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  • An open letter to the Green Party from the Canary about a motion against us at conference 04/09/2026
    The following is an open letter to the Green Party from the Canary management Dear Green Party, We are writing in relation to a draft motion which has been brought to our attention and which we understand may be intended for consideration at the forthcoming Green Party conference. We appreciate that the document is a […]
  • Another Canary bank account has been frozen and our money held 04/09/2026
    The Canary has faced sustained attacks from both the political right and left, alongside repeated attempts to undermine our organisation and restrict our ability to operate. This has resulted in the Guardian publishing allegations against us today (Friday 4 September). At the same time, Canary Media Limited has had another bank account blocked, resulting in […]
  • Cambridge festival cancels pro-Palestinian academic’s book talk 04/09/2026
    “Another literary festival, another cancellation”. These are the words of Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, after Cambridge University’s Newnham College Literary Festival cancelled her planned appearance to discuss her new book. Cancelled by the Cambridge Literary Festival Abdel-Fattah was scheduled to appear at the Cambridge Literary Festival to discuss her new novel, Discipline. The “blistering […]
  • Labour has ‘no idea’ what massive data-centre projects are intended for 04/09/2026
    In a previously unreleased Freedom of Information (FOI) response, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said it does not hold information about which companies, organisations or bodies are using the UK’s largest data centres nor the purposes for which they are used. The government plans to massively expand sites across the UK using powers […]
  • Paranoid Farage accused of spouting conspiracy theories 04/09/2026
    An increasingly paranoid Nigel Farage has been accused of talking up ‘conspiracy theories’. It came in a tense exchange with a BBC interviewer in which Farage complained everyone is out to get him: BBC's Chris Mason Accuses Nigel Farage Of Spouting 'Conspiracy Theories' In Tense Interviewhttps://t.co/UEdS3BcZ3E — Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) September 3, 2026 Paranoid […]
  • Watch: speakers gather as Palestine Action appeal sentences 04/09/2026
    Law experts, family members and a British medic who worked in Gaza during Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians gathered in London on Thursday 3 September 2026. They came together to mark the launch of an appeal by four Palestine Action prisoners against the court’s “grotesque” decision to sentence them as terrorists – despite them being […]
  • EXCLUSIVE: Green ‘friends of genocide’ table anti-Canary motion for party conference 04/09/2026
    The pro-Israel, so-called ‘Jewish Greens‘ group of the Green Party have followed their pro-genocide manoeuvres to block an anti-Zionism conference motion with an attack on the Canary. The group, which labelled the Greens’ Jewish party leader as ‘antisemitic’ for opposing genocide, successfully filibustered the “Zionism is Racism” motion tabled at the last party conference. Now […]
  • Canadian PM Carney is selling global investors a $116bn war bank 03/09/2026
    As part of an ongoing campaign to unmask the real-world risks behind Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s upcoming Canada Investment Summit, The Many vs. The Money Coalition releases its latest dossier exposing the government’s push to transform Canada into a global hub for war financing and weapons manufacturing. Canada’s war bank In glossy investor decks, […]
  • Activists gather outside parliament as government says it ‘remains committed’ to electoral reform 03/09/2026
    Activists protested outside Parliament on 2 September, demanding electoral reform, specifically Proportional Representation. They included representatives of electoral reform campaign groups Make Votes Matter, Compass and Unlock Democracy. Gathered behind a banner saying “Wake Up Westminster”, the campaigners triggered 34 alarm clocks to ring simultaneously, representing the 34% vote that afforded Labour a landslide majority […]
  • Restore at war as Rupert Lowe spurns the ethnonationalists 03/09/2026
    Restore Britain is a party that exists because Reform UK wasn’t racist enough. The problem these parties have is that they rely on constantly pushing the envelope. Eventually, though, they reach a point at which the top brass decide they’ve gone as far as they’re comfortable with. Now, the far-right party has reached that point: […]