Ex-Ofcom chair defends GB News giving voice to ‘white majority’

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Ex-Ofcom chair defends GB News giving voice to ‘white majority’

Michael Grade, the former chairperson at Ofcom, has defended the media watchdog’s (lack of) handling of GB News under his leadership. He lionised the far-right propaganda outlet as “giving voice to a strong body of opinion in this country which has been ignored for years”. As part of an interview with the Guardian, Grade tried to argue that critics of GB News feared contrasting viewpoints. He said: The fact is, what people don’t like is the fact that there is a television station giving voice to a strong body of opinion in this country which has been ignored for years. They just don’t…

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Elon Musk is a threat to democracy, and now also a trillionaire (same thing, really)

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Elon Musk is a threat to democracy, and now also a trillionaire (same thing, really)

Elon Musk has been all over the headlines today, 12 June, as he tips over the threshold to become the world’s first trillionaire. And inevitably, Musk is a walking, talking argument against the existence of such wealth — which he uses to oppose democracy and amplify the far-right around the world. The real-life Bond villain (thanks, Financial Times) owes his latest windfall to SpaceX. The company, of which Musk is the majority shareholder, makes its initial public offering at a value of around $1.8tn. Of course, once any individual’s personal wealth enters the billions — never mind the trillions — it…

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Reform suffers self-inflicted Senedd defeat over childcare

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Reform suffers self-inflicted Senedd defeat over childcare

Remarkable things have been occurring in the Senedd — as highlighted by independent journalist Will Hayward, 11 Welsh Reform ministers apparently voted to back an amendment criticising their own party. The original motion under debate was proposed by Dan Thomas, the leader of Reform’s Senedd branch. It called on the Welsh government: to publish the full costings and timetable for the introduction of their childcare offer within their first 100 days in government. Plaid Cymru claim that, once implemented, their plan will see every child aged 9 months to 4 years receive 20 hours of fully funded childcare per week, for…

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Police rule out hate crime in arson attack on Imam’s home

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Police rule out hate crime in arson attack on Imam’s home

Bolton Imam Hassan Patel has released CCTV footage of a masked arsonist setting fire to his family home in a shocking arson attack. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are reportedly not treating the incident as a hate crime. However, local Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi called out the clear Islamophobia at play. Likewise, Green leader Zack Polanski highlighted PM Keir Starmer’s silence on the incident, sharply contrasting the response to recent similar crimes. A ‘serious and callous’ arson attempt Reports state that the arson attack took place in broad daylight, on the evening of Wednesday 10 June. The target, a house on Eastgrove…

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International trans health bodies express “deep concern” for NHS ban on HRT for under-18s

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International trans health bodies express “deep concern” for NHS ban on HRT for under-18s

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and its European counterpart (EPATH) have issued a joint statement expressing their “deep concern” regarding NHS plans to suspend hormone prescriptions for trans under-18s in England. On 9 March, NHS England published a draft clinical policy outlining its plan for public consultation. In essence, it proposed that: MAF (masculinising and feminising) Hormones are not recommended to be available as a routine commissioning option through the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service. This represents a sharp break from the current clinical policy, which was itself updated in 2024 in a knee-jerk response to…

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Unison sounds the alarm on workplaces scrapping trans-inclusive policies

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Unison sounds the alarm on workplaces scrapping trans-inclusive policies

Andrea Egan, general secretary of Unison, has written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to highlight the fact that workplaces across the country have already begun to withdraw their previous trans-inclusive policies. After multiple failed attempts, the EHRC laid its current draft code of practice before Parliament. The guidance is now undergoing a 40-day period of scrutiny, after which MPs can choose to accept or reject it. The draft code calls for service providers to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces reflecting their gender, and also often those of their sex assigned at birth. The government’s own impact assessment has…

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Unions respond: “Reform are no friends of working people”

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Unions respond: “Reform are no friends of working people”

Reform — The trade unions have hit back against Farage’s recent pitiful appeal to try to bring the UK labour movement over to the far-right. Quite unsurprisingly, they’ve seen through his ridiculous claim that: Reform is now the party of workers. Farage also invited unions to apply for affiliation, and welcomed union leadership to attend the party conference. However, those same leaders have now told him where to shove it in reply. ‘Let’s be crystal clear’ On 8 June, the Times published an interview with Nigel Farage, trying to lure trade unions into affiliation with Reform UK. The fascist rag highlighted…

