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Author: Peter Jukes
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Reform Attacks Byline Times
Reform UK accused Byline Times of “attempting to derail a democratic election” for reporting on Matt Goodwin’s academic ties to organisations linked to discredited pseudoscientific race ideology
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Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former…
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The Sleep of Reason; The Lightbulb of Brutal Clarity
Like that 2010 exposure of US foreign policy discussions, the Epstein Files shine a light on a global policy-making programme – not one run by elected politicians or the ‘deep state’, but an international set of monied oligarchs enjoying a tax-free, lawless lifestyle in the offshore archipelago of dark money and shadow banking.
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‘Brexit, Just the Beginning’
The network of ties between the late sex offender, Moscow, and Silicon Valley help explain not only the unexpected political developments in the West in recent years – but the role of ‘reinventing the financial system of the 21st Century’. Peter Jukes reports
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Zack Polanski – An Outsider Going Mainstream?
In September, Zack Polanski – a Member of the London Assembly since 2021 – was elected to the Green Party’s top job. His leadership has seen its membership double to more than 150,000 – overtaking those of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
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There in Spirit: ‘Hamnet’ and Hamlet’s Ghost
You don’t need to be well-versed in Shakespeare to appreciate Hamnet.
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Russia Propagandist Welcomed, European Disinformation Experts Sanctioned
If there’s any question that the US is now more aligned with Russia than Europe, recent State Department decisions have removed all doubt.
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Editorial – Brutality and Affinity
America’s attack on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The uprising in Iran and the massacre of thousands of protestors. Donald Trump’s continued threats to take over Greenland and destroy the Nato alliance by targeting one of its members.
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Fun and Joy Are Very Powerful Political Forces
In the turbulence of the post-2008 financial crisis period, in the UK and the US, there was the emergence of a range of political figures who previously would have been nowhere near formal politics.
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For Better Or For Worse – The Fallacy of the Mean
It used to drive me mad. It could have been my Christmas post office job, or summer shifts at a record warehouse or an electronics firm, but I remember on more than one occasion a manager complaining about the quality of job applicants.
