Byline Times #86: 'There's Still Time to Stop Your Trump'
Urgent warnings, cutting analysis, cultural insight and much more in our forthcoming edition.
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Rick Wilson is conservative to the bone – a former Republican strategist, he’s a card-carrying member of America’s old guard establishment right. He has a chilling sense of where Britain is headed today with the rise of Reform UK – because he’s seen this one before.
In the latest edition of Byline Times (now hitting the printers), The Lincoln Project co-founder and anti-Trump conservative offers an inside look at how democracies crumble. Tacticians of the right like himself, he admits, sought to “ride the tiger” of populism – only to find themselves consumed by it.
His warning in the latest Byline Times is clear: Farage is poised to drag Britain down the very same ‘MAGA’ path unless urgent action is taken.
Wilson’s cautionary tale from across the Atlantic comes in the aftershock of a political earthquake in last week’s local elections. As the tremors continue, this edition also assesses our precarious national footing – with analysis and reporting on Labour’s leadership crisis, Reform UK’s policy chief James Orr, and Britain’s new multi-party political battleground.
And better yet, you’ll get access to exclusive thought-provoking long reads – the sort you’d be hard pressed to find in any other newspaper:
Britain has spent 40 years building the opposite of resilience, Clive Lewis MP writes. A country that doesn’t work for its people cannot defend itself. Lewis argues that beyond the leadership horse race, Andy Burnham’s programme for reform understands acknowledges this truth about resilience.
Byline Times editor-in-chief Hardeep Matharu dives deep into the social structures underlaying ‘MAGA’ conspiracy theories in an interview with documentarian Liz Smith and author Noelle Cook. She explores how trauma, loneliness, and the collapse of trusted institutions drives people to abandon their shared reality.
Meanwhile, Jake Arnott explores what Trump and Achilles surprisingly have in common. He reads The Iliad as a 3,000-year-old psychodrama of toxic masculinity – and finds that the only thing more eternal than imperial folly is the fragile male ego that drives it.
Acclaimed playwright David Edgar reflects on the enduring relevance of his seminal political play Destiny, about neo-fascism in Britain – recently revived on stage in a special performance this month produced by Byline Times.
And James Bloodworth explores the future of Hungary’s embattled democracy in the wake of the recently ousted Orbán government – a state in which democracy has not been destroyed entirely, but rather enfeebled and hollowed out from within.
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