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Whittome’s Early Day Motion to reject the EHRC’s transphobic code passes 100 signatures

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Whittome’s Early Day Motion to reject the EHRC’s transphobic code passes 100 signatures

Labour MP Nadia Whittome has announced a motion to reject the Equalities and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) transphobic Code of Practice. Rachel Taylor MP, likewise of Labour, also gave a moving account of why she signed the motion. Whittome and Taylor have also urged other MPs to sign the motion. To this end, trans rights campaign groups TransActual, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, and Scottish Trans have created an email template for constituents to write to their MPs to urge them to sign. Scottish Trans stated that, in just one week, over 1,200 people have already written to their representatives. Transphobic code rejected The EHRC’s…

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Badenoch delivers sad speech attacking public sector equality duty

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Badenoch delivers sad speech attacking public sector equality duty

Kemi Badenoch has announced her intention to “repeal the public sector equality duty in its entirety”. The PSED, or simply “the duty”, requires public sector leaders to abide by equality considerations set out in the 2010 Equality Act. Principally, this means working to prevent discrimination against people with protected characteristics (race, sex, disability etc), and monitoring the outcomes of that work. The news comes just a week after Nigel Farage weaponised the tragic murder of Henry Nowak as an excuse to attack diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Vickrum Digwa, a British Asian man, stabbed Nowak, then told police he had…

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World Cup visa chaos shows the settler colonial US is a hostile environment

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World Cup visa chaos shows the settler colonial US is a hostile environment

Fans have found themselves facing rejections, restrictions, and outright bans for short-term visa applications to the US for this year’s men’s FIFA World Cup. Of course, this is hardly a surprise, given the Trump administration’s undisguised racism and Islamophobia. However, the news underscores existing criticisms of FIFA for awarding hosting responsibilities to the US in the first place. World Cup chaos entirely expected The states unveiled its bid to host the 2026 world cup back in 2017. Under the banner ‘United 2026’, it was a joint endeavor between the US, Canada, and Mexico. The latter two countries will host 13 matches…

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Farage has taken over £80,000 from the US anti-abortion lobby

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Farage has taken over £80,000 from the US anti-abortion lobby

On 7 June, the i Paper revealed that Nigel Farage has personally taken over £83,000 in earnings and expenses from US anti-abortion groups. The news comes less than a week after Reform’s candidate for the Makerfield by-election, Robert Kenyon, faced a grilling on Question Time for his previous comment that: abortion is the cowardly act of women murdering a defenceless baby and that women do it so they can shag anyone they want. Farage, Reform, and the anti-abortion lobby The far-right party has previously claimed that it has no plans to alter UK abortion law. This is a lie. Even before the…

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Supreme Court disability ruling “biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation”

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Supreme Court disability ruling “biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation”

Campaign groups have voiced shock and outrage at the “biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation” following a Supreme Court ruling concerning individuals who lack the capacity to consent to their living arrangements. In a joint statement, the charities Mencap, Mind, and the National Autistic Society warned that the regressive ruling could see hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people lose fundamental human rights protections. They added that: By removing independent checks, advocacy, and automatic access to legal aid, the Court has closed the gateway to justice and support for many who need it most. Stripping away these safeguards makes…

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Supervillain Palantir has had a terrible week in UK Parliament

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Supervillain Palantir has had a terrible week in UK Parliament

The past week in Parliament has seen two major blows for AI-peddler Palantir. In a highly unusual Commons debate, MPs including Jeremy Corbyn laid bare the links that disgraced ambassador Peter Mandelson forged between the UK government and the authoritarian US tech company. Mandelson lost his position after his ties to pedophile ringleader Jeffrey Epstein came to light. In a blow to PM Keir Starmer, it later transpired that Mandelson was handed the ambassadorial post in spite of failing his security vetting. Meanwhile, an influential cross-party science committee condemned the public sector’s increasing reliance of Palantir’s AI as placing the UK…

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US government weighs in on Nowak murder with the same old fascist lies

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US government weighs in on Nowak murder with the same old fascist lies

