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Moroccan whistleblower reveals power and reach of Israel’s Pegasus spyware

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Moroccan whistleblower reveals power and reach of Israel’s Pegasus spyware

A Moroccan intelligence insider has helped expose the scale and reach of the country’s use of Pegasus spyware. The advanced Israeli-made technology hacks into smartphones allowing spies to eavesdrop on and manipulate the devices. The former agent said Pegasus was used to spy on journalists, activists and foreign officials from Spain and France. As the Guardian has it: Pegasus, which is manufactured by the Israel-based NSO Group, allows its operator to access everything on a target’s mobile phone, including emails, text messages and photographs. It can also activate the phone’s recorder and camera, turning it into a listening device. Morocco claims…

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Argentina criticised over Falklands banner after England clash

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Argentina criticised over Falklands banner after England clash

Argentina’s players have been criticised after displaying a banner referencing the Falkland Islands in the aftermath of their 2-1 World Cup semifinal win over England. The banner, held aloft on Wednesday night, translated as: “The Falkland Islands are Argentinian,” prompting immediate political reaction and renewed scrutiny over FIFA’s rules on political messaging. The Falkland Islands remain a UK overseas territory, with islanders voting overwhelmingly in 2013 to retain that status. The islands have long been a point of tension between the two nations, most notably during the 1982 conflict, when Argentinian forces invaded before being forced to surrender two months later.…

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Thames Water issues massive bonuses to bosses… despite the ban on water bosses’ bonuses

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Thames Water issues massive bonuses to bosses… despite the ban on water bosses’ bonuses

Anybody out there remember Ofwat issuing a ban on water bosses’ bonuses at the tail-end of 2025? Well apparently Thames Water doesn’t — it just increased its senior managers’ bonus payouts to an eye-watering £4.1m. As the Canary reported only yesterday, 15 July, the prospect of public ownership is looming over the failed, sewage-spewing water company. The company is currently buried under £18.5 billion of debt, up from £16.8 billion a year ago, and is set to run out of money at the end of the year. What better time for the bosses to cut themselves a nice fat paycheck, eh? Job well…

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Oppressed Sahrawi filmmakers call for boycott of The Odyssey as Nolan chose to film in occupied territory

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Oppressed Sahrawi filmmakers call for boycott of The Odyssey as Nolan chose to film in occupied territory

Boycott calls are growing as Sahrawis slam Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied territory. All while doing nothing to acknowledge the occupation or the Sahrawis who continue to resist Morocco’s ethnic cleansing campaign to force them from their land. Nolan chose Dakhla as the location for the film, set for release on Friday 17 July, despite the fact that the land has been occupied by Morocco for 50 years. In turn, critics have pointed out that this can only work to normalise the oppression and forced displacement of Sahrawis. Sahrawi filmmakers and journalists have condemned this deplorable lack of empathy…

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Community Barometer sets out blueprint for high street recovery

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Community Barometer sets out blueprint for high street recovery

The 2026 Community Barometer report is the first major report into the health of the high street that focuses on putting place first. The Association of Convenience Stores launched the report, which highlights the use of the ‘Makerfield Test’ as a means to deliver good growth on high streets. The ‘Makerfield Test’ is the idea that a policy must work for somewhere like Makerfield or the government ditches it. There is a stark contrast in the report between the high streets that people feel are getting better and those that are getting worse. Across the UK, only Greater London emerged as…

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Zionist Greens label Zack Polanski antisemitic in further leaked WhatsApp Messages

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Zionist Greens label Zack Polanski antisemitic in further leaked WhatsApp Messages

The Canary can reveal further leaked WhatsApp messages from a secretive, Zionist Green Party group called ‘Greens Against Antisemitism’. The group appears to be orchestrating a campaign to brand opponents as antisemitic while plotting to sink a historic anti‑racist motion: Zionism Is Racism. More leaked Green Party WhatsApps At a time when the Green Party of England and Wales faced a watershed vote on whether to declare itself an anti‑Zionist party, internal messages obtained by the Canary lift the lid on a coordinated effort by a Zionist faction to manipulate the democratic process and drive out members who support Palestinian liberation.…

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Welsh Reform politician caught lying about fossil fuel interests

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Welsh Reform politician caught lying about fossil fuel interests

