Adam Bienkov

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Political Editor of Byline Times. Editor of Folded. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons.

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🔴Trump’s Running Mate JD Vance Says UK is an ‘Islamist Country’ and he Wants US to Abandon Ukraine Trump’s selection of an anti-Ukrainian, anti-British politician means the UK must now urgently look to Europe for our security bylinetimes.com/2024/07/16/d...

Trump’s Running Mate JD Vance Says UK is an 'Islamist Country' and he Wants US to Abandon Ukrainebylinetimes.com Donal Trump's Running Mate JD Vance says UK an "Islamist Country" and Wants to End all aid to Ukraine

🔴Keir Starmer and the Beat-Sweeteners With a new Government comes new opportunities for political journalists to ingratiate themselves with the new regime www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/keir-starm...

Keir Starmer and the Beat-Sweetenerswww.adambienkov.co.uk With a new Government comes new opportunities for political journalists to ingratiate themselves with the new regime

EXCLUSIVE: The Information Commissioners Office has written to the Conservatives to remind them "of the need to comply with the law" after they sent out thousands of fake driving charge notices designed to trick voters into handing over their personal data bylinetimes.com/2024/07/12/c...

Conservative Party ‘Reminded of the Need to Comply with the Law’ After Sending Fake Sadiq Khan ‘Driving Charge’ Noticesbylinetimes.com Conservative Party Rebuked by Information Commissioner's Office Over Fake 'Driving Charge' Notices About Sadiq Khan

Anyone thinking the Conservatives have a good chance of winning the next election should spend five minutes listening to some of the speakers at the 'Popular Conservatism' conference Heads so firmly buried in sand you'd need a fleet of JCB diggers to recover them bylinetimes.com/2024/07/10/p...

Suella Braverman tells the 'Popular Conservatism' conference that the real reason the Conservative party just suffered their worst ever election defeat is because they failed to tackle "the lunatic woke virus working its way through the British state" bylinetimes.com/2024/07/10/p...

🔴After the Wipeout Comes the Cope and the Hope As Conservative politicians seek to downplay their defeat, there are real reasons to be hopeful about what a Labour Government will now bring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/after-the-...

After the Wipeout Comes the Cope and the Hopewww.adambienkov.co.uk As Conservative politicians seek to downplay their defeat, there are real reasons to be hopeful about what a Labour Government will now bring

As Labour heads into Government large parts of the British press are suddenly starting to notice things they have spent the past 14 years carefully ignoring bylinetimes.com/2024/07/02/k...

'The Great Noticing': What the Reaction to Keir Starmer’s Friday Night Dinners Tells us About the Hypocrisy of the Conservative Pressbylinetimes.com Keir Starmer's friday night family time commitment has triggered a festival of hypocrisy among Conservative-supporting newspapers

Sticking my neck out a bit, but here are my predictions for what we can expect to wake up to on Friday morning... www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/my-predict...

My Predictions for the Result of the 2024 General Electionwww.adambienkov.co.uk Next week's elections look set to deliver the most extraordinary series of results ever seen in our lifetimes

The Conservative party, which is led by a man pledging to restore "integrity" and "accountability" to public life, is currently pushing hundreds of adverts lying about Labour's plans, while rebranding as independent fact-checkers in order to mislead voters bylinetimes.com/2024/06/27/c...

Conservative Party Blitzes Facebook with Hundreds of ‘Desperate’ Campaign Adverts Falsely Claiming Labour Plans to Hit Drivers With a ‘National ULEZ'bylinetimes.com Conservative Party Facebook adverts falsely claim Labour is planning national road charging as CCHQ rebrand as independent fact-checkers

The Conservatives claimed yesterday that a mysterious website design service handed £100,000 in taxpayer cash by its MPs is "independent" from the party However, I've now obtained records showing its company address is a property owned by a Tory staffer bylinetimes.com/2024/06/24/c...

