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Farage breaches MPs’ code 17 times – by conveniently forgetting to declare over £380,000
21 January 2026 @ 12:30 pm
In a total shock to absolutely no-one, Nigel ‘two jobs on the side’ Farage has failed to declare hundreds of thousands of pounds in earnings before parliament. Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, ruled that the Reform leader breached MPs’ rules 17 times. There’s a 28-day limit on MPs declaring their financial interests, which […]
By Alex/Rose CockerTrump describes NATO as ‘the enemy’ while Starmer does nothing
21 January 2026 @ 12:17 pm
US President Donald Trump has taken to his social media app ‘Truth Social’, adopting a position entirely at odds with his ostensible Western allies. Trump has now declared that Russia and China are not the enemy. Instead, Washington now deems the enemy to be the UN and NATO. Considering NATO is a collective defence alliance […]
By Maddison WheeldonShockat Adam MP launches bill to improve NHS eye treatment
21 January 2026 @ 12:07 pm
On 20 January, Leicester South MP, Shockat Adam, presented a bill in Parliament to improve NHS eye treatment across England. The bill focusses on a condition called glaucoma which can cause blindness and affects 700,000 people across the country. People of African / Caribbean origin are four times more likely to have the disease than […]
By The CanaryCanada PM Carney gives the anti-Trump speech big wettie Starmer dreams he could
21 January 2026 @ 11:57 am
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney just stood up to Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum (WEF). After a year of our own prime minister Keir Starmer sniveling in Trump’s presence at every opportunity, you might have forgotten national leaders can do such things. Carney told an audience the old ‘rules based’ order was always […]
By Joe GlentonGoogle suspends ‘influencer’ recruiting Iranians for Mossad
21 January 2026 @ 11:22 am
Google confirmed yesterday, 20 January 2026, that it has suspended the ad account of US comedian and ‘influencer’ Desi Banks after ‘egregious’ violations of its terms. For several months, Banks’s ‘Desi Banks Productions LLC’ had been running an ad campaign recruiting “family members of Iranian government officials as agents of Israel’s foreign intelligence service”. The […]
By SkwawkboxA Pan***ic Play brings the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to the UK stage
21 January 2026 @ 11:10 am
For much of the theatre industry, COVID-19 has been treated as a crisis we “came through.” But a new production at Emergence Festival in Glasgow uses monologues to document how COVID and Long COVID are shaping people’s lives. It comes amid a wider, international push for COVID-conscious practices in theatre and live performance. A Pan***ic […]
By Protect the Heart of the ArtsGood Law Project uncovers Kremlin and far-right behind anti-trans group CitizenGO
21 January 2026 @ 10:37 am
The Good Law Project has long been a staunch defender of trans rights and its latest investigation into anti-trans group, CitizenGO, has exposed shady far right backers and Kremlin-adjacent figures. The investigation also identifies the lobby group’s worrying intentions to prevent preparations for future pandemics. View this post on Instagram A post shared […]
By Maddison WheeldonCanadian PM Carney rips up relationship with US with talk of a ‘rupture’
21 January 2026 @ 9:59 am
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has told the World Economic Forum that Canada is in a “rupture” with the US, “not a transition”. In a staggeringly frank set of remarks, he described the idea that Canada’s ties with the US bring “mutual benefit” as a “lie”: Writer and analyst Trita Parsi was stunned; in a […]
By SkwawkboxReeves woos Davos elite with UK corporate handouts
20 January 2026 @ 11:38 pm
Chancellor Rachel Reeves sought to woo big business at Davos on 20 December. She pointed to a £5bn investment in science and research talent to help boost the UK development and innovation. While the UK should be investing in tech and science, this is essentially a corporate handout because the government is not taking a […]
By James WrightRacists target Edinburgh Central Mosque with hate-speech graffiti
20 January 2026 @ 11:13 pm
Racists target mosque Racists have sprayed Edinburgh Central Mosque with hate-speech messages telling Muslims to ‘get out of Scotland’. Police say officers are investigating the incident. The attack was perpetrated over the cover of darkness last weekend. A spokesperson for the mosque said that its members and committee were “deeply saddened and concerned,” insisting that […]
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