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Would Ann Widdecombe have cared about someone showing they hate her?

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Would Ann Widdecombe have cared about someone showing they hate her?

An Aberdeen University staff member has been charged with an offence after posting insensitive comments online about Ann Widdecombe‘s death. Web developer Heather Herbert called the 78-year-old politician’s death “good news” on Bluesky.  She also posted that she hoped Widdecombe had died a “painful death” before it emerged her death was being treated as murder. The late former Tory MP and Reform UK spokesperson was found dead in her home on 9 July. A 28-year-old man was arrested and re-arrested in Yorkshire in connection with her death, which is now being investigated as terrorism-related.  Reform UK scramble to make themselves main…

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WATCH: Fox News host jokes about US military rape complex in Asia

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WATCH: Fox News host jokes about US military rape complex in Asia

Fox News journalist Jesse Watters has gone viral after joking about US military “wild animals” overdosing on testosterone and attacking women.  Smiling wildly, Watters joked on live TV: The guys that don’t need it [testosterone] are gonna take it — to triple boost. And then they’re gonna get out there, and women on base — you guys better be careful. Uh-huh! Port calls — women, eh-he, in Asia — you better be careful. Because these guys are going to be wild animals and you better watch out! Jesse Watters ‘scumbag’ The internet roundly denounced the vile comments, which were blatantly implying…

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Welsh Reform politician caught lying about fossil fuel interests

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Welsh Reform politician caught lying about fossil fuel interests

Welsh Reform UK politician Cai Parry-Jones MS has been caught out lying about his fossil fuel interests. Another anti-Net Zero campaigner in Reform, Parry-Jones strongly denied the claim that his share holdings benefit from climate deregulation. He was quickly shown up for it. To make matters worse, this all took place as Wales and the UK grappled with another intense heatwave. Some 2,700 people already died across the UK from extreme heat exposure. In summer 2024, in just five days, at least 557 Welsh people died of extreme heat. This is our climate-changed future. Here’s yet another story of right-wing climate-reality denialism,…

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‘What about Israeli terrorists?’ — Burnham ‘ratioed’ for supporting IRGC ban

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‘What about Israeli terrorists?’ — Burnham ‘ratioed’ for supporting IRGC ban

Incoming PM Andy Burnham claimed he would bring “the biggest change in our lifetimes”. But instead he is bringing Starmeroid ‘business as usual’. Burnham shows no sign of undoing any of Starmer’s police-state measures intended to protect Israel, and in fact indicates he will take them further. And he has praised Starmer’s attack on free speech about the illegal US-Israel war on Iran. As his first use of his rushed-through law, Starmer has ‘designated‘ Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) — Burnham thinks this is great. Starmer’s new ‘National Security (State Threats) Act’ is an extension of supposed ‘anti-terror’ legislation, clearly designed…

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DWP boss McFadden making vague pronouncements about ‘helping people into work’ again

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DWP boss McFadden making vague pronouncements about ‘helping people into work’ again

Pat McFadden, the leader of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is already working to set the media agenda ahead of the full publication of two flagship reports in the autumn. Inevitably, he’s bleating about ‘supporting’ people with health conditions to get into work. In a 15 July interview with the Guardian, McFadden stated that his department had already begun its work in advance of the final reports: Even before they’ve reported, I’m already speaking to the Department for Education [and] the Department for Health. We’re going to have to respond to this as a government. It’s my job to…

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IRGC proscription is another masterclass in British hypocrisy — What about the genocidal IOF?

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IRGC proscription is another masterclass in British hypocrisy — What about the genocidal IOF?

The UK is set to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) under the new National Security (State Threats) Act 2026, which received Royal Assent last week. The government said: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR) and Russia’s GRU Volunteer Corps will become the first bodies designated under landmark new state threats powers. If approved by Parliament later this week, those conducting acts of sabotage including arson on behalf of these groups could face life imprisonment. However, this move was met with accusations of hypocrisy, as critics pointed to the UK, which…

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Israeli general-turned-Elbit executive brags about mass targeting of Palestinians

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Israeli general-turned-Elbit executive brags about mass targeting of Palestinians

Israeli general and Elbit Systems executive Miki Edelstein has bragged that Elbit technology was used to track hundreds of thousands of targets in Gaza and Lebanon. Edelstein was speaking at a ‘land warfare’ event held at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) thinktank. He appeared on a panel with two British officers. The Guardian reported on 6 July: A total of 850,000 targets were detected in real time by the Israeli Tzayad digital army programme across all the military’s theatres of war between 7 October and the end of 2025. The legacy outlet also claimed that RUSI kept Edelstein’s planned appearance…

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UK Government lied about ‘renewable’ Scottish data centre plans

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UK Government lied about ‘renewable’ Scottish data centre plans

Plans for a supposedly “renewable” multi-billion pound data centre project in Lanarkshire entirely misrepresented their actual environmental and economic impacts. The Guardian‘s recent investigation reveals that the £8.2bn-valued data complex, touted as being energy self-sufficient, was unfeasible from the start. The centre and adjoining power-plant in Scotland’s central belt was supposed to be powered by on-site renewables and nuclear energy. In theory, anyway. Built jointly by US corporation CoreWeave and Scottish data firm DataVita, the complex was supposed to power itself entirely by 2030. However, internal correspondence documents obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests show that the site had an…

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Foreign minister swerves questions about Britons fighting for Israel

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Foreign minister swerves questions about Britons fighting for Israel

Hamish Falconer ran through traffic in Whitehall when asked why his government allows British citizens to fight in Gaza Foreign minister Hamish Falconer refused to answer questions on Wednesday about the UK government’s failure to stop British nationals fighting for the Israeli army in Gaza. It comes after more than 25,000 people signed a letter to the Foreign Office demanding they investigate UK citizens who fought in Gaza and may have committed war crimes. Thousands of British nationals have served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) since the Gaza conflict began in 2023, according to a Freedom of Information response from…

