Year: 2023

At a debate in the House of Lords on Friday ...

Palm oil monoculture plantations fill the view into the distance.

UK government funding environment-wrecking extractive projects with histories of human rights abuse

by Hannah Sharland

The UK government recently came under scrutiny for using development ...

Palestine activists call new anti-boycotts bill an ‘attack on democratic rights’

by Glen Black

The government is pushing a new bill designed to stop ...

Cameron and Osborne to face questions about their ‘brutal’ austerity agenda

by The Canary

20 June 2023

Between 2010 and 2016, then-prime minister David Cameron and his ...

Gove and Kuenssberg discussing partygate

Michael Gove dodged commenting on partygate gongs, and Laura Kuenssberg let him off the hook

by The Canary

A new video has emerged showing staffers at Tory HQ ...

Letters to the Canary: the Canary’s trans coverage

by Steve Topple

17 June 2023

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

A former UKIP candidate in the BBCQT audience? Nothing really changes.

by Steve Topple

BBC Question Time (BBCQT) has been up to its old ...

Thousands turn out to protests in Athens, Greece, after a refugee boat sunk off the country's coast due to Europe's border policies Europe

‘These deaths are on Europe’ activists say after another Mediterranean refugee boat tragedy

by Glen Black

A boat carrying hundreds of people capsized and sank near ...

Protest against deportation flights outside Brooke House detention centre

The three people who stopped the 2021 Jamaica deportation flight have been acquitted

by Tom Anderson

A jury at Lewes Crown Court acquitted three anti-deportation campaigners ...

US establish military footprint in Papua New Guinea as critics say the latter has signed their sovereignty away

by Joe Glenton

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has signed away its sovereignty to ...

A protest sign depicting Boris Johnson as a clown. privileges committee

Boris Johnson has a tantrum as Privileges Committee confirms what we all knew

by Maryam Jameela

The Privileges Committee have found that Boris Johnson deliberately lied ...

Leaked US No-Fly List contains 98% Muslim names

by Joe Glenton

Leaked by a Swiss hacker, the FBI's No-Fly List contains ...

Anti-racists target company refitting Cornwall’s controversial prison ship

by Tom Anderson

Anti-racists have targeted A&P, the company refitting the Bibby Stockholm ...

oil production rigs, Shell, climate crisis

Climate campaigners outraged at Shell maintaining oil production levels

by Maryam Jameela

Shell has announced that it plans to maintain oil production ...

On the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire this country doesn’t care if poor Black and Brown people die

by Maryam Jameela

14 June 2023

14 June marks six years since the Grenfell tower tragedy. ...

The DWP’s invasion of the NHS continues: GPs can now refer disabled people for voluntary work placements

by Steve Topple