Welsh Reform UK politician Cai Parry-Jones MS has been caught out lying about his fossil fuel interests. Another anti-Net Zero campaigner in Reform, Parry-Jones strongly denied the claim that his share holdings benefit from climate deregulation. He was quickly shown up for it. To make matters worse, this all took place as Wales and the UK grappled with another intense heatwave. Some 2,700 people already died across the UK from extreme heat exposure. In summer 2024, in just five days, at least 557 Welsh people died of extreme heat. This is our climate-changed future. Here’s yet another story of right-wing climate-reality denialism,…

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MI5 lied to three courts in neo-Nazi agent case, inquiry finds

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MI5 lied to three courts in neo-Nazi agent case, inquiry finds

Senior figures at Britain’s internal security agency MI5 lied repeatedly in court over the case of an abusive neo-Nazi agent. Deputy investigatory powers commissioner Sir John Goldring has slammed a number of senior figures at MI5 over their behaviour. As the Canary reported on 17 March 2026, the spy agency has been ordered to pay compensation to a woman: coercively controlled, abused, and attacked with a machete by a neo-Nazi agent it employed. The fascist agent also: had fantasies about eating children. Goldring’s new report is scathing, confirming BBC revelations that: MI5 lied to the courts, something the security service vehemently…

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Starmer dismissed Holocaust survivors’ anti-genocide letter. Will Burnham ignore this one?

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Starmer dismissed Holocaust survivors’ anti-genocide letter. Will Burnham ignore this one?

In May 2026, Holocaust survivors and descendants wrote an open letter to Keir Starmer for his war on anti-genocide speech and protest. As with their earlier letters, Starmer ignored it. But how will Burnham act… Now, the group has written to incoming PM Andy Burnham to demand the reversal of Starmer’s police-state policies targeting protest and speech against genocide and in support of Palestinians. And the Jewish activists are asking, “Will Burnham ignore us like Starmer did?” The full letter, which points out the prominence of Jews in anti-genocide protest and the fact the only abuse they receive is from Israel…

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Jess Phillips is saying the quiet part out loud on the ‘prison capacity crisis’

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Jess Phillips is saying the quiet part out loud on the ‘prison capacity crisis’

Former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has landed in hot water regarding her support for Labour’s Sentencing Bill. The 2026 legislation is currently in the news because a clause allowing the earlier release of prisoners will come into effect in September. The new clause would allow the release of some prisoners after the completion of half of their sentence. This is a marked contrast to the previous requirement of three-quarters fulfillment. However, the legislation has drawn criticism because it could see sexual offenders being released earlier. Jess Phillips: hypocrisy on full display Phillips resigned her safeguarding post on 12 May 2026, among…

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Leaked documents show Corbyn rejected YP exec’s unanimous no-confidence vote

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Leaked documents show Corbyn rejected YP exec’s unanimous no-confidence vote

On 13 July, Skwawkbox revealed that members of Your Party’s elected executive (CEC) had voted no confidence in three leading CEC figures. The vote was driven by the CEC chair’s suspension of three well-known activists from the CEC for attending a socialist event. Early reports suggested the vote had fallen short of the required two-thirds to remove the officials. But Skwawkbox can now confirm that in fact they were near-unanimous. However, both chair Jenn Forbes and party leader Jeremy Corbyn have refused to implement it. Procedural excuses The CEC meeting was quorate — it had the numbers required to be official.…

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UK’s sorest loser Matt Goodwin claims Gorton by-election ‘rigged’

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UK’s sorest loser Matt Goodwin claims Gorton by-election ‘rigged’

In February, the Green Party’s Hannah Spencer wiped the floor with Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin in the Gorton & Denton by-election. Goodwin proved to be such a sore loser that people started calling him ‘Matt Badloss’. And now, Badloss has saddled up his loser pony to take another tour around the rodeo of humiliation: Matt Goodwin now on a tear about how the Gorton and Denton by-election, which he lost, by a lot, was "rigged". — Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 16, 2026 Matt Goodwin: tears of a clown As a reminder, here’s what the results looked like in the Gorton &…

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A death certificate is not enough for Kashmir’s enforced disappearance victims

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A death certificate is not enough for Kashmir’s enforced disappearance victims

