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Karoline Leavitt resigns after Trump leaves her on decoy plane

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

In July, US president Donald Trump secretly changed planes while several members of his administration flew on what’s been described as a ‘decoy plane’. This happened because of a supposed threat to the president’s life. And people have taken it as a sign that Trump was more than happy to use his top people as bait. Now, one of the people he left on the decoy plane has resigned – press secretary Karoline Leavitt. And people are speculating it’s directly linked to Trump’s airborne shenanigans: Karoline Leavitt announced her resignation 24 hours after she found out that Trump left her for…

Would Ann Widdecombe have cared about someone showing they hate her?

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:18 July 2026
Post last modified:18 July 2026

An Aberdeen University staff member has been charged with an offence after posting insensitive comments online about Ann Widdecombe‘s death. Web developer Heather Herbert called the 78-year-old politician’s death “good news” on Bluesky. She also posted that she hoped Widdecombe had died a “painful death” before it emerged her death was being treated as murder. The late former Tory MP and Reform UK spokesperson was found dead in her home on 9 July. A 28-year-old man was arrested and re-arrested in Yorkshire in connection with her death, which is now being investigated as terrorism-related. Reform UK scramble to make themselves main…

Criminal charges to be filed against senator in Paraguay for her “utterly abhorrent” racist remarks at Mbappé

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:7 July 2026
Post last modified:7 July 2026

A senator in Paraguay, Celeste Amarilla, is set to face criminal charges in a case levelled by the French Football Federation (FFF). In recent racist comments aimed at France’s Kylian Mbappé, she called him a: colonised Cameroonian, desperately trying to pass himself off as French Adding he is a: brute who had not learned to write Captain of the France World Cup team, Mbappé gave a damning response to her racist hate: Madame Celeste Amarilla, you are a despicable woman and unworthy of your position. You do not represent Paraguay, that country which has sweated passion and honour throughout the competition.…

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,…