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Nine Lorry Loads Stolen Every Day in Britain and the Government Still Won’t Give Freight Crime Its Own Police Code

Post author:Nathan Spears
Post published:24 July 2026
Post last modified:24 July 2026

NaVCIS logged 3424 HGV cargo crime incidents in 2025, nine a day across a network that has no dedicated police crime code for any of it. A driver parks a loaded curtainsider at a layby off the A5 because there is nowhere else to stop, and by morning the load is gone. The loss gets recorded as theft from a vehicle, the same category that covers a smashed car window in a supermarket car park. Mike Dawber, a NaVCIS field intelligence officer, put the direct cost at £65.1 million for the year. He also said the real figure would more likely…

Netpol launches new report – ‘One Day in Edgware’

Post author:The Canary
Post published:29 June 2026
Post last modified:29 June 2026

29 June is the day that Section 164 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026, creating new restrictions on protests at places of worship, comes into force. On the same day, a new Netpol report examines the police response to violent attacks on an anti-Zionist protest against the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ that took place at a synagogue in Edgware on 14 June. Testimonies from Palestine solidarity campaigners and anti-Zionist Jewish activists, who mobilised to highlight how the event was openly promoting the sale of land in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, describe how a violent Zionist…

Hottest June day ever provokes climate denial from right-wing cranks

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:25 June 2026
Post last modified:27 June 2026

Wednesday 24 June was the hottest British day on record. In response to this, figures like Zack Polanski are calling for a renewed focus on the climate crisis: It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations. pic.twitter.com/SRv3myB8V3 — Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) June 24, 2026 The nation’s cranks, meanwhile, are out and about spewing hot air. Hottest day prompts climate denial Professional bullsh*t artist Rupert Lowe of Reform UK replied…

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…

‘Dead Mouse’ slams cruel sepsis experiments at QMUL open day

Post author:The Canary
Post published:11 June 2026
Post last modified:11 June 2026

Ahead of undergraduate open days at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) on 12 and 13 June, PETA has placed a new ad just a stone’s throw from the campus. It warns prospective students that researchers at the university are tormenting mice in cruel and useless sepsis experiments that consistently fail to lead to effective treatments for humans. The appeal depicts a dead mouse alongside the message: Septic Fail. Mice Suffer and Die in Sepsis Tests at QMUL – With No Human Benefits. PETA senior campaigns manager Kate Werner says: What QMUL’s tours fail to divulge to students is that on…

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

Post author:Alex/Rose Cocker
Post published:10 June 2026
Post last modified:10 June 2026

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…

Family of 40 day old Gaza baby – already an amputee – plead for medical treatment

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:2 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Content warning: this article features graphic video footage of injury to a child. On 25 May the Israeli occupation targeted the Gaza shelter of one month old Mohammed Ahmed al Khabit and his family. They were living in al Mawasi, a supposed “safe zone” in Khan Younis, in South West Gaza. Gaza heartbreak Mohammed suffered serious injuries to his leg, which led to an amputation. His mother, 30 year old Hanan Abdul Al Nasser Mahmoud, had been breastfeeding him at the time. She died instantly with Mohammed still in her arms. https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/moha.mp4 Mohammed’s father remains hospitalised with serious injuries from the…

What to Get Dad This Father’s Day: Tools He’ll Use for the Next 20 Years

Post author:Nathan Spears
Post published:1 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Father’s Day gifts are often chosen based on emotion, but without long-term practicality. As a result, the thing looks nice at the moment they are given, but quickly loses its purpose in everyday life. That is why more and more people are turning to practical solutions – tools that are not just given but actually used for years. Why Most Father’s Day Gifts End Up in a Drawer Most gifts fail not because of quality, but because they lack a practical function. They either duplicate items they already own or do not fit into daily routines. Even items from the wood…

Carns calls drones “most effective killing weapon” the same day he deploys mine hunting drones to Hormuz

Post author:The Canary
Post published:28 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Former special forces soldier-turned-defence minister Alistair Carns boasted on Wednesday that drones were the “most effective killing weapons” at a summit in Riga, Latvia. Thousands of miles away, the Ministry of Defence posted a video of Carns on Wednesday that showed him “droning about drones” on the RFA Lyme Bay, which they said had left Gibraltar for a mine-hunting mission in the Strait of Hormuz. The post said: RFA Lyme Bay has left Gibraltar, carrying underwater drones and cutting-edge minehunting kit, ahead of a potential deployment to safeguard navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. Alistair Carns explains why this autonomous tech…