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What the media are not telling you about Christopher Harborne

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What the media are not telling you about Christopher Harborne

The attempts to dismiss an undeclared £5 million “gift” are falling flat, and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is under more pressure than ever. The party’s largest donor, Christopher Harborne, is showing no signs of backing away from political donations. Farage says that he would “gladly” accept further contributions from the billionaire. Although Farage has long said that his priority is putting Britain first, his main backer is a Thai citizen with shares in an arms firm that exports components to the Israeli military. Indeed, Harborne is the largest shareholder in weapons manufacturer QinetiQ. In 2022, QinetiQ were granted licenses to…

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Microsoft worker emails thousands of colleagues about company’s support for genocidal ‘Israel’

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Microsoft worker emails thousands of colleagues about company’s support for genocidal ‘Israel’

On his final day at the company, a Microsoft worker in Italy has sent out an email to thousands of colleagues informing them of how the corporation operates as the technological backbone of the Gaza holocaust perpetrated by so-called ‘Israel’. The hero, known to the Canary as ‘Nour’, said: After nearly two years as a Critical Environment Technician at a Microsoft Italy data center, I choose to resign. This is because, right now, Microsoft is massively expanding its European data centers (aka mass surveillance centers) to use Palestine as a laboratory for its experimental digital weaponry. For the past 994 days,…

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Burnham says “we under tax wealth” but will he do anything about it?

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Burnham says “we under tax wealth” but will he do anything about it?

Tax Justice UK have posted a video filmed in November, challenging the newly elected Makerfield MP and likely-PM Andy Burnham on his position on wealth taxes. This comes as Burnham looks likely to take the top job of PM, leading many to pay attention to whether he sticks by his prior commitments. At the time, Andy Burnham seemed to recognise the unfairness of a system that taxes work heavily while allowing many of the wealthiest to pay less than ordinary workers. He notably said: We under tax wealth. If you take something as simple as council tax, people here [Manchester city…

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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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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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The false narrative white supremacists have pushed about their own white riots

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The false narrative white supremacists have pushed about their own white riots

When the racist white riots broke out in Belfast, you’d have thought the sky had fallen in — or at least that a small army of migrants had turned up unannounced and started stealing everyone’s jobs, houses, and sense of “identity”, whatever that means. That’s the story the pernicious far-right and their cheerleaders in certain corners of the corporate media were peddling, anyway. It’s a narrative as old as it is ridiculous. Whenever things feel tough, blame the person who just arrived, the one who has less, the one who’s already vulnerable. Let’s be absolutely clear from the start: these were…

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Anderson busted using AI to lie about Reform’s Saville controversy

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Anderson busted using AI to lie about Reform’s Saville controversy

On 16 June, we reported on a grim story from the Makerfield by-election concerning Reform. Local Reform councillors posted a picture which suggested they’d vote for Jimmy Saville if it allowed them to replace Keir Starmer. The problem is this means they would vote for Jimmy Saville – one of Britain’s most notorious sexual predators. Since then, Reform have done what they can to distance themselves from the controversy. The problem is their attempts only made things worse. This is why a defensive post from Lee Anderson now looks like this: Reform distraction tactics As we reported on 16 June, Saville…

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Everything you need to know about the new qualification system for the 2026 World Cup

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Everything you need to know about the new qualification system for the 2026 World Cup

The 2026 World Cup is set to enter a radically different phase in its history, following the decision to increase the number of participating teams from 32 to 48. This expansion has not only increased the number of teams but has also completely reshaped the tournament’s structure, from the group stage right through to the knockout rounds. This change has led to an increase in the number of matches from 64 to 104, with the adoption of a completely new competition format, the biggest since the tournament’s inception. A completely new format: 12 groups and an expanded knockout stage In the…

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Met police suggest Number 10 lied about Mandelson emails

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Met police suggest Number 10 lied about Mandelson emails

The latest batch of Peter Mandelson’s emails proved to be less explosive than expected. While they certainly told us more about what we already knew, they didn’t tell us much else. This is why the real controversy ended up being what wasn’t there. Downing Street would later claim the Met asked the government to hold back certain messages. Now, the Met have disputed this claim. Starmer and McSweeney's project is a governance nightmare addicted to dishonesty. The glaring, unmitigated conflicts of interest re: Palantir are scandalous. As I wrote in the preface to The Fraud: this is a lawless and reckless project…

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Could we be about to get wealth taxes in the UK?

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Could we be about to get wealth taxes in the UK?

This is an AI-written (but human-edited) summary of Gary’s recent video: The UK is closer to wealth taxes than ever before The UK is currently closer to introducing wealth taxes than at any point in the last 40 years. In this episode Gary unpacks the current political situation in the UK, and a potential route to getting wealth taxes from it. The Political Context The Labour government in freefall. Keir Starmer, who won an electoral landslide just two years ago, is now among the most unpopular prime ministers in modern British history. Labour were routed in local elections. Living standards have…

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Orientalism — What Edward Said can teach us about the US-Israeli war against Iran

Orientalism — What Edward Said can teach us about the US-Israeli war against Iran

The illegal US-Israeli war on Iran can, of course, be discussed in terms of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism. But there is a more specific and often overlooked dimension to the conflict. It connects to the ideas of the prominent Palestinian thinker Edward Said and his theory of Orientalism Since the war began on February 28, US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed victory and insisted that Washington has reached its goals. In reality, the war for Trump has become a quagmire, shaped by a series of miscalculations by him and his advisors. Large-scale military attacks, heavy sanctions, and political threats did…

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