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It’s an invasion: NYT finally gets ‘community noted’ for Israel-biased language
25 March 2026 @ 11:43 pm
The deeply pro-Israel New York Times (NYT) has a long history of appallingly biased reporting of Israel’s crimes. It continues to be called out and exposed, but the X social media platform is finally catching up. As one of many examples of its bias, the paper carried the notorious — and completely untrue — “Screams without […]
By SkwawkboxReform in trouble amid crackdown on crypto and foreign donors
25 March 2026 @ 11:36 pm
Civil servant Philip Rycroft has put together a report “ringing the alarm bell” about “covert foreign influence campaigns” in UK politics. And the government has responded with an immediate crackdown on all cryptocurrency transactions in particular, which could cause big problems for Reform UK. This increasing scrutiny of Reform’s dodgy finances comes just as the […]
By Ed SykesLabour has no clue how many children its ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ expansion will plunge into poverty
25 March 2026 @ 11:27 pm
As part of Labour’s nakedly discriminatory immigration ‘reforms’, the government is planning to expand ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) to settled migrants. Worse still, they have no real idea of how many children this ruinous policy will plunge into poverty. In November 2025, the UK government published “A Fairer Pathway to Settlement: A statement […]
By Alex/Rose CockerGerman bank says petroyuan may be born from war on Iran
25 March 2026 @ 11:12 pm
Deutsche Bank has warned in a new report that the rise of the petroyuan poses a clear challenge to the U.S. currency. The petrodollar system, built on a 1974 agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, faces a “perfect storm” from the ongoing war on Iran initiated by the US/UK/Israel, the bank said. The bank […]
By The CanaryTory former prisons minister Blunt pleads guilty to possessing meth, other drugs
25 March 2026 @ 10:50 pm
Former Tory prisons minister Crispin Blunt has pleaded guilty to possessing recreational quantities of crystal meth, cannabis and the sedative GBL. The plea was entered at Westminster magistrates’ court this morning, 25 March 2026. The drugs were found during a police investigation into rape allegations in 2023, but that investigation was dropped for lack of […]
By SkwawkboxThe think tank behind the DWP Universal Credit cuts is now saying the benefits system is too generous for young people
25 March 2026 @ 10:17 pm
DWP — The Resolution Foundation is the latest to jump on the disabled young people-bashing bandwagon. On Tuesday 24 March, the think tank posted a video on its X account laying into so-called NEETs (young people not in education, employment, or training). Naturally, the fact that disabled young people are not in jobs had nothing […]
By Hannah SharlandShadow DWP wet wipe Whately just attacked remote PIP assessments to shit on disabled people again
25 March 2026 @ 9:22 pm
Shadow Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) boss Helen Whately couldn’t help but get in the Tories’ punches on disabled people. On Tuesday 24 March, the latest DWP wet wipe (in a long line of DWP wet wipes) took to GB News to shit on those claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP): The main thrust was […]
By Hannah SharlandLabour’s answer to the energy crisis? Corporate welfare
25 March 2026 @ 8:53 pm
Labour’s answer to the energy crisis, spurred on by the war on Iran, is to subsidise the profits of fossil fuel companies. According to the Times, only households on benefits will receive the money that helps prop up energy companies. Instead, Labour should bring energy into public ownership, while transitioning to a Green New Deal […]
By James WrightNewly discovered film gives extraordinary first hand account of the General Strike
25 March 2026 @ 8:28 pm
A newly discovered documentary film provides an extraordinary first-hand account of the General Strike of 1926. And it shows how close many of the strikers thought it brought them to a revolution. This historic documentary, The General Strike – A Revolution Betrayed?, made in the early 1970s, was unearthed in the archive of radical filmmaker […]
By The CanaryBMA staff announce further walkout for same day as resident doctors’ strike
25 March 2026 @ 7:12 pm
British Medical Association (BMA) staff have set further strike dates for Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 April. These will coincide with the start of the six-day resident doctors’ strike on 7 April. The first round of BMA strikes kicks off this week, on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March. Like the resident doctors, BMA staff […]
By The Canary