Our social fabric is currently being held together by the people the state has forgotten. At Great Western FC, the support system is two-way. Whilst the players find safety from the streets, the club’s owner, Jon, found a reason to keep fighting in a country that is often designed to break him.

The Canary sponsors this club because it represents the purest form of mutual aid. We didn’t just put our name on a (very stylish) football shirt. We chose to back a community that absolutely refuses to let its members fall behind. For Jon, this pitch with a broken floodlight is where the struggle for personal survival meets the struggle for working class solidarity. And it’s fucking beautiful.

Great Western FC — defying disability and chronic pain

For Jon, Great Western FC is a shield against the crushing weight of disability and isolation. Jon lives with severe health problems and a constant, chronic pain he has battled for over 15 years. Before the pain took over, he worked full-time and earned over £40k a year plus bonuses. The transition to a life defined by physical limitation was a comedown that shattered his mental health.

In the UK, the link between long-term physical suffering and mental health crisis is a silent epidemic. Disabled people are nearly three times more likely to experience major depression than non-disabled people. A reality Jon knows intimately.

His pain is relentless as it seizes his chest, legs and arms. Scarcely a day passes when Jon doesn’t experience the physical symptoms of a heart attack. An awkward movement, a stray sneeze can leave him in agony for days. Every morning he has to force himself out of bed and to put one foot in front of the other.

The football family that keeps the rot away

Working as a print sales manager before his illness, Jon’s life was busy as fuck with him frequently working sixty hours. He was constantly busy, happy to do all the hours God sent because he felt productive and it kept his mind occupied. Yet the medical reality of his current situation is infinitely more knackering than that life ever was. Jon deals with high blood pressure, chronic fatigue syndrome and restless leg syndrome. He takes 16 tablets a day. Because he’s on immunosuppressants, a simple cold or flu can beat the shit out of him for weeks.

Jon spoke to me candidly from the sidelines of the pitch as we watched Great Western FC play.

I spent the worst part of a decade feeling sorry for myself. The chronic pain dictated my life because I didn’t have anything tangible to focus on. Self-isolation felt like the best way to cope but it only made me feel worse, like I was slowly rotting.

For him the pain is loudest when he has time to think about it. Keeping himself mentally busy is not just a lifestyle, it’s a clinical necessity for his survival. But by creating a family of over 75 footballers across three amateur teams, Jon has created enough noise to drown out the pain. The club has turned his years of solo struggle into a collective mission. He can’t be physically active – his body has robbed him of the ability to run onto the pitch – but the mental demand of managing a sprawling community has given him a reason to carry on.

I really hope we can keep this going for many seasons to come.

He isn’t just talking about a football team, he’s talking about his life.

A system designed to break the sick

Jon’s struggle is mirrored by millions of people in the UK who have been abandoned by a cruel welfare state. The statistics are a fucking national disgrace. In 2024 research found that nearly 50% of people (PAGE 31/32) living in poverty reside in a household with at least one disabled person.

Furthermore, the benefit gap is widening. Disabled people face additional costs of roughly £1,010 per month just to maintain the same living standards as a non-disabled person. When the state looks at someone like Jon, it sees a claimant to be managed. Not a human being with a contribution to make to society.

The DWP has created a culture of fear and poverty. Studies show that 75% of people (PAGE 12) living with a disability find the benefit application process so fucking stressful it makes their physical health worse. For someone living with chronic pain, losing their livelihood and then struggling to navigate a new world where they’re often regarded as criminals by the system, is often too much to deal with.

Great Western FC — the two-way street of survival

The beauty of Great Western FC is that it completely shits all over the government’s ‘charity’ narrative. In a charity there is a provider and a recipient. In mutual aid, everyone is a participant.

Not only has Jon helped 75 working class lads stay off the streets and our prisons, as we covered in our last article. It has also helped him to stay mentally busy enough to ignore the sensation of a heart attack. It’s helped them all to find purpose in a town the Westminster cabal couldn’t even point out on a fucking map.

But the tragedy of this mutual salvation is that it’s under threat. Whilst Jon fights to keep 75 young lads away from crime and despair, the systems around it are making it harder for the club to survive. Between rising pitch fees and the ‘hidden’ costs of grassroots sports, the FA recently reported that 96% of grassroots clubs have seen their operating costs rise significantly in the last year.

