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Workers across three galleries and museums demand better pay and conditions

Post author:Grace
Post published:11 August 2026
Post last modified:11 August 2026

The past week has been far from proud for employers at the UK’s major galleries and museums. Fortunately, however, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has been on hand to stand up for the workers. The union is balloting workers at the V&A Museum over potential strike action relating to pay, conditions and dignity at work. However, museum director, Tristram Hunt, has refused to come to the negotiating table, leaving workers feeling “completely disrespected”. Meanwhile, staff at the National Gallery in London have raised concerns over racially divided break facilities. Whilst the majority-white gallery staff enjoy an award-winning ‘accommodation hub’,…

Campaigners demand urgent government action this Severe ME Day

Post author:Rachel Charlton-Dailey
Post published:7 August 2026
Post last modified:7 August 2026

Another Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Week will pass in absolute silence from the government. The Canary has reported extensively on how ME patients are left to die in hospitals by the NHS. People like Sophia Mirza who died in 2005 after being sectioned under the mental health act without even basic nurse care. 8 August would be Sophia’s 53rd birthday; instead, she died aged 32. Severe ME Day is held on her birthday, 8 August, to honour her memory, and many others who have since lost their lives to this devastating disease and neglect caused by the NHS. Or 27-year-old…

Campaigners demand Andy Burnham delivers Autism Strategy

Post author:Rachel Charlton-Dailey
Post published:4 August 2026
Post last modified:4 August 2026

Disabled campaigners have written to Andy Burnham to demand he immediately establishes a new autistic-led Autism Strategy ahead of the Autumn Budget. Deliver for Autism, a newly formed advocacy group, has published an open letter calling on the prime minister to not let autistic people down. The letter was created by autistic campaigner Chelsea Webster, and backed by well-known disabled campaigners and allies, such as Elle McNicoll, Lou Chandler and Sally Phillips. Autism Strategy must be developed ‘now’ Webster says in the letter: I am asking you to support autistic people by committing to a working group made up of diverse…

Left-wing Jews demand Burnham do better than Starmer: ‘Good riddance’

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:27 July 2026
Post last modified:28 July 2026

Jewish Voice for Liberation (JVL) has issued a withering statement seeing off disgraced former prime minister Keir Starmer and demanding better from his replacement. Starmer, buh-bye – do better Burnham In an article on its website, the left-wing group looks back on Starmer’s record, particularly the lies in his departing speech about the findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. JVL’s verdict is that the EHRC’s report, and Starmer’s shameless misquoting of it, are a hypocritical “triple outrage” and an “extraordinary travesty”. It elaborates: First, the EHRC did not make any finding of ‘institutional antisemitism’.…

Spanish politicians demand Spain doesn’t extradite Fergie Chambers to US

Post author:The Canary
Post published:14 July 2026
Post last modified:15 July 2026

Multiple Spanish political parties are calling on the Spanish government not to execute Fergie Chambers’ extradition to the US. Representatives of several political forces have submitted a letter to interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Félix Bolaños García, minister for the presidency, justice and parliamentary relations, as well as to several government delegations. The letter calls on the Spanish executive not to execute the extradition of James Cox “Fergie” Chambers Jr. to the US. And it warns that solidarity with Palestine, in a context of genocide, occupation and apartheid, cannot be criminalised or presented as terrorism. The MPs come from the CUP,…

Israel lobby groups demand Burnham roll back even milksop Gaza comments

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:12 July 2026
Post last modified:12 July 2026

Israel lobby groups wasted no time in demanding Andy Burnham pull back from even his watery comments on Israel’s crimes in Gaza. Burnham refused last week to call the genocide a genocide. Instead, he said Labour “didn’t get right” its response. That would be Keir Starmer endorsing Israel’s crimes against humanity by cutting off fuel and water to the besieged open-air concentration camp. And ordering the RAF to provide active support for the slaughter of Palestinians — and almost certainly UK aid workers. And Burnham dared to suggest — after almost three years of slaughter, starvation, targeting of children, hospitals, schools,…

Greens demand political donation cap to end political grifting

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:8 July 2026
Post last modified:8 July 2026

Political donations are all over the news at the moment because of Reform UK’s various scandals. Establishment figures are arguing the issue is that Reform didn’t properly declare their various ‘gifts’ and ‘benefits’. As the Greens and others have said, however, the real problem is that billionaires are able to legally buy influence from UK politicians: Billionaires are buying influence in British politics. It's time to cap political donations and make every vote count equally. pic.twitter.com/jxSVXc5n6h — The Green Party (@TheGreenParty) July 7, 2026 Get big money out of politics In the clip above, MP Ellie Chowns says: In a democracy,…

Scottish MSPs demand another chance to free Scotland from Westminster

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:26 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) have voted to demand powers to hold another Scottish independence referendum. First Minister John Swinney described independence as a “golden opportunity” that would “put Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands”. Grasping Westminster running against Scottish interests MSPs agreed: the motion passed by 72-55, with the support of the Greens enough to see off an unholy London-centric Labour, Reform, Tory and LibDem alliance. Keir Starmer said he would not give Scots what they want. This is unsurprising. Starmer is an Establishment tool through and through, who has always treated Scottish Labour like a Westminster satellite branch. He…