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Restore Britain candidate helped lead biased grooming gangs inquiry

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Restore Britain candidate helped lead biased grooming gangs inquiry

The leader of Restore Britain has announced its candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoral elections: Marlon West, whose daughter is a victim of group-based child sexual exploitation. However, CSE survivor, Femi Mohammed, says West is one of the people who deliberately excluded her from Lowe’s intensely biased ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’. The goal? To reinforce the misinformation that only Pakistani Muslim men prey on white British girls. Restore Britain: Who is Marlon West? On 22 June, Rupert Lowe posted that he was “delighted” about the announcement. West is one of the most prominent campaigners against the rape gangs in the country…

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UK officials chose cosying up to oppressor UAE over preventing mass murder in Sudan

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UK officials chose cosying up to oppressor UAE over preventing mass murder in Sudan

The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) now face serious questions after being proven to be politically captured, yet again, by an oppressive state funding mass-murder, this time at the hands of the Rapid Sudan Forces (RSF). Afraid of upsetting foreign tyrants, thus choosing to ignore warnings about the mass slaughter of Sudanese civilians in el-Fasher. Instead, human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond has claimed that the FCDO instead prioritised cosying up to the UAE out of fear it would upset existing ‘good relations’. Founding director of the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale School of Public Health, Raymond, provided damning testimony…

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Reform has the gall to call out another party’s voting record

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Reform has the gall to call out another party’s voting record

As we’ve covered, Reform UK politicians have a terrible record for showing up to work. Despite this, Reform’s chairperson, Lee Anderson, had the brass neck to say the following: A Tale of Two Priorities. The first picture is from last night's debate on the British Coal Superannuation Pension Scheme, which shows a lack of interest from the majority of Labour MPs. The second picture was taken a few hours earlier. Makes you wonder doesn't it? Vote… pic.twitter.com/EtPEjKTbfU — Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) June 23, 2026 Reform has some gall First, let’s look at the record of the Reform MPs who entered…

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Why kids need (and hate) social media

Why kids need (and hate) social media

Earlier this month, the UK parliament passed a law targeting children and teenagers’ social media use instead of the true root of the issue. The social media ban for under 16s is not just another example of our government virtue signaling in an attempt to save face. It is also an example of its inability to address the fundamental flaws in the society it is forcing the next generation of young people to grow up in. Social media ban: Why teens hate (and support) it The social media ban, which will come into force in early 2027, is modelled off the…

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Inside Labour Together’s secret battle against Jeremy Corbyn

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Inside Labour Together’s secret battle against Jeremy Corbyn

Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party. The documents were disclosed to Corbyn in response to a subject access request. They contain emails from Labour Together’s two key figures Morgan McSweeney and Josh Simons. McSweeney went on to be Keir Starmer’s chief of staff while Simons became a cabinet minister until he resigned following revelations that he had hired a reputation management firm to “proactively undermine” journalistic investigations into Labour Together, McSweeney and Sir Keir Starmer.  Simons subsequently vacated his Makerfield constituency seat for Andy…

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US Democratic primaries oust warmongers as Mamdani criticises Israel lobby

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US Democratic primaries oust warmongers as Mamdani criticises Israel lobby

Democratic primary results on 23 June saw victories for Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier; Zohran Mamdani endorsed all of them in the New York City Democratic primaries. And, he made a point of criticising those in the race who took money from American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  Dan Goldman was defeated by Lander. Goldman, an heir to the Levi Strauss denim fortune, was endorsed by AIPAC. Palestine has become a litmus test in Democratic primaries, Rania Khalek, a Lebanese-American journalist, said, as Democratic voters punished incumbents who took money from AIPAC Palestine has become a litmus test in…

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Farage accused of deception over expenses claim

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Farage accused of deception over expenses claim

Nigel Farage had an absolute nightmare on 23 June. After weeks of ducking the media, he returned to TV studios to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Brexit. The consequence of this was that everyone got to see why Farage has been avoiding journalists – namely because they’d ask about the ‘£5m gift’ scandal. While most of the attention has been on Farage’s inability to provide a good answer to this, there was another response that has drawn criticism. It’s a response that HSBC whistleblower ‘Mr Ethical’ has made everyone aware of: Farage claimed in interviews today that he claimed 0 in…

