General election threatens to ruin all our summers
Human impersonator – er – UK prime minister – Rishi Sunak has called a general election for 4 July. That means UK political leaders are scrambling to get their campaigns…
shovelling crap around UK political landscape
Rishi Sunak has finally bowed to pressure from the upper echelons of the Conservative Party and flicked the switch on its life support machine to the ‘off’ position – announcing…
Trump and Biden agree to face off in Grandpa Rumble TV debates
US President Joe Biden and disgraced ex-President Donald Trump have agreed to hold election debates in June and September. The two have been taking potshots at each other about their…
Sánchez manipulating voters to stop Puigdemont
On Sunday 12 May, Catalan elections will be held to choose the government of Catalonia. Yet already Spain’s president Sánchez is trying to manipulate voters to avoid any victory by…
TUSC hails best campaign since 2020 after local election results
A draft report of the performance of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the May local elections shows the best performance by the group in several years –…
Sadiq Khan already suffering crisis on day one of new mayoral term
There are always several rich people who threaten to emigrate as a result of their favoured stooge not winning an election. In the instance of this week’s London mayoral election,…
Labour shamed itself in West Midland’s mayoral election
Labour says it may be facing defeat in the West Midlands mayoral election. But instead of taking the opposition as a message on human rights in Palestine, a ‘senior source’…
new analysis paints a dire picture in local councils
People’s pay packets are worth less than in 2008 in nearly two-thirds of UK local authorities. That’s according to new analysis released by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Monday…
TUSC now fielding 280 candidates on 2 May
Local elections, along with mayoral, police and crime commissioners, and London assembly ones, will be taking place on Thursday 2 May. You’re spoiled for choice at these – if you…
climate deniers hate us, elections, and social work
The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to the news and politics, or anything else they want to get…