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Owen Jones slams Reform following call for journalist’s arrest

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:14 July 2026
Post last modified:15 July 2026

Reform and its backers are on something of a tear right now. With the scandals mounting, they’re doing everything they can to deflect and distract. And it seems ‘everything they can’ includes literally calling the police: Retweeted by Isabel Oakeshott. Very obvious that if Reform come to power, they will lock people up for criticising them. pic.twitter.com/6Vtf4f5HYq — Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) July 13, 2026 The relevance of Isabel Oakeshott is that she’s the partner of Reform deputy Richard Tice. She’s also a self-proclaimed free speech warrior. And that’s not surprising, of course, because she’s far from the first such person to…

US Congressman Ro Khanna slams IOF after detention by armed Israeli settlers

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:12 July 2026
Post last modified:12 July 2026

Extremist Israeli settlers — is there any other kind? — detained US lawmaker Ro Khanna as he visited the occupied West Bank last week. Khanna — one of the more critical of Israel among US politicians — was held for around 90 minutes by land-thieves armed with M4 assault rifles. He said that when Israeli troops finally turned up: they sided with the settlers and continued our detention. Khanna becomes the first US politician held by the apartheid colony. Surely his brown skin had nothing to do with it. The detention has been ignored by the White House and US Israel…

Stop the War slams media platforming generals and arms companies

Post author:The Canary
Post published:30 June 2026
Post last modified:1 July 2026

Keir Starmer announced his defence investment plan (DIP) today and while the media is welcoming it with open arms (pun intended), the Stop the War (StW) Coalition has rightly called out the BS. The FT said the increase in defence spending of approximately £15 billion was recently raised by £1 billion in the wake of John Healey’s resignation as defence secretary this month. It has apparently been signed off by Starmer’s expected successor, Andy Burnham. Stop the War: ‘Never mind the cost of living crisis…’ Stop the War (StW) Coalition posted on X that generals and arms companies have been all…

Ghana coach slams 2026 World Cup: money has taken over football

Post author:Alaa Shamali
Post published:28 June 2026
Post last modified:28 June 2026

Despite leading Ghana to the Round of 32 in the 2026 World Cup, Portuguese manager Carlos Queiroz hasn’t hidden his frustration with this year’s tournament. He has voiced sharp criticism of the new 48-team format, arguing that the World Cup is losing its historical prestige and competitive edge. Speaking after Ghana’s 2-1 defeat to Croatia in their final group stage match, Queiroz contended that expanding the field has diluted the exclusivity of qualifying — an achievement he says once required years of intense effort and fierce competition. The Portuguese coach questioned whether the tournament has actually gained value by adding more…

Genocide prevention watchdog slams EHRC’s transphobic code with searing response

Post author:Grace
Post published:22 June 2026
Post last modified:23 June 2026

On 20 June, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security issued a statement condemning the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) anti-trans Code of Practice, which is currently up for parliamentary scrutiny. For those unfamiliar, the Lemkin Institute is a multinational, non-governmental organisation which monitors for signs of genocide around the world. It was named for Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term ‘genocide’, and campaigned to instate the UN’s convention on the crime. In the past year, the institute has issued red flag warnings for Israel’s genocidal actions in Palestine and Lebanon, Trump’s threats against…

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

Post author:The Canary
Post published:11 June 2026
Post last modified:11 June 2026

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…

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

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:31 May 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

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…