Despite reporting 55% profit margins and over $1.6 billion in net income, Palantir maintains an effective global tax rate of just 1.4% and pays zero federal income tax in the United States.

Peter Thiel is an absolute cancer on the world. Our governments are buying into not only his far-right ideological bullshit, but also the software his company Palantir makes to commit genocide, destro...

The nightmare

Ban School Uniform in Pornographic Content

Written by the founder of Ruby’s Law: barrister Christina Warner of 33 Bedford Row.

Our streets should be safer for children to walk and wheel! Your local council has tools at its disposal to reduce congestion and pollution, and make it safer outside school gates. Ask them to take...

Paul Niland reports on another Russian war crime happening before our eyes in Ukraine

Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Keep Big Oil out of our skies

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The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

Stop Big Billionaires Buying British Politics

In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...

Surrounded by facilities in a town with fast planning applications and faster data links, local people say their quality of life is being ruined by strange and unsettling noise pollution. Brenna Spain...

How the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known.

Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will ​transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. The ...

It comes days after investigations found OpenAI models had accessed data on two US government websites and carried out an unsuccessful hack on a Department of Education site.

There are clear parallels between today’s AI debate and how the world tackled the threat from nuclear weapons.

The prime minister is expected to address the issue in his Labour conference speech, but the party is deeply divided

According to an Axios report, the incidents span both internal testing and real-world environments, with some involving attempts to bypass safeguards or operate beyond the boundaries set by developers...

The only ones who should have the power to say no to an independence referendum are the Members of the Scottish Parliament

Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson just got hired by a controversial US tech company seeking taxpayer-funded state

In Tunisia, imprisoned Palestinian rights activists are on the brink of death.

Stop Wychavon Town! Help oppose the destruction of Worcestershire countryside

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

The extreme right has learned to navigate Germany’s strict laws on extremist symbols

VPNs make it safer to use the Internet. Governments are trying to ban them. Sign to renew your commitment and tell world leaders: using the Internet safely and privately is a human right. Don’t ban VP...

I hope you’re having a restful and relaxing Sunday!

A week on the British right featuring Channel theatrics, arguments over Englishness and an increasingly crowded political firing squad.

Thanks to our subscribers we have been able to establish Byline Times as a truly independent news journal, outside the system and not afraid to say what the other papers don’t. We are now offering sub...

How a decade of freeport paperwork explains the resolution that gave Gaza away

Social media and digital storage are radically changing our concept of time and consciousness of death, writes Peter Jukes

We have a chance to elect our 6th MP - London's first Green MP, Zack Polanski! But we raise over £200k by 8 October. Will you help us?

Week 88

Adam Bienkov explores what the downfall of Reform senior advisor James Orr means for the future viability of the Nigel Farage project

On the squalid theatre, martial illusions, and ultimate cowardice of the British far right.

The supposedly independent panel has close ties to donors who financed the AI giants they have assessed, a Byline Times investigation has found

With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly, Robert Reich

📝 A guest essay...

The first part in our series exploring the dark world of misinformation that is coming into the mainstream

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 26 September 2026

Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two people briefed ​on the matter...

Remove Pink as a UNICEF Ambassador

The author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This talks to Ramita Navai about conflict, apathy, and the privilege of living ‘on the launching side of the missiles’

The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles.  The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say – s...

Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats

After winning control of Essex County Council, the party used public money to turn its rhetoric about asylum seekers into a visible security presence.

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.