Jon is doing the work the state refuses to fund, yet he is being squeezed by the very systems that should be supporting him. Every time a council raises pitch fees or the FA adds another layer of bullshit bureaucracy, they make it harder for Jon to simply stay alive.

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350.org today called on G7 countries to enact a Windfall Tax or tax on the excess profits of oil and gas companies benefiting from price surges following the Iran war. The group made the demand after G7 finance ministers said it was studying “necessary measures” to address the war’s economic impacts, including the release of emergency oil reserves.

The Windfall Tax

In 2022, the UK government imposed a 25% levy on major fossil fuel companies to help ease the prices of oil and gas following a surge driven by the Ukraine war, raising £3.6bn in two years.

Such revenues from a Windfall Tax can be used as an immediate buffer to protect families from price surges, as well as fund long-term, homegrown renewable energy solutions.

Fanny Petitbon, 350.org France country manager, said:

Releasing emergency oil reserves is just a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. If G7 countries are serious about stabilising the market, they need to stop protecting profits and start taxing companies which fuel the climate crisis.

Working people shouldn’t be paying the price while oil majors treat the war in the Middle East like a winning lottery ticket. We need the G7 to step up and establish a windfall tax now to put those profits back into the pockets of the people.

The French government, as president of the G7, must also confront the elephant in the room – the urgent phase-out of fossil fuels. It can no longer look away from the reality which is that we cannot stay addicted to oil and gas.

Clémence Dubois, 350.org global campaigns manager, said:

Wars expose a deep flaw in our energy system: when prices spike, fossil fuel companies stand ready to cash in while households and businesses struggle. That’s not just market volatility, it’s the result of governments allowing fossil fuel companies to keep the power to shape the energy system and pass the costs onto everyone else.

G7 governments must stop reinforcing this model with fossil fuel tax cuts that only inflate corporate earnings. Cutting fossil fuel taxes during a crisis is not a relief for families, it’s a subsidy for companies that are already enjoying windfall profits.

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The right response is a strong windfall tax, which should be redirected to support households and accelerate the transition to clean energy that reduces our dependence on the very fuels driving both climate disruption and global instability.

Masayoshi Iyoda, 350.org Japan campaigner said:

Most of Japan’s oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz, making Japan acutely exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Prime minister Sanae Takaichi has moved to calm fears over rising energy and food prices, but reassurances and stop-gap measures like releasing oil reserves are not enough.

Fossil fuel companies are cashing in on this crisis. A windfall tax on polluting industries would make them pay by taking responsibility, not ordinary families already stretched by years of stagnant wages and price surges due to climate impacts.

When PM Takaichi meets US president Trump next week, we urge her to reconsider Japan’s alignment with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda. The attack on Iran has shown, once again, how that agenda means prosperity for oil and gas corporations, and higher bills for everyone else.

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Accelerating a just transition to renewable energy and phasing out fossil fuels is Japan’s best option to secure affordable and sustainable energy based on democracy and peace.

Meanwhile, Reform…

Meanwhile, the leadership of Reform staged a petrol station stunt promising cheaper fuel and energy bills. Avoiding warzones like Dubai or London, the party found a filling station in rural Derbyshire.

Like many such isolated stations, its prices are significantly higher than elsewhere. Reform’s answer to this was to subsidise the price for one day. Supposedly this indicates lower prices should the party make it into government.

They’d do this by attacking what they call “green levies”. These fund long-term heating and energy efficiency programmes. In other words, measures that can reduce household bills and make people in the UK less vulnerable to global price shocks.

As global gas prices surge following the conflict with Iran, what the stunt actually highlights is the UK’s continued dependence on oil and gas. This leaves households at the mercy of international wholesale markets.

A spokesperson for the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, which campaigns to lower home energy costs, said:

Scrapping support for heat pumps and energy efficiency programmes would lock the country into a continued cycle of high energy prices and fuel poverty.

The reason households are facing rising costs today is because the country remains heavily dependent on oil and gas whose prices are set on volatile global markets.

As the conflict in the Middle East shows, when tensions rise anywhere in the world the price of gas quickly follows. That is what pushes up energy bills, not investment in cleaner heating.

