🔴Trump Pardon Buries FBI’s Secret Work for Putin’s Oligarchs The former FBI agent's pardon came after his co-defendant’s daughter donated $3.5 million to Donald Trump bylinetimes.com/2026/02/11/t...

🔴Jeffrey Epstein Met Privately with Bill Gates and Peter Thiel to ‘Rebuild His Reputation’ Through Philanthropy Documents suggest they met at the convicted child sex offender’s home, alongside Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman bylinetimes.com/2026/02/11/j...

Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate

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🔴Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

The same people who tell us “oh, dear boy, you don’t understand” when reassuring us about Palantir embedding itself in the British state were almost exactly the same people who told us Russian interference, Cambridge Analytica and phone hacking were just ‘conspiracy theories’

Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...

📌 ICYMI — The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer’s Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/08/the-end-of-morgan-mcsweeney-peter-oborne-on-keir-starmers-departing-chief-of-staff/

🔴Colonel Keir Starmer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn The Prime Minister’s allies believe he has survived the attempted coup against him, but few outside Downing Street expect him to last for much longer, reports @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

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📌 ICYMI — The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer’s Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/08/the-end-of-morgan-mcsweeney-peter-oborne-on-keir-starmers-departing-chief-of-staff/

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@elliechowns.bsky.social: "The Epstein files make it clear that Gill was not one bad apple, but part of something much bigger and darker: a web of pro-crypto, far-right, Russia-linked anti-democratic forces. It is an oblique and shady movement, in which [Farage] appears to be embroiled deeply."

Not a good look for a party leader reportedly "worried" about his Russia Problem Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

🔴Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

🟨 Print Edition — Drowning in Denial As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads 🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/drowning-in-denial/

🔴Colonel Keir Starmer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn The Prime Minister’s allies believe he has survived the attempted coup against him, but few outside Downing Street expect him to last for much longer, reports @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

Very nearly there with the front page of the new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social which goes to the printers tomorrow. One big theme we can’t avoid, but with unique exclusive new content, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social has turned this into an illuminating story

🟨 Print Edition — Drowning in Denial As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads 🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/drowning-in-denial/

📌 ICYMI — The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer’s Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/08/the-end-of-morgan-mcsweeney-peter-oborne-on-keir-starmers-departing-chief-of-staff/

Republican billionaires really needed the Qanon frenzy to get their first Trump tax cuts, and must be disturbed that we are finally seeing how much of a hand the convicted pdophile played in making that happen. a.k.a. "Why are we so divided?" = Tons of Epstein funding

But they're not elected. SpAds wield the whip, but can never suffer it

Going further as a former journalist it makes me shudder when I see pics of The Spectator summer party and the apparent cosiness of ‘top’ journalists with politicians. Peter Oborne wrote an excellent diary piece in Byline Times about this highlighting Andrew Neil’s role.

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Lots of mentions in the Parliamentary debate today of former MP and DCMS member Ian Lucas’ book on information warfare ‘Digital Gangsters’ — three years old but ever more relevant subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/digi...

📌 ICYMI — The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer’s Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/08/the-end-of-morgan-mcsweeney-peter-oborne-on-keir-starmers-departing-chief-of-staff/

"is Goodwin really asking us to believe that the erosion of our “shared history, national identity, culture and symbols” is seriously under threat from immigration, much of it from the British Commonwealth, when the only actual example he gives is cricket?"

Latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social toon, out in print soonest!

The ever-beady-eyed Peter Oborne writing in @bylinetimes.bsky.social in April '25 on a bio of the PM: "The contempt felt for Starmer by his aides is beyond computation. Take this comment: 'Keir’s not driving the train. He thinks he’s driving the train, but we’ve sat him at the front of the DLR.'”

Lots of mentions in the Parliamentary debate today of former MP and DCMS member Ian Lucas’ book on information warfare ‘Digital Gangsters’ — three years old but ever more relevant subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/digi...

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🔴Whatever Happened to Matt Goodwin? How did Reform’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election go from being a ‘fully-paid up member of the liberal left’ to a Farage disciple, asks David Edgar and Jon Bloomfield bylinetimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED REPORTING bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... With additional reporting by Adam Bienkov. Peter Jukes Co-Founder, Executive Editor Byline Times #BorisJohnson #ConservativeParty #DonaldTrump #KeirStarmer #LabourParty #Tech #DataAndAlgorithms #UKPolitics #USPolitics

Great insight here into the disastrous state of our politics today, and the role played by oligarchs and media moguls in corrupting government. One man may be the focus but the rot is set much deeper.

This is a good read

ICYMI 🟧 Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain The PM signalled the direction of his Government by appointing a former Editor of The Sun – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor

And this: "Ultimately, Starmer may have to choose between the two. If he allows McSweeney to force out or downgrade Gray, he will inflict deep long damage on his administration – rather as Boris Johnson did when he hired Dominic Cummings"

McSweeney and Cummings both benefited from a mythical status promoted by lazy journalists: Advisors’ “status is elevated to often mythical levels, but also the journalists whose careers are dependent upon maintaining good relations with them.” Like Cummings - McSweeney just shouldn’t have been there

An excellent summary.

This really is an excellent read.

By popular demand, we are removing the paywall from this informative and prescient article by @adambienkov.bsky.social from last July's print edition The Myth of Morgan McSweeney subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/75/t...

Can #KeirStarmer survive the departure of his 'inextricably linked' advisor and ideologue Morgan #McSweeney ? @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4VIp...

McSweeney and Cummings both benefited from a mythical status promoted by lazy journalists: Advisors “status is elevated to often mythical levels, but also the journalists whose careers are dependent upon maintaining good relations with them.” Like Cummings - McSweeney just shouldn’t have been there.

Well worth reading

Essential reading. “I predicted .. in August that Morgan McSweeney would win his power struggle with Sue Gray. He has duly done so .. This is a disaster for Labour, but even more so for Britain .. Such creatures may be useful during election campaigns, but should not be allowed near government.”

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📌 ICYMI — The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer’s Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/08/the-end-of-morgan-mcsweeney-peter-oborne-on-keir-starmers-departing-chief-of-staff/

Adam Bienkov also wrote a great article about the myth of Morgan McSweeney - would be worth reposting. Have seen some nonsense this afternoon about him being the genius behind Labour’s general election victory.

The whole thing an excellent read - and re-read. Thanks for the reminder. And great mention of the unjustly mainstreampress-shunned "The Fraud", Paul Holden. Oborne is up there with the greats, integrity, authenticity, honesty--the lot.