Stephen Colegrave

3 weeks ago | bylinesupplement.com | Stephen Colegrave

When we set up Byline Festival in 2017, times were dark. The country had voted for Brexit, Trump had started his first term, made truth relative and coined the term“Fake News”. Like today, the world seemed a frightening place. Into this dark came a festival, bringing together thousands of people who discovered they weren’t alone and wanted to seek truth and defend democracy. Over the ensuing eight years and eight festivals, Byline Festival has become a beacon of light.

2 months ago | bylinesupplement.com | Byline Supplement |Stephen Colegrave

The Mob has been part of America since the nineteenth century when the earliest recorded accounts of Sicilian Mafia activity emerged in New Orleans, the city where the Matranga crime family began their racketeering and extortion, branching out into drugs, gambling and prostitution in the 1860s. Meanwhile in New York, the Italian ghetto gave rise to similar criminal gangs which spread throughout the city.

Sep 4, 2024 | bylinesupplement.com | Stephen Colegrave

More than a thousand first time Guerilla Gardeners around the world are expected to take up a 28-day guerilla gardening challenge launched by the charity Earthed – today. The challenge aims to help them create their own guerilla gardens on discarded, abandoned, or unloved and under-utilised patches of land, bringing life, greenery, food, pleasure, and beauty where before there was none to make their own powerful statement to green the streets.

Jul 3, 2024 | open.substack.com | Byline Supplement |Heidi Siegmund Cuda |John Ashton |Stephen Colegrave

Byline TV is launching its election coverage from Byline Festival at Dartington Hall from 9.30pm on election night, just in time to catch the exit polls. The Byline Times team of Hardeep Matharu, Peter Jukes, Adam Bienkov and Josiah Mortimer will be broadcasting from the glorious medieval Great Hall with a range of special guests. It is appropriate that Byline TV’s first election night broadcast is from Dartington, where the early drafts of the 1945 Labour manifesto were drawn up.

Jul 3, 2024 | bylinesupplement.com | Stephen Colegrave

Byline TV is launching its election coverage from Byline Festival at Dartington Hall from 9.30pm on election night, just in time to catch the exit polls. The Byline Times team of Hardeep Matharu, Peter Jukes, Adam Bienkov and Josiah Mortimer will be broadcasting from the glorious medieval Great Hall with a range of special guests. It is appropriate that Byline TV’s first election night broadcast is from Dartington, where the early drafts of the 1945 Labour manifesto were drawn up.