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Bridget Phillipson, new Labour chair, funded by pro-Israeli lobbyists

Post author:Jody McIntyre
Post published:30 July 2026
Post last modified:30 July 2026

On June 28th, unelected Prime Minister Andy Burnham appointed Bridget Phillipson as the new Labour Party chair. What many in the mainstream media did not report, however, is Phillipson’s connection to Stuart Roden, a lobbyist with links to Israeli intelligence. Stuart Roden In 2023, Phillipson registered two £40,000 donations from Roden, the co-founder of Hetz Ventures, a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm he set up with London-born former Israeli intelligence officer Judah Taub. According to a Declassified UK report, Roden’s Hetz firm employs: an array of former Israeli soldiers, many of whom have served in elite intelligence units. Last year, leaked…

Exclusive: Your Party CEC holding Sunday no-confidence vote in chair, secretary

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:11 July 2026
Post last modified:11 July 2026

As the Canary revealed exclusively on Tuesday, disgusted members of Your Party’s (YP) executive committee (CEC) called for a no-confidence vote in the CEC’s chair and secretary. The call came after their removal of three well-known CEC members for attending a socialist conference. Skwawkbox can now reveal that the motion received enough support to force a vote, which will be held online from 6pm this Sunday, 12 July 2026. Your Party — Majority support Skwawkbox understands that a clear majority of members have said they will support the no-confidence motion. A senior figure told Skwawkbox that YP’s parliamentary leader Jeremy Corbyn…

The Office Chair Features That Actually Matter When You Sit at a Desk All Day

Post author:Nathan Spears
Post published:22 June 2026
Post last modified:22 June 2026

A bad office chair does not usually feel bad straight away. At first, it looks like any other chair: it fits under the desk, rolls around easily enough and seems comfortable for the first hour or two. The problems tend to show up later, when the back support feels slightly off, the arms keep catching the desk, or the seat that felt fine in the morning starts to feel less forgiving by mid-afternoon. That is why colour, price and style only get you so far. The chair still has to work after someone has been sitting in it for hours. Start…

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

Post author:Alex/Rose Cocker
Post published:16 June 2026
Post last modified:16 June 2026

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…

Labour chair to Farage: report your so-called Russian hack to the authorities, or I will

Post author:Alex/Rose Cocker
Post published:28 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Labour chair Anna Turley has issued an ultimatum to Nigel Farage: he has 24 hours to report his claim to have been a victim of a Russian hack to security services. If not, Turley plans to do it for him. It’s “in the public and national interest” to make sure that a possible attack by a foreign state is investigated properly, according to the letter Turley sent to the Reform leader. Farage needs to sound the espionage alarms On 23 May, Farage claimed that counter-espionage experts employed by Reform had found proof that Russian hackers used spear phishing to break into…