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The real way to cut bills for working people is to reduce the amount of gas we burn through better insulated homes, expand homegrown renewable power and reform energy pricing so households are no longer exposed to constant gas price shocks.

Robert Palmer, deputy director of campaign group Uplift, added:

It’s clear that the only route to lower bills and secure energy is to free ourselves from oil and gas through homegrown renewable energy and upgrading homes, whether that’s with solar panels or heat pumps. This is just common sense in today’s world

New North Sea drilling will make no difference to UK energy bills and have no meaningful impact on the UK’s supply of gas.

As the Canary reported on 9 March, the Windfall Tax enjoys wide popularity in the UK. Polling in Scotland, before the attack on Iran, showed supporters of all political parties supported the measure.

Hitting the fossil fuel profiteers in the pocket can stabilise prices for consumers and hasten the move towards sustainable alternatives. A fatuous gimmick from the snake oil salesmen of Reform achieves nothing.

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The Ministry of Defence has deployed HMS Dragon to help protect RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.

HMS dragon leaving Portsmouth for the Mediterranean sea. pic.twitter.com/885WArWCQK

— Christopher Cope (@Christo73187918) March 11, 2026

It will take at least five days for the Type 45 destroyer to reach its destination.

Last week, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said it was sending the HMS Dragon to the eastern Mediterranean along with two Wildcat helicopters.

The decision followed an alleged drone attack on RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. The attack caused no casualties.

Cyprus

As the Canary previously reported, Starmer initially refused to involve the UK. Hours later – under pressure from the US – he conceded that the US could use UK military bases – effectively bringing the UK into the war.

The Royal Navy website describes the Dragon as:

capable of an array of duties outside of her air defence role, from providing disaster relief to counter-narcotics boarding operations.
Having undergone a major upgrade to her weapons, IT, communications and marine engineering systems, HMS Dragon is currently undergoing sea trials in preparation for her third overseas deployment.

The HMS Dragon is fitted with a Sea Viper missile system. It can launch eight missiles in under 10 seconds and guide up to 16 missiles simultaneously. Wildcat helicopters from the 815 Naval Air Squadron, equipped with Martlet missiles capable of taking out drones, will assist it.

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron also ordered France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean. It’s an air wing, and medium-sized warships will escort it. 

Meanwhile, the government has told RFA Lyme Bay to prepare to deploy. It is a:

Bay Class landing ship dock of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She is capable of delivering a significant fighting force anywhere in the world.

The vessel is equipped with an aviation platform and medical facilities. This enables it to support evacuations and medical treatment.

Sir Richard Dalton told Declassified UK that British assets in the region were now legitimate targets of Iran.

The regional power:

will not distinguish [between] attacks to its missiles and other wider attacks on its political, military and economic institutions and leaders.

They will say that these are attacks facilitated by Britain on Iran as part of the United States campaign to destroy the Islamic Republic.

Another illegal war

The UK claimed to stay out of Israel and the US’s illegal and unprovoked attacks on Iran. Starmer quickly changed his mind and is now allowing Trump to station US military planes at UK RAF bases. However, Starmer approved the “specific and limited defensive purpose” of destroying Iran’s missiles “at source”.

Despite this, only yesterday, March 11, a bystander spotted US military personnel and ground crew preparing “explosive ordnance” at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

Starmer is making the UK a legitimate target.

If your bases launch operations, your runways become targets.”

This means:

If a country allows its military bases to be used for attacks, then the enemy will consider those bases legitimate targets.

So the base itself becomes part of the battlefield. https://t.co/JErt48O4ze

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— Himanshu Jain (@HemanNamo) March 10, 2026

In a war that no one voted for.

Don’t think anyone voted for this https://t.co/jwA5L3Cc5w

— miss.andry (@L3m0nGr4bb) March 10, 2026

Starmer is inadvertently signing the UK up for an illegal war that no one has voted on. He is making the UK a target, whilst the US and Israel bomb thousands of civilians in Iran. Meanwhile, he is still allowing Israel to systematically carpet-bomb and starve Gazans.

But what’s one more illegal war for a country that is already up to its eyes in colonial shit? Starmer has no backbone – and civilians in the Middle East are going to pay the price for it.

