The Carousel of Scapegoats – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition

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

Peter Jukes and

Hardeep Matharu

What happens when hope fails and aspiration dims?

What dynamics take over in societies where social mobility is stalled, wages have flatlined, and yet the cost of living inexorably rises?

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Reform-Run Council Asks Opposition Politicians for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short

Nigel Farage’s struggling flagship Kent administration has failed to identify the millions of pounds in savings it promised voters in May. Josiah Mortimer reports

Josiah Mortimer

The BBC Becomes a Scapegoat in Its Attempts to Appease the ‘Coup’ Against It

With its political independence undermined from within – and its continued reliance on the agenda set by right-wing newspapers – the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, writes Adam Bienkov

Adam Bienkov

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Reform-Run Council Asks Opposition Politicians for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short

The BBC Becomes a Scapegoat in Its Attempts to Appease the ‘Coup’ Against It