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Matt Wrack demands ‘more investment’ as attacks on firefighters hit 15-year high
21 January 2025 @ 8:43 pm
Data collected by Legal Expert has cast light on the threat faced by firefighters around the UK and led to Matt Wrack, then-general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, calling for urgent change. The information, which was gathered through Freedom of Information requests sent to nearly 40 fire services around the UK, shows that members of the […]
By The Canary
Chris Nineham to speak publicly on Wednesday over his arrest at pro-Palestine march
21 January 2025 @ 7:39 pm
Chris Nineham, co-founder of the Stop The War Coalition, will speak publicly for the first time tomorrow (Wednesday 22 January). It is following his arrest at Saturday’s Palestine March in London. Chris Nineham: unfairly arrested Chris Nineham, who was the chief steward of the demo, was one of 77 arrests made by police in what […]
By The Canary
The BBC wasn’t the only one to whitewash Elon Musk’s Nazi salute
21 January 2025 @ 7:03 pm
The Nazi salute of world’s richest man Elon Musk was hardly surprising, considering the way he’s been spreading racist disinformation and backing fascists all around the world in recent months. He’s apparently now funding the legal fight of British far-right figure Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), for example. But the BBC‘s ‘both sides’ response was awful […]
By Ed Sykes
Over 40 legal experts call for inquiry into Met handling of Palestine March – as its boss gets caught out
21 January 2025 @ 4:55 pm
Over 40 prominent UK legal scholars have condemned the actions of the Met Police in relation to Saturday 18 January’s Palestine March in London in a letter to the home secretary. They have called the Met’s approach to policing “an abuse of police powers” and called on the government repeal repressive legislation and defend the […]
By The Canary
Israel is annexing the occupied West Bank as we speak – making a mockery of the ‘ceasefire’
21 January 2025 @ 3:46 pm
Reports are now emerging that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has announced a comprehensive closure of the ‘Judea and Samaria Area’, which is Israel’s name for the illegally occupied West Bank. The closure is due to begin at 7pm this evening, 21 January 2025, lasting until Monday 1 February 2025. The reckless and dangerous move […]
By The Canary
Green Party politicians rally behind people arrested at Saturday’s pro-Palestine march
21 January 2025 @ 1:45 pm
Two Green Party politicians have hit back at the Met Police over the arrests of peaceful protesters on Saturday 18 January at the Palestine March in London. ‘It’s about choices’ Following this weekend’s disgraceful policing tactics from the Met Police against protestors organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) to urge the British government to […]
By The Canary
Capital Radio North Wales is being abolished – but people are fighting back
21 January 2025 @ 12:51 pm
Cymdeithas yr Iaith has called on officers of the commercial radio company Global Radio to reverse its decision to abolish Welsh language provision of Capital Radio North Wales, and has asked the regulatory authority for telecommunications, Ofcom, about its part in the decision. Capital Radio North Wales: not going down without a fight Global seems […]
By The Canary
Here’s the Eugenics part of Donald Trump’s speech you might’ve missed
21 January 2025 @ 12:44 pm
Well, Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was a shit show wasn’t it? Whilst Trump declared he wanted to be known as “peacemaker and a unifier” his speech of course said otherwise. In amongst declaring that the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed the Gulf of America, that the US would only recognise two genders, and announcing […]
By Rachel Charlton-Dailey
Israeli forces arrest & kill Palestinians as Trump lifts sanctions on far-right settlers
21 January 2025 @ 12:22 pm
Pro-Israel lobbyists say Donald Trump was “the greatest president ever for Israel” in his first term as US leader. And as he starts his second term, he’s wasted no time in bolstering the settler-colonial project. Because amid a shaky ceasefire giving Palestinians in Gaza a brief pause from genocide, he has lifted sanctions on “far-right […]
By Ed Sykes
Here are the pro-Trump, pro-Israel billionaires Oxfam’s report should have told you about
21 January 2025 @ 12:05 pm
As Donald Trump becomes US president for a second time, Oxfam has released a report showing that the wealth of billionaires increased by $2tn in 2024, “three times faster than the year before”. About four new billionaires popped up every week last year, but “the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since […]
By Ed Sykes