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Freelance journo/researcher. Words: @guardian @GoodLawProject @BylineTimes @DeSmog @allthecitizens @IndexCensorship @Dawn_com Email: max @bylinetimes .com
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🔴NEW: VIP lane firm folds, putting another £2.58m of useless PPE at risk of being unrecoverable.
Hotel Logistics becomes the latest to wind up, leaving a question mark over £338m of waste now attributable to eight pandemic-era VIPs.
@GoodLawProject
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Oh what a difference 6 years makes, eh? Almost as if this moral panic is entirely manufactured...
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Byline Times is not "hard left", whatever Dan thinks that actually is lol, it's also not "a blog". It's a publication with an online and print edition, and hundreds of journalists having written for it, and it's not "harassment", but rather the consequences of one's own actions.
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@nscrut_
@Lidotajs
@rosscolquhoun
"I don't know what's happening to meteorologists to make you all so fatalist, such harbingers of doom"
They're doing their jobs and looking at the data in front of them, which is unequivocally pointing in one direction.
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Just in my local for a couple of bank holiday midday beers, overheard someone at a table nearby say "well, they have been in power for twelve years, this government. Can't knock Labour for any of this" - for context, i live in Lincolnshire, in an incredibly safe Tory seat...
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Oh dip,
#Anonymous
have woken up. It's been a while. Minneapolis Police website reportedly taken down, with threats of future action against law enforcement if justice isn't done.
I'm into it.
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#BlackLivesMatter
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🔴NEW: The Tories bought £40m of useless PPE through a pub.
Gov entered into a deal to supply coveralls with Medicine Box, sourced through The Plough in Cadsden. All PPE was unfit for NHS use, and the company is now dissolved:
Me, for
@GoodLawProject
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I'm a Tory MP, so of course I've been photographed with far-right activists!
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Pretty stupid of Ben Houchen to assume Private Eye wouldn't keep receipts, or show them if prompted.
@BenHouchen
You did sell it for £100. Here's the Land Registry proof. We also reported the income that the public sector keeps (worth about 18% of what 90%-private-owned Teesworks Ltd gets). Maybe your press office will now answer questions (having refused to before and since the piece).
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"BBC bosses have been challenged on data showing Question Time panels are “massively unbalanced” in favour of right-wing voices."
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🔴 My latest for
@BylineBITE
,
As the PM says he's "too busy" to attend this year's COP27 summit, I found over £141k in donations to Sunak from those with interests in fossil fuels, and assess his track record on climate change
@BylineTimes
/
@allthecitizens
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Banks V Cadwalladr: Shining a Torch in the Darkness.
.
@peterjukes
looks at the precarious persistence of investigative journalism in Britain – especially when it comes to Russia, Trump and Brexit – and the importance of the public interest defence:
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@Logan_ofthecorn
@lib_crusher
The entire wiki page for this is pure gold tbf.
"the emu command"
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Huge news.
Palantir London offices blockaded by protestors saying no place for war profiteers in the NHS!
#Palantir
#FDP
#NHS
🚨HAPPENING NOW: hundreds of NHS workers blockade London office of US spy firm Palantir, saying no place for war profiteers in our NHS.
Palantir’s been given a £330 million NHS contract despite its complicity in Israel’s genocide & systematic targeting of Gaza health facilities
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People now talking about "bloody Boris". Very interested to see how constituents here vote next GE. I predict a fairly big lib dem swing...
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This is superb 😂
"what is the connection between Alexander Temerko, Vladimir Chernukhin, George Piskov, and Lev Mikheev, four Russian oligarchs with links to the Kremlin?"
Johnson: "err... Pass.."
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🔴 NEW: Inside GB News’ Misinformation Factory
@josiahmortimer
and I explore the extremist and conspiratorial rhetoric fostered on the go-to channel for the hard-right, and an outlet Conservative MPs still call home.
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🔴 New from me, for
@BylineTimes
:
Conservative MP Receives Donation From Manufacturing Firm Months After Promoting it in Parliament
This could be just the tip of the iceberg of MPs’ promotion of industries and firms that donate to their campaign coffers.
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"where are their champions now? Nigel Farage who was happy to stand on many boats with them before, hasn't been tweeting about this, hasn't been talking about this... Where's he?"
