bankruptcy' That Brought Down Keir Starmer's Premiership
The Prime Minister promised to restore morality to our politics, but ended up falling far short of his own standards, argues Adam Bienkov
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We should absolutely do something about the growing, dystopian side of the internet – the parts where trillionaires fiddle with our brain chemistry for political clout. For so many reasons, this isn't the way. www.uglypolitix.com/p/why-i-dont...
Why I Don't Back Starmer's Youth Social Media Ban
We absolutely need to take Big Tech to task. But this is just a dangerous publicity stunt.
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🔴Revealed: The ‘Right-Wing Arms Race’ to Deport Non-White Britons – Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby EXCLUSIVE: A Reform UK donor is underwriting a dark money network that promotes the forced removal of ethnic-minority Britons, reports @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/18/r...
Revealed: The 'Right-Wing Arms Race' to Deport Non-White Britons - Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority citizens from the UK, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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More from me on why I think this will be a bad legacy for Keir Starmer www.uglypolitix.com/p/why-i-dont...
Why I Don't Back Starmer's Youth Social Media Ban
We absolutely need to take Big Tech to task. But this is just a dangerous publicity stunt.
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Chris Packham's petition calling for Government to broadcast a briefing on the climate and nature breakdown's impact on the UK (a National Emergency Briefing) has now triggered a response from government - in full at the link below.
Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.
Jair Bolsonaro’s son sentenced to four years in jail for seeking US interference in father’s Brazil coup trial
Brazil supreme court finds that Eduardo Bolsonaro – who resides in the US - tried to get sanctions put on judges trying ex-president over coup plot
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"If Reform were to exercise power nationally, decisions on planning rules, environmental regulation, infrastructure investment and development policy would directly benefit many of the companies that currently fund the party." ✍️ @iainoverton.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/17/t...
The Property Moguls and Landlords Funding Reform UK Who Would Gain From Its Housing Policies
EXCLUSIVE: More than half of Reform UK's corporate donors are property and construction figures who are set to benefit from Farage's deregulation plans
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