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Human rights abuses linked to transition mineral mining surge by 111% in just one year

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Human rights abuses linked to transition mineral mining surge by 111% in just one year

The Canary has reported previously on the Business and Human Rights Centre’s Transition Minerals Tracker. And now the latest report reveals a dramatic and accelerating human rights crisis at the mines supplying the global transition to clean energy. The figures for 2025 show a staggering 111% overall increase. There were 329 allegations of abuse linked to transition mineral mining operations worldwide, up from 156 the previous year. The latest report examined more mines than the previous year. Across mines also appearing in the 2025 report, there were 270 allegations, an increase of 73%. It’s the only research of its kind. And…

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Jewish group condemns limp reaction to Muslim stabbing attack

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Jewish group condemns limp reaction to Muslim stabbing attack

The Jewish Voice for Liberation (JVL) group has issued a statement of solidarity with British Muslims after the white hate knife attack on Muslims in Edinburgh. At the same time, it has condemned the gross disparity in the mealy-mouthed reaction of the British political and media establishment to the attack. In contrast, this reaction differs from the recent attack on two Jewish men. Furthermore, the reaction also differs from the reaction to an almost-unmentioned Muslim man. JVL statement No ‘COBRA’ meeting, no ministerial visits, no special policing arrangements or funding. JVL concludes that the government and media value Muslim lives far…

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Plaid Cymru, SNP mark 10 years of Brexit with pro-EU messages

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Plaid Cymru, SNP mark 10 years of Brexit with pro-EU messages

Welsh sovereigntist party Plaid Cymru has marked 10 years since Britain voted to leave the European Union with an urge to strengthen ties between the British island and the European continent. Now the nation’s governing party for the first time in its Senedd history, Plaid Cymru staked its pro-EU leanings on the significant anniversary of the fateful 23 June 2016 Brexit vote. Plaid Cymru’s official account posted on X: 10 years since Brexit – but what was it all for? The video features a number of Plaid Cymru politicians speaking about the broken promises of Brexit: 10 years on Brexit hasn’t…

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Children behind bars for life — the human cost of ‘British justice’

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Children behind bars for life — the human cost of ‘British justice’

The UK state traps vulnerable children in a brutal cycle of lifetime incarceration, and exposes a system that rejects the idea of rehabilitation entirely. This disgusting model our nation follows separates us from the rest of Western Europe, where sticking kids in cages for life is banned. At a London panel hosted by the campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) on Friday 19 June 2026 saw mothers, lawyers and former child lifers tell their stories. And it ripped my heart out. JENGbA campaigns tirelessly to end child life sentences and their testimonies exposed a racist, ableist nightmare under…

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London Met Police expands facial recognition cams, sold as ‘public safety’

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London Met Police expands facial recognition cams, sold as ‘public safety’

The Metropolitan Police has announced plans to expand its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London. The Met Police force is planning on having the intrusive scanning technology set up in Soho and the West End by December 2026. Over the following year, six more areas across London are slated to follow. However, civil liberties organisation Big Brother Watch has called these plans: an alarming escalation of an intrusive technology which has already scanned the faces of millions of innocent Londoners. Likewise, the privacy campaigner also highlighted the recent high-profile case of Alvi Choudhury. The young British-Asian man was…

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SNP ex-chief Peter Murrell sentenced to five years for embezzlement

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SNP ex-chief Peter Murrell sentenced to five years for embezzlement

The Scottish National Party (SNP)’s former chief executive Peter Murrell has finally been sentenced for his conviction of embezzlement. The SNP bigwig was handed a five-year custodial sentence, or prison time, for the crime to which he pleaded guilty. Murrell is the estranged husband of SNP ex-party leader and former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon. He accepted responsibility for embezzling £400,000 of SNP party funds for personal purchases over 12 years. The 61-year-old had doctored invoices and falsified SNP accounting records to cover up how he was misusing party funds. He embezzled money to buy luxuries (like a £3500 silver wine…

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Bosses at beleaguered Royal Mail’s parent company see doubled pay and bonuses

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Bosses at beleaguered Royal Mail’s parent company see doubled pay and bonuses

