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Author: Peter Jukes
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‘Thick as Thieves’ Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Nigel Farage has finally admitted that Nathan Gill, the former MEP convicted of bribery, was one of his closest aides. But the Reform UK Leader’s claim that he didn’t know about Gill’s association with ‘Moscow’s man in Ukraine’ stretches credulity to the limit. Peter Jukes investigates
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Editorial – After the Iceberg, the Conservative Ship Founders
For us at Byline Times, reading the Guardian’s recent revelations in the ‘Boris Files’ – a cache of nearly 2,000 leaked documents from Boris Johnson’s private office and Downing Street activity – is rather like mapping an iceberg five years after it sank the traditional Conservative Party and destroyed much of the probity of the…
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ‘Tech Maidens’
As the scandal around the release of the Epstein Files continues to follow Donald Trump, Peter Jukes investigates the late sex offender’s ties to Vladimir Putin-linked individuals with a curious career trajectory
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Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’
What happened to Keir Starmer’s pledge that Labour would return to power with a ‘government of service’? Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu speak to the backbench Labour MP to understand why the Government is focusing on how to ‘stop the boats’ rather than fixing people’s everyday lives
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Lord Heseltine – ‘Nigel Farage, Let’s Not Mince Our Language, Is Mr Trump’s Vicar in England’
Fifty years on from the UK’s 1975 referendum on its continued membership of the then European Communities, the former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister speaks to Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu about the future of our involvement in Europe, the rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic, and how Brexit has reshaped his party…
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Editorial – Carving Up a Baked World
The Plumb-Pudding in Danger, James Gillray’s 1805 cartoon of the French Emperor Napoleon and the British Prime Minister Pitt the Younger, not only satirised the two warring superpowers as they carved up the Atlantic and the European landmass between them, it also visualised the Victorian ‘great power’ theory of history.
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Editorial – The Endless Insecurity of ‘Digital Nomads’
If the product is free, you’re the product. When it comes to so much of our lives lived on social media, this is one of the defining truths of our age, and it is brilliantly realised in Vincenzo Latronico’s novella Perfection, translated into English by Sophie Hughes, which was recently shortlisted for the International Booker…
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The Kindness of Strangers
It is entirely plausible that Donald Trump, when he constantly compares US asylum seekers to serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, is confusing these two uses of the word ‘asylum’.
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The Tribunal of Truth: Byline Times Joins Press Regulator
Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, explains why joining Impress – the independent press regulator – is the best way to uphold accuracy and trust as investigative journalism enters a difficult new era of change
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Editorial – The Need to Be Seen
We must remember that ‘social democracy’ wasn’t just about the material benefits of the welfare system, but also something much more elusive and immaterial: people feeling they have some control over their lives and that their voices are heard. That isn’t so hard to see, nor so far away that it isn’t achievable.
