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Burnham runs scared as fox stunt exposes Labour’s hunting betrayal

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Burnham runs scared as fox stunt exposes Labour’s hunting betrayal

Protect the Wild activist, Robert Pownall, stood fully dressed up as a fox, next to a “cold” Andy Burnham last week. The Makerfield by-election was crashed by the crafty creature, as he stood to expose how the Labour party is betraying the lives of millions of animals in the UK. Pownall stood on the stage as an independent candidate to confront Burnham, the projected new leader of Labour, face to face on his party’s failure to protect our wildlife. Burnham prefers curating perfection over conservation Of course, the mainstream media all but ignored Pownall, save for a few snapshots of him…

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Farage’s Brexit ‘legacy’ gave us the instability he now condemns

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Farage’s Brexit ‘legacy’ gave us the instability he now condemns

Millionaire Reform leader Nigel Farage has been on the airwaves criticising the “revolving door” in Number 10 since Brexit, which has seen five PMs come and go. But GMB presenter and former Labour politician Ed Balls pointed out that, a decade on from the referendum, the UK has seen sluggish growth, struggling small businesses, and weak investment – with polling suggesting only around a third now think Brexit was the right call. Farage, however, argued that the real “earthquake” in British politics came from parties telling voters they were better off remaining in the EU – even though the facts show…

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Makerfield: Here’s what really motivated voters

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Makerfield: Here’s what really motivated voters

The medium-sized town of Ashton-in-Makerfield, its ~70,000 voters and its historic by-election will forever be remembered in British political history for ridding us of Keir Starmer. And a good riddance it is! Who comes to replace him may be marginally better, more of the same, or far worse. It seems unimaginable at this point that Andy ‘U-Turn’em’ Burnham will be a significant break from the Labour mold. (See: trans existence, hostile immigration policy, water nationalisation, electoral reform or Gaza’s genocide.) Regardless of what Canary reporters make of Burnham, we find ourselves naturally sympathetic with the 55% of voters who backed him…

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UN inquiry: Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children in genocide, war crimes

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UN inquiry: Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children in genocide, war crimes

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said in a new report released today. The report found that Israel has targeted Palestinian children in Gaza in two distinct ways: directly by shooting at their vital organs using precision weapons such as quadcopters and snipers; and through the use of high-impact weapons, causing widespread and systematic attacks on residential buildings, schools, and displacement camps crowded with children. It also found that killing continued even after the October…

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Filton judge issues new contempt proceedings for informing jury of law

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Filton judge issues new contempt proceedings for informing jury of law

Jeremy Johnson is the security services-linked judge who sentenced four ‘Filton 25’ activists as terrorists for trying to prevent mass murder. He is also the judge who tried to convict Rajiv Menon KC, one of the defence lawyers, for contempt of court. The appeal court had upheld Menon’s appeal, on procedural grounds, against the first charge Johnson brought, but also said Johnson could award himself the right to try again if he ticked the right boxes. And he is trying again. He has even decided he can bring the case as ‘summary proceedings”, despite there being no urgency. The case will…

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Petulant Farage claims BBC endangering him by asking about undeclared £5m

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Petulant Farage claims BBC endangering him by asking about undeclared £5m

A petulant and clearly rattled Nigel Farage has accused the BBC of putting his life in danger – by asking about the undeclared £5m ‘gift’ bunged to him by a crypto-billionaire. Nunya – not Farage has claimed the money was to pay for his ‘lifetime security’ and that he didn’t have to declare it because it “wasn’t political“. But he refused to say whether he had spent any of it on security – though he has previously admitted he’s spent none on that. He poutingly insisted that it’s none of the public’s business what an elected MP does with money that…

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Fighting Tech or Technofascism

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Fighting Tech or Technofascism

Technology has never been the enemy of the working class in and of itself. By its very definition, technology is simply the deployment of tools and advancements designed to improve tasks, ease the burdens of life, and drive progress. In the modern era, this has evolved from mechanical automation to digital advances and, most recently, artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Yet, since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, workers have understandably feared technological leaps. When your very survival depends on the sale of your labour, the threat of being replaced by a machine is existential. From Luddites to Saboteurs History is rife…

