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Ealing could’ve had 14 more left-wing wins with Indy-Green collaboration

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Ealing could’ve had 14 more left-wing wins with Indy-Green collaboration

The Green Party did well in the 2026 local elections, especially in London. In Ealing, for example, it got five new councillors. But if it had worked together with local left-wing independents, the borough could have gained at least 14 extra progressive councillors, pulling significant power away from Labour. Instead, Labour kept control. Indy-Green collaboration could make a massive difference in Ealing In the local elections, the Green Party focused on the less diverse and more expensive Hanwell Broadway ward. All three of its candidates defeated Labour there. Ealing Community Independents (ECI) candidates, meanwhile, stood in poorer and more diverse wards,…

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Eye witnesses to al Mughayyir school shooting in no doubt that head of Homesh “Religious School” is the culprit

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Eye witnesses to al Mughayyir school shooting in no doubt that head of Homesh “Religious School” is the culprit

On 21 April, illegal settler and head of Homesh “religious school”, Schmuel Wendy, shot dead two Palestinians outside al Mughayyir boy’s School, in the occupied West Bank. One was a 13-year-old pupil. There have been numerous claims that Wendy is the killer, but he denies even being in the village at the time. But the Canary spoke to various people who were at the school that day to find out more. Schmuel Wendy, illegal settler and head of Homesh “religious school” fired shots at uniformed Palestinian Red Crescent Society Paramedic Al Mughayyir experiences daily raids by the occupation’s military, and violent…

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More animal welfare charities call for an end to the guga hunt

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More animal welfare charities call for an end to the guga hunt

Two leading animal welfare organisations are calling on the new Scottish parliament to end the annual guga hunt on Sula Sgeir. They’ve published a new report stating that the hunt cannot be considered humane, despite a NatureScot licence condition that requires killing must be carried out humanely. This adds to the campaigning work of Protect the Wild, whose founder Rob Pownall ran for the Scottish parliament dressed as a gannet. Animal Welfare and the Guga Hunt comes out as NatureScot considers a fresh licence application for the 2026 hunt. The topic is also due to for consideration by the Scottish parliament…

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Unison sounds the alarm on workplaces scrapping trans-inclusive policies

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Unison sounds the alarm on workplaces scrapping trans-inclusive policies

Andrea Egan, general secretary of Unison, has written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to highlight the fact that workplaces across the country have already begun to withdraw their previous trans-inclusive policies. After multiple failed attempts, the EHRC laid its current draft code of practice before Parliament. The guidance is now undergoing a 40-day period of scrutiny, after which MPs can choose to accept or reject it. The draft code calls for service providers to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces reflecting their gender, and also often those of their sex assigned at birth. The government’s own impact assessment has…

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The UK’s favourite butterfly has been revealed

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The UK’s favourite butterfly has been revealed

Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has today revealed that the colourful peacock has beaten off fierce competition from a colourful cast of species to take the top spot as Britain’s Favourite Butterfly. Topping the first-ever vote to find the nation’s champion, the garden favourite beat 59 other butterflies to claim the highly coveted title. See the full run-down below. The poll saw over 20,000 votes cast across the UK between 15 May – 7 June. Engaging the public, with votes like this and with the forthcoming Big Butterfly Count, helps scientists track the fortunes of butterflies. And that can give important insights…

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Global banks finance fossil fuel with $8.7tn since the Paris Agreement

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Global banks finance fossil fuel with $8.7tn since the Paris Agreement

Major banks are putting increasing amounts of money into fossil fuel. 2025 saw nearly $1tn of investment in fossil fuel companies, even as energy instability is deepening the global cost-of-living crisis. The 17th edition of the Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) report finds that the world’s 65 largest banks committed $906bn to fossil fuel companies in 2025. This was an increase of 8% from the previous year. Since the Paris Agreement a decade ago, these banks have channelled $8.7tn into oil, gas, and coal operations. The report is the world’s most comprehensive open-source dataset on fossil fuel financing by commercial banks.…

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‘Rattled’ Farage lashes out at Musk & Lowe

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‘Rattled’ Farage lashes out at Musk & Lowe

An irritable Nigel Farage has lashed out at Restore Britain and Elon Musk. And he’s got good reason to be angry, because it looks like the Reform breakaway party could prevent Farage from winning in Makerfield: Let's see what happens next Thursday, shall we? — Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) June 10, 2026 Reform, Restore, Retreat In the clip above, Sky News’s Beth Rigby put the following to the hard-right leader: When it comes to Makerfield, Restore are doing well here and it could really hurt you. A tetchy Farage asked “are they?” before Rigby finished: What’s Rupert Lowe got that it’s appealing…

