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EDITION 82 – FEBRUARY 2026
GETTING THE GREEN LIGHT
Zack Polanski: an Outsider Going Mainstream?
Building the Green Wall: Adam Bienkov analyses an emerging electoral landscape
Drowning in Denial: Nafeez Ahmed investigates the projected impact of Reform UK’s climate policies
Hamnet v Hamlet: Stephen Unwin and Peter Jukes
A Lexicon for Life: Humanity’s Eight ‘Good Words’ — Jay Griffiths, Joanna Scanlan and John Mitchinson
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Zack Polanski’s leadership has seen its membership double to more than 150,000 – overtaking those of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
Theatre director and Shakespeare author Stephen Unwin explores our abiding fascination with what the playwright’s life can tell us about the human experience depicted in his plays
You don’t need to be well-versed in Shakespeare to appreciate Hamnet.
Latest News & Investigations
Free online access to the ongoing stories which shape our print and digital edition
March of the Broligarchs
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How YouTube’s Algorithm Pushed People Into Neo-Nazism
A new study reveals how the video sharing platform helped radicalise leading figures on the far right
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EXCLUSIVE
Inside the Silicon Valley Plot to Annex Venezuela for Oil That America Can’t Afford
Donald Trump’s decapitation of the Venezuelan Government opens the door to his Big Tech oligarch supporters’ dreams of creating an anti-democratic ‘Network State’ in the country, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Trump and Musk Welcome Russian Propaganda After Sanctioning European Disinformation Experts
If there’s any question that the US is now more aligned with Russia rather than Europe, recent State Department decisions have removed all doubt
#ReformUncovered
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Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner’s Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch
EXCLUSIVENigel Farage’s cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms and senior Conservative figures, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Nigel Farage Paid by Trump Crypto Adviser Who Worked With Russia Operative Paul Manafort
EXCLUSIVEThe Reform UK leader received payment from David Bailey, who collaborated with the convicted fraudster behind the Trump-Russia influence scandal
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The EU’s ‘Farage Clause’ Shows the Damage Reform Is Already Doing to the UK
As well as making us poorer each year, Farage’s Brexit is also making us more vulnerable to those who wish to do us harm, argues Chris Grey
Labour in Power
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Keir Starmer’s Labour Government Is Much Better Than the Media Admits
There is a deep disconnect between the Government’s actions to improve the country and its standing in the polls, argues Professor Chris Painter
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Four Day Weeks, Andy Burnham and the Death of Labour Dreams
On policy and raw politics, Keir Starmer’s leadership is crushing dreams of a better world, argues Mainstream co-founder Neal Lawson
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What Keir Starmer Should Have Done With Andy Burnham
The PM’s decision to block Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election risks handing the seat to Nigel Farage, and ultimately triggering his own downfall. It didn’t have to be this way, argues Adam Bienkov
The Epstein Files
Byline Times coverage of the House Oversight Committee’s revelations
the state of journalism
BIG TECH’S BRITISH TAKEOVER
Migrant Monstering
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- Nigel Farage used to claim that Brexit was a victory over big business and the banks. A decade later he sings a very different tune, reports Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
- In the latest Byline Podcast, Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov, who argues that the Prime Minister should have welcomed his potential leadership rival into the fold
- Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good
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Following the mounting revelations about Russian Interference in democracies
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