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Shocking trade union poll is terrible news for Starmer’s Labour

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Shocking trade union poll is terrible news for Starmer’s Labour

A new poll has shown Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is rapidly losing the support of trade unionists. And it seems to be the billionaire-backed Thatcherites and ex-Tories of Reform who are making the most of Labour’s collapse. Trade unionists overwhelmingly say ‘Labour has lost touch’ Right-wing pollster JL Partners, whose co-founders have deep roots in the Conservative Party, asked 1,002 trade union members about political parties and leaders. And although 48% of the members who’d voted in the 2024 general election said they’d opted for Labour, only 28% said they would do the same today. Reform, meanwhile, went up from 16%…

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Netanyahu to bomb Beirut civilians for LEBANON ‘ceasefire violations’

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Netanyahu to bomb Beirut civilians for LEBANON ‘ceasefire violations’

The Israeli occupation regime is never afraid of rank hypocrisy. Presumably a result of its decades of impunity and the readiness of both western politicians and media to cover for it. That has continued today with coverage of wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of new airstrikes on Beirut. These are supposedly because Lebanon has been violating the ‘ceasefire’ with Israel. Israel has, of course, been criminally destroying entire villages, murdering families, displacing over a million Lebanese civilians and desecrating ancient religious landmarks. But readers of Western mainstream coverage would struggle to discern this. Instead, Israel is “targeting terrorists”. It has…

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Iraq hopes for an upset at the 2026 World Cup

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Iraq hopes for an upset at the 2026 World Cup

Forty years after its sole World Cup appearance, Iraq returns to the world stage carrying the dreams of an entire generation that never experienced Mexico 1986. Between memories of the past and aspirations for the future, the Lions of Mesopotamia enter the 2026 World Cup with ambitions that go beyond simply making an appearance. The squad hopes to prove their return was no fluke and that Iraqi soccer is capable of regaining its place among the elite. Qualifying for the World Cup was a historic milestone that brought the team back to the forefront of international football after many years of…

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Ex-Your Party activists form new Socialist Federation

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Ex-Your Party activists form new Socialist Federation

250 delegates representing Your Party branches and former branches across England, Scotland and Wales met in an online conference on 31 May and launched the Socialist Federation. Delegates included representatives of groups in London, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Coventry, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Essex, North Devon, Dundee, Newcastle and Cumbria. Attendees said they’d comprehensively lost patience with Jeremy Corbyn and his close-knit entourage, who failed to build on the promise of the mass signups to a new party initiative in summer 2025. And the assembled members and ex members of Your Party agreed to create an initial federal organisation with the aim of…

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Chevron CEO shrugs off Hormuz toll, but can he really?

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Chevron CEO shrugs off Hormuz toll, but can he really?

Chevron CEO, Mike Wirth, who is the money behind Donald Trump, said his company would not pay a toll to enter the Strait of Hormuz, claiming it is “international waters”. Trump recently threatened to blow up Oman if it, along with Iran, were to charge a toll on the ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Alongside Wirth, Trump also alleged the strait is international waters. The question is: do these Americans really have a choice? Chevron has six vessels under charter in the strait Iran has said: The process of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz by Iran is…

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All to London for the International Anti-War conference

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All to London for the International Anti-War conference

We’re hurtling towards more wars and greater global instability, with the governments of Europe responding with massive rearmament programmes and increasing moves towards conscription. So we urgently need a mass movement for peace to break with the worldview of the likes of Donald Trump and Tony Blair. The International Conference Against War on 20 June in central London will be a unique and historic step to building it. Over 1,700 people from the UK and across Europe have bought tickets so far and, with international speakers, this will be a truly world-wide solidarity conference. Speakers are coming from France, Palestine, Belgium,…

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The Peter Mandelson Network

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The Peter Mandelson Network

The Labour front bench will not be looking forward to the return of Parliament. On 1 June 2026, after the parliamentary recess, the second set of the Mandelson Files will be released, set to expose the disgraced Epstein-informant’s cosy relationship with senior Labour Party officials. Mandelson and the Policy Network Last week, it was revealed that United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) had flagged Mandelson’s bimonthly conversations with Tamir Hayman, a former Israeli military intelligence chief. Earlier this year, we learnt that UKSV’s recommendation that Mandelson not be granted security clearance was overruled by Foreign Office officials. However, less attention has been…

