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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may as well be trolling millions of hungry children. Because two days before ...

A map of CLPs protesting the Labour leadership

Exclusive: the UK is lighting up red as Labour’s leadership is challenged by local groups

by Emma Guy

25 May 2021

Regions of the UK continue to turn red as local Labour groups continue to challenge Keir Starmer's leadership. How do ...

An elephant, gorilla and whale eye pictured next to each other

How saving, not slaying, the world’s giants could secure our children’s futures

by Tracy Keeling

If 2020 has taught people anything, it's that our relationship with the rest of the natural world needs to change. ...

There may be a sleigh delay

by Ralph Underhill

Image description A long and winding road leading to Dover filled is with bumper-to-bumper trucks. Halfway along the road, stuck ...

Drillminister outside the Houses of Parliament

My wish for 2021? We all start fighting back, now.

by Drillminister

Boom. Bam. You know who it is. Yung Drilly, aka Drillminister – writing for The Canary. I’m running for London ...

Top Tory repeatedly clusterf*cks live on air over cancelling Christmas

A senior government minister made an absolute shambles of his breakfast media appearances on Wednesday 23 December. He also showed ...

Marx predicted the rise of Tommy Robinson and his rabble of far-right thugs

by Peter Bolton

Notorious far-right figure Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (better known by his pseudonym ‘Tommy Robinson’) has just been given another banning order from ...

Johnson in cronyism row after defying Lords committee to make Tory donor a peer

Boris Johnson is facing a cronyism row after appointing a Tory donor as a life peer. The prime minister ignored ...

Boris Johnson looking shocked over the Tory spring conference protest

Mutant coronavirus was known in September. PM asleep at the wheel.

by Tom Coburg

A report conducted on behalf of the COVID-19 Genomics Consortium UK (CoG-UK), makes it clear that the coronavirus (Covid-19) mutation ...

Take it one day at a time to tackle lonely Covid Christmas, charities say

Mental health concerns have been raised about the prospect of a festive period in isolation after new coronavirus restrictions were ...

Efforts continue to resolve Channel crossing coronavirus crisis

Home Secretary Priti Patel defended the Government’s response to the pandemic, insisting ministers had been ‘ahead of the curve’.

A scene from Braveheart with Keir Starmer as Edward I

Keir Starmer just wiped Scottish Labour off the map

As if the UK didn't have enough to deal with at the end of 2020, enter Keir Starmer to make ...

A high street with people walking down it

Mother ‘petrified’ as new shielding guidance allows family to go out in Tier 4

Charlie Shore’s children will spend Christmas with their father while she will be home alone where she can control her ...

Home Secretary ’caused legal storm by posting tweet about migrant deaths’

The home secretary caused a legal storm with an “ill-advised” tweet about the deaths of 39 migrants while the people-smuggling ...

A Guardian writer just summed up this whole Tory mess perfectly

A Guardian columnist just gave perhaps the most withering assessment of the Tory government and the past few days of ...

Third of hospital trusts have more coronavirus patients than in the first-wave peak

New records are being set in all regions of England.

Shielders told not to go to work in Tier 4 areas in updated guidance