📌 ICYMI — ‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel’ The likely incoming Prime Minister must break with Keir Starmer's "morally bankrupt" legacy on Gaza in order to restore his party's reputation with the public, argues genocide scholar Martin Shaw

🟡 From Last Month’s Magazine: Brexit: Ten Long Years of Bitterness A decade after the EU Referendum, British politics remains fundamentally poisoned by a project that produced no benefits, writes Chris Grey Read the full story below.

🔎 From the archive: Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion' — @adambienkov.bsky.social 🔁 Relevant again: Good to see other newspapers catch up on this six months later

"Burnham will need to recognise the deliberate, systematic character of Israel’s destruction of the whole Palestinian society in Gaza – in short, he will need to acknowledge the genocide." ✍️ @martinshaw.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

“Starmer’s own policy towards Israel is most regarded as having been morally bankrupt by the voters he lost. it is Labour’s complicity in the genocide that has created the most intractable obstacle in recreating a viable electoral coalition”

"Burnham will need to recognise the deliberate, systematic character of Israel’s destruction of the whole Palestinian society in Gaza – in short, he will need to acknowledge the genocide." ✍️ @martinshaw.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

I wrote in detail about ‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel' for Byline Times. Gaza is the sharpest edge of Starmer’s domestic as well as international legacy. Fail to address it, and Burnham could end up as the UK’s Kamala Harris. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

🔴 NEW: Reform UK Donations From Collapsing Firms Are ‘Not Under Investigation’ Says Elections Watchdog as It Calls for Loopholes to Be Closed By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Anti-corruption campaigners warn the UK's political system is open to abuse and infiltration by unlawful foreign…

Reform UK Donations From Collapsing Firms Are ‘Not Under Investigation’ Says Elections Watchdog as It Calls for Loopholes to… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/reform-uk-donations-from-collapsing-firms-are-not-under-investigation-says-elections-watchdog-as-it-calls-for-loopholes-to-be-closed/

🔴 NEW: ‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel’ The likely incoming Prime Minister must break with Keir Starmer's "morally bankrupt" legacy on Gaza in order to restore his party's reputation with the public, argues genocide scholar Martin Shaw Read the full story below.

🔴 NEW: Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson Read the full story below.

🟣 SUBSTACK: Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson Read below.

‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel’ The likely incoming Prime Minister must break with Keir Starmer's "morally bankrupt" legacy on Gaza in order to restore his party's reputation with the public, argues genocide… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/why-andy-burnham-must-break-with-israel/

Serving as an MP is a privilege and should be viewed as such by those who do the job – not as a part-time role or a get-rich-quick scheme. We need a ban on second jobs for MPs now.

Edinburgh Attacks Expose ‘Two-Tier’ Coverage of Racism in UK, New Data Shows The Edinburgh attacks on five Muslim men received seven times less coverage than a comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier, reports Hugh Wilkinson...

🔴 A Government minister has admitted that progress tackling MPs’ second jobs has been “glacial” and urged the next Prime Minister to go further. @josiahmortimer.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/02/k...

Thanks @bylinetimes.bsky.social for our inside cover ad asking readers to email their MP to ask them to support our amendments to prevent lies in elections ads. 23 MPs have so far. The best spent 25 seconds you'll spend today. reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...

📌 ICYMI — Six in 10 Russian Billionaires Are Still Not Being Sanctioned by the UK Government — Molly Gordon Boles A series of billionaires with ties to Britain remain untouched by the UK's supposedly tough sanctions regime, reports Molly Gordon and Iain Overton

🟡 From Last Month’s Magazine: Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility? Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies… Read the full story below.

🟡 From Last Month’s Magazine: The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface Text has always been more a technology of control than true creativity, writes @peterjukes.bsky.social Read the full story below.

📌 ICYMI — Six in 10 Russian Billionaires Are Still Not Being Sanctioned by the UK Government — Molly Gordon Boles A series of billionaires with ties to Britain remain untouched by the UK's supposedly tough sanctions regime, reports Molly Gordon and Iain Overton

✒️ AGAINST THE ALGORITHM The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface Text has always been more a technology of control than true creativity, writes Peter Jukes You can now subscribe directly to individual Byline Times columnists. Read the full column below.

🔴 NEW: Ofcom Taken to Court After Clearing Talk TV’s ‘Torrent of Transphobia’ By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The regulator is accused of allowing the Murdoch-owned station to "serve as a megaphone for billionaires to spread toxic lies and amplify dangerous… Read the full story below.

🟣 SUBSTACK: The Lure of Iconoclasm Join Byline Times on 6 July to discuss the mythology of icons in the round with featured guests Read below.

“Instead of keeping hate and misinformation off our airwaves, Ofcom is allowing TalkTV to serve as a megaphone for billionaires to spread toxic lies and amplify dangerous, far-right rhetoric for their own political gain.” https://bit.ly/4vDvtL3

🔴 NEW: Keir Starmer’s Promised Clampdown on Second Jobs Has Been ‘Glacial’ Admits Minister, as Nigel Farage’s Millions Come Under Spotlight By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The Reform leader's multiple outside jobs and repeated absence from the House of Commons has led to calls for action Read…

Keir Starmer’s Promised Clampdown on Second Jobs Has Been ‘Glacial’ Admits Minister, as Nigel Farage’s Millions Come Under Spotlight The Reform leader's multiple outside jobs and repeated absence from the House of Commons has led to calls for action...

