Charlie Alford

New report details the Spectator’s ‘systematic, sustained, & measurable problem with Muslims’

Post author:Grace
Post published:15 July 2026
Post last modified:16 July 2026

On 14 July, the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) published a shocking – but sadly unsurprising – report into the stark Islamophobia on display at the Spectator, the UK’s oldest political magazine. The CfMM is an independent non-profit organisation which monitors the representation of Islam in the mainstream media. For its latest report, entitled ‘No Mere Spectator’, it presented comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analysis: of 3,733 articles published by The Spectator between January 2018 and December 2025 relating to Islam, Muslims, Muslim communities, Muslim-majority countries, or issues in which Muslims were a central subject of discussion. From this analysis, it concluded that…

New report details long-standing systematic failures in Nottingham’s maternity care

Post author:Grace
Post published:24 June 2026
Post last modified:24 June 2026

On 24 June, independent senior midwife Donna Ockenden published her long-awaited review of failures in maternity care under Nottingham university hospitals (NUH) NHS trust. The report identified: long-standing and deeply embedded systemic failures across multiple areas of maternity and neonatal care. Then-health secretary Sajid Javid first commissioned the review after eight families came forward with accounts of the harm and loss they suffered. However, by the time the review closed in May 2025, almost 2,500 families had taken part. For the most part, their experiences covered just over 3 years, beginning in 2012. Likewise, over 800 members of NUH staff contacted…

The Lemkin Institute’s demolition of the EHRC’s anti-trans code was systematic

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

As the Canary previously reported, on 20 June the Lemkin Institute — a major international genocide watchdog organisation — issued a condemnation of the EHRC’s anti-trans Code of Practice. In our previous article, we covered why the institute was naming the anti-trans movement in the UK as genocidal. Here, we’ll take a look at the lengthy statement’s systematic demolition of key points from both the code itself and the assumptions behind it. If you can’t make it through the whole thing, don’t worry. It boils down to one simple point: The EHRC was not required to make its guidance as trans exclusionary as possible,…