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German media company Axel Springer SE has just agreed to buy Telegraph Media Group Limited. And judging by its shilling for Israeli war criminals, the Telegraph seems likely to remain just as vile as ever.

8 things you need to know about Axel Springer

Axel Springer:

1. Has a long record as “a bastion of conservatism“, with its founder insisting “It is the task of our generation to stand firmly by Israel’s side, even if this causes difficulties for our policies elsewhere… The country does not need encouragement, but advocacy, wherever and whenever it can be provided”.
2. Is “Europe’s largest publisher” and owns “Germany’s biggest newspaper”, Bild.
3. “Has long been a staunch supporter of Israel” and opponent of Palestinian freedom, even making its European employees sign a commitment to “the trans-Atlantic alliance and Israel”. It considers “Israel’s right to exist” to be something “non-negotiable“.
4. Has functioned as a “direct pipeline for Israeli talking points“, enabling Israel’s assassination of journalists by publishing propaganda about them.
5. Owns Aviv Group GmbH, which has an Israeli real estate website offering sale or rental of properties in occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories. A job ads portal, meanwhile, advertises posts for ‘security’ at “checkpoints and settlements in the occupied West Bank”.
6. “Runs a journalism academy that requires its trainees to visit Israel during their training”.
7. Acknowledged pro-Israel propagandist Dovid Efune “for his essential support and assistance” in the acquisition of the Telegraph.
8. Reportedly told employees at news app Upday “to prioritize pro-Israel sentiment in their news curation and limit news about Palestinian deaths” at the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza (which Axel Springer denies).

What you need to know about Axel Springer’s CEO

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner, meanwhile, is a gaslighting pro-Israel extremist who:

A neat fit for the Telegraph

The Telegraph has long shown itself to be a fervently right-wing, racist, pro-Israel, and anti-Muslim propaganda outlet. So it’s absolutely no surprise that Zionist extremists would be falling over themselves to take control of such an asset. And as all of the above information shows, Axel Springer’s takeover may well make things even worse.

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A Whitehall memo has emerged, as Whitehall memos do from time to time. But this one, which Keir Starmer wrote to his ministers, has provoked a furious response from Welsh independence organisation YesCymru. Plaid Cymru obtained the memo and discussed it in the Welsh Senedd on 10 March.

In the memo, Starmer appears to suggest that UK ministers shouldn’t feel “deferential” in their dealings with the Senedd. In fact, they should feel able to impose their plans directly on the people of Wales, even if there’s local opposition.

YesCymru chair Phyl Griffiths said:

This leaked memo from Keir Starmer to Cabinet ministers is deeply worrying for democracy in Wales.

The people of Wales voted for devolution in a democratic referendum. The Senedd represents the democratic will of the Welsh people and enshrines Wales’ right to make decisions in areas entrusted to its own national institutions.

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The Senedd was not given to Wales as a gift from Westminster, and any attempt to erode or sideline the Senedd or the Welsh Government would be an abuse of power.

But that is exactly what this memo appears to suggest Keir Starmer is doing.

It says ministers should not ‘cede our responsibilities, or channel our relationships solely through the devolved governments’. It also says they should act directly in Wales, ‘including through direct spending, even when devolved governments may oppose this’.

Those are extraordinary words. They suggest that Westminster is prepared to bypass Wales’s elected institutions and impose its own priorities, even in areas where the people of Wales voted to have decisions made here in Wales.

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The timing makes this even more concerning. The memo says that ‘The importance of… elections in Scotland and Wales cannot be underestimated’ while calling for greater UK Government activity and visibility in the devolved nations.

People in Wales are entitled to ask why Westminster is discussing how to expand its role here ahead of a Welsh election, while also making clear that it is prepared to act directly when the Welsh Government disagrees.

This gets to the heart of the problem with devolution. It leaves Wales vulnerable to interference from Westminster whenever it suits the government of the day. Powers that are supposed to belong to the people of Wales can still be ignored or worked around from London.

Wales should not have to rely on the goodwill of Westminster governments in order to exercise control over matters that affect our communities, our economy, and our future. Wales and the Senedd should not be vulnerable to the changing political priorities of another parliament.

