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Vile animal abuser is the true face of the far-right and bloodsports

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Vile animal abuser is the true face of the far-right and bloodsports

The far-right like to pass themselves off as noble people, waging heroic battles on behalf of “women and children” or against what they describe as the “evil” of Islam. Yet hideous animal torturer and racist Neil Pinkerton is just another example revealing the true face of this hateful movement. Wildlife protection group Protect the Wild described Pinkerton as: …notorious in Northern Ireland for his depraved animal cruelty. They say he was: …disgracefully allowed to keep a dog named Judy after using her for fox baiting, and subjecting the dog to the most horrific injuries. The group rightly decry the courts’ leniency on…

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Arday’s accuser Cofnas suspended by Ghent Uni after Canary exclusive

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Arday’s accuser Cofnas suspended by Ghent Uni after Canary exclusive

Israel-loving racist ‘scientist’ Nathan Cofnas has been suspended by Ghent University and says he expects to be sacked. His announcement of his suspension comes just a day after Skwawkbox exclusively revealed a 19-page document compiled by the academics of the department he was imposed on. The document listed the awfulness of Cofnas’s work, his white-supremacist plans for the purging from academia of anyone who opposed his views – and the sheer amount of work his “flood of shit” was causing people with important work to do. Skwawkbox’s exclusive has been widely shared. Tiny violins for Cofnas Cofnas has already shown the…

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Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein takes the stand in ‘terror’ trial

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Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein takes the stand in ‘terror’ trial

Day three of Tony Greenstein’s trial at Kingston Crown Court before Judge Sarah Plaschkes KC saw the defendant take the witness stand. There was significant tension over what evidence the jury was permitted to consider. Judge orders jury to leave court repeatedly Tony Greenstein, a 72-year-old Jewish anti-Zionist, Marxist, and atheist from Brighton, faces charges under Section 12(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000 of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, Hamas, following social media posts published on 7 October 2023. The defence team openly referred to evidence that the Crown and the court had decided the jury should not be allowed…

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England dismantle Pakistan as Root’s second captaincy starts with a bang

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England dismantle Pakistan as Root’s second captaincy starts with a bang

Joe Root’s return as England’s Test captain began with the kind of dominant performance he would have envisioned the moment Ben Stokes retired. Pakistan skittled for 171 in 48.1 overs, Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue sharing ten wickets, and England closing on 112‑2 to trail by just 59 heading into day two at Headingley. Root, back in charge after Stokes’ shock international exit in June, inherited a side that had lost seven of their last ten Tests across bruising series against India, Australia and New Zealand. Under leaden skies on his home ground, Root won the toss and bowled first without…

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Alexander Isak’s dangerous return to St James’ Park

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Alexander Isak’s dangerous return to St James’ Park

There are reunions that players relish. Alexander Isak’s return to St James’ Park on Sunday will not fall into that category. Newcastle supporters will make their feelings known and there is little he can do to influence that. His task is simpler. Concentrate on becoming the player Liverpool believed they were signing, and begin winning over those fans now watching him in red. This Premier League opener arrives one year after the statement that detonated his Newcastle exit, with Isak declaring that the relationship cannot continue because of broken promises and eroded trust. Twelve months on, his Liverpool career has yet…

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‘Stats for Lefties’ elected to Green Party Council, backed by Greens for Palestine

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‘Stats for Lefties’ elected to Green Party Council, backed by Greens for Palestine

On 19 August, Eleanora Foran — perhaps better known as online political analyst ‘Stats for Lefties’ — announced her election to the Green Party Council. Foran is one of two representatives for the Eastern Region, itself one of the 10 areas of England and Wales represented on the council. This is noteworthy for two reasons. First, Greens for Palestine backed Foran as a candidate. The campaign group is one of the driving forces behind the “Zionism is Racism” motion at the Green Party conferences – both back in March and upcoming in the autumn. The March vote on the motion never…

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UN law expert demands expulsion of Israeli ambassador from Australia

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UN law expert demands expulsion of Israeli ambassador from Australia

The United Nations’ human rights law expert Chris Sidoti has called for Australia to expel Israel’s ambassador for his arrogance over Israel’s murder of civilians. This includes an Australian aid worker. Arrogant meddler Sidoti was speaking to Australian TV after the country’s foreign minister had condemned Israel’s decision to whitewash troops responsible for the murder of an Australian aid worker and her colleagues. This happened in a triple 2024 bombing. Sidoti condemned ambassador Hillel Newman’s interference in Australia’s affairs and his contempt for Australians who have suffered rape, beatings and abuse as part of humanitarian flotillas to Gaza attacked by Israel’s…