🟣 SUBSTACK: Elon Musk Amplifies Tommy Robinson’s Call to Expel Half of All British Muslims in Speech Staged by Neo-Nazi Linked Group The demand for the expulsion of millions of Muslim people from the UK received 36 million views after being shared by Musk on his X platform… Read below.

🔴 NEW: Six in 10 Russian Billionaires Are Still Not Being Sanctioned by the UK Government A series of billionaires with ties to Britain remain untouched by the UK's supposedly tough sanctions regime, reports Molly Gordon and Iain Overton Read the full story below.

Masks, Flares and Climbing Statues: The Protest Bans That Quietly Came Into Force This Week bylinetimes.com/2026/07/01/m... @josiahmortimer.bsky.social

“We have to ask, how and why are companies in financial peril choosing to donate money they don’t have to a political party?” Byline Times report on a very interesting pattern: https://bit.ly/4xYMaCf

🔴 Ofcom Taken to Court After Clearing Talk TV’s ‘Torrent of Transphobia’ The regulator is accused of allowing the Murdoch-owned station to “serve as a megaphone for billionaires to spread toxic lies and amplify dangerous, far-right rhetoric” bylinetimes.com/2026/07/02/o...

Six in 10 Russian Billionaires Are Still Not Being Sanctioned by the UK Government A series of billionaires with ties to Britain remain untouched by the UK's supposedly tough sanctions regime, reports Molly Gordon and Iain Overton...

🔴 NEW: Ofcom Taken to Court After Clearing Talk TV’s ‘Torrent of Transphobia’ By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The regulator is accused of allowing the Murdoch-owned station to "serve as a megaphone for billionaires to spread toxic lies and amplify dangerous… Read the full story below.

Ofcom Taken to Court After Clearing Talk TV’s ‘Torrent of Transphobia’ The regulator is accused of allowing the Murdoch-owned station to "serve as a megaphone for billionaires to spread toxic lies and amplify dangerous, far-right rhetoric"...

🔎 From the archive: Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney Ignored Warnings About Peter Mandelson’s Epstein and Russia links — @adambienkov.bsky.social 🔁 Relevant again: Renewed concerns about Mandelson’s Russian Links

The Times (via Politico): "Christopher Harborne, who has given Reform £15 million and Nigel Farage personally £5 million, owns a jet fuel company that sources from refineries using large volumes of Russian crude oil."

📌 ICYMI @josiahmortimer.bsky.social New powers criminalise face coverings at demonstrations and ban protests outside politicians' homes

🟡 From Last Month’s Magazine: 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… Read the full story below.

A camel bathing in the lush, misty hills of Salalah, Oman, where the khareef monsoon turns the Arabian desert green every summer.

🔴 NEW: Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Won’t Stop With Antifa By Caroline Orr Bueno The sentences handed down to protestors at an immigration detention centre were all more severe than even the longest prison sentence given to any of the January 6 insurrectionists Read the full story below.

David Hencke’s family wanted us to tell you his funeral will be on thursday the 16th july at 1pm at Oak Hill Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium oakhill.welhat.gov.uk Followed by wake at 2pm at the Hatfield. Social Club Great North Road, Hatfield,Herts AL9 5ER Everyone is welcome

📌 ICYMI @josiahmortimer.bsky.social New powers criminalise face coverings at demonstrations and ban protests outside politicians' homes

🟡 From Last Month’s Magazine: ‘The Odyssey’ Backlash: A Journey Between Strangeness and Familiarity The ‘culture war’ around the casting choices of Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation of the Greek epic gets to the very themes Homer was writing about, writes… Read the full story below.

✒️ AGAINST THE ALGORITHM The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface Text has always been more a technology of control than true creativity, writes Peter Jukes You can now subscribe directly to individual Byline Times columnists. Read the full column below.

🔴 NEW: Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Won’t Stop With Antifa By Caroline Orr Bueno The sentences handed down to protestors at an immigration detention centre were all more severe than even the longest prison sentence given to any of the January 6 insurrectionists Read the full story below.

"Thatcherism swept away a huge amount of agency and ability for cities to fix themselves..." Is Manchesterism the antidote to Thatcherism? @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social hears from @tomforth.co.uk pod.fo/e/43d3f8

@rachelshabi.bsky.social writes a thoughtful and accurate article - in that you can support both Palestinians and British Jews - regarding antisemitism in this months @bylinetimes.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

"There's a long way to go for Manchester in terms of catching up with its equivalents in Europe..." Can Manchesterism reverse Thatcherism? @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social hears from @tomforth.co.uk 🎧 pod.fo/e/43d3f8 📺 youtu.be/96QKytEmeYw

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... Great Pod from @bylinetimes.bsky.social. Worth a listen just for the line: “He's a classic case like Mogg of a stupid person's idea of what an intelligent person is.”