Abdul Rashid Wani, a timber trader from Kashmir, vanished from Indian military custody in 1997. While a certificate of his death has finally been granted after 29 years, his family is still searching for answers about what happened to him. His son Junaid Rashid, who was five at the time of his father’s disappearance and is now 34, told Agence France-Presse (AFP): The government has now, after 29 years, acknowledged in court that such an atrocity was done. If this had happened earlier, I think Kashmir would look different. Our lives would look different, and my mother’s health would be something…

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UK is raising one of the unhealthiest generations of children in decades

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UK is raising one of the unhealthiest generations of children in decades

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has updated its landmark State of Child Health report, which looks at the health of children across 12 indicators. Nearly a decade after its first publication, this latest analysis has found that children’s health in the UK across all areas is either in decline or has stalled completely. Ranging from infant mortality and mental health to obesity, immunisation, and asthma, the report concludes that widening inequalities, gaps in data and chronic underinvestment are putting the health of a generation at risk. The report found in England: Only 84% of children receive two…

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Liz Truss addresses half-empty hall at UK CPAC debacle

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Liz Truss addresses half-empty hall at UK CPAC debacle

This week, the UK is hosting its very first Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). And if the early signs are anything to go by, there’s every chance it could also be the last: Liz Truss opens CPAC GB. In fairness it’s quite early. pic.twitter.com/sTaGyQNLxL — Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 16, 2026 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) CPAC has been a mainstay of the American right for decades. In recent years, it’s begun to expand beyond the Americas too, with the UK its latest target market. Reporting on the UK CPAC in June, we referred to it as a “Yank hand-me-down event“. We…

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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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US Blue Angels put lives at risk with low pass fly by

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US Blue Angels put lives at risk with low pass fly by

In an absolutely wild clip, an individual has recorded the US Blue Angels performing a recklessly low fly by over a beach full of people. And when we say low, we mean low. When we say ‘reckless’, we mean the subsequent air currents caused chaos: There's a reason the FAA banned jets from flying over crowds at airshows. Pete Hegseth's tiny dick is going to get someone killed. pic.twitter.com/3haZj5oXWW — Cuckturd (@CattardSlim) July 15, 2026 Blue Angels: Sonic BOOM In the clip above, a fighter jet is seen passing over the sea in the distance. Moments later, a second jet shoots…

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Whittome calls for ‘safe and legal’ asylum routes for Sudan and Eritrea

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Whittome calls for ‘safe and legal’ asylum routes for Sudan and Eritrea

On 15 July, Labour MP Nadia Whittome posted an impassioned plea to social media, urging the UK government to establish safe, legal routes for Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to come to the UK. Currently, and in contrast to similarly war-torn Ukraine, no specific refugee initiatives target those fleeing the two countries. Whittome accompanied the post with a video of herself speaking during the second reading of Labour’s Immigration and Asylum Bill. Voting against the racist policy, she argued that the bill would “punish those seeking sanctuary” and “weaken vital protections” for people fleeing persecution. ‘Safe and legal routes’? On 15…

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Campaigners disrupt event showcase demanding venues stop hosting fossil fuel firms

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Campaigners disrupt event showcase demanding venues stop hosting fossil fuel firms

Amidst the third heat storm of this year, campaigners demanded an end to London venues hosting events for fossil fuel companies. Fossil Free London campaigners disrupted inside the QEII Centre in Westminster while the venue hosted its annual Summer Showcase. This is an invitation-only event marketed to the events industry where companies can find suitable locations for their corporate events. In protest over London venues hosting oil and gas events, five campaigners entered the 40th birthday party event at the QEII Centre and disrupted the event. They requested to give a birthday speech within the DJ booth when they said: Did…

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Times’ columnist suggests Reform are the ‘snowflakes’ now

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Times’ columnist suggests Reform are the ‘snowflakes’ now

As we’ve reported, several establishment outlets have put an enhanced focus on Reform UK and Nigel Farage. Perhaps most notably, this has seen the investigations team at Rupert Murdoch’s Times newspaper revealing all sorts of financial scandals. It’s not just the investigative reporters who are diving in two feet first, though; the columnists are also at it: Reform can’t have it both ways on ‘hurty words’ https://t.co/nR0dR8tiHE — Times Politics (@timespolitics) July 15, 2026 Security Because his father was a minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, Rifkind has some experience of the security politicians receive. This is relevant…

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