The Tories are making a mockery of the aid budget – either spending it in the UK, Ukraine, or India’s beauty salons
Two new reports have revealed just what a mess the UK aid system is in - with the Tories effectively...
Steve Topple is a journalist and broadcaster. He left school at 16 with no formal qualifications in media, working in the hotel industry for many years. Steve was brought up in a very political household, with his late father being a prominent member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and both parents being active trade unionists via their factory jobs. But Steve didn’t embrace politics until the 2010s. Having spent many years on and off social security, in 2014 he began blogging as he couldn’t afford to physically get to protests. This led to his work being picked up by the Independent – for which he ended up covering Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on a weekly basis – as well as openDemocracy, the Morning Star and New Internationalist. In April 2016 he joined the Canary.
Steve’s work focuses on issues affecting the poorest people in society. His own lived experience of being reliant on social security since the late 2000s has led to his reporting on the welfare state, which has reached millions of people and was used by Philip Alston in his UN report into UK poverty.
He also feels strongly about the toxic effects the corporate media has on society, the sham that is the Labour Party, as well as mainstream economics, and the system and society’s discrimination against, and marginalisation of, chronically ill and disabled people.
Aside from political journalism, Steve also works in the music industry, being a writer on reggae, dancehall and afrobeats for publications such as Reggaeville and Pauzeradio.
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The GMB union has said it is balloting over 50,000 school and council worker members for strike action. It's over...
The Tory-led UK government has revealed that it invited eight countries it considers to be human rights abusers to the...
The Tories are now facing a judicial review over the Bibby Stockholm refugee detention barge. It comes whilst the Home...
Laura Kuenssberg's State of Chaos aired on BBC2 on Monday 11 September. However, it was far from a revelatory account...
The Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair is taking place at the ExCeL centre in London. Meanwhile, activists...
The University and College Union (UCU) has angered some of its members after its higher-ups called off a marking boycott....
The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to the...
As Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) sets up at the ExCeL centre in London, activists have begun resisting it....
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll and the founder of think tank Compass, Neal Lawson,...
As promised, workers at the University of Brighton have continued their campaign against redundancies into the new academic year. Members...
Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) is one of the world’s largest arms fairs. It's taking place at the ExCeL...
Health secretary Steve Barclay probably wished he hadn't turned his social media on on Sunday 3 September. An ill-conceived post...
The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to...
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has issued a warning about Tax Credits. It's over the Department for Work and...
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) descended on Downing Street on Thursday 31 August. It was...
A judge has acquitted two Palestine Action activists after they blockade the entrance to a drone engine-making factory that supplies...
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