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Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic ‘rogue’ AI hacks all sourced to Israeli intelligence operatives

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Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic ‘rogue’ AI hacks all sourced to Israeli intelligence operatives

One Tel Aviv-based tech ‘security’ company, Irregular, was at the centre of “rogue” hack attacks launched during AI testing procedures. Meta, OpenAI (of ChatGPT), and Anthropic’s AI models were all involved. Reporting at the time, the Wall Street Journal ran with this alarming headline: Rogue AI Hacks Herald New Era of Cyber Chaos What they didn’t mention was that our “era of cyber chaos” was instigated by Israeli intelligence operatives. Nor did the rest of our fatuous corporate media, for that matter — I wonder why? Over the course of just two weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all revealed that their…

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Journalists shut out as Barclays activists face terror sentencing

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Journalists shut out as Barclays activists face terror sentencing

A number of journalists have been denied remote access to a judge’s hearing on whether he will sentence a group of anti-genocide activists as terrorists. The ‘Barclays 5‘ activists will appear at Preston Crown Court tomorrow to find out whether the state will punish them as terrorists despite them being convicted only of criminal damage after spray painting a Barclays bank branch. ‘Manifestly excessive’ against Barclays 5 The judge in the case, Robert Altham, has previously been found by an appeals court to impose “manifestly excessive” sentences. In a joint statement activist groups said: Several journalists have been denied remote access…

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TransActual says ‘Know Your Rights’ following the EHRC transphobic code of practice

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TransActual says ‘Know Your Rights’ following the EHRC transphobic code of practice

Trans-focused advocacy organisation TransActual has updated its ‘Know Your Rights’ guidance following the implementation of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s transphobic code of practice for service providers on 5 August. An explainer like TransActual’s is sadly necessary because — as many critics have highlighted — the EHRC code of practice is desperately unclear. As such, many organisations have lurched to adopt trans-hostile policies, even where there is no legal requirement to do so. Know Your Rights TransActual’s explainer therefore sets out to clarify how the law applies to trans people, whether or not they hold a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).…

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The DWP is not accessible to many – defeating its own purpose

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The DWP is not accessible to many – defeating its own purpose

Jeremy Clarkson recently argued in his Sunday Times column that benefit claimants should write weekly letters of thanks to randomly selected tax payers. This is ironic, considering that Jeremy Clarkson’s rise to fame came from the BBC, which is predominantly funded by a mandatory annual licence fee in UK households. Maybe he should be writing to us? As a disabled person and claimant myself, I don’t really have any nice things to say about the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) or Jeremy Clarkson. One of my biggest frustrations with the DWP is around accessibility.  Accessibility and the DWP When struggling…

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Tadhg Hickey tears into Piers Morgan’s double standard over Thunberg and Grande

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Tadhg Hickey tears into Piers Morgan’s double standard over Thunberg and Grande

In a post on X, Irish satirist and pro-Palestine activist Tadhg Hickey has called out Piers Morgan’s glaring double standard over online abuse: defending some targets from trolls while piling on others. Hickey’s intervention came after Morgan posted on X defending Ariana Grande and rightly condemning the trolls “making her life a misery”. But, as Hickey points out, Morgan has shown far less concern for Greta Thunberg, repeatedly adding fuel to the abuse directed at her. Patriarchal double standards Morgan was absolutely right to call out the trolls targeting Ariana Grande with nasty and offensive comments about her appearance. But, as…

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A Reform councillor just resigned in the most embarrassing way possible

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A Reform councillor just resigned in the most embarrassing way possible

Here at the Canary, we’ve been very critical of the sort of people who run to become Reform UK councillors. Sometimes this has been because of their own actions; other times it’s been because the party they sought to represent is reprehensible. Given this, we’d generally praise someone for leaving the party. It is somewhat difficult to do that in this instance, though: Reform councillor resigns, but sent their resignation letter to the wrong council pic.twitter.com/5MkFTfVMYa — Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) August 20, 2026 Confusion The Reform councillor in question is one Christine Duffy. Duffy has previously complained that she “received no training”…

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Father and son shot by Israeli forces as settlers overrun Hebron

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Father and son shot by Israeli forces as settlers overrun Hebron

