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4 days ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
There has been a surge in the number of UK families turning to baby banks to support their babies. It underscores yet again that charity is a sign the Labour government is failing. 3.5 million items, including cots, clothes, prams and nappies, were handed out in 2024. That’s a 143% increase on the previous year.
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1 week ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
Stoking anti-immigrant sentiment is a key plank of Nigel Farage’s politics and he says he’ll bring down immigration. But his party Reform’s climate crisis-denying proposals would actually contribute to the opposite and risk greatly increasing immigration. Oh the irony for Nigel FarageNigel Farage has outright questioned the science behind the climate crisis.
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1 week ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
The latest YouGov poll has Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party eight points ahead of the Labour Party less than a year after Keir Starmer entered government. In a piece for the Guardian, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has called for a progressive leadership challenge against the prime minister. He argues Starmer is trashing Labour’s legacy by more than at any point since the Iraq war.
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1 week ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
Labour Party transport secretary Heidi Alexander made quite the admission in a speech welcoming the beginning of Great British Railways. ‘Public good over private profit’Heidi Alexander really let the cat out the bag, saying:We are really firing this starting gun in that race for a truly 21st-century railway, and that does mean refocusing away from private profit and towards the public good. So there is a case for modern socialist ownership of public utilities?
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2 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
At the beginning of the Tory/ Lib Dem coalition government in 2010, the amount of foodbank parcels handed out stood at 60,000. The Trussell Trust has now revealed that this figure is close to three million for the year 2024/2025. And that only includes foodbanks run under the Trussell group. That is a 50 fold or 5000% increase. What are politicians – namely Labour – doing about it? The response to the foodbank epidemic from politicians is quite something.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
This year, the Sunday Times rich list came out on the same day as financial regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) revealed that 21% of UK people have less than £1,000 in their bank. The rich list shows that the 350 wealthiest families have maintained vast wealth at £773 billion, down only 3% from last year. Rich list: taking the pissThe figures will heighten calls for a wealth tax. Deputy leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski is running for the leadership.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville-Roberts MP remarked that she “clearly struck a nerve”, following her question to Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). She also said the sombre faces of Labour MPs like Angela Rayner proved she was making a cutting point:My question clearly struck a nerve. The faces of many Labour MPs told their own story – plenty of them know I was right.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
Reform MP Lee Anderson has called for Jeremy Corbyn to be deported in the Commons. Anderson, who has also been a Labour MP and a Conservative one, said:Today over 600 illegal migrants have entered this country. They could get up to all sorts of mischief, commit crimes and maybe even acts of terrorism. So does she agree with me that these young men crossing the channel should be immediately detained and deported, along with the member for Islington?
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3 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
This article contains discussion around suicide which some readers may find distressingAt Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), Labour MP Jake Richards brought up the epidemic of male suicide. But one country has more than halved its suicide rate since the 1990s. Male suicide: the “biggest killer”Richards said:Male suicide is a tragic epidemic in our country. Each week almost 100 men take their own lives. And suicide is the biggest killer of men aged under 50.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | James Wright
Instead of renationalisation, Thames Water is receiving a £3bn loan. Millions of pounds of that loan will go to executive bonuses – instead of bringing down people’s astronomical bills. Thames Water is already around £19bn in debt. When it was privatised, the utility was debt free. Capital funds who took private ownership of the company racked up the debt to pay out huge shareholder dividends. Thames Water’s “most precious resource”?
