Brighton stood up against far-right intimidation on 13 June 2026 as thousands of anti-fascists massively outnumbered a South East Patriots march. The Carnival Against Fascism mobilisation was stunning to see, and blocked the racist scumbags at every single turn.

Wandering around with the far-right, I observed an obvious disconnect between the far-right’s public branding and the unfiltered racism of its members. In short, brighton proved its resilience and commitment to standing up to hate.

The performance of innocence

The South East Patriots tried so hard to project a respectable public image for the cameras. I struggled to get myself into their crowd, as policemen had blocked off the four main streets. But they didn’t cover the tiny side streets. Wandering into a street packed with leering men, a sea of flags, and empty beer cans was nothing new. But the banner “Calling people racist when they don’t agree with you is getting really boring” was.

Sh*t like that reeks of desperation. Away from the cameras, the language quickly became that of the most disgusting white supremacy. Let’s be honest, fascists love throwing out slurs and the crowd in Brighton was no different. But watching a young teen calling someone a “sand rat” whilst laughing with his dad hit home.

The dehumanisation of Black and Brown people permeates the entire movement. They can claim what they want through their banners. However, the language these thugs dispense daily, in person, confirms their deep-seated racial hatred towards people they don’t even know.

When Black and Brown people consistently warn us that these marches threaten their entire existence, we need to listen, because it’s getting worse in Brighton especially.

Under the lying banners

The aggression is never just verbal. Speaking to one of them, he took a sip of his Peroni, looked me dead in the eye, and said something that shocked me so much, it nearly blew my cover. He pointed across the police line at the thousands of anti-fascists stood in opposition, picked one lad stood at the front and said:

“I swear, if I had cancer, I’d take a gun and shoot every one of them on the other side, starting with that Black c**t”

This is the very real danger of the modern far-right. They don’t want a political debate. They want a war and view that anyone who isn’t white is a target for eradication.

The crowd also actively weaponised the teeny space they occupied. One woman openly boasted about carrying a large supply of stink bombs. She dropped a bunch of them whilst wandering through the Antifa crowd, handing them out for people to throw over the police line. It was silly of her to offer me over half as they got binned.

“Hyper-masculinity” and hostility

The demographic makeup of the fascist assembly was, unsurprisingly, overwhelmingly male. You know, the typical lads, above the age of thirty with bald heads and shit lion tattoos. Out of around 300 fash there, I saw less than 30 women. This gender imbalance matches wider research by Hope Not Hate which shows far-right spaces rely on this weird hyper-masculine posturing. Aggression, dominance and an inability to listen, you know the type. Clearly, brighton’s experience reflects disturbing national trends.

During the violent far-right riots in Ballymena, 36% of the men arrested had previously been reported for domestic abuse. And 41% of those nicked during wider riots had prior domestic abuse records. So if they’re willing to beat their partners, what the hell can they do to people they don’t know?

The few women present in Brighton were paraded at the front. One woman draped in a flag shouted into a megaphone to lead the chants at one point. The far-right use their women as a shield to appear less threatening, even while the males around them project intense physical aggression.

This aggression targets anyone who doesn’t play ball. The amount of times they screamed at me to take off my mask got boring. They completely fail to see those protecting their health or privacy through face coverings. They view masks as nothing more a marker of infiltration.

Ruined march exposes two-tier policing

Their weird street posturing quickly broke down as Antifa blockades derailed their schedule. We turned their march into a slow, sluggish crawl as they were rightly cut off at every turn. Must have been upsetting, listening to FatBoy Slim play a secret DJ set, whilst being trapped under a bridge.

But whilst our community stalled the thugs, the police response exposed a dark double-standard. Officers handled the far-right with kid gloves, matching their aggression with little more than shouting and the occasional shove.

But anti-racism protesters were met with outright aggression. After being rumbled by Nick Tenconi’s security team, I was forced to leg-it and rejoin our side for safety.

At one point, me and a friend were walking casually towards a police line when the copper instantly withdrew his baton. This heavy handed approach from the state made one thing very clear — the police reserve their violent intimidation tactics for people opposing fascism.

