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A parliamentary review committee said the new voter ID system "disenfranchises more electors than it protects" on 11 September. The ...

Prime minister Rishi Sunak boards an RAF jet

Closing rail ticket offices is the ‘right thing for the British public’, says Sunak

Prime minister Rishi Sunak told reporters that rail ticket office closures are the "right thing for the British public". However, ...

DSEI arms fair police surround a lock on Israeli

As opposition to the DSEI arms fair intensifies, over 40 Israeli arms companies have set up shop

The Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair is taking place at the ExCeL centre in London. Meanwhile, activists ...

Once again UCU leadership has screwed over its members and left them in a weakened position

The University and College Union (UCU) has angered some of its members after its higher-ups called off a marking boycott. ...

Former PM Liz Truss has written an entire book about her 15 minutes in office

by John Shafthauer

Over the past 13 years we've had more Tory prime ministers than most of us have had real-terms pay increases. ...

Labour use crumbling schools to promote austerity as Reynolds smirks like a demon’s possessed him

by John Shafthauer

10 September 2023

We're at a point now at which even the austerity-pushers in the media are looking at Britain's crumbling infrastructure and ...

Letters to the Canary: offering hope away from party politics, Catalonia, and the tragedy of Starmer

9 September 2023

The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to the ...

New report exposes high number of anonymous UK property owners

by Alex/Rose Cocker

Over two-thirds of properties in the UK held by overseas shell companies still do not publish information about the identity ...

Banner at UFFC rally saying Justice for Sean Rigg

Police watchdog just issued an ‘unprecedented’ apology to the family of a man who died in custody

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has issued a letter of apology for the "distress, anxiety and upset" its ...

Pictures from protests at this years DSEI

Cops are already arresting activists at the DSEI arms fair – and it’s barely even started yet

As Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) sets up at the ExCeL centre in London, activists have begun resisting it. ...

The word socialism lit up with jeremy corbyn and keir starmer TWT

Corbyn’s appearance at a counter-conference looks set to ‘antagonise’ Keir Starmer. Boo-hoo.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll and the founder of think tank Compass, Neal Lawson, ...

Half a million already spent on empty refugee prison barge the Bibby Stockholm

England's prison barge for refugees, the Bibby Stockholm, has sat empty since it was evacuated in early August. Despite this, ...

A tree ‘massacre’ in Essex reveals the rot at the root of one of our leading conservation charities

7 September 2023

In part one of this three-part series, the Canary explored Taylor Wimpey's plan to tear down over 40 protected trees. ...

Developer Taylor Wimpey is destroying protected trees – but it’s no stranger to ecocide

7 September 2023

In part one of this three-part series, the Canary explored how ecological consultant Middlemarch aided Taylor Wimpey in its application for ...

An ecological consultant has helped Taylor Wimpey sign off over 40 protected trees for the chop

This article was updated at 11.25am on Monday 11 September to reflect an error. It previously said that Middlemarch has ...

Campaigners call out a polluting Rio Tinto mine project damaging Madagascan communities