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I used to look at their headlines and think "This seems good". This could be like the alternative liberal-left sites they have in America, like Vox and Slate. Then I saw them tweeting out "thousands spent on Priti Patel's eyebrows" bollocks and thought this isn't Vox or Slate.

Lately I've noticed them on HS2. Peter Juckes was embarrassingly exposed the other day, now more bollocks, where they've fallen hook line and sinker for the "devastating loss of tress bollocks", plus a totally made up cost and horseshit about the amount of carbon emitted in construction.

Anybody else look at them much?

I'm a bit late to this, but as of last month, Byline Times was still talking absolute bollocks about HS2.

Here, not only is its cost and environmental impact exaggerated, but it's framed as a project Johnson has to axe for the sake of climate change!

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/10/20/to-m ... -projects/

A blanket ban of road building doesn’t have much flesh on it. By passes can be a god send for urban dwellers faced with daily grid locks in their locality.

Yep.

Hereford is lacking a by-pass, and apart from a nice pedestrianized bit in the centre, a traffic choked nightmare.

Another great effort by Byline Times.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 8:43 pm Another great effort by Byline Times.

There's money in them there clicks.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 6:51 pm Yep.

Hereford is lacking a by-pass, and apart from a nice pedestrianized bit in the centre, a traffic choked nightmare.

It's impossible to get in, through or around Hereford and the surrounding area quickly. It's also the home of the most secretive regiment in the world.

It's also the home of the most secretive regiment in the world.

That you know about, watched Charlie Sheen lead a special ops unit “so secret we don’t exist.” To which a movie critic responded: “We wish, Charlie, we wish.”

Hereford is very handy for both Cheltenham and Hay on Wye, for the literary festivals.

Hereford isn’t that handy for Cheltenham.

Down to Ross on Wye, A40 to Gloucester, straight through to 'Nam.

On our roads? Ross to Monmouth is fast, not Ross to Gloucester or Hereford.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 8:43 pm Another great effort by Byline Times.

Ah, have I been unfair here? The tweet critical of them has been deleted.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 9:12 pm On our roads? Ross to Monmouth is fast, not Ross to Gloucester or Hereford.

They can use their Super Army Soldier skills to yomp across country.

Those skills are certainly useful on the Ledbury road to Bromyard.

Byline TV presenters say lots of stuff I agree with but it hasn’t warmed me to polemical current affairs punditry as it rarely tells you much you didn’t know.
This is an interesting piece if you’ve seen Sunak’s rising popularity in the Blue Wall and why Starmer isn’t prioritising these seats. Rishi rich maybe a somewhat Marmite character if only people in Amersham and Esher liked Marmite

Political editor of Byline Times here

davidjay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 9:53 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 6:51 pm Yep.

Hereford is lacking a by-pass, and apart from a nice pedestrianized bit in the centre, a traffic choked nightmare.

It's impossible to get in, through or around Hereford and the surrounding area quickly. It's also the home of the most secretive regiment in the world.

So secret that they simultaneously don't exist, have tabloid hacks wanking themselves blind about them, have a dedicated bookshelf in every railway / airport bookshop, and have several former "troopers" drinking at every flat-roofed pub in the country.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 11:53 pm Political editor of Byline Times here

He's got a point about the way Starmer's projecting himself differently, I think.

I think that's a different point from the "He said they're the real Tories" headlines.

I like Bienkov, was on to Johnson faster than most.

"Conservatives have abandoned the few attractive traits they once had. We're keeping them going." Sounds alright to me.