The Palestinian city of Hebron has been the target of another Israeli military excursion. Occupation personnel flooded into the Old City to roll out the proverbial red carpet for “settlers tours” in the southern West Bank city — a coloniser gathering held on Shabbat that compounds the terror Palestinian residents experience in Hebron, one of the most heated fronts of colonial settler violence. Israeli military presence is not incidental. It safeguards setters, offering them a carte blanche to overrun indigenous Palestinian territories. With the military on their side, they are answerable to neither local nor international law, acting with repugnant impunity.…

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Why liberals keep mistaking left-wing populism for selfishness

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Why liberals keep mistaking left-wing populism for selfishness

Left-wing politicians, like Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed and (to an extent) Andy Burnham, have found recent success by taking a fresh angle on selling their politics. The Economist, a stalwart institution of liberalism and opponent of leftism, refers to this new approach as “Gen-Z socialism”, which it characterises as a “me-first doctrine” embodying: a form of retail politics that appeals not to notions of the common good, as in prior waves of socialism, but to people’s narrow self-interest. The demands, according to the Economist, are: Lower my rent! Cut my bills! Give me free buses! It believes, furthermore, that this strain of leftism…

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Why did Special Branch keep files on a socialist politician?

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Why did Special Branch keep files on a socialist politician?

When Dave Nellist entered parliament in 1983 as the Labour MP for Coventry South East, he became one of Westminster’s best-known socialists.  He was seen as a workers’ MP on a worker’s wage, donating more than half his salary to left-wing causes.  But within a few years, he was embroiled in a bitter political dispute inside the Labour Party that ultimately led to his suspension and expulsion.  He was associated with the Marxist newspaper Militant and his support for the mass campaign of non-payment of the poll tax.  Now, more than 40 years later, one question remains unanswered: what did Britain’s…

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I broke Barclays’ windows in 2021 – I’m no terrorist and neither are the ‘Barclays 5’

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I broke Barclays’ windows in 2021 – I’m no terrorist and neither are the ‘Barclays 5’

Question: What’s the difference between cracking the windows of a Barclays bank in 2021 and doing the same thing in 2024? Answer: Up to 10 years in prison and being labelled a terrorist! Barclays battered Back in April 2021, myself and six other women from Extinction Rebellion (XR) cracked several windows at Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf. Three years later, five other people cracked windows at Barclays’ Burnley branch in northwest England. We were trying to shift the behaviour of this global bank in terms of their role in climate genocide and ecological collapse. (Barclays did announce some potential “positive” changes…

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Canary vindicated in new report on SAS ‘war crime’ press coverage

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Canary vindicated in new report on SAS ‘war crime’ press coverage

The UK media has consistently mis-framed SAS war crimes allegations while marginalising the voices of alleged victims. That’s according to a new report by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) which delves into how the press has responded to the ongoing scandal. The report looks at a wide range of media coverage — with the Canary getting a positive mention for our work. The study, titled ‘Witch hunts or war crimes? How the British media talks about allegations of SAS killings of civilians in Afghanistan‘, was published on 18 August. The Haddon-Cave inquiry into allegations of extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan at the…

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10 years on, 41 organisations call for authorities to review the convictions of the Birmingham 4

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10 years on, 41 organisations call for authorities to review the convictions of the Birmingham 4

CAGE International and 40 other organisations have signed a call for an immediate review of the convictions of the ‘Birmingham 4’. First arrested over 10 years ago, these four men were convicted of terrorism offences back in 2017. The courts sentenced Naweed Ali, Khobaib Hussain, Mohibur Rahman and Tahir Aziz to life in prison following a joint undercover operation by MI5 and West Midlands Police. However, all four men and their legal teams have maintained their innocence throughout. Now, the 41 organisations have highlighted serious concerns, including: allegations of evidence being improperly introduced, police being in contempt of court during the…

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Menon’s lawyers issue statement on Filton contempt prosecution

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Menon’s lawyers issue statement on Filton contempt prosecution

Filton 24 — Lawyers have issued a statement on behalf of barrister Rajiv Menon KC about the contempt of court proceedings brought against Menon by intelligence service-aligned judge Jeremy Johnson. Johnson is pursuing Menon for the closing speech he gave to the jury in defence of his client, Filton 24 defendant Charlotte Head. Menon went public for the first time this week about the charges, giving an interview to news website Democracy Now. Lawyers want to remind the public that Menon denies any wrongdoing, but is currently in a phase of the case for technical challenges rather than direct argument on the…

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