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Yvette Cooper should resign after Palestine Action fuck up
13 February 2026 @ 4:55 pm
Social media users are calling on Yvette Cooper to resign after the High Court ruled the ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Just heard on the radio that the then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s proscribing of Palestine action was illegal. She must resign immediately. All those wrongly arrested and charged must be exonerated. A total […]
By HGWater industry cynically cited the new DWP deductions cap while lobbying to hike bills
13 February 2026 @ 4:48 pm
The UK’s water and sewerage industry weaponised Labour’s Universal Credit deductions cap to lobby for higher bill hikes – all with the aid of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Documents the Canary obtained via Freedom of Information (FOI) request reveal how industry body Water UK and Yorkshire Water separately lobbied regulator Ofwat ahead […]
By Hannah SharlandICE chief insists paramilitary force won’t ‘guard’ US polling stations
13 February 2026 @ 4:37 pm
Trump’s personal fascist militia are pulling out of Minneapolis. But undoubtedly, this not be the last we will be seeing of them. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other US state thugs terrorised locals for months — even killing two — as they sought to bring the city under control where their presence is fiercely […]
By Joe GlentonHigh Court rules it’s discriminatory to enforce trans bathroom ban in public spaces
13 February 2026 @ 4:35 pm
The UK High Court has decided that the interpretation of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) interim guidance on a bathroom ban for trans people is incorrect. However, as has always been the case with this deeply transphobic piece of legislation, it is extremely difficult to parse because it is, at its core, nonsensical. […]
By HG‘Leftists’ are disgracing themselves over Chomsky and Epstein
13 February 2026 @ 3:43 pm
Since the latest release of the Epstein files, a media circus has ensued over the political and business figures connected to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The giddy fervour from some corners has been evident as people work their way through a huge number of files featuring the most powerful and elite people we know. In […]
By The CanaryMatt Goodwin wants to tell young girls when to have children
13 February 2026 @ 3:36 pm
As we’ve reported, the Reform candidate in Gorton & Denton is the academic and establishment-insider Matt Goodwin. Goodwin is now attracting controversy because he wants to tell young women when to breed: Reform by-election candidate calls for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check Matt Goodwin argued ‘young girls’ should be explained ‘the biological […]
By AntifabotVoting in the US just became much harder, in yet another erosion of democracy
13 February 2026 @ 3:36 pm
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring proof of US citizenship for anyone voting in the midterm elections. The House – controlled by the Republicans, took the vote on 11 February 2026 ahead of the midterms in November. The bill passed 218-213 to approve the SAVE America Act. Only one Democrat switched […]
By HGNigel Farage’s claim he ‘can’t be bought’ is ridiculed
13 February 2026 @ 3:30 pm
Nigel Farage has taken to X to declare that he can’t be ‘bullied’ or ‘bought’, insisting that he has: stood for the same principles for many decades. However, others have pointed out the super-rich tax evader ‘doth protest too much’. After all, it isn’t hard to disprove Farage’s statement when you scratch beneath the surface […]
By Maddison WheeldonPress freedom org accused of dropping ‘Impunity Index’ after Israel topped the list
13 February 2026 @ 3:18 pm
According to whistleblowers who spoke to Electronic Intifada (EI), press freedom organisation the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) binned its latest ‘Impunity Index’ because Israel was going to top the rankings. On its ‘About us’ page, the CPJ says that it exists to: defend the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear […]
By SkwawkboxIsrael used thermal mass destruction weapons in Gaza that made thousands ‘evaporate’
13 February 2026 @ 3:15 pm
Israel’s genocidal occupation military used thermal and thermobaric weapons on civilians in Gaza that ‘evaporated’ thousands of people, according to analysis by Al Jazeera. Israel evaporated thousands of people The broadcaster’s investigation, ‘The Rest of the Story’, based on forensic data analysis rather than estimates, found that 2,842 Palestinians were “evaporated” by the mostly US-made weapons. […]
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