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Campaigners demand urgent government action this Severe ME Day

Campaigners demand urgent government action this Severe ME Day

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…

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Spanish government minister blames Israel for Ceuta ‘surge’

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Spanish government minister blames Israel for Ceuta ‘surge’

Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente has suggested Israel is behind the ‘immigration crisis’ in Spain’s Ceuta enclave in Morocco. The Moroccan government is widely considered a US client state and is heavily dependent on Israeli weapons supply. Israel and the US have been accused of coordinating the Ceuta crisis, in which thousands of Moroccans poured into the enclave and at least 67 people have died, to punish Spain. Spain’s resistance to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its refusal to allow US warplanes to use Spanish bases and airspace to attack Iran and Spain’s condemnation of Israel’s racist attack on footballer Lamine Yamal…

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‘Darkest hour’: Scottish government sends aid to Palestine and Venezuela

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‘Darkest hour’: Scottish government sends aid to Palestine and Venezuela

The First Minister of Scotland, SNP leader John Swinney, has announced an aid package of £500,000 to Palestinians. Swinney stated online that the aid fund aims to: support access to food, healthcare, clean water and shelter. The funding will come in addition to £600,000 already provided last year. This has reportedly assisted over two million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. In times of an unprecedented genocide, in Gaza and beyond, any amount of such valuable aid is desperately needed. First Minister @JohnSwinney met Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Dr Husam Zomlot and discussed the situation in Gaza and the…

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Irish government disgraces itself with refusal of Gaza study visas

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Irish government disgraces itself with refusal of Gaza study visas

In a move that is as farcical as it is shameful, Irish immigration authorities have refused large numbers of study visas for students from Gaza seeking to enrol at universities. RTÉ say that: …upwards of 20 Gazan students, who have all been accepted onto fully funded scholarships for third-level courses, have had their visa applications turned down by Irish immigration authorities. Others are awaiting outcomes. The farce lies in the nature of the refusal letters, which read like a sort of cruel joke. RTÉ reports the reasons given for refusing applications to study include: …not supplying original bank statements, a failure…

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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

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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

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…

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So much for Number 10 North – top government roles dominated by southerners

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So much for Number 10 North – top government roles dominated by southerners

With evidence mounting daily that Andy Burham’s regime will be absolute continuity nonsense with a mild northern accent, research shows just how thin the veneer of north-ness might be. Ahead of Burnham creating Number 10 North, the Sutton Trust has released analysis of its Elitist Britain 2025 report. It shows that people who grew up in London and the South East dominate the key roles making decisions that affect all our lives. Half of all top government officials got their education in London and the South East. Almost a third went to private schools in those regions. This includes 50% of…

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Covid cronyism: Inquiry finds Johnson government squandered £10bn in unusable PPE

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Covid cronyism: Inquiry finds Johnson government squandered £10bn in unusable PPE

Boris Johnson’s government wasted £10bn on unusable personal protective equipment (PPE), the Covid inquiry report has found. Inquiry chair Heather Hallett also slammed the then-Conservative government’s use of firms with Tory ‘VIP’ connections to fulfil major PPE contracts. Focusing on the broader impact of Covid, the Guardian reported: The most high-profile scandal of the VIP lane contracts was PPE Medpro, a newly formed company linked to the then Conservative peer Michelle Mone, which was awarded two contracts worth £203m after Mone first approached Michael Gove, the then Cabinet Office minister, in May 2020. Hallett noted in her report: “The ‘high priority…

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Painfully slow decline in animal testing exposes a government dragging its feet

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Painfully slow decline in animal testing exposes a government dragging its feet

New Home Office statistics have laid bare the true extent of our government’s broken promises when it comes to animal testing and animal rights. Researchers in UK laboratories carried out scientific procedures on animals 2.5 million times in 2025. This is a pathetic 4% decrease from 2024, revealing a government that is failing to meet the expectations of the public it supposedly serves. Despite releasing the Replacing animals in Science strategy in November 2025, the state has still condemned millions of animals to suffer disgusting and painful procedures. We need to transition to modern, humane scientific methods of testing. Now. Animal testing…

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Government urged to end animal welfare labelling confusion on meat products

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Government urged to end animal welfare labelling confusion on meat products

Animal welfare charity FOUR PAWS UK is calling on the government to back mandatory animal welfare labelling legislation. It has published a report that reveals widespread confusion on supermarket shelves and growing public demand for a simpler, more transparent system. A special event in parliament on 9 July launched the report. It included a pop-up supermarket aisle where parliamentarians saw how regulated welfare labels could transform the way we shop. The report highlights a fragmented labelling landscape. Shoppers currently have to navigate a patchwork of assurance logos and welfare claims. And there’s often no clear information on how animals were bred,…

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Irish government steps up its funding of genocide-backing Palantir

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Irish government steps up its funding of genocide-backing Palantir

Micheál Martin’s toxic government has doubled down on backing one of the world’s most nakedly criminal corporations, by allowing the Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) to increase its shares in the murderous Palantir. The Ditch reports the following: The Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) held 22,073 shares in Palantir valued at €3.34 million at the end of 2025, according to the National Treasury Management Agency’s (NTMA) annual report published yesterday. ISIF’s annual report for the previous year showed a lower holding of 13,060 shares, for a total of just under €1 million euros. So as Palantir’s appalling activities have become increasingly…

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Scottish SNP government announces popular AI data centre moratorium

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Scottish SNP government announces popular AI data centre moratorium

