Charlie Alford

Netanyahu challenger thinks Israel isn’t attacking enough neighbours

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:28 July 2026
Post last modified:28 July 2026

Israel’s former prime minister, Naftali Bennett has said he will declare US ally Qatar to be an “enemy state” if he succeeds in replacing current Benjamin Netanyahu this autumn. The far-right politician also told Bloomberg he wants to start a war on Turkey. Bennett, who used to be Netanyahu’s chief of staff, clearly thinks Israel is not waging war on enough of his neighbours. Qatar was trying, at the request of the US, to facilitate a peace deal between Israel and Hamas when Israel bombed the capital city, Doha, to try to murder the Palestinian negotiators. Bennett has boasted of how…

EXCLUSIVE: Man who wrote Sharon Graham’s first Unite manifesto now supports challenger

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:18 July 2026
Post last modified:18 July 2026

Sharon Graham’s former Unite election campaign organiser Matt Smith now supports her opponent, Simon Dubbins. Having seen Graham in action as general secretary, Smith believes that another five years of Graham would be “an utter disaster for our union”. But he didn’t only play an extensive role in her 2021 general secretary election campaign. According to senior union insiders, he “wrote her manifesto”. Unite endured five misused years under Graham Smith said that Graham has increased corruption at Unite rather than reduce it. He claimed that she had appointed useless cronies to senior positions and even made up a “ghost job”…

Another Sharon Graham die-hard asks Unite members to vote for her challenger

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:6 July 2026
Post last modified:6 July 2026

I now need to put right my wrong. These are the words of long-time Unite executive member and union convenor, Steve Hibbert, in a video he has published for the union’s general secretary election. Hibbert campaigned in 2021 for Sharon Graham to become Unite’s general secretary. Now, like fellow former-diehard Dave Williams, he wants union members to support her challenger, Simon Dubbins. Hibbert cites “grave concerns at the actions taken by the union under Sharon” and the “toxic” environment she (and her husband) have created. https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Hibbert-Unite-Subbed-hb.mp4 Unite exec member’s video could have been longer Hibbert’s succinct video could have been far,…