Brighton, you did everyone proud on Saturday. The incredible show of love and solidarity was one of the most stunning I have seen. But the far-right demonstration showed me that this love isn’t enough.

As the far-right grow more desperate, we must be prepared and equipped to prevent this behaviour from spiralling.

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Finally, Indian PM Narendra Modi’s “blind devotion” to Israel is being questioned. However, Israel propagandists like Eylon Levy, The Times of Israel, and Jewish Insider are pushing deeper links to Israel.

In India, Jairam Ramesh, Congress Party’s spokesperson, welcomed the unrestricted reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which would bring relief to India. But he also cautioned that deeper economic challenges remain unresolved.

And, in a demonstration of staunch opposition, the Congress Party have also said that Modi should reconsider his “blind devotion and unconditional support” for Israel. And the party have also accused Modi of not representing India’s national interests, and demanded a more balanced approach.

Pakistan’s role as a mediator is being seen in India as a “monumental failure” of Modi’s foreign policy, for a country that pioneered the non-aligned movement.

The Wire reported:

India lost its moral guardrails; its outrageous pro-America/Israel stand on UN resolutions would have given Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru sleepless nights even in the tranquil heavens. India thought it would earn brownie points for being part of Trump’s tutored school choir. Trump instead saw India as an easy pushover. Enter Pakistan. The rest is history.

Zionist pitch for deeper India-Israel ties

Meanwhile, Eylon Levy, a former spokesperson for Israel, posted on X that India should deepen its military and economic ties with Israel and abandon its “unsustainable” neutrality in the face of the Iran deal, which he called a “disaster for India.”

It is no accident that India’s right-wing are fervent supporters of Israel, united as they are by Islamophobia. The fact the Iran deal elevates Pakistan also threatens the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) trade corridor, and endangers Indian workers in the Gulf.

The Times of Israel and Jewish Insider are both supporting what they call “India, Israel, and the UAE: The New Power Triangle in the Middle East.”

Jewish Insider said that “alignments” between Israel, the UAE, and India had created new opportunities for cooperation, citing the May defence pact between India and the UAE.

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The Times of Israel frames India as a country that engages with Iran through forums like BRICS while also expanding defense and economic cooperation with Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv. It discusses IMEC as an opportunity facing challenges amid regional tensions.

Indian seafarers killed by the USA

The death of Indian seafarers in US attacks on commercial ships navigating through the Strait of Hormuz has sparked outrage across India’s political spectrum, with all opposition parties condemning the “dastardly attack” and accusing the US of acting like a “gangster trying to impose its hegemony over the entire world.”

The five left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (Liberation), All India Forward Bloc, Revolutionary Socialist Party – have issued the following joint statement: pic.twitter.com/QHvUqMl73C

— CPI (M) (@cpimspeak) June 15, 2026

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In a joint statement, CPI(M), CPI, CPI (ML), and others demanded that the Modi government ensure proper compensation to the families of the slain seafarers and pursue all diplomatic means to punish those responsible, while calling on the people of India to protest against US aggression.

They call Modi’s government “junior partner” to the US, failing in its duty to protect Indian citizens, and reneging on India’s longstanding tradition of an independent foreign policy.

Congress’s Rahul Gandhi called Modi an “obedient servant” and “compromised” by foreign powers.

Compromised PM के राज में एक भारतीय होने का मतलब दुर्गति है।

विदेशी ताकत हमारे नागरिकों को मारती है। हमारी सरकार एक आज्ञाकारी नौकर की तरह चुप-चाप आदेश मान लेती है – और हमारे नागरिक सड़ने के लिए छोड़ दिए जाते हैं।

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इस भारतीय को घर लाइए। अभी। https://t.co/WE7Y69wHZt

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 14, 2026

The Guardian also reported that the “seemingly blase” response from the US government to the killing of the sailors has been the cause of great consternation in India.

Modi and Trump are expected to meet during the current G-7 summit in France. Will US/Israel axis propagandists have won or not – time will tell.

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The number of disabled children who are kicked off benefits when they are reassessed as an adult has doubled in two years.

Under the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) rules, children get disability living allowance (DLA) until they are 16. Instead of just automatically moving on to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), they then have to reapply.

