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2 weeks ago | 
bylinesupplement.com | Stephen Colegrave
In just four weeks’ time, Byline Times readers and friends will be gathering at Byline Festival at Keele University to discuss, laugh, dance, inspire and be inspired. And who knows, they might even do their bit to change the world. The eighth Byline Festival is shaping up to be one of our most thought-provoking and fun yet. Not a conference, nor a literary, music or comedy festival, it is a vibrant weekend brimming with ideas, creativity, insights, and good will.
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1 month 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.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
bylinesupplement.com | Stephen Colegrave
Returning to the gorgeous surroundings of Dartington Hall, near Totnes in South Devon, this year’s Byline Festival is happening at the very birthplace of the 1945 Labour manifesto at a similarly critical time for politics in Britain. Byline Festival originally started in 2017 – the year that Trump was inaugurated as president and a year after the EU Referendum, when the world felt unstable – as a way to bring people together to discuss issues, share ideas and also to laugh and dance.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
open.substack.com | Byline Supplement |Stephen Colegrave
Discover more from Byline SupplementExclusive weekend investigations and more extended features from the whole Byline team, with weekday forums taking you behind the headlines and building a community based on truthOver 30,000 subscribers For most of us, Christmas is a day off from the real world – a time for food and family, goodwill and calm. Having said that, Christmases past have played host to a surprising number of events, good and bad. But how many of them have you even heard of?
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
bylinesupplement.com | Stephen Colegrave
For most of us, Christmas is a day off from the real world – a time for food and family, goodwill and calm. Having said that, Christmases past have played host to a surprising number of events, good and bad. But how many of them have you even heard of? To find out, let’s take a look back at some of the most famous – or infamous – events that have happened on Christmas Day.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
bylinesupplement.com | Stephen Colegrave
From the current print edition of Byline Times.Subscribe here. SC: It’s five years since you co-founded XR. What has its main impact been? GB: Prior to setting up XR in 2018, climate change was not a top issue for the general public. But now figures from the Office for National Statistics show 75% of the public is ‘worried about climate change’. Of course we were not alone – Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough, Mark Carney and Jem Bendell all made important interventions.
