We've been able to do a deep dive into what drives conspiratorial beliefs in this article in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Starting tonight we have a week long run of cinema screenings of the film, The Conspiracists, with Q&As in London.
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"Trump could leave today and this doesn't change – because it became a community, and then it's people's identities"
My fascinating interview with @noellecook.com and Liz Smith on their film 'The Conspiracists' – following why women attracted to MAGA and 'conspirituality' believe what they do 👇
NEW: The importance of the human factor - and how to hold on to it in the age of AI, apps and tech.
@goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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"Loneliness is bad for the body politic… conspires to create the impression that the minds of others are frightening" Jay Griffiths
"Do we risk automating our search for love so much so that love will no longer be felt at all?" Iain Overton
New Byline Times print edition has gone to press 👇
📽️ Our Editor in Chief @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social will be hosting a Q&A with Noelle Cook and Liz Smith at the London premiere of their thought-provoking film 'The Conspiracists' – following the lives of women involved in the Jan 6 insurrection – at the Bertha Dochouse on 21 April.
Book your ticket:
Thrilled to be hosting the Q&A with Noelle Cook and Liz Smith at the London premiere of 'The Conspiracists' at the Bertha Dochouse on 21 April. A deep, thought-provoking, and very human piece of work I recommend watching – it will stay with you.
Join us – tickets here: dochouse.org/event/the-co...
“A few weeks before the Second World War, nobody thought we would go into a war that would kill between 60 and 85 million people in less than five years. That’s why authoritarians want you to forget history.”
"The picture of Orwell with his Indian nanny is the most violent image of the absurdity of racism. In that colonial relationship, the woman you despise, you give your most trusted being – it doesn't make sense"
Very insightful to speak to the acclaimed Raoul Peck about his new film, Orwell: 2+2=5 👇
Byline Times current issue
Look I'm not saying you need to drop everything and immediately go out and buy the @bylinetimes.bsky.social but...
Drop everything and do it.
"The cradle of civilisation is turned into a fireball wasteland to resemble the arid deserts our aggressors have in their own hearts and minds" – Kamin Mohammadi
"Trump is a master of chaos. It's where he finds meaning and strength" – Peter Jukes
The new Byline Times print edition out now 👇
Powerfully struck by @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social piece in this month’s @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Particularly the gathering-in of ideas around ‘hypernormalisation’. How we come over all passive re #Epstein & #Cummings.
Power. & lies.
Could be because she was speaking at a conference in the United States.
[Many others commenting in reply to my post about the reliability of the "Daily Mail" - it is reporting on a conference in America which Turness spoke at. It is not an interview with her]
Striking 👀
Ex-BBC News CEO: "I personally overruled internal editorial policy to give Nigel Farage primetime exposure... he ought to be on Question Time... to get a big Panorama interview. Even though the math didn't say he earned it... look at the polling. We will be out of step with the public."
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This week's topic: 'The Lure of Perfection'
The aesthetic rat race on social media takes a toll on us all. What do the cultivated vignettes of people's lives online do to our minds and our society? And how do people end up "looksmaxing" or on raw meat diets?
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www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
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Very useful look at the Greens - @adambienkov.bsky.social’s piece particularly - which may give clues as to why the party (whether you like them or not) has won its first UK by-election
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Odd: lots of talk in the media about how the press should be more critical of Royals and less collusive (a "conspiracy" says David Dimbleby). But no mention I've heard of Prince Harry's sustained critique of the relationship between the Palace and the tabloids which is a notable theme of Spare.
Even if we question what we are being told, we do not expect much to be done about it. So we either accept that or – increasingly – switch off from it altogether. We detach and protect. We allow the contempt that power wields to make us powerless – not only through the structures we must live in, but in our sense of ourselves.
I see so much of this—people shutting out politics because they feel helpless. The politicians are fine with that, because it lightens their responsibility, takes the spotlight off their weaknesses or criminal behavior.
Copy of March’s edition of Byline Times with Epstein story on the front cover and the words Darkness Visible in large letters.
Don’t think I’ve read an issue of @bylinetimes.bsky.social so quickly before! This is outstanding!
Do get a copy if you can. 👍
“Justice may yet be hard-won, but the modus operandi of contempt and powerlessness which the powerful rely on to sustain their corruptions has been exposed.”
Excellent and inspirational column from @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
Just landed on my door mat!
What a sagacious front page, Byline Times!
Well done!
Looking forward to some great insightful reads and a break from a forest project of lino cutting oak leaves 😊
This is why living in a country, however imperfect, where the rule of law matters, matters.
Front cover of Byline Times’ March 2026 edition with delivery envelope. Headline ‘Darkness Visible’ featuring in ‘Visible’ section images of Virginia Giuffre and family members, with images of Mandelson, Trump, Melania, Epstein, Andrew and Maxwell in ‘Darkness’.
Delivered today: March edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social - excellent, timely, and independent.
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"We only have the #EpsteinFiles because survivors kept speaking truth to power - power that has abused and corrupted..."
@peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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Popped through my door this morning.
Thank you @bylinetimes.bsky.social for investigating and reporting on what matters in our corrupt world 👏
I subscribed to get physical copies today. Looking forward to reading this
Thanks, as always, Margaret for reading and sharing.
We could organise one down the Duke of York.
Former public prosecutor Nazir Afzal on the speed at which the police have acted on Andrew's misconduct allegations compared to the Epstein trafficking allegations:
"When the state is the alleged victim, the state moves at pace. When women are the alleged victims, the state takes its time"