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Canary Catch Up: The Take That Circus comes to town
21 June 2026 @ 6:54 pm
Hello and welcome to Canary Catch Up. Each week, our resident telly addict Rachel Charlton-Dailey will bring us bang up to date with the shows she’s been obsessed with, what she’s hate-watching, and what she can’t wait to get stuck into. It’s officially summer! As someone with multiple health conditions triggered by the weather, the move […]
By Rachel Charlton-DaileyAlleged rapist Andrew Tate to fund rape gang documentary
21 June 2026 @ 6:33 pm
On 17 June, Restore Britain published its ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’. In the aftermath, critics accused the authors of using fraudulent figures and selective data to present an Islamophobic narrative. Defenders, meanwhile, used the report to push Islamophobic narratives — essentially backing up the argument of the critics. The notable thing about the report’s defenders […]
By Willem MooreDigital creator spreads racist misinfo following Bootle attack
21 June 2026 @ 1:50 pm
Merseyside Police have spoken out after a ‘digital creator’ spread “rumours and misinformation” relating to a violent incident. Since then, the Merseyside Anti-Fascist Network have drawn attention to the creator herself: This all comes as far-right politicians and agitators have upped their attempts to capitalise off Islamophobia. Digital Creator — “Rumours and misinformation” Merseyside Police […]
By Willem MooreBartley sums up why voters abandoned Labour for the Greens
21 June 2026 @ 11:50 am
Speaking on Politics London, former Greens co-leader Jonathan Bartley summed up why voters abandoned Labour: Jonathan Bartley: "Green voters.. want nationalisation.. they want whats happened in Gaza to be called out as genocide.. they want fresh economic thinking.. is there going to actually be any change with Burnham?" #politicslondon pic.twitter.com/NpipCehDHb — Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 21, […]
By Willem MooreBurnham proposes land value tax as progressive voters sour on him
21 June 2026 @ 11:46 am
Speaking to Andrew Marr, Andy Burnham has suggested he wants to introduce wealth taxes in the UK: I'm no fan of Andy, but a land value tax is fucking based. https://t.co/AxK7i70YSt — Curtis Daly (@CurtisDaly_) June 20, 2026 If he delivers on this, it would be a more progressive direction for Labour than what we […]
By Willem MooreHumza Yousaf blames Tommy Robinson for Islamophobic attack
21 June 2026 @ 10:08 am
Tommy Robinson — On 20 June, police arrested a man after he allegedly attacked several individuals in Edinburgh. In the course of being arrested, the man in question claimed he was “protecting the country from these f*cking Muslim b*stards”. Responding to the attack, former first minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf blamed “Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson […]
By Willem MooreIn final U-turn, Starmer now set to resign
21 June 2026 @ 9:55 am
It was no secret that Andy Burnham would seek to replace Keir Starmer should he win the Makerfield by-election. After he achieved victory, though — exceeding even the most optimistic polling — Starmer did not go gently into that good night. Instead, he said in no uncertain terms that he would fight Burnham in any […]
By Willem MooreScottish courts further denigrate rights for trans people with prison ruling
21 June 2026 @ 7:27 am
Scotland’s highest civil court has ruled that guidance allowing some trans women to be housed in women’s prisons was unlawful. This is undoubtedly another setback in an increasingly hostile environment for trans people across the UK. It is incredible how fast the legal arguments fall in line once political appetite changes. And now that fascism […]
By Jamal AwarRacist Katie Hopkins booed out of British pub
20 June 2026 @ 4:37 pm
Katie Hopkins — One of our great British traditions is that landlords have the right to refuse service to anyone. Anyone. And if you don’t like it, you’re probably not all that British, are you? Anyway, here’s Tommy Robinson having a cry because rancid bigot Katie Hopkins got booed out of a British pub for […]
By Willem MooreGreen mayor hopeful to save Manchester from ‘Reform disaster’
20 June 2026 @ 4:32 pm
The Green Party has announced that its candidate in the Greater Manchester mayor by-election will be Geraldine Coggins: At the @TheGreenParty launch of their campaign for the Greater Manchester mayoral election, our reporter @cjmbaillie was one of the first to speak to their candidate Geraldine Coggins – and she's immediately showing why she's the right […]
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