With grim predictability, the far-right US government has waded into the controversy surrounding the tragic death of Henry Nowak. A US State Department post on social media offered mealy-mouthed “condolences” to Henry’s family, though only after a tight string of fascist dogwhistles. In particular, the Trump administration repeated Farage’s ridiculous ‘two-tier’ anti-white policing claim. This is fitting, given the Reform UK leader shamelessly exploited Nowak’s murder to attack DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) initiatives. As the Canary previously pointed out, Farage clearly received this talking point directly from Trump’s fascist America. In the UK, ‘DEI’ is better known as ‘EDI’ (Equality, Diversity and…

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Shadow equalities minister wants any explanation other than racism for Black maternal deaths

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Shadow equalities minister wants any explanation other than racism for Black maternal deaths

Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho has suggested that we need to be “clear-eyed” when considering the issue of Black maternal deaths. Apparently, ‘the left’ (and also, you know, the NHS) are too quick to blame racism for the fact that Black people are three times more likely to die during childbirth. We’re having this whole ridiculous ‘debate’ again because, over the last week, Reform leader Nigel Farage has redoubled his attacks on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) initiatives. Those of us who don’t receive our talking points directly from Trump’s fascist America may know these better as EDI (Equality, Diversity and…

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Farage threatens that white riots in Southampton are ‘just the beginning’

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Farage threatens that white riots in Southampton are ‘just the beginning’

Nigel Farage has recently defended his call for “pure cold rage” in reaction to responding officers’ treatment of murder victim Henry Nowak. Worse still, he’s doubled down on his race-baiting, claiming that there’s worse yet to come.  Meanwhile, the Times has been doing all it can to tow the Reform leader’s party line. The right-wing rag has managed to dig up a Hampshire Police diversity training day questionnaire, reporting on the pigs feeling “pressured” and “controlled”, as if that’s somehow connected to them ignoring Nowak as he bled to death. Back in the real world, the president of the National Black Police Association…

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Reform’s Zia Yusuf thinks targeted prostate cancer screenings are racist against white people now

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Reform’s Zia Yusuf thinks targeted prostate cancer screenings are racist against white people now

On 2 June, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a £200m boost to the Transform prostate cancer treatment trial. However, Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf has chosen to get himself in a tizz about the fact that the potentially life-saving trial is targeting Black people. You know, because Black people suffer from a far higher risk of prostate cancer than white people. But the far-right home affairs spokesperson isn’t letting that little fact stop him. Following party leader Nigel Farage’s current talking point, Yusuf branded the trial as evidence of a “two-tier system” creating a systematic disadvantage for white people.…

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Sikh leaders report “huge increase in hate crime” following murder trial

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Sikh leaders report “huge increase in hate crime” following murder trial

Sikh community leaders have spoken out against misleading reporting in the media which claimed that Vickrum Digwa murdered Henry Nowak using his kirpan, a knife carried as one of the five articles (pañj kakkē or ‘five Ks’) of the Sikh faith. The community leaders also highlighted a “huge increase in hate crime” against Sikhs in the days around the trial, which concluded on 1 June.  During the trial at Southampton crown court, the prosecution recounted that Digwa was wearing a kirpan beneath his clothing. However, he was also carrying an 8-inch blade, with which he murdered Nowak. ‘Your actions have stirred…

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Reeves considers Blair-era PFIs to fund new towns

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Reeves considers Blair-era PFIs to fund new towns

Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering resorting to yet-more disastrous Blair-era private finance initiatives (PFIs) to fund Labour’s national infrastructure schemes. The news, published in the Telegraph, comes after the Treasury commissioned the British Infrastructure Taskforce (BIT) to produce a research paper on the potential bonuses of a return to PFI schemes. The BIT is a grab-bag of private finance interests including Lloyds Banking, HSBC, Blackrock, Santander, Fidelity International and Phoenix Group. Completely unsurprisingly, the private financiers were huge fans of the idea of UK public services taking huge loans to pay for public services. The BIT heartily recommended the use of…

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Consortium representing child refugees speaks out against Labour’s AI plans

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Consortium representing child refugees speaks out against Labour’s AI plans

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC) has spoken out against government plans to access asylum seekers’ age using AI. On Friday 29 May, the Home Office announced plans to use AI in cases when an asylum seekers’ age is in dispute. However, the RMCC warned that the scheme could lead to yet more wrongful detentions of vulnerable children in adult facilities. The news follows April’s revelations from the independent Humans for Rights Network, which exposed the fact that the Home Office routinely detains so-called “age-disputed children” as adults. Of the 76 age-disputed detainees at the time, 26 had been —…

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