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Vape deposit scheme could recover £6.3m worth of lithium and copper annually

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Vape deposit scheme could recover £6.3m worth of lithium and copper annually

Despite 2025’s disposable vape ban, 6.3m vapes and pods still get chucked away every week in the UK. This has prompted fresh calls for a deposit return scheme for vaping products. Disposable vapes are an example of a product that creates a lucrative market with no apparent thought for the environmental cost. Each unit includes plastic for the casing, copper wiring in the circuitry and lithium in the battery. While the ban on disposable vapes has helped to reduce the number purchased per week, with a 31% reduction, 6.3m vapes and pods are still being binned each week. Alongside this, reports…

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Belfast burns, while Met chief points finger at Iran and Russia

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Belfast burns, while Met chief points finger at Iran and Russia

On 11 June, Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley appeared on Sky News to discuss the Belfast ‘race-based pogroms,’ following a horrific stabbing attack days earlier. Far-right politicians and pundits, with the help of tech mogul Elon Musk, love nothing more than turning tragedy into a PR stunt. They whip up fear and hate across the UK towards Black and Brown people. Meanwhile, white supremacist thugs have taken to the streets of Belfast, setting fire to the homes and terrorising local residents. It is clear that the situation in Belfast has implications far beyond the city’s limits. When asked about the…

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GB News host denies there were ‘riots’ in Belfast

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GB News host denies there were ‘riots’ in Belfast

On 9 June, an uprising of far-right agitators took to the streets of Belfast. These white rioters burned vehicles and houses, fought with the police, and targeted the homes and businesses of people of colour. According to GB News host Bev Turner, however, you wouldn’t call this a “riot”: A GB News presenter repeatedly insists "there weren't riots" in Belfast last night… This is what GB News advertisers are aligning with pic.twitter.com/lHAiC1SJO3 — Stop Funding Hate (@StopFundingHate) June 10, 2026 Shocking from GB News We’re not sure who Bev Turner’s guest was, but the interview on GB News went like this:…

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Reform reinstates “melt Nigerians to fill potholes” councillor

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Reform reinstates “melt Nigerians to fill potholes” councillor

On the same day that the UK dealt with the aftermath of white riots targeting people of colour, Reform UK reinstated the councillor who suggested ‘melting Nigerians to fill potholes‘. It’s a sign that the party doesn’t take racial justice seriously. Worse than that, it’s a sign that the party is actively pursuing an agenda of racial injustice. Glenn Gibbins, who said Nigerians should be melted down to fill in the pot holes, has won a seat. pic.twitter.com/mJjkK3KbbN — Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) May 9, 2026 Weasel words from Reform In May 2025, Glenn Gibbins was elected in the Sunderland City’s Hylton Castle ward.…

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‘Grotesque and dystopian’ sentencing of Palestine Action activists expected on 12 June

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‘Grotesque and dystopian’ sentencing of Palestine Action activists expected on 12 June

A judge is expected to sentence four Palestine Action activists as ‘terrorists’ on 12 June, despite the activists not being convicted as such. Judge Jeremy Johnson has indicated he may add a ‘terrorist connection’ to the charges of Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona (Ellie) Kamio and Fatema Rajwani under section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020. This is despite the jury convicting the Palestine Action four of criminal damage in their retrial. The conviction follows the four activists’ direct action to damage computers and drones, and spray red paint across the walls and floor of an Elbit Systems factory in Filton,…

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‘Dead Mouse’ slams cruel sepsis experiments at QMUL open day

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‘Dead Mouse’ slams cruel sepsis experiments at QMUL open day

Ahead of undergraduate open days at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) on 12 and 13 June, PETA has placed a new ad just a stone’s throw from the campus. It warns prospective students that researchers at the university are tormenting mice in cruel and useless sepsis experiments that consistently fail to lead to effective treatments for humans. The appeal depicts a dead mouse alongside the message: Septic Fail. Mice Suffer and Die in Sepsis Tests at QMUL – With No Human Benefits. PETA senior campaigns manager Kate Werner says: What QMUL’s tours fail to divulge to students is that on…

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Reform aghast as Spencer calls them ‘grubby’ in parliament

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Reform aghast as Spencer calls them ‘grubby’ in parliament