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That is not real self-government.

This is why the case for independence is so powerful, obvious and undeniable. The only way to guarantee that decisions about Wales are made in Wales, by the Welsh people, is for Wales to have the powers of an independent nation.

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The latest paltry release of documents relating to Keir Starmer’s appointments of Epstein-pal Peter Mandelson has revealed – more accurately reconfirmed – two main facts.

First, Mandelson is greedy. After his ‘sacking’ as ambassador to the US, he demanded £547,000 in compensation – despite remaining on the payroll. Eventually he received £75k – still about £75k too much, to many observers.

Secondly and more significantly, the release again showed that Keir Starmer knew before appointing Mandelson that he had remained close to serial child-rapist and Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein. Not only that – he was explicitly warned that appointing Mandelson was a major risk of ‘reputational’ damage. And went ahead anyway.

Went ahead with ‘weird‘ speed, to boot – according to Starmer’s own national security adviser.

‘Zionist without qualification‘ Starmer ignoring warnings to ‘weirdly rush’ to appoint a fellow Zionist who fanboyed an Israeli spy running a paedophile ring. Who’d ever have thought it.

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Queen Camilla has sent a message to survivors of sexual abuse to mark International Women’s Day to address the ‘culture of silence’ around abuse. This striking message comes weeks after her disgraced brother-in-law Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested following revelations in the Epstein Files.

It has previously been reported that Camilla played a key role in sealing Andrew’s fate as she feared his ties to an elite sex ring might demolish her work in violence against women and girls. However, refusing to fully acknowledge the seriousness of the Epstein files and failing to use her influential platform to demand justice for the victims does not reflect well on someone who claims to advocate against violence toward women and girls.

Nevertheless, it appears Camilla is trying to repair the damage done to public trust. Although, her advocacy could go a lot further and potentially make an actual difference for victims and survivors of abuse inflicted by powerful men.

In her speech, Camilla said:

To every survivor of every kind of violence, many of whom have not been able to tell their stories or who have not been believed, please know that you are not alone. We stand with you and alongside you, today and every day, in solidarity, sorrow and sympathy.

We hope this is more than dishing out empty platitudes, which the Royal Family are renowned for.

🔴 Camilla sends message to mark International Women’s Day weeks after former prince’s arrest over Epstein ties

Read the full story below 🖇️https://t.co/qIqeYCcSs7 pic.twitter.com/FvSmYG36CY

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 11, 2026

If you truly care, use your pedestal, queen Camilla

The Epstein Files have revealed a deeply sinister and horrifying web of abuse against young girls inflicted by powerful men. A picture even surfaced of the disgraced ‘prince’ playing with a toddler, passing a ball shaped like a female breast. This has sparked terror across British society, especially women. As Camilla said in her speech, women often live in silence with their trauma as society does not actually protect the vulnerable. Instead, it only protects the powerful.

This has bred a culture of silence around the abuse that powerful men perpetrate. Grooming gangs rightly resulted in disgust and condemnation, with a dogged insistence that all involved be held to the full weight of the law. After all, we apparently care about our women and girls in Western society.

Why do investigations and society consistently fail to hold elite networks of powerful white men accountable?

Camilla SILENT when asked about Epstein’s victims.
She’s an “ambassador” for domestic abuse – empty pointless branding when she chooses silence….
“Never complain, never explain” ?? Silence isn’t dignity when Epstein’s victims are involved Camilla. pic.twitter.com/Z3DUkklkli

— Narinder Kaur (@narindertweets) February 4, 2026

Referring to her own experience of abuse, Camilla spoke to this silence in her speech, saying:

Every woman has a story. And these stories must be told. Because when we live in a culture of silence, we empower violence against women and girls. It is for this reason that, for 15 years, WOW has been sharing women’s experiences through their festivals, inspiring thousands of people across six continents to take action.

It should not be overlooked that authorities arrested Andrew on suspicion of misconduct in public office, not on suspicion of sexually abusing minors. If Camilla genuinely cared about victims, she would ensure that investigators fully examine all suspects tied to Epstein and hold them accountable for their actions.

However, that demand was notably absent from her speech.

