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Grifting dickheads are finally leaving the UK. We’re looking at YOU, ‘Lord Miles’
31 March 2025 @ 7:13 pm
Grifting dickheads are finally deciding to leave the UK – and it’s what we’ve all been waiting for. I’m in the airport pub (Wetherspoons) and came across an elderly couple. We started talking and they said they’re leaving England due to the amount of foreigners. I said same. There was a glint of sadness in […]
By HG
“Wake Up and Smell the C*VID: An evening without Eric Bogosian”: new play takes aim at NYC mask ban and more
31 March 2025 @ 5:10 pm
I keep writing about collapse, but I think it’s writing back. — Prophet from the Wrong Decade, Wake Up and Smell the C*VID As New York State’s budget deadline looms, so too does the specter of a proposed mask ban: introduced under the guise of “public order”, but carrying chilling implications for civil liberties, public […]
By HEPA (Holy Erotic Propaganda Arson)
عيد غزة؛ بلا أجواء وافتقاد للشهداء
31 March 2025 @ 5:01 pm
We’re humbled to introduce a new Canary writer, Alaa Shamali from Palestine – but currently a refugee in Oman. We will be publishing him in Arabic – but if you right click on the screen the menu that appears should give you the option to translate the article to English. If you are reading on mobile, this […]
By Alaa Shamali
Steve Coogan sums up the disaster of water privatisation – just as bills set to rise
31 March 2025 @ 4:49 pm
With the corporate cronies in the Labour government about to oversee an “awful April” where numerous bills will go up, the BBC told the country about “three ways to cushion the blow of bill rises”. It missed a key step off the list, though. So actor Steve Coogan had to add it for them. Speaking […]
By Ed Sykes
Eight months in, Labour is failing on all measures to tackle homelessness
31 March 2025 @ 3:40 pm
The Labour Party government recently announced plans to move towards homelessness prevention. Meanwhile, local authorities are paying private companies billions of pounds to provide temporary accommodation to people experiencing homelessness – which is merely a reactive, crisis response rather than a genuine effort to address the problem. The scale of the crisis A recent analysis […]
By HG
Shockat Adam didn’t just beat Jon Ashworth. He’s become a real progressive leader, too.
31 March 2025 @ 3:29 pm
Shockat Adam isn’t just the optometrist who helped to free Leicester from Jon Ashworth. He’s also been a consistent opponent of Israeli war crimes and prime minister Keir Starmer’s elitist government. And as part of the Independent Alliance alongside Jeremy Corbyn, he’s become a real progressive leader in parliament. Following the awful Spring Statement last […]
By Ed Sykes
Independent who beat Labour SLAMS the party for being ‘obnoxious’ to voters
31 March 2025 @ 1:43 pm
Independent politician Theo Dennison beat the Labour Party in a local council election earlier this month. And he said one of the reasons he was able to beat his former party was that it seriously harmed its reputation by being so “obnoxious”. Speaking to the Canary, he said Labour had essentially made the election a […]
By Ed Sykes
We can’t ignore how Myanmar’s earthquake is linked to the climate crisis
31 March 2025 @ 1:15 pm
On Friday, a powerful earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck central Myanmar, causing extensive damage and loss of life across the region. The tremors were felt far beyond Myanmar’s borders, impacting areas as distant as Thailand and China. This disaster highlights the critical link between the climate crisis and the frequency of such […]
By The Canary
65 horses have died at the Aintree Festival. How many will be killed this year?
31 March 2025 @ 12:51 pm
National animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports is urging the public to boycott the Aintree Festival in protest at the number of horses that die during the event every year. Aintree Festival and the Grand National: horse-killers Figures compiled by Animal Aid show that in the past 25 years alone, 65 horses have […]
By The Canary
Labour is letting the stenographing MSM get away with ruining local news
31 March 2025 @ 11:47 am
A new report has delivered a damning verdict on the UK Labour Party government’s inaction in the face of a crisis in local journalism – where corporate media has taken control and is destroying the sector with clickbait and junk. MSM: sucking the lifeblood out of local news The Public Interest News Foundation’s (PINF) Regenerating […]
By Steve Topple