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Horoscope today: your 24-hour briefing for life, love, and more
12 July 2025 @ 5:00 am
Here’s today’s horoscope from the Canary – helping guide you through life, with a daily dose of lifestyle musings for our readers. Your horoscope for Saturday 12 July 2025 Aries ♈ Mars sextiles Saturn today, and your impulse to get things done is finally syncing with a deeper strategy. Perfect day to turn rage into […]
By Steve Topple
Angela Rayner booted out of Unite over bin strikes, whilst more doctors also set to walk out
11 July 2025 @ 4:16 pm
Angela Rayner has been booted out of the union Unite, after members moved to suspend her membership. At its conference in Brighton, union members also voted to re-examine the organisation’s relationship to Labour. Such a move could be seismic in its implications given Keir Starmer’s dwindling popularity and Jeremy Corbyn’s potential new party. Rayner’s suspension […]
By Maryam Jameela
Israel just committed another bloody massacre against children waiting in line for food
11 July 2025 @ 3:52 pm
In a scene that reflects the scale of the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army committed a bloody massacre on Thursday 10 July, killing 16 Palestinian civilians, including eight children and two women, after directly targeting a civilian gathering in the city of Deir al-Balah in the center of the […]
By Alaa Shamali
Genocidal Israel kills hundreds of Palestinians as another scandal around GHF emerges
11 July 2025 @ 2:35 pm
Israel has continued to assault Gaza with on onslaught of air strikes. Once again, many aid-seekers have been killed whilst queuing for food and other vital supplies. However, such atrocities are not taking up much space in Western media outlets. As horrifying death tolls emerge daily, the scourge of the American-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) […]
By Maryam Jameela
‘Labour serves private health sector, but if you fight you can win’, says NHS doctor from ‘legendary’ campaign
11 July 2025 @ 2:25 pm
Dr Jackie Grunsell fought in a now “legendary” campaign to keep a local NHS hospital open. And she told the Canary that, for her, it’s clear today that “Labour is serving the interests of the private sector in healthcare”. She insisted, however, that: If you fight, you can win. If you do nothing, then they’ll […]
By Ed Sykes
Caster Semenya wins appeal as ECHR rules she didn’t get a fair hearing
11 July 2025 @ 11:59 am
Olympic champion Caster Semenya has won an appeal at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The court found that the runner did in fact have her rights to a fair hearing violated. Now, her original case will go back to the Swiss federal court. As Al-Jazeera reported: The original case between Semenya and Monaco-based […]
By Maryam Jameela
DWP plans to force disabled people into work will now see GPs send you to job coaches
11 July 2025 @ 11:26 am
The recent integration of employment services into the UK’s healthcare system, particularly through the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), marks a troubling shift in public policy. This move, initiated by the Conservative Party and now adopted by the Labour government, blurs the lines between health and employment, potentially compromising patient care and autonomy. Yet […]
By Steve Topple
Project 2025 caught trying to destroy UNRWA on behalf of pro-Israel groups
11 July 2025 @ 10:28 am
A key Project 2025 architect, as well as major donors to the infamous Trump administration-linked initiative, have been at the heart of a sprawling UK-US-Israeli nexus working to delegitimize the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA). Previously, the Canary reported on a notable piece of propaganda the Israeli government put out smearing the UNRWA on X. […]
By Hannah Sharland
Grassroots campaign seeks to turn closed Batley Baths into ‘fully inclusive community hub’
11 July 2025 @ 10:03 am
After council cuts led to the closure of Batley Baths in West Yorkshire, a charity has been bringing people together locally to turn the facility into a “fully inclusive community hub”. Conservative governments significantly cut council budgets after coming to power in 2010. And numerous Labour councils have faced increasing local discontent for failing to […]
By Ed Sykes
Horoscope today: your 24-hour briefing for life, love, and more
11 July 2025 @ 5:00 am
Here’s today’s horoscope from the Canary – helping guide you through life, with a daily dose of lifestyle musings for our readers. Your horoscope for Friday 11 July 2025 Aries ♈ Mars opposes Venus today in your horoscope, and your inner revolutionary is squaring up against your desire to be liked. Spoiler: you can’t dismantle […]
By Steve Topple