The Citizens & Carole Cadwalladr at Byline Festival

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The Byline Festival is one of the most exciting events happening in the UK this summer.

The 2025 Festival theme - Defending Truth and Democracy - has never been more important and urgent.

Check the programme here.

On Saturday, 12 July at 3:45pm Carole will give a keynote interview with Bylines' Founding Editor Hardeep Matharu on the thorny and painful (for journalists at least) question, Does Journalism Change Anything?

She will then join the panel Women On The Frontline Of The Information War. Finally, also on Saturday, with Peter Jukes, Christopher Steele and Sergei Cristo, she will be answering questions about Russian interference in British politics at their talk on The Westminster Spy Ring, inspired by the chart-topping podcast produced by The Citizens and Project Citizens.

On Sunday, 13 July, at 12:30 pm, Clara Maguire and Manasa Narayanan from Team Citizens will be hosting a panel discussion on Big Tech & Labour: Is Starmer Letting the Fox Guard the Hen House?

Labour’s growth agenda dominates the headlines - from trade deals to AI data centres meant to make us “hospitable to innovation”... But is this code for a handover of power to BigTech? From public sector contracts with Palantir, the proposed slashing of the Digital Services tax to deepen the US / UK Tech Pact, to taking our own axe to civil service in favour of automation - are we too closely following behind the US into an unholy alliance of State & Tech power - and what can we do about it?

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