#fishingindustry
Where is Nigel Farage? The British fishing industry is collapsing and Nigel has run away.
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JKR has received the endorsement of neo nazi murderer and arsonist Varg Vikernes.
Hell of a time to be alive.
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Nigel Farage’s Coutts Crusade Is a Distraction
We should be tightening anti-money-laundering rules, not watering them down.
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Darren Grimes, who unlike Channel 4 won't ever stop being publicly owned, still doesn't understand that the taxpayer doesn't contribute towards the broadcaster 🥴
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Squad 303 has built a website allowing members of the public to send text messages to random Russian phone numbers, telling them the truth about the war. They claim to have facilitated more than 20 million SMS and WhatsApp messages.
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🔴New from me for
@Byline_Media
A long read examining Palantir's UK takeover, a new award, and the scandals still hanging over the company as it closes in on the NHS contract.
‘The Default Operating System’: Palantir’s £245 Million Expansion into the UK:
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Eddie Dempsey and Mick Lynch
@RMTunion
have done such a fantastic job informing the public, and decimating those that come up against them doing media rounds. This is because the points they are making are irrefutable facts.
Runaway company profits are the problem, not wages.
Ex Tory minister Ann Widdecombe says workers have to accept real terms cuts in pay to prevent a wage price spiral
Eddie Dempsey from
@RMTunion
asks: "What about profits?"
"There has been a transfer of wealth from w/c class people to people at the top, & that can't carry on"
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Braverman has to go.
This is such a staggeringly huge breach, on top of her other ones. Failing to declare that she co-founded a charity in Rwanda with Cherie Blair which trained government lawyers, who are now working on the government's Rwanda deal.
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The BBC must take away the rightwing thinktanks’ megaphone.
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@LilySimpson1312
@discordspies
"My political beliefs are, I liked Westworld and am dating a libertarian."
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@salmonstew
True, but if "twelve years" starts sinking in, then they can bleat on about it all they like. Doesn't mean they won't win again, the odds are fairly stacked, but there's no blaming anyone but the Conservative government for problems here at this point.
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Closing day of Banks V Cadwalladr, closing statements about to begin.
Started the day with a snap of the pap.
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Probably got something to do with the fact that 60% of Russia's exports and 30% of Russia's GDP comes from Oil and Gas, mate.
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Another great vid from
@PeterStefanovi2
:
Chancellor Rishi Sunak just appeared before Parliament’s Treasury Committee
Watch in disbelief!
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More great stuff from Peter, picking apart the Tory leadership candidates deeply worrying attacks on the NHS, the rule of law, human rights, and unions and strike action:
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The only real winners of the war in Afghanistan aren't hard to spot:
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that literally paid actor John D Slater?
Here's John, wearing what looks to be the exact same jacket lmao
“What I really want to ask is: Where do I hand in my expenses claim?” . GB News audience member accidentally gives the game away - PAID to attend Rishi Sunak’s appearance on Tattoo TV 🇬🇧. Host hurries him along
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My latest for
@BylineTimes
:
Conservatives Accused of ‘Camouflage’ Campaign Tactics After Imitating Green Party Leaflets.
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Our rivers are in a dire state:
Recent investigations of mine for
@BylineTimes
found that Environment Agency prosecutions against corporations have slumped to 6% of the level they were a decade ago:
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🔴 My latest for
@BylineTimes
:
Lee Anderson's Culture Wars - How the Conservative Party is Flirting with Far-Right Hate to Appeal to its Base:
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🔴 New from me, for
@BylineTimes
:
The Charles Koch Foundation has donated over £1.1 million to UK universities since 2014, given to Oxford, Surrey, Birmingham, Manchester, and King's College London:
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Only 14% of British rivers and lakes are of ecologically sound status. Our estuaries and coastal waters are also currently at 19% and 45% respectively.
The EA have said that performance of water and sewage companies was “the worst we have seen for years”
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The total recorded in gov contracts across the UK public sector with Palantir Technologies currently stands at over £100 million.
Depending on how certain things go, could have more on this in the coming months...
EXCLUSIVE: Total amount awarded to Palantir Technologies by the Ministry of Defence now stands at over £53 million since 2015, bringing the total figure awarded to over £100m since 2009. THREAD:
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Bonus trivia, The Plough is also the pub Cameron left his child behind in that one time (prior to it being bought by Sinofortone):
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Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure.
