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...
Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been reunited with his family after being receiving a pardon. Alaa has been one of the most prominent political prisoners in Egypt, and activists have campaigned for his release for some time. In 2022, the Canary reported that Alaa’s family w...
There’s a lot of energy and excitement across Britain about the forthcoming creation of a new left-wing party. But many supporters would also like to see more unity and transparency, especially amid public differences of opinion in the interim leadership team. Your Party interim co-leader ...
Health secretary and, as the late Dawn Foster referred to him, “right wing lickspittle cunt” Wes Streeting has launched a transphobic diatribe. His comments confirm, were it ever in doubt, that Labour are committed to eliminating trans people from public life. Streeting spoke to Mumsnet fo...
Today, 24 September, a judge in the Soldier F trial ruled that he will allow ‘hearsay’ evidence from two other ex-soldiers. The prosecution characterised the new evidence “decisive” to the case. Soldier F is accused of the murders of William McKinney and Jim Wray on 30 January 1972, along ...
Two disabled people’s organisations have come together to take a stand against the latest way the government is performatively pretending to include disabled people in policy that affects us via its so-called DWP Disability Advisory Panel. The hot mess that is the DWP Disability Panel As t...
Anti-war campaigners plan to hold simultaneous protests in three countries this Sunday, 28 September, in protest against UK military operations in Cyprus collaborating in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. ‘Bases Off Cyprus’ The UK-US: Bases Off Cyprus campaign will hold demonstrations at: the Min...
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...
Italy’s defence minister Guido Crosetto has today strongly condemned last night’s Israeli attack, in international waters off the coast of Greece, on the volunteer humanitarian flotilla en route to deliver aid to Gaza. The latest in a string of bombings by the rogue state involved bombs dr...
Your Party, the new left-wing party still in formation, has (re-)opened its “official” membership scheme today, with a video from co-founder and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, in which he admits the leadership has ‘not covered ourselves in glory’: Your Party at it again At the time of...
