"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 👇
"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 👇
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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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.
🎟️ Linktr.ee/TheConspiracists
🔴 'I Hadn't Anticipated Developing Empathy for Them, But You Can See How the Conspirituality Belief System Also Serves as a Set of Coping Mechanisms'
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social speaks to Liz Smith and Noelle Cook about their new film shedding light on the women attracted to MAGA and conspiracy...
David Edgar's 1976 play 'Destiny' follows neofascist group Nation Forward in England, against the backdrop of worker struggles for pay and racial equality.
Then. Now. Still incredibly urgent. Join us May 3rd for an anniversary revival reading at The Cockpit.
👉 www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/david_e...
🟨 Print Edition — The Upside Down – Smart Moves
One of the things that grates about the obsessive media opinionising over artificial intelligence is the general lack of knowledge about our own actual human intelligence.
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📌 ICYMI — How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian Quinn Slobodian tells that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems to be optimised
"China is not a state of 'wokery' but they have built massive infrastructure in solar, wind and batteries..."
@nafeez.bsky.social argues Strait of Hormuz crisis should be 'fork in the road' for UK energy policy
@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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🟨 Print Edition — Finally, Big Tech is Being Put on Trial
Two recent verdicts finding social media companies liable for harms suffered by users have, for the first time…
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📽️ 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:
📌 ICYMI — How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian Quinn Slobodian tells that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems to be optimised
"Sadly more prescient and necessary than ever"
- Geoffrey Streatfeild (Royal Shakespeare Company)
"Uncomfortably familiar... the modern echoes are hard to ignore."
- Emma Manton (RSC, The Office UK) on her role in the upcoming reading
🟨 Print Edition — ‘Funnily Enough, What Matters to People is Other People’
Contrary to what big organisations in the sector say, housing is not the answer. It’s useful, but it’s not the answer.
Reform UK now says it is merely "looking into" Byline Times' revelations that one of its candidates authored a conspiracy theory article in a 9/11 Trutherb' journal.
It effectively claimed the COVID pandemic was a Pentagon-led scam. Bereaved families are furious.
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It doesn't take a forensic accountant to work out whose interests Nigel Farage really serves
Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic
is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?
The Evening Standard employed 364 journalists and staff when Lebedev bought it for £1 in 2009.
It now has 16
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...
"Sadly more prescient and necessary than ever"
- Geoffrey Streatfeild (Royal Shakespeare Company)
"Uncomfortably familiar... the modern echoes are hard to ignore."
- Emma Manton (RSC, The Office UK) on her role in the upcoming reading
David Edgar's 1976 play 'Destiny' follows neofascist group Nation Forward in England, against the backdrop of worker struggles for pay and racial equality.
Then. Now. Still incredibly urgent. Join us May 3rd for an anniversary revival reading at The Cockpit.
👉 www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/david_e...
🔴EXCLUSIVE: The Conservatives are standing a candidate who:
- Praised Tommy Robinson
- Said man who Robinson allegedly assaulted “deserved it”
- Said far-right MP Rupert Lowe is “the only MP fighting for us”
- Called Boris Johnson a “traitorous scumbag” who “will be jailed the second we take power”
🔴Conservatives Stand Tommy Robinson-Supporting Candidate Who Called Boris Johnson a ‘Traitorous Scumbag’
Nathan Smith said the former Conservative leader would be “jailed the second we take power” as he backed far-right Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe as “the only MP fighting for us”
"Beware Freaks Bearing Grifts"
🔴Conservatives Stand Tommy Robinson-Supporting Candidate Who Called Boris Johnson a ‘Traitorous Scumbag’
Nathan Smith said the former Conservative leader would be “jailed the second we take power” as he backed far-right Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe as “the only MP fighting for us”
Families who lost loved ones in the Covid pandemic have written to Nigel Farage, after a @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation revealed that one of the party’s local election candidates branded the coronavirus crisis a “staged event” and an “operation” led by the US military
Problems caused by closure of Strait of Hormuz are not a temporary blip - more a sign of things to come as we reach fossil fuel tipping point warns @nafeez.bsky.social
@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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This is definitely worth a read. In their last statement they talk about how we get out of this mess. These options need further consideration and discussion. They don’t all happen at once and people need a roadmap for what they can do to cast off Silicon Valley themselves
Seen quite a few people I highly respect recommend this.