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Day one crisis for Khan? Creeps and losers threaten to leave London – including Laurence Fox
5 May 2024 @ 11:24 am
There are always several rich people who threaten to emigrate as a result of their favoured stooge not winning an election. In the instance of this week’s London mayoral election, there’s one who may follow through on his threats. Not because he’s a man of principle, but because recent events mean this man is considerably […]
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Disabled Charlie Chaplin found NOT GUILTY over Israel protest at parliament
5 May 2024 @ 10:26 am
As the Canary previously reported, last December Neil Goodwin did a one-man protest outside the Carriage Gates of the Houses of Parliament, in his mime character of Charlie X – in horror at Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. He was arrested, bizarrely as Bella Ciao, the Italian anti-fascist classic, belted out from a nearby protest sound […]
By Saskia Kent
#SwindonsSundaySermon: the world has gone mad if US students are the enemy
5 May 2024 @ 8:33 am
The pariah state of Israel is planning to launch a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah. This could well be its most disturbing and violent act of aggression since the beginning of the Gaza genocide. Israel: monsters supported by monsters Even little desperate-to-be-relevant Britain, forever devoted to the Zionist ideology, warned of the “potentially devastating consequences […]
By Rachael Swindon
Letters to the Canary: the Tories dehumanisation of disabled people, ‘I voted Green’, and the SWU
4 May 2024 @ 9:57 am
The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to the news and politics, or anything else they want to get off their chest. We’ve now opened the letters page up so anyone can submit a contribution. As always, if you’d like to subscribe to the Canary – […]
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Born Free complete gargantuan 8,000 mile leopard rescue and relocation
4 May 2024 @ 9:22 am
Friday 3 May marked International Leopard Day. So coinciding with this day of celebration and awareness for the iconic spotted big cat, a global collaboration of organisations has announced the final stages of a enormous operation to rescue two leopards from a life of abhorrent animal rights abuse and trafficking. On Wednesday, the Born Free […]
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Labour tries to wheel it back after smearing local election voters as ‘Hamas supporters’
3 May 2024 @ 4:27 pm
Labour says it may be facing defeat in the West Midlands mayoral election. But instead of taking the opposition as a message on human rights in Palestine, a ‘senior source’ told the BBC: It’s the Middle East, not West Midlands that will have won Street the Mayoralty. Once again Hamas are the real villains. Andy […]
By James Wright
The Tories have broken the law AGAIN over their climate crisis response
3 May 2024 @ 4:16 pm
For the second time in less than two years, the High Court has found the UK government’s inadequate climate crisis strategy to be unlawful. Tories breaking the law on the climate crisis AGAIN In today’s landmark High Court judgment, which followed legal challenges by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and Good Law Project, the government […]
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Watchdog says states not doing enough to support press freedom
3 May 2024 @ 11:57 am
Media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders warned of declining government support for press freedom. The group, otherwise known by its French acronym RSF, unveiled its annual world rankings on Friday 3 May. In their report RSF found: the situation is “very serious” in 31 countries, “difficult” in 42, “problematic” in 55, and “good” or “satisfactory” in […]
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Authoritarian Biden cracks down on dissent on US campuses
3 May 2024 @ 11:43 am
US President Joe Biden insisted that “order must prevail” at US universities after weeks of turmoil and mass arrests at student protests against Israel’s siege on Palestine. For weeks, authorities on campuses from New York to California have tried in vain to suppress protests from students demanding arms divestment and a stop to the continued […]
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Palestine Action use van to block entrance to Elbit factory – as the police look haplessly on
3 May 2024 @ 10:38 am
Cops are getting more and more hapless when it comes to dealing with Palestine Action – as a blockade of Elbit’s Bristol site – involved in Israel’s genocide – just showed. Palestine Action: blocking Elbit again On Thursday 2 May, Palestine Action activists have, once again, managed to halt business-as-usual at the centre of Elbit […]
By Steve Topple