It should be a straightforward process, but because PIP is a needlessly cruel system, many find it harder to qualify for.

Disabled kids suddenly not disabled at 16

Information service, Benefits and Work, examined the statistics on moving from Child DLA to PIP on DWP StatXplore. Its team found that between 2023 and 2025, the rate of failure doubled.

From August to October 2023, 11% of claimants who had received DLA failed the assessment to get PIP. But for the same quarter in 2025, the failure rate had jumped to 23%.

Those are the most recent stats available, so the situation could be much worse by now.

Not only that, but success rates where the claimant gets more money with PIP than they did from DLA have also fallen.

Between August and October 2023, 69% of claimants saw an increase in their award from moving to PIP. But in the same quarter in 2025, this increase rate was 54%.

So, despite there being no changes to the PIP assessment yet, it’s clearly already a ridiculous system to qualify for, if there’s such a discrepancy between children getting DLA and over-16s getting PIP. A young person’s disabilities don’t magically disappear on their 16th birthday.

Higher poverty rates

It’s especially worrying to see that so many disabled young people are left without support once they turn 16, when you consider how many disabled children live in poverty.

The children’s charity Variety found that 21,000 disabled children live in temporary accommodation. This equates to one out of every eight children facing homelessness.

It’s also important to consider that temporary accommodation often cannot meet the needs of disabled people.

Temporary accommodation is supposed to be a short-term fix, but Variety found that, on average, disabled children spend six to 10 months in temporary housing. Some cases exceeded six years.

Whilst there have been no policy changes since 2023, there has been a sustained campaign by the Tories and then Labour to demonise benefits claimants.

These latest statistics evidence another way that the DWP is trying to make life harder for people with disabilities.

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Two of Reform’s Wigan councillors have been pictured with a sign that reads “I would rather vote for Jimmy Saville than Labour”. The problem with that statement is it implies the people standing by it would vote for Jimmy Saville. The problem with that is the fact that Saville was a notorious paedophile:

Reform UK’s #Makerfield campaign team for @RobKenyonReform, including 2 Wigan councillors Gemma Painter and Lilian Rogers.

Photo ops with Jimmy Saville jokes.

Sick.@reformparty_uk and Kenyon, anything to say?

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Share this, make sure everyone in Makerfield sees it. pic.twitter.com/GHT3TFWCHj

— Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed) June 15, 2026

Reform ignore crimes of Jimmy Saville

Here at the Canary, we’ve been as critical of Starmer as anyone. Arguably, we’ve been more critical, because we’ve been pointing out his flaws and deceptions since before he became Labour leader.

As bad as Starmer is, he’s clearly not worse than Jimmy f*cking Saville. You could argue that Starmer’s position as PM gives him a greater ability to cause damage, but that argument falls down when you’re saying you’d vote for Saville to replace him.

While Saville has once again become something of a joke, this man was a serious offender. 450 people accused him of sexual abuse. 82% of the victims were female; 80% of them were children. Saville used his position as a children’s entertainer to get away with this, as well as his connections within the media and charity sectors. He was a plague on this country, and no one should forget that.

Reform politicians have tried to paint themselves as the party which will tackle ‘grooming gangs’. Farage and his underlings told us the other parties don’t take the issue seriously, and yet here they are laughing about the most prolific sexual abuser of the past century.

And another pic.twitter.com/r5HNSZlFP9

— Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed) June 15, 2026

“Reform Will Fix It’

This isn’t the only time that Reform has shown an unusual interest in Saville. In March this year, the party decided to borrow the dead paedophile’s ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ catchphrase:

WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled at the launch of Reform UK's London local election campaign pic.twitter.com/QCshvLKvU0

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) March 28, 2026

Even some of their far-right supporters took issue with this, which is presumably why they’d later drop the catchphrase:

Reform will 'fix it's a bit Jimmy Saville esque if you ask me, but they are putting out the right message. https://t.co/Gz5HozCc3o

— ARAMINTA (@Glasvirgin) March 26, 2026

Reform’s cynicism around abuse doesn’t end there either. As we’ve reported:

• Grooming gang victims demanded an apology from Farage after he spread lies about them.
• Farage said it would be wrong to ban Twitter even though its AI was at the time producing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

There’s also this:

A man is judged by the company he keeps. pic.twitter.com/vOZLwzKTje

— Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed) October 28, 2025

If you’re unfamiliar with Andrew Tate, here’s a video of him explaining the techniques he used to traffic women:

Here he admits in more detail to tricking women, giving them the false impression of love, and using a "bottom bitch" for manipulation for the sole purpose of putting them in front of a camera and making money off of them.

