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Author: Peter Jukes
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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.
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Dinner with Mr Brexit
Dinner with Mr Brexit Steve Bannon’s European ‘Revolution’ – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead of the ‘Movement’, which his partner Laure Ferrari started – while Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing regular support. Peter Jukes reports on new revelations in the Epstein…
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Editorial – Sanctuary
It seems quintessentially English. Though most of our subscribers are not London-based, and we have a readership from across the world, Southwark Cathedral is in effect the parish church for the area in which Byline Times’ office is located.
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The Nathan Gill Affair: Farage’s Close Ally and the Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
Ahead of the sentencing on 21 November of former Reform UK Leader in Wales Nathan Gill, who accepted bribes from an alleged Russian agent, Peter Jukes reveals how the ex-MEP was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a convention in Moscow when he was arrested
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The Carousel of Scapegoats
People are social animals and – in the absence of an absolute improvement in your life – there is a destructive but all too human solution: make sure others are relatively more miserable than you are.
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From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence
In 1976, Peter Jukes wanted to be Travis Bickle. A decade later, he realised the Taxi Driver anti-hero was a psychopath. Now he suspects Bickle’s dangerous saviour complex underpins the architecture of our tech platforms
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‘Blue Labour’ & the Thiel Effect
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement has transformed politics in the United States – and is now flowing into the UK. Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes investigate how this influence is being transmitted
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How the Alt-Right Gets In
Following Curtis Yarvin’s appearance at a London festival with Alastair Campbell, Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes examine his writings, which are reportedly inspiring Silicon Valley Tech Bros and the US Vice President