Education: not accountability for suspected elite abusers

Instead, queen Camilla pointed to sexual abuse being ‘everyone’s problem’ stating that it is “unjust and untrue” to label this as a “woman problem”. She says that “this scourge” can be “eradicated for good” if all citizens take responsibility to tackle the root cause of rising misogyny and abuse amongst men and boys.

Pointing to schools and playgrounds, she says that boys:

should be taught to manage and to express their feelings healthily.

and:

all children must learn what constitutes consent – and what is assault.

Yet, the queen’s remarks appear to imply that men and boys who commit abuse lack guidance rather than responsibility. She does this by implying that men and boys who commit abuse have not learned the rules or how to regulate their emotions. This framing may deeply trigger many victims, because perpetrators often reinforce the ‘culture of silence’ by claiming they could not control their behaviour, while victims sometimes feel pressured to rationalise their trauma as something they must simply endure.

Once again, victims experience a deep sense of injustice, and society undermines women’s right to anger. To make matters worse, people place the burden on these victims to teach the next generation how not to repeat the abuses of the past. Ordinary people will have to fix the attitude problem in men and boys; powerful women clearly will do precious little.

This is why men put in so much effort to frame their domestic violence & sexual assaults as a loss of control. They don’t “lose control” with unsafe targets like cops, bosses, & other men who will kill them. Only safe targets then cry they’re animals who can’t control themselves. https://t.co/TgPFcpOr2G

— The Road Jess Travelled (@JessPected) May 12, 2025

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Excuses for men; par for the course for women and girls

Furthermore, this speech came after a meeting with Gisèle Pelicot, whose memoire of a decade of sexual abuse left queen Camilla ‘speechless’. Nonetheless, it’s striking that Pelicot chose to sacrifice her privacy and comfort where the queen holds back.

Pelicot showed tremendous courage in pursuing transparent justice against the web of abusers orchestrated by her husband. Contrary to the Queen, she didn’t choose to take preventative action through educating children to remedy her trauma, she pursued accountability for abusive men. Don’t get us wrong, education is critical, but so too is bringing offenders to justice.

We wrote:

However, the hypocrisy at play is difficult to ignore. Camilla has made little effort to centre the victims connected to the so-called Epstein files or to address the role powerful men played in perpetrating such traumatic abuse against young girls and women. Perhaps she will draw inspiration from the courage of Gisèle Pelicot and begin speaking truth to powerful men while prioritising the suffering of their victims.

After all, both cases involve networks of men who believed they had the right to do whatever they wanted to their victims. The case draws clear parallels with the thousands of pages connected to the Epstein network of elites, which included her brother-in-law, the disgraced former prince Andrew.

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We can only hope that Camilla, who has expressed concern about the silence surrounding violence against women and girls, goes further in her advocacy. Victims and survivors deserve to see justice, rather than being told once again that “he couldn’t help it”.

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The US / Israeli attack on Iran has had serious knock-on effects across the region. There are also many global consequences. The spike in oil and gas prices is relatively predictable. But there’s also a very direct impact on global food prices.

Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is disrupting global fertiliser supply chains. And this in turn could lead to a surge in global food prices. Amanda Larsson is Global Big Ag project lead at Greenpeace Aotearoa. She said:

The crisis brought on by this illegal attack by the US and Israeli militaries reveals a systemic failure at the heart of our global food system.

Almost half of global food production now depends on synthetic fertilisers produced by a small number of fossil fuel and agrochemical giants, leaving families and farmers to pay the price the moment fragile supply chains break.

While the human cost of the conflict continues to mount, the geopolitical shock is hitting farmers at the peak of the spring application, threatening harvests across the Northern Hemisphere and knock-on effects on food prices.

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The solution to food sovereignty, independence, and local resilience is the same as that needed to solve the climate and biodiversity crises: ecological farming. By working with nature to fix nutrients naturally in the soil, farmers can break the cycle of chemical dependence, slash costs, protect our rivers from toxic run-off, and ensure healthy, affordable food for generations to come.

Governments must stop propping up this fragile corporate model and redirect financial support away from resource-heavy, industrial agriculture. Food security cannot be bought on a volatile global chemical market; it must be grown from the ground up through healthy soil and local resilience.

It is time to fund the transition to self-sufficient, ecological practices that serve communities, not billionaires.

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