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‘After the Whales Spoke’ brings COVID-conscious theater to Western Massachusetts

‘After the Whales Spoke’ brings COVID-conscious theater to Western Massachusetts

A mask-required reading of After the Whales Spoke, a new play written and directed by Molly Brennan, will be performed Saturday 6 June 2026, from 7 to 9 p.m. at The LAVA Center in Greenfield, Massachusetts, as part of LAVA’s fourth annual On the Boards New Play Fest. The story is described as follows: Street medics have found a solution to the problem of anti-abortion, anti-trans legislators in a post-plague world where some people received instructions from whales. The reading will star Ash Richardson-White, Foster Finch Schrader, Birdy Elliot, Drum Fernandez, Asa Rowan, Soe Noire and Nancy Brennan. It will be…

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Corporate Western media appears to celebrate Israel’s Illegal occupation of Lebanon

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Corporate Western media appears to celebrate Israel’s Illegal occupation of Lebanon

Ethnic Cleansing — Several Western corporate media outlets have appeared to celebrate Israel’s illegal occupation of the Crusader-era Qal’at al-Shaqif Castle in southern Lebanon. “Captured a strategic mountain” At this point it sounds like AP is celebrating Israel’s unlawful occupation of Lebanon. https://t.co/b13dCVICHD — Assal Rad (@AssalRad) May 31, 2026 On Sunday, May 31, Israel issued more illegal forced displacement orders to all residents living south of the Zahrani River. The attack suggests that Israel is moving towards attacking the city of Nabatieh. Israel had issued more than 10 displacement orders in the last 24 hours. On Friday, the IOF crossed…

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Burnham’s no ‘King of the North – he’s the Menace from Manchester for the left

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Burnham’s no ‘King of the North – he’s the Menace from Manchester for the left

In these quite frankly desperate times for British progressivism, with Keir Starmer’s deeply unpopular government crumbling under the weight of its own timid orthodoxy, many on the left are (still) casting about for a saviour. Enter Andy Burnham, the apparent “King of the North”, Greater Manchester Mayor, and newly energised contender for the Labour leadership. Polls show Burnham is outpacing Starmer among Labour members, which really shouldn’t be too difficult. Burnham’s folksy charm and occasional rhetorical flourishes about public control of essential utilities play rather well in working-class heartlands. So let’s be absolutely clear from the word go. Andy Burnham is…

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Canary Catch Up: Sauciness of Rivals and substanceless The Testaments

Canary Catch Up: Sauciness of Rivals and substanceless The Testaments

Hello and welcome to Canary Catch Up. Each week, our resident telly addict Rachel Charlton-Dailey will bring us bang up to date with the shows she’s been obsessed with, what she’s hate-watching, and what she can’t wait to get stuck into. My God, it’s been hot this week, hasn’t it? I’m not made for this weather, but on one of the rare occasions I left my cool house, I saw the fantastic Mike Garry perform his poetry at King Ink in Sunderland. Garry’s poetry is a sharp look at working-class family life. His poem ‘what me mam taught me’ brought tears to…

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Valued at €2.5 Billion: The 19 Most Valuable Players in the 2026 World Cup

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Valued at €2.5 Billion: The 19 Most Valuable Players in the 2026 World Cup

The battle for the World Cup is no longer confined to the pitch; it has extended into the global football market, where the market values of players reveal the scale of the stakes riding on their performance before the biggest football event on earth. As national teams prepare for the 2026 tournament, attention turns to an elite group of stars whose names have become footballing fortunes, collectively valued at over two billion euros. According to the latest data from “Transfermarkt” as of the publication date of this report, the number of players whose market value exceeds the €100 million threshold has…

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British company responsible for California chemical leak is building F-35 parts for Israel

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British company responsible for California chemical leak is building F-35 parts for Israel

