The Canary, Author at Canary

AI protections for performers could be closer to becoming reality. Performers union Equity has received an improved offer from the...

Graffiti reading Chubb Drop Elbit! on wall of insurers office in Vienna

Activists hit arms and oil insurers – including with vomit stink

Activists took aim at three of the world's worst insurers in fossil fuels and arms early on 20 January in...

Donald Trump holding a paper titled Accomplishments on 20 January 2026

UK and US activists disrupt Republican celebration of Trump’s presidency in London

Campaigners from Fossil Free London and Climate Defiance interrupted the Republican Overseas UK celebration yesterday evening (20 January). Republican supporters...

Shockat Adam MP launches bill to improve NHS eye treatment

On 20 January, Leicester South MP, Shockat Adam, presented a bill in Parliament to improve NHS eye treatment across England....

Side by side image of Mark Ruffalo and Brian Eno, signatories to the Time to Win letter from millionaires

Nearly 80 percent of millionaires think the super-rich buy political influence

As political leaders gather for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, millionaires from around the world say...

Israeli F-35I stealth fighters take off from RAF Mildenhall

Israeli F35I stealth fighters touch down on UK soil

Lakenheath Alliance for Peace has been in touch with news of Israeli F35I stealth fighters touching down in the UK:...

Activists hack central Leeds billboard to expose Drax pollution

Axe Drax activists 'hacked' a central Leeds billboard exposing Drax's deadly pollution in the Southern US. The billboard reads '"I...

Your Party figureheads Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana

Your Party leadership candidate ruled ineligible

A candidate for the Your Party Central Executive Committee (CEC) elections has been ruled ineligible. Ian Spencer, standing as part...

Royal Courts of Justice Defend our Juries terror charges

Breaking – Court of Appeal erodes independence of juries

Campaign group Defend our Juries has been in touch with breaking news from the Court of Appeal: Independence of juries...

Umer Khalid, one of the hunger strikers mentioned in letter to Bristol Labour MPs

Last remaining hunger striker will go on thirst strike if government continues to refuse a meeting

Umer Khalid is the last remaining hunger striker to participate in the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike campaign. The 22-year-old...

Labour Friends of Israel vice chair Damien Egan MP

Bristol MP Damien Egan wanted to visit a school – Bristol is saying no

Damien Egan is an MP so strident in his support for the genocidal Israeli regime that parents and teachers didn't...

Lichfield, where taxi drivers will stage a protest

Taxi drivers to stage go-slow protests in Lichfield over pedestrianisation impact

Taxi drivers from transport union RMT who operate hackney carriages in Lichfield are staging a series of legal go-slow protests....

Shut The System written in red on a ski slope in Davos

‘Summit of Delusion’ – Shut The System activists sabotage snow machines on Davos ski slopes

Activists have cut power to Davos snow machines and left blood-red messages for delegates to the World Economic Forum. Davos...

Climate Choir performs ‘We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank’ outside Barclays in Bristol

Members of the Climate Choir Movement sang a rousing rendition of We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank outside Barclays in Broadmead...

Tesco reinstates worker suspended over ‘Israeli’ goods refusal

Tesco has reinstated a worker it initially suspended for refusing to handle goods from "Israel". Many goods that are apparently...

Natalie Bennett moves to block protest crackdown with rare House of Lords intervention

16 January 2026