Deception and exploitation. This is human trafficking. pic.twitter.com/XtS6uU2E5g

— Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet (@ApostateProphet) June 23, 2023

Unsurprising

Given all of the above, it’s not surprising that a Reform supporter would rather vote for Saville than Starmer. If anything, it seems like some people who support Farage just wouldn’t have a problem with Saville full stop.

These are not people who take abuse seriously, and as time goes on, that couldn’t be more obvious.

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) director Ben Jamal has demanded an apology and retraction from Israel lobby group Board of Deputies (BOD) for its smears against anti-apartheid protesters. The BOD (like the Met Police) had attacked Jewish activists protesting outside a London synagogue hosting the sale of stolen Palestinian land — a reference to Israel’s illegal settlements — but the BOD brazenly denied the event was selling stolen land.

Marketing stolen land

But it was selling stolen land. This is a fact that even corporate state media has now been forced to acknowledge. This should surprise no one paying attention.

Moreover, Israeli settlers have even been marketing land in southern Lebanon. This is land that Israel doesn’t control yet.

But for the ‘mainstream media’ to admit it, however unwillingly, is conclusive. Prioritising the feelings of Israel’s supporters as usual, the BOD claimed to be “deeply disturbed” at the “wholly unjustified” protests. It also demanded tough action from police against protesters:

Don’t hold your breath

But the BOD has not, at the time of writing, retracted its smears or even deleted its post. It has certainly not apologised for smearing protesters who were entirely in the right. So Jamal has tagged in the BOD directly. This is to ensure it has no excuse for not being aware of the fact its falsehood has been exposed. Additionally, he quoted the BOD’s smear and called for an immediate retraction and apology:

It is now verified that the event was marketing properties in illegal settlements. I presume you will now be retracting this statement, apologising, and condemning the synagogue for hosting the event. https://t.co/VOMnmgRmG9

— Ben Jamal (@BenJamal48) June 15, 2026

Skwawkbox hopes that Mr Jamal is not holding his breath. The BOD found time to welcome the Court of Appeals’ decision to undermine UK human and civil rights by upholding the Starmer regime’s ban on Palestine Action. However, it didn’t find time to address its own dishonesty on the Israel land sale. This is no surprise. The BOD says it exists to promote Israel. Yet politicians and ‘mainstream’ media organisations treat it as though it represents all British Jews. Nevertheless, many of whom oppose Israel and its crimes — rather than Israel.

And many of those politicians and media outlets, along with other Israel lobby groups, have spent the weekend attacking the protesters for ‘targeting Jews’. It’s now beyond honest dispute that the protesters were opposing yet more land-theft by the coloniser ethno-state.

Just don’t hold your breath waiting for Israel’s supporters to acknowledge it.

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The United Nations (UN) has said that over 1000 people have been killed by drones in Sudan in 2026. Both the Sudanese state military and the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces militia use drones. The three-year old war has displaced millions and killed thousands.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said:

We are seeing a global shift in how war is waged.

The UN has warned for many years against the development of lethal autonomous weapons. This reality is now upon us.

Adding that:

Relentless drone attacks have caused mass casualties and terrorized civilians.

Turk was speaking at a UN event in Geneva about the rise of drone warfare around the globe. A senior UK minister was also in attendance…

Sudan under attack

The RSF, backed by the UAE, is fighting the Sudanese government, with gold interests and regional influence at stake.

Numerous foreign actors, including the UK, have caused the war to fester through active participation and/or outright passivity. Israel, too, is a player in the war.

