The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has quietly shut down its sole inbox that disabled people can use to lodge a complaint about discrimination within the government’s Access to Work scheme. It comes amid broader largely clandestine moves to restrict eligibility to support under the...
Canary journalist Alaa Shamali is trying to get his family – of five children – safely out of Gaza, but needs your help to make it happen. Palestinian journalist Alaa Shamali has written unflinchingly on the countless heinous atrocities Israel has perpetrated in Gaza. A little more than a ...
Protesters across the UK are gearing up to stand in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Overnight, Israel has kidnapped nearly 500 pro-Palestine activists aboard the fleet sailing in international waters. Updates on the Global Sumud Flotilla now show that Israel has likely illegally...
The Scottish Green Party has secured a win for renters in Scotland, after Holyrood passed a bill that will reintroduce a system of rent controls across devolved nation. Scotland is in with the rent controls, out with the lobbyist landlords On Tuesday 30 September, Scottish parliament passe...
The day the Labour Party’s conference wraps up, energy firms will hike the public’s bills again. So, campaign group Fuel Poverty Action will be taking a stand. As delegates leave the event, it will rally outside the Wheel of Liverpool to tell them the government can’t leave citizens in the...
On Friday 19 September, groups standing in solidarity with the Congolese people against blood minerals, human rights abuses, and genocide will bring dissent and disruption to Apple’s front door. Coinciding with the company’s release day for the new iPhone 17, Stand For Congo UK, Friends of...
While it was smooth-sailing for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill through the House of Commons, peers are now scrutinising the controversial legislation in the way elected members of parliament utterly failed to do. On 11 September, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitutio...
The Labour Party government’s war on chronically ill and disabled people is only just getting started. After the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rammed through its brutal cuts to Universal Credit, and backlash forced it to shelve its plans to slash access to Personal Independence Pa...
Mainstream media has been abuzz with the news of five “Hollywood luminaries” throwing their support behind the upcoming film The Voice of Hind Rajab. Brad Pitt, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jonathan Glazer have joined the film as executive producers after previewing a ...
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new political party – Your Party – is finally gearing up to ditch its placeholder name. It has now opened up the floor for supporters to put forward their best ideas for the party’s new title. At last, the public will see the back of the interim ‘Your Part...