At the beginning of September, deputy PM and housing minister Angela Rayner had to resign after it emerged she’d underpaid stamp duty. Keir Starmer’s government has experienced several major scandals since then, with the latest revolving around the prime minister himself: Our story is link...
The UK’s obsession with flags continued on 25 September, when a Question Time audience member asked if it’s ‘patriotic’ to hoist Union Jacks upside down. In response, 80’s folk singer Billy Bragg accused Reform deputy leader Richard Tice of displaying his pin upside down: Billy Bragg point...
Steve Reed (secretary of state for housing, communities and local government) has spoken out on a proposed World Cup ban for Israel. Unfortunately for Reed, his stance on the matter was quickly exposed as hypocritical, with one key critic being 2022-era Steve Reed: Steve Reed opposes banni...
In the 10 years in which the Canary has operated, there has never been any issue on which the British left, right, and centre have been in total agreement. Even during the pandemic, elements of the right saw fit to oppose life-saving vaccines so as not to seem woke. That’s why it’s interes...
On 29 January 2025, David Lammy met with the Board of Deputies of British Jews in his then-role as foreign secretary. The purpose of the meeting was: to understand the sentiment in the UK Jewish community in relation to the FCDO’s policy to the conflict in Israel/Gaza. This is a perfectly ...
It’s rumoured that Andy Burnham is planning to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership. While Burnham hasn’t announced anything official, he has discussed his ‘plan for Britain’, and now Labour’s Clive Lewis has hinted he’d support such a plan. Andy Burnham hard launches his philo...
Laurence Fox is having a spat with Free Speech Union because they won’t support his legal defence. If you don’t know what that is, the union describes itself as a “non-partisan, not-for-profit membership organisation that stands up for people whose right to freedom of expression has been v...
This week, we got an idea of how Reform would govern if they got in power. Not by following through on their promises, but by going along with whatever nonsense comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth: When asked whether Trump was right about the link between Paracetamol and autism, Nigel Farage...
On Monday 22 September, we reported that a Reform councillor suggested he should get a pay bump. While we supported the idea of fairer compensation, we questioned if Reform are best placed to make this argument. After all, Reform are running on a platform of hardcore cuts to government spe...
In July 2025, Lauren Southern accused Andrew Tate of raping her. Following the accusation, Tommy Robinson attempted to discredit Southern’s accusations. Now, Southern has returned to dispute Robinson’s defence: A bit of free speech and speaking truth to power for you all this morning x htt...