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Lambeth elects first ever Green leader and moves to ‘cabinet committee’ model

Post author:The Canary
Post published:2 June 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Lambeth has elected its first ever Green leader at a reconvened annual council meeting at the Town Hall in Brixton. Martin Abrams, councillor for Streatham Hill East, was elected to lead the council, and Ciara Alleyne and Natalie Kane were elected co-deputy leaders. Abrams has named his cabinet, with ten councillors covering nine remits between them: Natalie Kane. Ciara Alleyne. Pete Elliott. Scott Ainslie. Zvikomborero Chihoro. Michael Chessum. Jeremy Isaacs. Sam Dorney-Smith. Alice Weavers. Jonathan Bartley. The Greens had been moving to implement a committee system of governance. This would have scrapped the executive model in favour of cross-party committees which…

Wales moves to decolonise its museums, and GB News is losing it

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:1 June 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Right-wingers are in moral panic over government plans in Wales to promote the Welsh language, culture, and history across publicly funded museums. In characteristic fashion, the dog-whistling GB News outlet published an article titled: Plaid Cymru accused of ‘cultural extremism’ and ‘attempting to rewrite Welsh history’ amid plan to decolonise museums. This unsurprisingly frames the progressive initiative in dramatic terms. At the same time, it fails to engage seriously with the issues Plaid seeks to address. Decolonising Wales The newly-formed, Welsh nationalist government said the initiative aims to deliver the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan (ARWAP). This will include the “decolonisation of…

US Congress moves to merge US and Israeli militaries — with Israel ‘leading’

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:31 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

A bill before the US Congress seeks to essentially merge the US and Israeli militaries — with many saying it puts the IOF in the driving seat. Many would say the IOF already is, of course. The ‘United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative’ has been described as a “sweeping proposal” to merge the two militaries to an “unprecedented degree”. Foreign policy thinktank Responsible Statecraft said that “Section 224”: lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of US-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. Others put it more succinctly, like Arab-Jewish ‘ex-Israeli’ analyst…