The war in Sudan is theoretically between the Arab-majority RSF and the Sudanese government. But foreign states pursuing their own interests are backing the combatants. Turkey, Egypt and many more countries are pursuing their own interests in Sudan too.

The RSF has killed Sudanese civilians in vast numbers. Some estimates say 150,000 people have died and more than 10 million civilians have been displaced by fighting.

Massive increase in drone use

The UN reported:

The US-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) observed an 81% increase in drone attacks and a 600% increase in drone-related deaths in the war-torn east African country between 2024 and 2025.

And at the Geneva summit, Turk warned:

The prospect of billion-dollar, AI-enabled weapons [being] brought down by billion-dollar, AI-enabled defensive shields exposes the horror, emptiness, and futility of war.

Autonomous weapons cannot become a license for atrocity crimes.

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UK Africa minister Jenny Chapman was also in attendance. Displaying more neck than a herd of giraffes given the UK’s role in the war, Chapman told the audience:

Sudan’s warring parties have increased their brutality from the skies, using drones supplied by their backers to target civilians and aid workers.

This is deplorable and must stop.

Adding that organisations must:

document abuses and preserve evidence – essential steps to breaking the cycle of impunity.

UK role in slaughter is known

As the Canary has reported repeatedly:

British military components have shown up on the battlefield in RSF hands. The UK is a major arms supplier to UAE.

Even more damningly:

Sources have also claimed the UK downgraded the [humanitarian] situation in Sudan to avoid “pissing off the Emiratis”.

The Canary reported on 11 June that the first war crimes claim had been lodged against RSF in Kenya. Twelve victims backed by a Swiss legal NGO urged Kenya’s chief of prosecution to pursue the case. Associated Press (AP) reported on 9 June:

It is the first attempt to prosecute members of the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, the paramilitary group fighting against the Sudanese military for over three years, outside Sudan.

Adding that:

The group, which has been accused by rights organizations of committing atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, has ties with Kenya’s government.

The war in Sudan garners very little attention in the West. Yet the UK’s quiet but key role in a growing list of atrocities is unmistakable. Africa minister Jenny Chapman – and her bosses in No 10 – simply cannot be unaware of this fact.

Which, in turn, suggests that they’re peddling the same old neocolonial falsehoods.

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Israel’s alliance with Somaliland is gathering steam. The settler-state appears is expanding its military footprint in the region and, as diplomatic relations grow closer than ever, Israel seems likely to  get what it wants.

On 13 June, Drop Site News reported that in an unprecedented display of support, the Muslim-majority nation witnessed “the public waving of Israeli flags—not in protest, but celebration.”

They added that:

Videos shared on social media from Somaliland’s day of independence on May 18 showed Israelis dancing in the streets of Hargeisa alongside locals, with blue and white stars of David flying beside Somaliland’s red, white, and green tricolor flag.

As the Canary reported on 21 May:

Israel and Somaliland have agreed to open embassies in Jerusalem and Hargeisa. Israel’s influence in the strategic Horn of Africa is growing. And there have been warnings Israel might ethnically cleanse Palestinians out of Palestine and into the country.

Israel was one of the first countries to recognise Somaliland, a breakaway territory of Somalia, in the early 1990s. UN members railed against the move, but the US defended Israel while not recognising Somaliland itself.

The surest sign of deepening ties between the settler-colony and fledgling Somaliland emerged on 18 May when president Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi was presented with:

a fragment of an Iron Dome interceptor—the Israeli air defense system used to intercept rockets and drones fired by Iran and its regional allies—by a visiting Israeli delegation.

Israel’s dirty war with Yemen

Nearby Yemen, across the Gulf of Aden, is seemingly Israel’s principal concern. According to Drop Site, Israel has been eyeing up locations for a military facility:

The base in question would allow Israel a military foothold on a crucial waterway near the Bab al-Mandab Strait—a maritime chokepoint comparable in importance to the Strait of Hormuz for exports from the Red Sea.

The outlet underlined a critical observation by pundits and analysts:

Berbera International Airport as a possible host to an expanded Israeli presence in the territory as part of an emerging alliance that would include Somaliland alongside Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi.

The UAE which is already active in the Sudan civil war, has an agreement at the airport.