The military contractor responsible for a huge chemical leak in southern California is also manufacturing parts for F-35 jets for Israel. A 7,000-gallon chemical tank ruptured and threatened to explode at the GKN Aerospace plant in Garden Grove, California, last week. It forced over 50,000 people to evacuate. Crucially, GKN is a British engineering company, headquartered in Birmingham. The tank contains thousands of gallons of methyl methacrylate. This is a highly volatile and flammable substance used to make plastic. Only recently, it was deemed at risk of a major spillage or an explosion. Garden Grove is a predominantly working-class and immigrant city…

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Why this stubborn cosmetics tycoon will make you root for a millionaire

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Why this stubborn cosmetics tycoon will make you root for a millionaire

I don’t usually root for millionaires. In fact, I would say I have a visceral hatred for them. Most corporate biographies offer nothing but exploitative tales of untouchable oligarchs hoarding wealth at our expense. Yet the wild, radical journey of LUSH co-founder Mark Constantine breaks this mould entirely. Hearing about Mark’s humble beginnings, how he experienced homelessness and sleeping under hedges, resonated with me from the start. I’ve been on the streets, and I know how hard it is. The laughter at the launch On Thursday, 28 May, I attended the book launch of Dear John inside the stunning LUSH studio on Beak…

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Streeting does Blair’s bidding with call for more drilling

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Streeting does Blair’s bidding with call for more drilling

On 26 May, the wax-faced war criminal Tony Blair returned with a half-baked essay on what the UK should do next. Among his widely-panned arguments was the suggestion that we need to increase North Sea drilling. And now, like clockwork, the Blairite homunculus Wes Streeting has stepped forwards to make roughly the same argument: Labour should cut national insurance and issue new oil drilling licences for North Sea, Streeting says https://t.co/yWsOYDXf0n — LBC (@LBC) May 31, 2026 New Streeting, New Danger In his essay, Blair wrote: 3. We must prioritise cheaper energy and electrification over net zero and use what is…

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Burnham slams ‘desperate’ Farage over vile AI slop-post

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Burnham slams ‘desperate’ Farage over vile AI slop-post

On 30 May, Nigel Farage posted the latest in a long line of dehumanising political ads. Reacting with more good humour than Farage deserved, Makerfield candidate Andy Burnham responded as follows: Are you getting desperate, lad? Maybe keep your crypto millions for something else. — Andy Burnham (@AndyBurnhamGM) May 30, 2026 Using refugees as pawns like this shows that Farage lacks any empathy whatsoever. And if he cares this little for the people who are most in need, we’ve got bad news for anyone deluded enough to think he cares about them. Nasty Nigel Farage later highlighted what he was talking…

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Trump loses it as US’s 250th Anniversary plans collapse

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Trump loses it as US’s 250th Anniversary plans collapse

Trump — As we find ourselves in the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, the country is more American than ever. This isn’t a compliment, of course, but it is a way of introducing the chaos we’re seeing around the anniversary planning — chaos even right-wingers are calling out: I’m actually pretty pissed at how badly they’ve bungled America 250. First they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one hit wonders. Then when that didn’t work they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk… https://t.co/lYo2jUWOLy — Matt Walsh…

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

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

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…

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A correction and apology regarding Reform councillor David Barker

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A correction and apology regarding Reform councillor David Barker

On 8 May, the Canary published an article entitled “Sunderland Reform councillor David Barker allegedly beat up his girlfriend and abused child”. The piece incorrectly stated that Barker was the same individual who was given a suspended sentence in 2019 at South Tyneside magistrates’ court for assault and causing actual bodily harm to his girlfriend. The Canary published this based on information it had at that time. Since then, Barker has reached out to us and provided information categorically showing that he is not the same man who was sentenced in 2019. The Canary would like to unreservedly apologise to Barker,…

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Government washes hands of raising minimum wage for young people

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Government washes hands of raising minimum wage for young people

In 2024, Labour pledged to equalise the minimum wage across all age bands. Now, a senior minister has claimed that the act of governing is completely out of the hands of government: Page 45 of Labours 2024 manifesto stated: "Labour will also remove the discriminatory age bands so all adults are entitled to the same minimum wage" Pat McFadden is asked, when are you going to do this? McFadden says its not up to the govt to do it. pic.twitter.com/RSVJaZvf7x — Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) May 31, 2026 Has there ever been a government as comfortable with u-turning as the Starmer regime?…

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