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Cheers from the team as Carole and the lawyers exit. Long week, but over for now.
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Could it be that the "silent majority" is, in fact, a very vocal minority with huge influence over the media and political establishment?
No...
"Britain is full of secret Conservatives - people who agree with us but don't want to admit it".
Former PM Liz Truss explains what her new movement, Popular Conservatism, is about.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Big story about the government withholding details of a meeting between Johnson and Cambridge Analytica:
#CambridgeAnalytica
#BorisJohnson
🔴 NEW 🔴
The Government is withholding info about Boris Johnson's meeting with Cambridge Analytica on the grounds of data protection. I kid you not.
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@mattprescott
@JohnSimpsonNews
@realDonaldTrump
Like in 2016, just enough for CA / WikiLeaks to swing it for the Donald in contested states. This literally happens every time and every single time people get complacent.
Obama had it right in his one word response to last week's POTUS distraction rant:
"Vote."
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@Chinchillazllla
Same with the first expedition to collect skins of Emperor Penguins. Taxidermist had no clue, they assumed "bird = long neck" and then:
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@iainoverton
@MichelleMone
@BylineTimes
@WritesBright
@jwsal
When we mapped the pandemic in 2021 we covered 30 Tory-linked firms, which in 2024 is no longer an exhaustive list, and Michelle knows full well she isn't the only one being scrutinised as she was riffing off new reporting into one such firm just two weeks ago.
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A complete misrepresentation of Esther Ghey's words, and the findings of the judge in Brianna's case. Shameful.
Just when you think they couldn’t sink any lower
A Tory Cabinet minister has gone on Sky News and totally misrepresented Brianna Ghey’s mother in a bid to defend the PM
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And it's already happened again, the person that heckled Prince Andrew has also been arrested for breach of the peace.
Mass arrests for peaceful protests is a hell of a way to see in both a new government and new monarch...
Police Scotland are at it again
The heckler seen on TV shouting about Prince Andrew as the Queen's coffin passed up Edinburgh's Royal Mile has been arrested "in connection with a breach of the peace"
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Yesterday, the Electoral Commission published application notices for new political parties including one for the 'National Conservatism Party', on the day Johnson announced his departure as an MP...
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@aIexbee
@cakes_moist
@doola_peep
@ayyy_vuh
it's more the frequency it's happening at, and that is climate change related. Hotter, longer summers and warmer spring times, increased risk of wildfires is a problem that will get worse incrementally. 10 of the past 15 years have been the warmest on record.
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Ignoring for a sec that you've just shared a platform with Steve Bannon, were silent when he called Tommy Robinson a "hero", and that your party is bankrolled by a man who said Diane Abbott should "be shot", it's always worth remembering some of those the Tories are cozy with:
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@Jemlx3
@piixietit2
I used to live in Lincolnshire, I think it's fair to assume it probably wasn't a joke.
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My latest for the
@BylineTimes
, and last of this year:
'UK University Deal with Oil Giant Leads to Student Anger.
Exeter University announces new, five-year funding arrangement with Shell, as students urge campuses to divest from fossil fuel interests.'
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It's truly incredible that this even needs pointing out, so thanks
@Femi_Sorry
, but Katie Hopkins is not a champion of the working class and it is unfathomable to me how people can have such short memories regarding her track record. She's a grifter, always was, always will be.
Katie Hopkins has 128,000 TikTok followers and has completely rebranded herself as an anti-poverty activist...
Even though she supported a Brexit that has objectively made poverty worse.
But *certain* people are happy to overlook her racist & economically reckless past. 😬
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The Kremlin is famous for putting out correct information.
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Clarifications now over, proceedings drawing to a close. Carole Cadwalladr leaves witness box after a gruelling 3 days of the most intense cross examination imaginable.
Court will resume on Friday at 10:30, filings to be submitted.
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Black Ties & Dark Money - The Conservative Cash-for-Access Machine.
Latest from myself and
@WritesBright
, inspecting how the Conservatives continue to sell democracy to the highest bidder.