The Conservatives Claim a Website Design Firm They Handed £100,000 in Taxpayer Cash is ‘Independent’ but it’s Listed at an Address Owned by a CCHQ Stafferbylinetimes.com Records seen by Byline Times throw doubt on the party's claims about the tech firm employed by Conservative MPs

Why all the Conservative warnings about a Labour "supermajority" are failing to cut through. Exclusive new polling finds that even among current Conservative voters, many believe a wipeout for Rishi Sunak's party would actually be a "positive" result bylinetimes.com/2024/06/21/c...

The Conservative Voters Secretly Hoping for a 'Wipeout' of Rishi Sunak's Partybylinetimes.com General election poll: Even Conservative supporters want wipeout for Rishi Sunak's party with most voters relaxed about Labour 'supermajority'

The truth is that the Conservative election betting scandal is just the tip of the iceberg from a party which has treated its time in Government as the ‘gift that keeps on giving’ How the Conservative 'Spivocracy' has cashed in over the past 14 years bylinetimes.com/2024/06/21/e...

‘Elections are a Chance to Make Money’: How the Conservative Spivocracy Cashed inbylinetimes.com Conservative Election Betting Scandal: Rishi Sunak's Party and its Donors have made huge sums from their time in Government

As a new report finds the two child benefit cap is set to push hundreds of thousands more children into poverty, Keir Starmer tells LBC there's "no money" to scrap it. Here's why Labour's commitment to Osborne's pro-poverty measure is now indefensible bylinetimes.com/2024/06/18/k...

'Keir Starmer's Defence of the Two Child Benefit Cap is Indefensible'bylinetimes.com Keir Starmer Defends Two Child Benefit Cap, Committing Hundreds of Thousands More Children Across UK to Poverty

The trouble with feeding buns to crocodiles is that eventually you run out of buns and the crocodile eats you instead. How Rishi Sunak's feeding of the Faragist crocodile went so badly wrong www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/feeding-th...

Feeding the Crocodile: How the Rise of Faragism Now Threatens us allwww.adambienkov.co.uk The poisonous form of politics represented by the Reform Party leader is now seeping into our broader political water supply

EXCLUSIVE: GB News Host Darren Grimes accused of pushing "far-right tropes of a Muslim takeover" after posting series of AI-generated images of Keir Starmer in Islamic dress alongside Muslim women Muslim groups accuse station of a pattern of Islamophobia bylinetimes.com/2024/06/14/g...

GB News Presenter Darren Grimes ‘Playing Into Far-Right Tropes of a Muslim Takeover’bylinetimes.com GB News Presenter Darren Grimes posts 'far right' memes of Labour leader Keir Starmer wearing Islamic dress alongside Muslim women

"If Labour win this time, they'll change the rules so they're in power for a very long time," says Rishi Sunak, whose government has - Rejigged electoral systems - Introduced Voter ID - Raised election spending limits - Extended voting overseas bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/r...

How Rishi Sunak ‘Changed the Rules’ to Keep the Conservative Party in Powerbylinetimes.com The Prime Minister accused Keir Starmer of wanting to "change the rules so they're in power for a very long time", despite the Conservatives making a long list of changes to elections designed to keep...

Is this the end of the Conservative party? www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/is-this-th...

Is this the end of the Conservative Party?www.adambienkov.co.uk Could the unthinkable be about to happen to the UK's longest-lasting election-winning machine?

So to summarise, Rishi Sunak, who wants to force young people to spend an entire year of their lives serving their country, wouldn’t even devote one afternoon to it himself bylinetimes.com/2024/06/07/r...

Rishi Sunak’s D-Day Dodging Shows he has Abandoned his National Servicebylinetimes.com Rishi Sunak Abandoning D-Day Commemorations in order to do General Election Campaign Television Interview Shows Terrible Judgement

All the Conservative-supporting newspapers today lead on a false claim about Labour's tax plans that has already been repeatedly debunked by independent fact checkers. bylinetimes.com/2024/06/05/l...

Leaders Debate: Rishi Sunak Desperately Tries to Save Failing Campaign With Vote Leave Style Tax Liebylinetimes.com ITV Leaders General Election Debate: Rishi Sunak Pushes £2000 tax lie against Keir Starmer and Labour Party

🔴In Search of the ‘Good Tory’ The reaction to the downfall of Iain Dale's short-lived political career tells us a lot about how politics and media really works in the UK www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/in-search-...

