I hope it doesn’t come to fruition as it’s the students who will suffer. AoC and college leaders have shown over many years now how committed they are to improving pay and conditions, as far as their funding will allow. We know, as do the unions, that any campaigning and action really need...
Today, 1 December, PM Keir Starmer gave a speech at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, frantically defending Rachel Reeves’ recent autumn budget. At the same time, he was also forced to defend Reeves herself. The chancellor appears to have lied about the dire state of the UK’s finances in t...
Over 100 lawyers, including 24 King’s Council, have written an open letter to David Lammy to express “deep concern” in response to the Leveson Review of the criminal courts. Leveson proposed a Crown Court Bench Division (CCBD) and judge-only trials. The review formed the basis for Lammy’s ...
Last Sunday, 23 November, a Bedouin couple were found murdered in the city of Homs, in Syria. The two were part of the Sunni Bani Khaled tribe. Behind them, sectarian slogans had been daubed on a wall. The killings threatened to ignite a new wave of sectarian violence in Syria’s third-larg...
Labour has now dropped the guarantee of day-one unfair dismissal protections from its Workers’ Rights Bill. The weakening of the Bill is a clear breach of Labour’s manifesto pledges, which vowed ‘day one’ protection against unfair dismissal. The move, announced 27 November, instead lowers ...
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and a gaggle of other transphobes in parliament are now calling for a halt of the Pathways puberty blocker trial. The trial was called for by the Cass Review, itself widely criticised by the medical community for its massive level of bias. Likewise, the leadership...
Following yesterday’s Autumn Budget, the UK government has confirmed rumours that it will grant companies permission to pump the North Sea dry of its remaining oil and gas. Back in September, the Canary reported that energy secretary Ed Miliband was looking for loopholes to enable the UK t...
A new report by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) found that Home Office staff routinely misused force against vulnerable migrants in detention. Entitled, By Force of Habit, its findings draw attention to how immigration detention has lost sight of necessity and dignity in its use of ...
The autumn budget is now out, which means that policy wonks and journos will be scrambling to find something pithy to say in an incredibly boring 150-page document. We here at the Canary are no different, though ours usually has a bit more swearing. See here for HG’s take on the housing bu...
It’s almost December, which means it’s time for a bunch of racist shitheads to start getting mad about Jesus and his family being depicted accurately. Because, you know, they were brown. As are most people born in Bethlehem, which now lies squarely within the West Bank, Palestine, about si...