Heathrow Five lose appeal against convictions for planning protest that never happened

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Heathrow Five lose appeal against convictions for planning protest that never happened

Five Just Stop Oil supporters who have served prison sentences of up to 15 months for planning an action at Heathrow airport that never took place have had their convictions upheld by the Court of Appeal. Rosa Hicks, Adam Beard, Sean O’Callaghan, Sally Davidson and Hannah Schafer were among eight Just Stop Oil supporters convicted of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance after standing trial before Judge Duncan at Isleworth Crown Court in March 2025. A ninth supporter was acquitted and another pleaded guilty before trial. Of the nine convicted, five were given jail terms of up to 15 months, while…

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Farage threatens that white riots in Southampton are ‘just the beginning’

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Farage threatens that white riots in Southampton are ‘just the beginning’

Nigel Farage has recently defended his call for “pure cold rage” in reaction to responding officers’ treatment of murder victim Henry Nowak. Worse still, he’s doubled down on his race-baiting, claiming that there’s worse yet to come.  Meanwhile, the Times has been doing all it can to tow the Reform leader’s party line. The right-wing rag has managed to dig up a Hampshire Police diversity training day questionnaire, reporting on the pigs feeling “pressured” and “controlled”, as if that’s somehow connected to them ignoring Nowak as he bled to death. Back in the real world, the president of the National Black Police Association…

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Watch: Australia’s parliament horrified that Oz gave Israel ‘nul points’ in Eurovision

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Watch: Australia’s parliament horrified that Oz gave Israel ‘nul points’ in Eurovision

Failure to vote for Israel in the Eurovision song contest is antisemitic — according to Australia’s Senate. Ozzie senators are apparently untroubled by Israel’s blatant rigging of public and panel votes. But they are deeply alarmed at the fact that Australia’s official judges dared to give the genocidal colony ‘nul points’. So much so that they want an investigation into the non-scandal: https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/io5Z1lc5ByM6AqC61.mp4 Eurovision — colonial nonsense Israel, of course, is not in Europe. Neither is Australia, which just goes to show what a colonial nonsense the whole thing is. Audiences are waking up to it, apparently, with viewer numbers collapsing and several…

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Rupert Lowe’s reach on X eclipses that of Nigel Farage — and all thanks go to Elon Musk

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Rupert Lowe’s reach on X eclipses that of Nigel Farage — and all thanks go to Elon Musk

Research from the Financial Times indicates that Rupert Lowe — founder of the extreme-right Restore Britain — has more reach on social media platform X than Reform’s Nigel Farage. In large part, Lowe owes his success to billionaire Elon Musk, who bought out Twitter in 2022 (and then had a highly public fallout with Farage in 2025). Since launching Restore back in February, ten of Lowe’s X posts have received over 10-million views. Meanwhile, whilst Farage has over three times Lowe’s follower count, none of his posts have reached a similar mark. Whilst Restore currently consists of — in Farage’s words —…

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Zöe Bread shows us that ‘Manchesterism’ is neoliberalism

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Zöe Bread shows us that ‘Manchesterism’ is neoliberalism

Andy Burnham‘s busy soundtracking campaign videos with Elbow and Oasis, and declaring himself “the end of neoliberalism.” But one intrepid investigator, Zöe Bread, suggests otherwise. Zoë Bread is Manchester’s favourite Zoë Bread is a TikTok superstar sleuth with 1.5 million-followers and an impressive citizen journalist. She’s renowned for her engaging video investigations and antics, filmed wearing a bread mask. (See the Mill‘s profile.) Zöe Bread – via the BBC She’s spent the last year or so methodically dismantling Manchester City Council (MCC)’s credibility, one Freedom of Information request or dogged phone call at a time. Her persistent investigation even forced MCC…

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