Ismail Omar Guelleh, president of nearby Djibouti — home to a major US military base — has described the UAE as Israel’s “vanguard,” while Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud accused Israel of:

taking advantage of the long-standing dispute between Mogadishu and Hargeisa.

Abdullahi visited Israel on 14 June, and posted the following message on X:

For thirty-five years, the people of Somaliland have built a peaceful, democratic, and resilient nation. We asked the world: Do you see us? Israel answered first.

Today, history is being written, and Somaliland stands ready to forge a shared future founded on friendship, cooperation, and mutual respect.

A shared future is one way of putting it; another is ‘neocolonialism’. Somaliland is a key strategic location for Israeli power projection against Yemen. The statelet may also come to be a dumping ground for ethnically cleansed Palestinians.

Somaliland has struck a devil’s bargain with Israel, which, it may come to regret.

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Andrea Egan, who took over in January as general secretary of Unison, has said that the Starmer government is ushering far-right Reform UK into power.

The comments come as Unison’s annual conference begins today.

Left-winger Egan ousted Christine McAnea in a vote of Unison members. McAnea had long been accused of prioritising the Labour right’s manoeuvres over the interests and democracy of Unison members.

This week’s conference is Egan’s first in her new role. In an interview with the BBC’s Iain Watson, she said that the union had been a “sleeping giant” that had been “subservient” to Starmer’s Labour for far too long.

Unison has been “handing money over to the Labour Party and getting absolutely nothing in return”, Egan claimed.

She added that she had been “frank” with Labour that it was betraying the people it is meant to be serving.

I have been very frank with the government. When Labour came into power there was a sense of relief. But sadly we’ve been left wanting.

Communities are really struggling. They [Labour] haven’t delivered and my election demonstrated that members were desperate to have their voices heard.

Unison’s Egan says Labour must deliver on promises

The union boss also told Watson that Starmer is on track to “hand the keys to No10 to Reform”.

I have spoken out clearly about the threat Reform brings. It isn’t us that will hand the keys to No10 to Reform —  it’s them, unless they change course. And drastically.

They’ve got to start introducing progressive policies. Investment in infrastructure, pay restoration, better services, insourcing. They need to ensure that they deliver on promises they made when they came into government.

Egan is right but also wrong. If Starmer’s Labour carried anything of what Labour is meant to be, there might be a prospect of the party changing — if only to retain power, if not to actually serve ordinary people. But the only thing Starmer’s zombie party has in common with the Corbyn party that it replaced is the brand.

Starmer’s entire purpose in taking over was to end Labour as any prospect of change for the better.

Instead, his party is owned by and run for elite interests — those of corporate privatisers, the arms industry and the Israel lobby.

Starmer’s personal and policy record in Downing Street and even before that is appalling. So appalling that a reasonable person could very easily conclude that Starmer is actively trying to end Labour as a political force and “hand the keys” to the far right.

Do not underestimate the damage Reform will do

Egan shows every sign of under-estimating the threat Reform poses. She cites Farage’s plans to attack workers and the NHS, but Reform would also wage war on minorities and human rights and launch a fire sale of what little remains in public ownership.

But in that, Farge is barely distinguishable from Starmer, who hardly even bothers to try to window-dress his own racism, authoritarianism and lust for privatisation.

Egan was expelled by Starmer’s cronies in 2022 when she was Unison’s elected president. It was an unambiguous show of Starmer’s contempt for the union movement if it won’t serve his interests.

Nothing has changed — not for the better, at any rate. Yet, Watson says, Egan “insists that she has only ever been a Labour member — and it wasn’t her choice to leave”.

The time to separate from Labour is now

Watson’s article notes that in 2027, Unison members will vote on whether to end the union’s affiliation to Starmer’s party. Unison currently pays more than £1 million a year to Labour. That will leave just two years — at most — before the general election at which Egan expects Labour to roll out the turquoise carpet for Farage to enter No.10.

Starmer’s record and the short time remaining to build up a genuine opponent to the fascist right — whether the fascists are wearing red, blue or turquoise rosettes — means waiting another year is unconscionable.

