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Would Ann Widdecombe have cared about someone showing they hate her?

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:18 July 2026
Post last modified:18 July 2026

An Aberdeen University staff member has been charged with an offence after posting insensitive comments online about Ann Widdecombe‘s death. Web developer Heather Herbert called the 78-year-old politician’s death “good news” on Bluesky. She also posted that she hoped Widdecombe had died a “painful death” before it emerged her death was being treated as murder. The late former Tory MP and Reform UK spokesperson was found dead in her home on 9 July. A 28-year-old man was arrested and re-arrested in Yorkshire in connection with her death, which is now being investigated as terrorism-related. Reform UK scramble to make themselves main…

Labour applauds PM they just mercilessly sh*t canned

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

So, Keir Starmer is stepping down as PM. And he’s doing so with a round of applause from the Labour MPs who just unceremoniously sacked him: Downing Street has just published a photo of the cabinet applauding Sir Keir Starmer at their final meeting this morning. pic.twitter.com/a1eXYGnmnY — Ben Bloch (@realBenBloch) July 15, 2026 We don’t think this latest display will enamour voters to Labour. Then again, they don’t seem to care about winning back public support. If they did, Andy Burnham wouldn’t be delivering continuity Starmerism. Clapped out Before we get into it, let’s remind ourselves what Labour MPs were…

Netanyahu says Israel will occupy Lebanon for as long as they ‘need’

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:9 July 2026
Post last modified:10 July 2026

Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu has said Israel will occupy Lebanon for as long as required. The settler colonial state pushed deep into the country’s south during the most recent invasion and is still holding swathes of Lebanese territory. Netanyahu said on 9 July: We will remain in the security zone in southern Lebanon for as long as necessary to guarantee the security of our communities in the north. The war criminal PM was addressing a group of Israeli pilots. The Times of Israel reported that he told them: The war is not over. Alongside old challenges, new ones continue to emerge.…

Polanski tells Clacton they deserve better than Farage

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:7 July 2026
Post last modified:7 July 2026

On Tuesday 7 July, Nigel Farage announced his intention to step down as an MP. Seconds later, he announced his intention to fight in the subsequent by-election. Minutes after that, the Green Party argued that Farage’s move is little more than a stunt: "This is another stunt from Nigel Farage. He knew the grift was going to catch up with him eventually, so he's pulled the trigger instead." Green Party leader Zack Polanski on Farage's resignation and forced by-election. pic.twitter.com/tLmqkflUAT — The Green Party (@TheGreenParty) July 7, 2026 Fighting Farage on the (Clacton) beaches In the video above, Polanski says: And…

The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone.

Post author:Rachael Swindon
Post published:6 July 2026
Post last modified:6 July 2026

For more than a decade, I have wholeheartedly backed the man who helped build Canary from nothing but a belief that media should serve the many, not the few. I have watched him pour his energy and unshakeable principle into creating an independent voice — one that challenges power, holds elites to account, and amplifies those the mainstream ignores. So when Lloyds Bank suddenly terminated Canary’s business banking facility without a clear explanation, this wasn’t just some sort of bureaucratic inconvenience. It was a direct, calculated assault on press freedom, political dissent, and the very idea of a democratic public sphere.…

“They brought me here to kill me” — abducted Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:5 July 2026
Post last modified:5 July 2026

Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, the hospital director abducted from Gaza in 2024 by the Israeli occupation, faces an immediate risk to his life. The Physicians for Human Rights (PHRI) group has issued a warning about the threat after Abu Safiya’s lawyer visited him in the Nitzan prison where he is detained indefinitely without charge. Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya — Continual torture Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya has suffered constant beatings and torture by his captors. During the latest lawyer visit, the doctor was shackled, bore fresh injuries to his head, face and neck and was struggling to breathe or speak. His condition…

Israel’s illegal war against Lebanon leaves 250k without proof they owned their destroyed homes

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:16 June 2026
Post last modified:17 June 2026

As Israel’s brutal expansionist campaign in Lebanon continues with absolute impunity, Lebanese officials warn the destruction could leave up to 250,000 people unable to prove they own homes that have been – or will likely soon be – demolished. Aerial imagery over Bint Jbeil has fuelled this growing alarm, appearing to show the destruction of sites holding civil records and land deeds – effectively erasing “the paper infrastructure of a city’s legal existence.” The Intercept report that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) targeted attacks have left Bint Jbeil without a notary. Government buildings have been razed to the ground, and Lebanese…

Algerian national team introduces Kansas to football – and they love it.

