A Muslim midwife, Fatimah Mohamied, has undertaken legal proceedings against her former employers after being targeted by UK Lawyers for Israel. Fatimah worked as a Cultural Safety Lead Midwife for Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. However, once the trust was alerted to social ...
On 15 September, president Donald Trump announced a lawsuit which has the potential to drive several of his critics into bankruptcy: NEWS: Trump has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, a few of their writers, and Penguin Random House, seemingly because they published th...
Misogynoir is not just a cultural bias — it’s embedded in the UK’s institutions. Two recent scandals show this by systematically dismissing Black women’s pain and exploiting their labour. Misogynoir — a term coined by scholar Moya Bailey to describe the intersection of racism and misogyny ...
A hundred Climate Choir Movement members, including the Bristol Climate Choir, performed surprise flashmobs in St Pancras and King’s Cross stations to call on the government to reject the planned Rosebank oilfield. Stop Rosebank: ‘we don’t want your dirty oil no more’ The choir performed r...
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski spoke to the Canary recently. And he stressed that we need to: fundamentally change the relationship between wealth and power and the 99% in our society. And the first step to doing that, he said, is with a wealth tax. As Oxfam has explained: A wealth t...
The Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) new inflation figures are now out for August 2025. The banner headline is that inflation overall has held steady at 3.8%, far above the Bank of England’s 2% target. Food prices have also continued to spiral upwards ahead of that rate. Moreover, this...
For anyone needing personal care, there needs to be a high degree of trust. But what if that isn’t present? What if you are in a relationship and your partner rather than acting as a ‘carer’ is instead controlling, abusive, or neglectful? This is what disabled people face. Disabled people ...
We are in desperate need of remembering the UK’s rich history of social struggle. Fortunately, the Wigan Diggers Festival reminds us how this history holds the keys to improving our country today. Wigan Diggers Festival: bringing radical history into the present In celebration of the life ...
A new campaign has launched aimed at non-disabled people who think it’s appropriate to manhandle wheelchair users’ equipment. Journalist and campaigner Melissa Parker, who runs Disability Representation Diary, launched the Hands Off Our Handles campaign in response to the way she had been ...
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, there has been an escalation in recent days in the forced displacement of residents from Gaza City to the South, due to the Israeli occupation’s crimes, with approximately 190,000 people being compelled to leave their homes, because of the bombi...