In Search of the ‘Good Tory’www.adambienkov.co.uk The reaction to the downfall of Iain Dale's short-lived political career tells us a lot about how politics and media really works in the UK

It's only day one of the general election and already the Conservative Party is running a deeply dishonest and dirty campaign to keep Rishi Sunak in Downing Street www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/faking-it

Faking Itwww.adambienkov.co.uk It's only day one of the general election and already the Conservative Party is running a deeply dishonest and dirty campaign to keep Rishi Sunak in Downing Street

Rishi Sunak said this morning that no Rwanda flights will take off before the General Election With a Labour victory now overwhelmingly likely, that means the Government’s “dream” of sending refugees to the brutal Rwandan dictatorship looks all but over bylinetimes.com/2024/05/23/r...

Rishi Sunak Says no Rwanda Flights Will Take Off Before General Election - Spelling Likely Death of Toxic Schemebylinetimes.com Rwanda scheme: Rishi Sunak says no flights will take off before general election, spelling likely death of plans

🔴Not Waving, but Drowning Rishi Sunak's low-energy general election announcement gave all the impression of a man who already knows he's beaten www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/not-waving...

Not Waving, but Drowningwww.adambienkov.co.uk Rishi Sunak's low-energy general election announcement gave all the impression of a man who already knows he's beaten

When I first suggested to Boris Johnson that his Voter ID law was an attempt at voter suppression he dismissed it as "nonsense". Now one of the Government's own ministers has finally given the game away bylinetimes.com/2024/05/22/l...

Stop the Student Votes: Leaked Memo Exposes the Real Purpose of Voter IDbylinetimes.com Voter ID: Leaked Johnny Mercer memo suggests law was designed to stop students from voting and 'gerrymander' elections for Conservatives

🔴Rishi Sunak's Plans to Kill Off the Right to Protest Today was a landmark moment in the fight for our basic democratic rights and against new restrictions which should alarm us all www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/rishi-suna...

Rishi Sunak's Plans to Kill Off the Right to Protestwww.adambienkov.co.uk Today was a landmark moment in the fight for our basic democratic rights and against new restrictions which should alarm us all

The Government has just published a report demanding draconian new anti-protest powers, specifically to protect defence and energy companies, while failing to mention its author's role as a paid lobbyist for... arms and fossil fuel industry groups bylinetimes.com/2024/05/21/s...

Sunak's 'Anti-Extremism' Adviser Demands Protest Bans to Protect Defence and Energy Firms While Working as Lobbyist for Arms and Fossil Fuel Industry Groupsbylinetimes.com Lord Walney's proposals would impose an effective ban on certain protest groups while handing police forces the power to outlaw regular Gaza protests

BREAKING: Sunak's 'anti extremism' adviser Lord Walney has just published his report on "Protecting Democracy from Coercion" It calls for a ban on protest groups organising or raising money if they cause "serious disruption... [in order] to influence government or public debate"

'Huge Victory for Democracy’ as Rishi Sunak’s Protest Crackdown Found Unlawful by High Court The Home Office unlawfully gave police powers to intervene against protests where no serious disruption was taking place, the court ruled bylinetimes.com/2024/05/21/r...

‘Huge Victory for Democracy’ as Rishi Sunak’s Protest Crackdown Found Unlawful by High Courtbylinetimes.com High Court finds Rishi Sunak's anti-protest laws were unlawful with Home Office putting protesters at unfair risk of prosecution

BREAKING: The High Court rules that the Government's anti-protest legislation is unlawful, in a major victory for campaigners Liberty The Court found Suella Braverman had lowered the threshold for police to intervene to even cover protests with 'normal' levels of disruption.

The Government promised Brexit would give us the "world's most effective border" A new report finds: - Brexit border checks will cost £4.7 billion - They add £7.5 billion a year to business costs - Hundreds of millions were wasted on facilities that were never used bylinetimes.com/2024/05/20/b...

The Billions Wasted on Brexit Border Controls to Make British Businesses Worse Offbylinetimes.com Brexit Border Controls: Billions Wasted on Making British Businesses Worse Off, Huge New Costs Imposed on Firms