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:16 June 2026
Post last modified:16 June 2026

In news nobody saw coming, it would appear that the Algeria men’s football team are receiving a warm welcome at their World Cup base camp in Kansas. Americans don’t really get sport. They are famously terrible at most sports of note, after all. Presumably that’s why the make up their own rubbish games – American ‘football’ anyone? – and pretend that these sports have their own credible world championships. But times are a-changing in down in rootin-tootin Kansas… or something. A state is known for virtually nothing – except that old film about Dorothy and her dog and some wizard. Yet…

Real Estate Investors Don’t Need More Tools They Need Better Systems

Post author:Nathan Spears
Post published:29 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

The Investors Who Win in 2026 Are Not Using More Software, Tthey are using better systems. For years, real estate investors believed growth came from adding more software. One platform handled direct mail. Another managed lead tracking. Another controlled follow-up. Another organised acquisition. Another handled communication. Every new software platform promised to save time and improve efficiency. However, for many investor businesses, the opposite happened. Processes slowed down, communication became fragmented, and acquisitions teams whose primary responsibility was talking to motivated sellers spent most of their time managing software instead of closing deals. What looked like growth externally eventually turned into…

Basque police brutally beat Palestine activists after they return from Israeli prison

Post author:Robert Freeman
Post published:26 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

It might have looked like a scene from a prison in so-called ‘Israel’, but the appalling scenes actually unfolded at Bilbao airport. It wasn’t Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) beating peaceful Basque activists, but rather their own police force, the Ertzaintza, who smashed them with batons as they lay helpless on the ground. More shockingly still, the activists had only just returned from captivity in ‘Israeli’ dungeons. They were participants in the heroic Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which sought to bring aid to Palestinians starved by Zionists’ grotesque restriction of aid to Gaza. As GSF explain: When a family member, waiting anxiously…

West Bank — They left us our houses and took everything else

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:23 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

The occupied West Bank village of al Mughayyir has again been under attack by the army and the settlers. Non-stop intimidation and harassment from settlers and soldiers Early in the morning of 20 May, the occupation army blocked the entrance, preventing any movement in and out of the village. https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/WhatsApp-Video-2026-05-22-at-23.14.56.mp4 It then attacked the boys’ school with tear gas, which led to several injuries and cases of suffocation among students. This was by no means an isolated incident. Students suffer almost daily as a result of the army’s repeated firing of gas canisters towards the school. Then the settlers set fire…

“They have no soul but we’re stronger” – flotilla activist on Israel’s rape and violence

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:22 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Australian anti-genocide activist Juliet Lamont has spoken of the horrors she and other volunteer flotilla crew members suffered after their abduction by Israel in international waters. The Global Sumud Flotilla ships were trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians under Israel’s illegal starvation blockade. Deported crew members show signs of torture and report numerous rapes and the deliberate breaking of bones. Israeli fascist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir himself posted video of the volunteers being beaten and humiliated. But after her own deportation, Lamont gave more detail on what was perpetrated on her and others. It’s truly horrific – but she and her…

Why are the far right doing so well? And can they be stopped?

Post author:oscar
Post published:17 May 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

This is an AI-written (but human-edited) summary of Gary’s recent video: Why are the far right doing so well? And can it be stopped? Across the UK and Europe, far-right parties are surging. Reform are ahead in UK national polls. The AfD doubled its vote share in Germany. The mainstream response has oscillated between dismissal, alarm, and increasingly desperate attempts at imitation. Gary’s argument is that all of these responses share the same flaw. They are focused on the wrong question. The question is not how to discredit the far right. The question is why they are winning — and that…