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has announced plans to support a pause on all new AI data centre developments, the National has revealed. The move comes after many months of community protests against proposed sites across the country. There has been both grassroots and political pushback, including from several MSPs from various parties. The SNP-run government of Scotland will join calls from the Scottish Greens to support a moratorium on AI data centre developments. The moratorium will be accepted following a vote by the SNP’s National Council, a key decision-making body in the party’s organisation. The two parties hold a clear…

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Government urged to legislate on maximum working temperature amid third heatwave

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Government urged to legislate on maximum working temperature amid third heatwave

Pressure on the UK government to set a maximum working temperature is mounting as a third heatwave hits Britain, with ministers now apparently considering legislation for the first time. In the last week of June 2026, over 1,500 people took part in a Heat Strike. They set up Cool Stations to hand out water and health advice in town centres from Exeter to York. Strikers held symbolic lunchtime-walk-outs in solidarity with those in extreme heat, and took thermometers into work to demonstrate how hot and unsafe it was. Workers take the initiative over maximum working temperature In London, bus drivers removed themselves…

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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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UK government plan will ‘ruin’ YouTube around the world

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UK government plan will ‘ruin’ YouTube around the world

Great Britain is developing a reputation for its opposition to civil liberties and online freedoms. The latest example of this is the government’s plan to turn YouTube into an instrument for disseminating establishment-friendly media: YouTube says the proposals could require it to put "some channels above others":https://t.co/Ad03iabJqF — Dexerto (@Dexerto) July 4, 2026 Will Andy Burnham run with this policy when he becomes PM? Or will he see sense, and realise that taking on a planet full of YouTube creators isn’t going to give his government the propaganda boost they’re anticipating? Goebbels Mr Bean As Dexerto reported: The UK government has revealed…

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Lebanon — fury at the government sell-out of the south

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Lebanon — fury at the government sell-out of the south

Lebanon — On Friday (June 26th,) as the Shia festival of Ashura concluded, protestors took to the streets of South Beirut to vent their anger as news spread of the ‘framework agreement’ between the Lebanese government and Israel. Youth on foot, and riding scooters, blocked the main road to the airport with burning barricades. It took the army several hours to regain control of the area. On paper the deal looks weak, to say the least. Just four out of sixteen parties represented in the Lebanese Parliament are in favour of the agreement. All of them are right-wing and Christian. On…

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Lush launches product to resist UK government assault on justice system

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Lush launches product to resist UK government assault on justice system

Lush is no stranger to standing up for what’s right. And now, it has launched a new product to highlight the dangers of the “constitutional crisis taking place in our courts”. The company will donate “75% of the sale price (minus tax)” to Defend Our Juries, which it says has been working hard: defending our right to protest and to a fair trial. Defend Our Juries has been a vocal organiser against the Labour government’s highly controversial ban of Palestine Action. As Lush states on the web page for its new product: Defend Our Juries is a movement of people dedicated…

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Lebanon government signs agreement with Israel in the blood of its own citizens

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Lebanon government signs agreement with Israel in the blood of its own citizens

On Friday, 27 June, in a room at the US State Department, Lebanon’s ambassador to Washington — with zero diplomatic credentials prior to this post — signed her name to a “framework agreement” with Israel. US secretary of state Marco Rubio beamed that it was “the beginning of the beginning.” As usual, in spite of American imperial pomp the ‘agreement’ is not what it appears, as Al Jazeera reported: he agreement does not force Israel to withdraw from the large area of southern Lebanon that it continues to occupy, and Israel also appears to be signalling that it will continue its…

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UK government steeped in Palestinian blood: Gaza Tribunal publishes new book

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UK government steeped in Palestinian blood: Gaza Tribunal publishes new book

The Gaza Tribunal, established by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and others to examine UK collusion in Israel’s genocide, is publishing a book of its findings. Its findings are unequivocal: Rishi Sunak’s Tories and, especially, the Starmer regime are steeped in blood, guilt and collaboration. One of the greatest crimes of our age As publisher Pluto Press notes: the true scale of Britain’s complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our age. This groundbreaking inquiry brings together original testimony from Palestinian survivors, journalists, human rights campaigners, international legal experts and whistleblowers, to evidence both the human reality of the genocide,…

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Sporting boycott votes fail as Irish government backs ‘Israel’

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Sporting boycott votes fail as Irish government backs ‘Israel’

The Irish government has again come to so-called ‘Israel’s’ aid by voting down two Dáil motions, to combat the genocidaires’ continued participation in international sport. The Social Democrats introduced a motion entitled Exclusion of Israel from Sporting Fixtures, calling for: …Israel to be excluded from all international sporting competitions, as long as the genocide and illegal occupation continues; They were joined by Sinn Féin, who focused on Ireland’s upcoming Nations League fixture against the land thieves, scheduled for October. The Stop the Game Campaign and FAI Participation in Matches against Israel have called on the government to “uphold its obligations under…

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US government weighs in on Nowak murder with the same old fascist lies

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US government weighs in on Nowak murder with the same old fascist lies

With grim predictability, the far-right US government has waded into the controversy surrounding the tragic death of Henry Nowak. A US State Department post on social media offered mealy-mouthed “condolences” to Henry’s family, though only after a tight string of fascist dogwhistles. In particular, the Trump administration repeated Farage’s ridiculous ‘two-tier’ anti-white policing claim. This is fitting, given the Reform UK leader shamelessly exploited Nowak’s murder to attack DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) initiatives. As the Canary previously pointed out, Farage clearly received this talking point directly from Trump’s fascist America. In the UK, ‘DEI’ is better known as ‘EDI’ (Equality, Diversity and…

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