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Irish influencer uses video of schoolchildren to spread racist hate

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Irish influencer uses video of schoolchildren to spread racist hate

In a grim insight into the uniquely dark mindset of racist influencers, Irish bigot Michael McCarthy has used a video of giggling schoolchildren to spread his message of hate. Anyone with a shred of humanity might see such a video and find it heartwarming, but McCarthy’s response is one of loathing because not everyone is white. The video takes place in a school with a large number of Black and Brown children. McCarthy said with dismay: I couldn’t believe this when I seen [sic] it. I just can’t believe it’s Ireland. He goes on to remark upon a lack of “Irish…

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Lebanon president and PM condemn Iran’s efforts to end Israeli invasion

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Lebanon president and PM condemn Iran’s efforts to end Israeli invasion

Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun — like his prime minister Nawwaf Salam — has objected to Iran’s terms for negotiations with the US, including an end to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. The pair’s regime is widely considered a ‘Vichy‘ regime collaborating with its occupiers and their US backers. Aoun has insisted that “no one negotiates on our behalf” — a position for which Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek rightly derided him over. Khalek pointed out that Aoun — and Salam — are attacking those who, unlike them, are trying to stop Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and the slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Imagine your…

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Messi: Can he compete in a seventh World Cup?

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Messi: Can he compete in a seventh World Cup?

A few years ago, the idea of a player taking part in six World Cups seemed closer to fantasy than reality. Throughout its history, the tournament — held every four years — has been known to bring the careers of even the greatest stars to an end before they had considered playing in a sixth edition, let alone a seventh. Yet Lionel Messi remains at the heart of this debate. With Messi having shone so far during his participation in the 2026 World Cup, it begs the question: could the Argentina captain continue playing until the 2030 World Cup? At the…

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Palestine Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings

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Palestine Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings

Judge rules to refer Rajiv Menon KC once again over his closing speech in trial of pro-Palestine activists A leading British civil rights barrister faces contempt proceedings once again after a judge decided to refer allegations against him for a second time. The original proceedings brought against Rajiv Menon KC were thrown out last month for procedural reasons.But on 22 June, Mr Justice Johnson ruled that Menon’s case met the necessary “threshold conditions” to proceed and that it was in the public interest to do so. He said the case should be referred to a judge who can “deal with the…

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This week’s sweltering heat is financed by our banks 

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This week’s sweltering heat is financed by our banks 

As the UK braces itself for the impacts of yet more extreme heat, major banks continue to plough money – nearly $1 trillion in the past year alone – into fossil fuels. This makes a mockery of their pledges to act on the climate crisis, and makes big oil even more profitable whilst communities roast, crops die, infrastructure fails, wars rage and the cost-of-living crisis bites harder. Still banking on climate chaos The UK’s second ever extreme heat warning has been issued this week, with temperatures as high as 40℃ anticipated. Around the time of the first extreme heat warning in…

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The death of collective identity

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The death of collective identity

There was, within living memory, an infrastructure of collective thinking in this country —  an infrastructure, above all else, for thinking about politics. Collective spaces recede The union branch, the party, the working men’s club, the tenants’ association, the chapel and the co-operative were not simply organisations people joined. These were places where political thought was produced through dialogue and shared experience, translating grievances, whether at home or at work, into collective political action. That infrastructure has been demolished over the last four decades. Union membership has particularly declined from its 1979 peak of 13.2 million to around 6.4 million today.…

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Israel is targeting Palestinian education, even in its prisons

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Israel is targeting Palestinian education, even in its prisons

The Palestinian National Prisoner Movement has had a long and proud history. Decades of struggle inside the walls of Israel’s jails and detention centres have seen important advances in basic rights for those incarcerated, including in education. Israel’s tally of abuses against detainees But since the start of the genocide in Gaza, Israeli occupation authorities have reversed and cancelled these gains. Prisoners have been stripped of all their rights by the occupation. Instead, they are systematically humiliated, abused, and tortured. Students of all ages are being arrested and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). These detainees must not only cope with…

