Renter’s union Acorn have taken over a bailiff’s conference in Leeds. HA! This is good because fuck bailiffs… and landlords… and anyone who defends them on this mad island where it costs about £7,000 to rent a tubercular box room in Middlesbrough. Okay it might not be that bad, but it will...
Paul Holden’s upcoming book The Fraud promises to expose “Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy”. As part of its release, the Canary has serialised the opening chapters, which you can read here and here. Revelations from the book have also been published via I...
Crowds of protestors are set to gather outside a Durham detention centre in “a powerful display of solidarity with migrant communities”. It will demand a new approach to migration and end what campaigners call the “traumatic, unnecessary and expensive” practice of immigration detention. Th...
US president Donald Trump may supply long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine in a move which could tip the world closer to nuclear escalation. Trump will meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on 17 October to discuss potential new weapons transfers. Reuters reported on 13 October: Ze...
Nigel Farage and the Reform Party have found themselves in hot water recently after one of their politicians was found guilty of accepting bribes from Russia. Or they would have done if the media had gone all in, anyway; really, the water has been tepid and shallow on most fronts. Thankful...
Rahmeh Aladwan is a British-Palestinian doctor in the NHS. She has been “withstanding a two-year long coordinated assault campaign by the UK ‘Israel’ lobby for standing against the Holocaust in Palestine”. And on 13 October, she said: The death threats are worse than ever. I have had to ca...
MI5 head Sir David McCallum issued a stern warning Monday 13 October. New advice from the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) said politicians and staff should be wary of foreign interference in democracy. We have two words for McCallum: Morgan McSweeney. MI5: say what? The guida...
Before I start this article, I would like to preface that I had never even been to Hulme before, let alone to The World Transformed, and I went in thinking it would be the same as many Labour-supportive events I’ve attended before. Being the first year the festival had split its affiliatio...
The Labour Party government has championed Greater Anglia rail operator coming under public ownership as its contract expired on 12 October. But in doing so, it exposed itself over every other privately-run public service. Greater Anglia: the litmus test Transport minister Heidi Alexander ...
The following article is a guest piece for Skwawkbox from David Powell aka @europeanpowell. He is an artist/activist raising awareness about the duopoly’s post-Brexit corporate takeover of the UK via SEZs, Freeports, and AI Growth Zones. You can read more of his work for the Canary here. W...
