Puzzle Solutions - Edition 87 – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition

Edition 87 – July 2026 – Cover + Contents
Letters – July 2026
Anthem of the North
Mandelson and the New Statesman: How the ‘Soft PR’ Sausage Gets Made
Peter Oborne's Diary – Dignified Silence
On the Ground – Tackling Crypto-Politics
Bad Press Awards – The Platinum-Plated Projector for Performative White Rage
That's True Too – Leave to Remain
‘Hockney’s Art Was as Much an Intellectual Exercise as It Was an Expression of the Joy He Took From Being Alive’
Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics
‘Anonymous Quotes’ and Political Journalists: How Spin Doctors Deceive the Public
After Makerfield, the Answer Cannot be Managerial Politics with a Different Accent
The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface
Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
A Town that has Stood Still as the World has Moved On
‘The Real Radicalism the Moment Requires is at the Level of How the World Is Seen’
Turning the Tide on the Rage Wave? Nigel Farage’s Explicit Politics of Race and Violence Could Cost Him
Navigating Antisemitism in the Shadow of Israel’s Wars
Zeitgeisters – Margaret Heffernan
‘The Odyssey’ Backlash: A Journey Between Strangeness and Familiarity
A Letter from America – The Machine that Eats Elections
Northern Ireland’s Enduring Problem With Sectarian Violence
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Half Man: ‘We’re Beginning to Get a Better, Much More Nuanced Understanding… Vulnerability is a Part of Masculinity Now’
The Upside Down – Eye of Newt
Brexit: Ten Long Years of Bitterness
How to Stop Billionaires Buying British Politics
On the Record – Not Music to My Ears
St George and the Saltire: Flagging Up the Differences
Be part of The Fête of Britain
Notes on Now – Platner’s Past
Mandrake – Johnson’s Office Job

Crossword

Across:

8 Progressive workplace for nurses? (6)

9 Not great, unfortunately, being in line (2,6)

10 Leaders of victorious Gurkhas giving fulsome praise (4,4)

11 Disinherit nephew partly? On reflection, in full! (6)

Northern Ireland’s Enduring Problem With Sectarian Violence

Bad faith actors are exploiting the vulnerabilities of a society scarred by violent disorder and racism to incite hate against new ‘others’, writes Emma DeSouza

Emma DeSouza

Half Man: ‘We’re Beginning to Get a Better, Much More Nuanced Understanding… Vulnerability is a Part of Masculinity Now’

Hardeep Matharu speaks to Duncan Craig, founder of We Are Survivors – a charity supporting survivors of male sexual abuse – about why the ‘toxic masculinity’ narrative has been problematic, and the eye-opening exploration of complex male relationships in Richard Gadd’s new six-part series Half Man

Hardeep Matharu

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Puzzle Solutions – Edition 87

Crossword

Across:

Northern Ireland’s Enduring Problem With Sectarian Violence

Half Man: ‘We’re Beginning to Get a Better, Much More Nuanced Understanding… Vulnerability is a Part of Masculinity Now’