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🔴NEW: I wrote about the overlap between the organised right wing & trans-Atlantic anti-trans lobby, feat. KJK, CPAC, the Heritage Foundation, Alliance Defending Freedom, the LGBA, Tufton St, and the Tories for
@Byline_Media
:
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Thrilled to be in the
@BylineTimes
print edition again with the formidable
@WritesBright
, delving into 'Johnson's 22 Big Money Backers' who pledged their unwavering support on the eve of the infamous no-confidence vote:
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@adam_ford1
@fuzzyian
@1691UK
Some of us are dedicated to a richer sound quality, I personally don't go anywhere without my gramophone.
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🔴 I found a new entity based in Tufton St, Emmnon Ltd, only established last month with links to Peter Whittle and the New Culture Forum
In between going to them for comment on Friday and publishing on Monday the company changed its address.
@BylineTimes
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We need a fairer and more proportional voting system this country desperately.
83% of Labour members support it, as do 44% of the British population (over just 27% who support fptp). It's insane that, with a few notable exceptions,
@UKLabour
STILL won't back it.
Today ANOTHER Labour MP told me they don't support giving people a fair voting system because it would weaken the link between MPs and their constituency.
Here's why that argument doesn't work...
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@hadiya_afzal
Someone really should thank MSNBC for all the hard work they've put in to getting Sanders elected. It's a left-field approach to be sure, but it's working really well.
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To make things worse, this gov is obsessed with obfuscation, conducting state business over WhatsApp/Signal, which after months of diligent work by journos is still not subject to FOI, we're forced to rely on leaks.
We've never been more in the dark.
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About trans *people*
You know, the group you've spent the last several years hounding through every facet of public life for manufactured outrage votes and clicks.
Funny how we shouldn't "make this a huge issue" when it involves addressing the impact of our words and actions.
"I don't think we should make this a huge issue about trans," Laura Trott says
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is asked if Rishi Sunak should apologise for his comments during PMQs
#PoliticsLive
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CC addresses judge directly after being granted permission.
"i think this line of questioning is a deliberate attempt made to shame and humiliate me, and part of that shame and humiliation is to do with me being a woman"
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@EpicVendettas
@FamousAmos34
@BaltRevolution
@sukodingha
@BernieSanders
r/iamverybadass
r/ihavereddit
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As anti-trans MP Kemi Badenoch is back in the news, I wonder why my request for the meeting minutes between her and the Tufton-affiliated LGB Alliance have been delayed now for the 3rd time?
It relates to "the formulation or development of government policy"...
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Everyone who values public interest journalism needs to stand with Carole, and against the precedent set by this ruling.
'
@carolecadwalla
to appeal against ruling that she pay Arron Banks’s legal costs.'
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You might remember Tim Gurner from his previous comments regarding avocado toast and millennials...
We’re seeing a surge in worker power globally, but that upsets some people.
This businessman, speaking at a “property summit,” is going viral for saying:
“We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.”
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Solid reporting here from
@BylineTV
and
@CaolanRob
, on the real reason behind the Port Talbot Steel closure (hint, it isn't Net Zero)
The largest steel works in Britain closed and the media didn’t even ask WHY
We exposed the real reason - which was Brexit & cuts.
It was watched by two million people.
As independent media we need your help to keep exposing the truth about what’s really going on. Please
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🔴 The Hardline Forces Shaping the Conservative Leadership Contest:
Latest from
@WritesBright
and I for
@allthecitizens
and
@BylineTimes
, exploring the individuals and organisations that are propelling the Conservative Party’s lurch to the right.
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The Transatlantic Mainstreaming of Libertarian Theories of Social Darwinism and Apartheid
@NafeezAhmed
reveals how the legacy of the Nazi ideology of eugenics – popularised by Charles Murray’s book The Bell Curve – is becoming central to Conservatism:
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Thrilled to appear in the print copy of April's
@BylineTimes
, mapping £3bn gov contracts won by donors / associates of the Tory party, with the excellent
@WritesBright
,
@iainoverton
,
@BataDaisy
,
@katietarrant98
,
@Hardeep_Matharu
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Simon McCoy from Wetherspoons TV goes full disappointed dad after channel gets nicely trolled.
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“Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections”, Mogg said.
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4. Conservative MP Receives Donation From Manufacturing Firm Months After Promoting it in Parliament:
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@AllensonStephen
Very possibly. This person was elderly too, literally the voting base around here....
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