In spite of profits for the Royal Mail’s parent company dropping by 20%, chief executive Martin Seidenberg has more than tripled his ‘earnings’ for the year. The International Distribution Services (IDS) boss took home £2.1m in the year to 31 March 2025, which shot up to £7m this year. Likewise, his fellow directors raked in a combined £9.8m this year, up from £4.2m the previous year. Meanwhile, the Royal Mail’s operating profits dropped from £198m to £96m in the same period. IDS blamed the rise in the minimum wage and national insurance contributions. Back in March, Parliament summoned Royal Mail bosses…

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Starmer was even more dangerous for disabled people than the Tories

Starmer was even more dangerous for disabled people than the Tories

Well, that’s it, Starmer has finally shuffled off. From behind his sad beige podium, the sad beige prime minister announced he would be resigning. Speaking outside Downing Street, Starmer boasted about ending austerity and working to improve Britain for all. However, for disabled people, Starmer’s short reign was even more dangerous than the Tories. When Labour got in, it was a small glimmer of hope; surely they couldn’t be as cruel as the Tories? But Starmer heard that and went ‘hold my beer’. Starmer’s Labour far crueller than the Tories From the outset, Starmer’s government has been focused on change for…

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Diane Abbott nails nonsense attempts to turd-polish Starmer

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Diane Abbott nails nonsense attempts to turd-polish Starmer

Hackney North’s Diane Abbott — Britain’s first Black woman MP — has dismantled attempts by Starmer’s political and media allies to mythologise the record of Keir Starmer. Starmer, the most hated PM in modern British political history, announced his resignation yesterday, 22 June 2026. Starmer packed the resignation with lies, justifying himself and whitewashing his awful record. He claimed that he had rescued Labour from bankruptcy and purged it of antisemitism. He claimed he had done everything “for the country he loves most”; he didn’t say that was the UK. triggered a flood of disinformation as his allies tried to shore…

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Polanski challenges Andy Burnham on 3 key questions

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Polanski challenges Andy Burnham on 3 key questions

Green leader Zack Polanski has asked the uninspiring Andy Burnham three key questions as he hopes to take over from callous corporate lackey Keir Starmer as prime minister. Polanski’s three questions for Burnham The questions Polanski hopes the new Labour MP for Makerfield will answer are: Are you willing to tax wealth fairly? Are you willing to bring our water companies and public services into nationalisation and public ownership? And are you willing to bring in proportional representation so we can have a fair voting system and a better politics that represents everybody? But Polanski doesn’t think Burnham has been at…

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Critics of Israeli influence are like Nazis, politicians claim

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Critics of Israeli influence are like Nazis, politicians claim

Attacks come as new analysis by Declassified shows pro-Israel lobby groups have taken British MPs to Israel 67 times since the genocide started British MPs compared their colleagues to Nazis during a debate about Israel’s influence on UK politics on Monday. The event in Parliament was triggered by a petition signed by more than 118,000 people, calling for a “public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy”.  But the debate was steamrolled by MPs who claimed the title of the petition was anti-Semitic. Labour MP Peter Prinsley said the petition was “familiar”, comparing it to conspiracy theories spread by Nazis.…

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UK government steeped in Palestinian blood: Gaza Tribunal publishes new book

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UK government steeped in Palestinian blood: Gaza Tribunal publishes new book

The Gaza Tribunal, established by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and others to examine UK collusion in Israel’s genocide, is publishing a book of its findings. Its findings are unequivocal: Rishi Sunak’s Tories and, especially, the Starmer regime are steeped in blood, guilt and collaboration. One of the greatest crimes of our age As publisher Pluto Press notes: the true scale of Britain’s complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our age. This groundbreaking inquiry brings together original testimony from Palestinian survivors, journalists, human rights campaigners, international legal experts and whistleblowers, to evidence both the human reality of the genocide,…

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Hackney Greens look to keep momentum going in two by-elections

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Hackney Greens look to keep momentum going in two by-elections

Perhaps the biggest Green wave in the 2026 local elections was in the London borough of Hackney. And ahead of two local by-elections on 25 June, Greens are hoping to keep that momentum going. Ahead of May’s elections in Hackney, collaboration between Greens and local independent socialists built a cooperative spirit from early on. And Heather Mendick from the Hackney Independent Socialist Collective (HISC) told the Canary about why she remains hopeful about where things are going. Hackey Greens connected with local working classes Hackney Greens ran a strong campaign in May which saw a massive swing away from Labour. Zoë…

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