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, even if he succeeds in this week’s Makerfield by-election and in deposing Starmer, is signalling that he would only put a personality on most of the same awful policies.

Unison, like the entire union movement, needs to disaffiliate now and put its money and resources behind a left party with a genuine chance to stop them. After the self-inflicted implosion of Your Party, that means the Greens. There’s no time for dithering.

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A prestigious private school full of rich kids is facing backlash after its huntsman admitted to an illegal wildlife murder. Done footage captured the controversial hunt as Stowe Beagles were seen tracking and ripping apart a European Brown Hare. It then shows members of the elite Buckinghamshire boarding school congratulating each other on the kill.

We, the public, only have until 18 June to back a total ban on the trail hunting — that’s when the government consultation closes. It is our last chance to close this legal loophole for good and stop these senseless killings.

Blood sports for posh schoolboys

The damning evidence led to a criminal conviction at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on 4 June 2026. Philip Kennedy, huntsman of the Stowe Beagles, pled guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs at Crockwell Farm in Northamptonshire.

Kennedy was fined a pathetic £258 and ordered to pay a £103 victim surcharge and £585 in costs. That’s nothing considering the UK Hunting Act 2004 banned hare hunting with hounds over 20 years ago.

Yet the Stowe Beagles still operates as an OFFICIAL extracurricular activity in the school’s games department. Footage shows the pack chasing a hare into a fence line before ripping the poor creature apart. Three members then arrive at the murder scene, shaking hands in celebration. Some members are believed to be schoolboys according to animal rights activists.

So what the hell is going on? Are we teaching rich kids that breaking the law is something to applaud? One rule for the rich, and another for the rest of us it seems.

Ilegal hunt activities are being normalised

Stowe School is not the only educational institution that maintains active hunts. Eton College and Radley College both have kennels for their own packs of hounds. Ampleforth and Marlborough Colleges also maintain strong links with local hunt groups.

Wealthy children assist huntsmen as whippers-in and occupy leadership roles on hunt committees. A Horse & Hound article notes that these school hunt packs are training the next generation of foxhound masters.

For generations, ‘young gentlemen’ (and now some ladies) have followed the well-worn path of masterships from school beagles to college beagles before taking a pack of foxhounds.

The Stowe and Royal Agricultural College Beagles have produced the greatest number of masters and huntsmen of foxhounds over the past 50 years

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Kennedy has worked at the Buckinghamshire boarding school since 2003, but his profile has been scrubbed from their website. Kennedy supervised the supposed transition from hunting live animals to legal trail hunting. What the recent conviction proves is that Stowe School has been running illegal hunts. This pisses all over existing legislation.

School hunts send the message that the wealthy are above the law, because their education is paid for in ridiculous sums of cash. And what’s a £1,000 in fines to people paying £50k in school fees yearly… pocket change. If issued to one of us, a fine like that would mean not eating for a month.

Activists slam the school over safeguarding

Following the conviction, Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) chair Simon Russell sent an open letter to Stowe School head Anthony Wallersteiner. His letter states that clear video evidence is proof of a premeditated act in front of schoolboys. Russell wrote that the celebratory handshakes shared between the murderers suggest illegal hare hunting is routine at Stowe.

Russell warns the school of corporate liability under Section 10 of the Hunting Act 2004. This means that school officers face prosecution if illegal hunts occur with their consent or connivance. Russell framed the incident as a severe safeguarding failure that desensitises kids to suffering and murder.

The letter cites the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. This protects kids from violence inflicted on animals. But the Stowe Beagles are always travelling to remote locations. They have previously visited the notorious Coniston Hounds, a pack that has been caught abusing foxes. Exposing these rich kids to deliberate animal abuse is a massive safeguarding risk… so why is the school silent on Kennedy’s conviction? Normalising suffering and death to children just means they will grow up to become less empathetic adults.

The HSA is demanding that school governors disband the hunt immediately and face an inspection. Will these elitist educational institutions finally act? Or will they continue to show kids that killing cute fluffy creatures and breaking the law is a privilege the ruling class is entitled to?

Featured images via the Hunt Saboteurs Association

By Antifabot

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