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Regeneration schemes are still driving gentrification across London, new report finds
27 March 2026 @ 5:33 pm
Displacement and a lack of meaningful democratic control under estate ‘regeneration’ schemes continues to be a major issue for Londoners, despite policy reforms introduced in recent years. Gentrification still causing displacement A new report launched by Green Party London Assembly member Zoë Garbett reveals that residents across the capital continue to endure worsening living conditions. […]
By Em ColquhounIpswich Town staff and fans complain at ‘apolitical’ club’s Farage stunt
27 March 2026 @ 5:28 pm
Staff and fans of Ipswich Town football club have complained bitterly at an unannounced stunt to promote racist far-right Trump fan Nigel Farage. Farage published a promotional video for his politics filmed as he stood on the Portman Road pitch. The club then had insisted it is “apolitical” and denied “formally” inviting Farage to visit […]
By SkwawkboxAssociated Press finally uses the word ‘invasion’ to describe Israel’s actual invasion
27 March 2026 @ 4:54 pm
The Associated Press (AP) has finally used the word invasion to describe Israel’s illegal actions in Lebanon. Of course, it could have used something far more accurate – like an “illegal invasion by a supremacist ethnostate” – but that’s probably pushing the boat out a bit too far. Israel reported on with a crumb of […]
By HGIf the tortured Palestinian baby were white then mainstream media might give a fuck
27 March 2026 @ 4:41 pm
News that Israel have tortured a Palestinian baby have gone largely under-reported by a complicit Western media. It is a horror almost beyond comprehension; recent reports describe how a Palestinian father named Abu Nassar, has a one-year-old child was tortured in front of him during a 10-hour interrogation by the Israeli military. Salma Kaddoumi, a […]
By Em ColquhounBritish military trained troops from 14 countries on UK’s own human rights watch list
27 March 2026 @ 4:28 pm
The British military trained nearly 2000 overseas troops in its defence academies between 2017 and 2025. That figure includes personnel from 108 countries. Shockingly, fourteen of those countries are on the UK’s own human rights watchlist. The British-based Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) reported on 24 March 2026 that the UK considers those states to […]
By Joe GlentonDean Lewis loses Dutch court case over abuse claims
27 March 2026 @ 3:52 pm
Dean Lewis has lost a Dutch court case against a former partner who claimed that the relationship was abusive on social media. Lewis demanded that ex-partner Sanne van Ooijen retract several statements she made about the nature of their two-and-a-half-year relationship. At the heart of the case was the fact that Sanne van Ooijen had […]
By The CanaryNew data shows rise in poverty with more action needed
27 March 2026 @ 3:41 pm
Poverty levels have increased slightly during the first year of a Labour government, new data from Households Below Average Income (HBAI) shows. Half a million more in poverty Comparisons between data gathered between 2023/24 and 2024/25 show that half a million more people are living in poverty. This amounts to around one in five people […]
By The CanaryUndercover police officers were ‘authorised’ to target arms trade campaigners
27 March 2026 @ 3:14 pm
Testimony given to the Undercover Policing Inquiry this week has provided further details of systematic targeting against anti-arms trade campaigners, including Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). On 23 March, the inquiry heard from CAAT’s media coordinator, Emily Apple. She testified to the impact of undercover police spying on CAAT and other anti-arms trade and environmentalist […]
By The CanaryItaly’s ties to Trump are a political repellent— is Starmer taking note?
27 March 2026 @ 2:29 pm
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is lurching so far to the right that her friendship with Donald Trump and allied tech-bros may have cost her a key referendum. Trump as “repellent” In a referendum she called on judicial reforms, Italians vote 54% for the “No” campaign, while 46% supported the “Yes” vote Meloni backed. The Conversation […]
By The CanaryToxic BBC leads the charge in tearing down a disabled woman
27 March 2026 @ 2:00 pm
The mainstream media – led by the ever-toxic BBC – are frothing at the mouth over a disabled woman who ‘stole’ £23,000 in benefits, then was ‘caught’ zip-lining on holiday. You can barely move for news stories about benefits. And no, I’m not talking about the news that Motability plan to restrict how far disabled […]
By Rachel Charlton-Dailey