Year: 2023

16 August 2023

An NHS trust is under fire from people living with ...

A UCU protest universities UCEA marking boycott

UCU digs in and prepares for more strikes in the new academic year

16 August 2023

The University and College Union (UCU) has said that its ...

Official Hawaii wildfire death toll hits 99, but may be far higher

by The Canary

The official death toll in Hawaii's wildfires has now risen ...

Wildfire in Montana. Montanan youth plaintiffs won a landmark climate case against the state for violating their fundamental rights.

Montana youth climate litigation win raises hopes for other US climate accountability cases

On Monday 14 August, a group of young people won ...

A woman wearing a face mask labour market

Britain’s workers abused by the Tories and bosses – from racism to zero-hours contracts

The UK's labour market is little more than an insecure, ...

People queuing for a ticket office and Rishi Sunak ticket office closures RMT Downing Street

RMT taking the fight over ticket office closures to Rishi Sunak’s front door

The National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT) ...

New study reaffirms what we all knew – fossil fuel companies plot the path to climate ruin

Scientists have said that fossil fuel companies are currently on ...

People gather at Victoria Square in Hong Kong on 18 August 2019 during massive protests against China's extradition law

Hong Kong appeal court grants partial victory to democracy protest figureheads

by Canary Workers' Co-op

Hong Kong's appeals court cleared seven prominent democracy figures on ...

The Tories are already talking about more benefit cuts – and blaming public sector pay rises for them

7 October 2025

The Tories are already coming up with proposals for more ...

Wreckage from the wildfires in Hawaii, showing burned down buildings and rubble.

NY Times exposes its colonial and fossil fuel biases as one writer’s response to Hawaiian wildfires is ‘Rolex!’

A New York Times's (NYT) journalist's abhorrent tweet on Hawaii's devastating ...

Edinburgh International Book Festival Edinburgh festival festivals

Edinburgh festivals are facing protests – from Israel’s apartheid to fossil fuel sponsorship

Two festivals in Edinburgh have faced the anger of both ...

Bridget Philipson on GB News Labour Refugees Mail

‘Spot the difference’ as Labour, the Mail, and GB News all shame themselves over refugee Channel deaths

Six refugees from Afghanistan died in the Channel when the ...

The problem with Just Stop Oil (and how to start fixing it)

by John Shafthauer

In my day-to-day life, I don't encounter many people who ...

Letters to the Canary: a lot of comments on Transform Politics, and assisted dying

12 August 2023

The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters ...

Woman with dog holds dead grouse during a shoot in Cumbria

Wildlife campaigners demand an end to snares as the grouse-killing season begins

by Glen Black

12 August 2023

Campaigners for wildlife are calling on the government to ban ...

GMB interviews trainee GP at the start of the fifth junior doctors' strike

Junior doctor tells GMB that Sunak is ‘spaffing billions’ in money that could have stopped strikes months ago

by Glen Black

23 January 2024

Junior doctors across England are on strike today. It's the ...

Heavily-industrialised Aberdeen Harbour.

Fossil fuel interests sit at the heart of land-grab for energy transition in Scotland