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Greens Manchester mayor campaign in full flow, other parties nowhere in sight

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Greens Manchester mayor campaign in full flow, other parties nowhere in sight

It’s just over five weeks until the people of Greater Manchester elect Andy Burnham’s replacement as mayor of the combined authority (GMCA) area. The Green Party is wasting no time in campaigning before 30 July. Less than a day after the Makerfield by-election result, the Green Party gathered for what, on paper, was their official candidate announcement. But behind the scenes and away from the screens, the party wheels were in full motion on 20 June at the Manchester Friends (Quaker) Meeting House. By the time speeches began at 2pm, the Green machine had already cleared out a hall-space full of…

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No. 10 cat is the UK’s most stable, sensible figure — charlatans come and go

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No. 10 cat is the UK’s most stable, sensible figure — charlatans come and go

In 16 years of sick political farce, Number 10 has seen a string of toxic clowns and charlatans arrive, then leave in disgrace and dishonour. Starmer’s the latest. Outlasting every PM, including Starmer Six sorry excuses for PM in since 2015. In order, we have, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and now Keir Starmer — all now (wrong-side) history. And if Number 10 has seen them slink off, so has its cat, Larry. Seeing off foxes But sometimes the cat is more proactive. It even had enough sense to give Liz Truss, Donald Trump and Volodymyr…

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Leaked email reveals Canary knew about Carns leadership desires in February

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Leaked email reveals Canary knew about Carns leadership desires in February

All this talk of Al Carns reminded us of an email leaked to the Canary news desk in February, which is published for the first time today. It’s a copy of an email from a (possibly fictional and satirical, although we can’t be sure) Number 10 staffer to the head of the Metropolitan police. Now that Starmer is gone, the contents are starting to look a bit eerily prophetic… From: tonygordstein@number10.gov.uk                                                                 Wed 25/02/2026 17:01 To: sirmarkrowley@met.police.uk Hey Mark, I don’t have any requests this time. I’m just bored here and thought I’d give you an update on the gossip going round…

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Starmer has never put the country first – not even in his final, insipid act

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Starmer has never put the country first – not even in his final, insipid act

It has finally happened. Keir Starmer, the man who promised to deliver “change” with all the revolutionary fervour of a Lib Dem focus group, has slithered out of Downing Street like a deflated balloon animal after a kids’ party gone wrong. Two years. That’s all it took for the great anti-Tory Labour landslide of 2024 to collapse into a humiliating pile of U-turns, scandals, and moral cowardice. Today, as he stood outside No. 10 delivering his resignation speech – all misty-eyed about his fantastic wife and being the best dad to his kids – I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.…

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The Lemkin Institute’s demolition of the EHRC’s anti-trans code was systematic

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The Lemkin Institute’s demolition of the EHRC’s anti-trans code was systematic

As the Canary previously reported, on 20 June the Lemkin Institute — a major international genocide watchdog organisation — issued a condemnation of the EHRC’s anti-trans Code of Practice.  In our previous article, we covered why the institute was naming the anti-trans movement in the UK as genocidal. Here, we’ll take a look at the lengthy statement’s systematic demolition of key points from both the code itself and the assumptions behind it. If you can’t make it through the whole thing, don’t worry. It boils down to one simple point:  The EHRC was not required to make its guidance as trans exclusionary as possible,…

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Genocide prevention watchdog slams EHRC’s transphobic code with searing response

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Genocide prevention watchdog slams EHRC’s transphobic code with searing response

On 20 June, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security issued a statement condemning the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) anti-trans Code of Practice, which is currently up for parliamentary scrutiny. For those unfamiliar, the Lemkin Institute is a multinational, non-governmental organisation which monitors for signs of genocide around the world. It was named for Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term ‘genocide’, and campaigned to instate the UN’s convention on the crime. In the past year, the institute has issued red flag warnings for Israel’s genocidal actions in Palestine and Lebanon, Trump’s threats against…

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