Quiet Majority

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Progressive minds, united front. Left & centre voices for human rights, racial justice, climate action & standing strong against the far right and their misinformation. Solidarity in diversity.
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Makerfield By-Election Result: How Voters Rejected Nigel Farage’s Politics of ‘Pure Cold Rage’

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/19/makerfield-by-election-result-how-voters-rejected-nigel-farages-politics-of-pure-cold-rage/

Makerfield By-Election Result: How Voters Rejected Nigel Farage's Politics of 'Pure Cold Rage'

For the third time in a row Reform have sought to stoke division and violence on Britain's streets and been roundly rejected by voters as a result, reports Adam Bienkov

Byline Times

Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/09/reform-councillor-who-slammed-angela-rayner-on-tax-owed-hmrc-over-250000-through-failed-firms/

Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms

Wigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving taxpayers out of pocket himself

Byline Times

Deborah Frances-White: The far right riot with impunity. But what if women started burning rapists out of their homes?

The men who rush on to the streets to persecute immigrants in Belfast and beyond would be horrified by any act of feminist vigilantism or disorder, writes Deborah Frances-White

https://www.thenerve.news/p/deborah-frances-white-column-belfast-riots-far-right-immigrants-women-domestic-abuse

Deborah Frances-White: The far right riot with impunity. But what if women started burning rapists out of their homes?

The men who rush on to the streets to persecute immigrants in Belfast and beyond would be horrified by any act of feminist vigilantism or disorder, writes Deborah Frances-White

The Nerve

‘Literature is about digging, not putting on a show’: author Édouard Louis on writing as an act of working-class defiance

https://www.thenerve.news/p/christopher-harborne-investigation-nigel-farage-2019-election-deal-rupert-lowe-boris-johnson-donor

Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?

Part two of the Nerve’s investigation into Christopher Harborne’s influence on UK politics brings us to the 2019 election – which took the UK out of Europe while dumping 300 Brexit party candidates, leaving a wound on the far right still raw today. By Carole Cadwalladr and Lucia Osborne-Crowley

The Nerve

Covert Domestic Influence: How Trump’s White House is Using Disinformation Tactics Against US Citizens

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/15/covert-domestic-influence-how-trumps-white-house-is-using-disinformation-tactics-against-us-citizens/

Covert Domestic Influence: How Trump's White House is Using Disinformation Tactics Against US Citizens

Caroline Orr Bueno reports on leaked documents suggesting Trump's administration is engaged in an extraordinary abuse of power

Byline Times

How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts

Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/14/how-uk-economy-changed-since-brexit-vote-charts

How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts

Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU

The Guardian
Riots and racism: why is the UK burning?

Claims of two-tier policing and uncontrolled immigration may not be borne out by the facts, but that has not stopped them being played up for political ends

The Guardian
The position the UK now is in is driven by two big basic lies. The first is that the Equality Act was actually an act which excluded trans people from single-sex services and spaces aligned to their lived in gender but that the courts, Parliament or the EHRC, had somehow not noticed this until last year. The second lie is that trans people are always identifiable, and when they aren’t, they’re intentionally deceptive.

‘The Two Big Lies About Trans People at the Heart of the EHRC Codes of Practice’

The EHRC are increasingly struggling to justify their interpretation of the law on the rights of trans people, argues Helen Belcher

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/11/the-two-big-lies-about-trans-people-at-the-heart-of-the-ehrc-codes-of-practice/

'The Two Big Lies About Trans People at the Heart of the EHRC Codes of Practice'

The EHRC are increasingly struggling to justify their interpretation of the law on the rights of trans people, argues Helen Belcher

Byline Times