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- Edition 80 – December 2025 – Cover + Contents
- ‘Neutral’ Sources and the Evidence Against Trump
- The ‘Boriswave’ Powering the Carousel of Scapegoats
- Editorial – Seeing the Light
- Peter Oborne's Diary – Merger and Assignations
- ‘Brook House is a Money Machine’
- Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed
- ‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’
- Bad Press Awards – The Scuffed Aluminium Sports Trophy for Most Awful Awards Show
- How the Islamophobia Definition Became a New Front in the Culture War
- ‘The Hack’: ITV’s Phone-Hacking Drama Is Already Old News
- That's True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Politics with a Difference
- Follow the Money: Why the Right Weaponises the Costs of Supporting Learning Disabled People
- News In Brief – Concerning Colour ‘Concerns’
- On the Ground – Sore Winners
- What Kind of World Am I Leaving For My Children?
- On the Record – A Friend for Fergie
- ‘That Fills Me with Hope – That Human to Human, We Can Find Connection, Understanding and Empathy’
- More Government Reforms the Media Doesn’t Mention
- Power in Darkness
- Ben Habib: ‘Money Is a Big Motivator for Farage’
- Does the Mamdani Moment Signal an Off-Ramp for the Carousel of Scapegoats?
- From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence
- Notes on Now – Indignity
- The Nathan Gill Affair: Farage’s Close Ally and the Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
- Reform Councillor’s Apology After Suggesting Only People with ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’ Can Be English
- Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – Social Immobility
- Mandrake – Splitting Heirs
- Reform-Run Council Asks Opposition Politicians for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
- Letters – December 2025
- Martin Rowson's Cartoon
- The Carousel of Scapegoats
- Zeitgeisters – Melanie Challenger
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 80
- The BBC Becomes a Scapegoat in Its Attempts to Appease the ‘Coup’ Against It
- The Lobbyist Behind the BBC Bias Memo
- The Upside Down – Mad, Sad and Glorious to Know
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Letters – December 2025
Submit a letter for consideration about this month’s edition by emailing the Editors: Miss Hardeep Matharu and Mr Peter Jukes on letters@bylinetimes.com
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.