On 11 June, Hannah Spencer caused quite the commotion in parliament for vocalising a popular-held sentiment about Reform UK. Here’s what went down: "There's plenty of dirty grubbiness behind me." Look at their faces. Well said Hannah. #PMQs pic.twitter.com/9oD2OrP4KR — Oliver (@OWS1892) June 10, 2026 Presumably, that’s ‘dirty’ to the left of her and ‘grubby’ to the right. But what did Spencer say exactly? It’s a filthy job The offending comment in full was: Running a business as a plumber, I was well used to dealing with dirty grubbiness, and there is still plenty of that dirty grubbiness behind me. Given…

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‘The Fraud’ author to investigate how Labour Together shaped parliament

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‘The Fraud’ author to investigate how Labour Together shaped parliament

The following is a call for evidence from The Fraud author Paul Holden into how Labour Together shaped the current crop of Labour MPs. Call for Evidence: The Labour Together Parliament Shadow World Investigations and Paul Holden – author of The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy – are today announcing a new investigative project about the transformation of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) under the Labour Together Project. This long-germinating project is soliciting evidence about how Labour Party processes were used (and abused) to manipulate the selection of Labour MP candidates who now make up…

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US vassals band together to suspend ICC prosecutor Karim Khan for Israel

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US vassals band together to suspend ICC prosecutor Karim Khan for Israel

US vassals have banded together in a vote of the International Criminal Court’s 21-state ‘Bureau’ to suspend ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan. Khan has been driving the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli war criminals, including Benjamin Netanyahu and former ‘defence’ minister Yoav Gallant. ICC — Shameless political stitch-up Israel and the US have previously circulated allegations against Khan – a standard Israel lobby tactic – of improper behaviour. Now Khan has been suspended by the Bureau on a supposed ‘no indication of guilt’ basis. But as former UK ambassador Craig Murray points out, the move is a shameless and…

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Israel hires Hollywood producer to run US influence campaign

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Israel hires Hollywood producer to run US influence campaign

The Israeli occupation regime has hired a Hollywood producer for $900,000 to run its attempts to influence US citizens. Support for Israel has plummeted in the US across the political spectrum, especially among young people including Jewish young people: New Jewish Voter Resource Center poll finds “nearly half of young American Jews are functionally anti-Zionist” A recent Washington Post poll found that 61% of Jewish adults said Israel had committed war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza, while 39% said it was guilty of… pic.twitter.com/yQcvQYXbO1 — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) May 28, 2026 Daniel Rosenberg, who produced Spike Lee’s Inside Man, has been appointed…

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First war crimes complaint against UAE-backed Sudan paramilitary filed in Kenya

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First war crimes complaint against UAE-backed Sudan paramilitary filed in Kenya

The UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been accused of genocide, massacres and sexual violence. Sudan’s civil war has raged for three years with the backing of foreign and regional powers. Now survivors have filed the first war crimes complaint in Kenya. Twelve victims backed by a Swiss legal NGO urged Kenya’s chief of prosecution to pursue the case. Associated Press (AP) reported on 9 June: It is the first attempt to prosecute members of the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, the paramilitary group fighting against the Sudanese military for over three years, outside Sudan. Adding that: The group, which has been…

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Weiss set to run CNN after trashing CBS for Israel

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Weiss set to run CNN after trashing CBS for Israel

Israel fanatic Bari Weiss is set to take over the running of CNN’s editorial operations when Paramount Skydance’s planned purchase of Warner Bros Discovery is approved as expected. Weiss was imposed on CBS’s news operation in 2025 by its new, Zionist owners, despite no newsroom experience — with a naked pro-Israel agenda. The move has ruined the reputation of CBS as a serious news organisation, lost it some of its best-known faces and seen them replaced by pro-Israel mouthpieces. Weiss — spreading the plague Although the $110bn deal is not yet signed, both Paramount and CNN have said they expect it…

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Strike days drop by almost two thirds during Labour’s first year in power

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Strike days drop by almost two thirds during Labour’s first year in power

The number of working days lost to strike action plummeted by almost two thirds during Labour’s first year in power. This is according to new analysis from the GMB union. The 12 months leading up to July 2024, when Labour won power, saw 1,406,000 working days of strikes. During the year following Labour’s win, there were 559,000, a huge drop of more than 60%. The GMB will discuss the figures, which come from analysis of Office of National Statistics data, at its annual congress in Blackpool. Lifting the wages of millions of low paid workers and improvements to employment rights, such…

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