War enthusiast and former Tory minister ghoul Penny Mordaunt appeared on Channel 4’s The Last Leg last night. And she got owned in a clip that would surely go viral were it not for Channel 4’s screen recording block that prevents even fair-use clipping. Fear not, we worked around it.

As the show neared its end, Mordaunt must have thought she’d successfully negotiated the potential pitfalls. But Irish comedian Vittorio Angelone was having none of that. As Mordaunt plugged her interests, Angelone praised her for her commitment to the prosthetics industry by promoting arms sales — and then it got even better. Bear with the hiss at the beginning, it only lasts a few seconds and it’s subbed to make it easier.  Enjoy:

The clip triggered delighted discussions on Reddit and a stream of mockery on X even though people couldn’t share clips:

Penny fucking Mordaunt on The Last Leg, that’s the worst booking since Graham Poll showed Josip Šimunić a third yellow card

— Chris (@CEtchingham77) March 7, 2026

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@vittorioangelon Just saw you v Penny Mordaunt on the last leg.

Marry me.

— Kate (@ThisIsKateL) March 6, 2026

The absolute icon and renowned demon @vittorioangelon calling out Penny Mordaunt on The Last Leg was some lovely work.

— Patrick Spelman (@flippflop) March 6, 2026

@vittorioangelon calling out Penny Mordaunt on The Last Leg was epic, and needed. Great work.

— plantpotjam (@plantpotjam) March 6, 2026

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Penny Mordaunt being ripped a new one on #TheLastLeg is the sort of TV we all need 🤣

— Matt (@trainfanmatt) March 6, 2026

seeing penny mordaunt getting the absolute piss taken out of her on live television has just made my day so much better

— tils (@hcafctils) March 6, 2026

#thelastleg I think Penny Mordaunt is regretting agreeing to be on tonight’s show.

— £200 a minute since 2005 🇵🇸 🔻 (@glazersleavenow) March 6, 2026

#isItOk that @vittorioangelon has just chewed up and spat out Penny Mordaunt on @TheLastLeg
You fuckin bet it is

— RedPaul 🏳️‍🌈🍉 🕉☮✊🏻 (@PIMC66) March 6, 2026

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And a few made use of the show’s “#isitOK” hashtag to make sure of maximum exposure:

#LastLeg #IsitOK that Penny Mordaunt looks absolutely fuming still @vittorioangelon pic.twitter.com/zE41YKomx2

— Mark (@mabmab71) March 6, 2026

#isItOk that @vittorioangelon has just chewed up and spat out Penny Mordaunt on @TheLastLeg
You fuckin bet it is

— RedPaul 🏳️‍🌈🍉 🕉☮✊🏻 (@PIMC66) March 6, 2026

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The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) president Jarlath Burns has received an award at the 2026 Guaranteed Irish Business Awards, despite outrageous remarks made about Palestine and the Troubles just days earlier. Burns was given the Special Recognition Award by the business coalition. Guaranteed Irish claims to honour enterprises that provide good quality jobs, enhance the wellbeing of their community and are of Irish provenance.

It is fitting that Burns received a business award, given that’s exactly what he has been treating the GAA as, rather than as an organisation that prioritises values over profit. The former attitude has been epitomised recently by the retention of a sponsorship agreement with backer of Zionist genocide Allianz. The German insurance behemoth has been named as one of the complicit firms in UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s Economy of Genocide report.

Activists have escalated protests against the Allianz deal, coming to a crescendo on Saturday February 28 when a group of around 20 stormed Croke Park to interrupt the GAA’s annual congress. Burns alternated between flustered and fuming, as he sat stony-faced before the demonstrators. His response afterwards was to make spectacularly tone-deaf comments about what had just occurred.

Jarlath Burns minimises genocide and insults all of Ireland

He began by comparing the relatively brief occupation of the GAA building to the 78-year long illegal occupation of Palestine by so-called ‘Israel’:

It’s a bit ironic that people who are protesting against illegal occupation will come in and illegally occupy our building.

This is a cringy remark, not a burn Mr. Burns.

Not content with that obscene remark, he went on to insult all those who lost loved ones during the Troubles in Ireland:

It was in 1975. The Glenanne Gang came into Donnelly’s bar, which is our local shop, and murdered three people, one of whom was a good friend of mine, Michael Donnelly. And I went into my car on December 19 2025 and drove to the front of Donnelly’s house, shop, pub, which is still there, to make a speech.

Fifty years on, justice still hasn’t been served for the 120 innocent Catholics who were murdered by the Glenanne Gang in a four-year period in my area, in my community.

I don’t need any lectures about what it’s like to feel the pressure of illegal occupation. I don’t need any lectures or people shouting in my face about what it’s like to go to bed at night, fearful that somebody would barge into your bedroom and riddle you with bullets. Because that was my lived experience when I was young.

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The Glenanne Gang were a notorious loyalist death squad secretly assisted by British security forces. However, over 3,500 people lost their lives during the violence between the late 1960s and the peace agreement of 1998. Nearly 50,000 were injured, and the conflict affected the entire island. Jarlath Burns is not uniquely entitled to rule on which Irish people can and can’t have a say on illegal occupation, as everyone experienced its consequences in one way or another.

GAA ‘turn gaze…away from occupation, torture and genocide’

Burns has received a torrent of opprobrium following his comments. n excellent letter to the Irish Examiner, said:

I wonder how Michael Donnelly’s family feel about Jarlath Burns using their relative’s name and loss to justify turning the gaze of the GAA away from occupation, torture and genocide in Palestine today.

He also responded to Burns’ remarks about how Saturday’s action had breached “unwritten rules” about how protest ought to be conducted. In other words, according to Burns: protest is fine, as long as it’s not so disruptive that it might actually have an effect. said:

If people followed the “unwritten rules” of protest that Burns imagines exist, then we wouldn’t have gay marriage or reproductive rights. We wouldn’t even have a free, independent nation.

Well, semi-free and semi-independent, but the general point stands – direct action works. Fermoy Stands With Palestine pointed out how it was in fact the GAA that “crossed a line”, another phrase deployed by Burns following Saturday’s protest:

The line was crossed last November, Jarlath, when 2 of the 5 people on the ethics committee resigned as a business case was put forward to justify why the [the GAA] should stay with Allianz as a sponsor of our league as they pump billions into a genocidal regime!

The so-called Ethics and Integrity Commission of the GAA ruled in December 2025 that it was justified to keep its deal with Allianz. Strangely for a commission with that name, it barely touched on the ethics of the matter. It instead focused on practical and business considerations, implausibly claiming that:

…it would be impossible to secure an alternative insurer that would not have similar links.

The policy of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is not to seek perfection when choosing alternatives. The GAA could certainly do better than a company named as backing Zionist war crimes in a major UN report, which said:

Their insurance policies also underwrite the risks other companies necessarily take when operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, thus enabling the commission of human rights abuses and “de-risking” their operational environment.

This is an issue that will not go away, especially given Jarlath Burns’ total inability to respond to protest with any sort of nous. The sensible and ethical thing would be to cut the GAA’s losses now, and sever the relationship with this appalling company.

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The UK Covid Inquiry came to an end on 5 March 2026. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) was a core participant in the Inquiry. It’s warning that this and future governments must learn lessons from the pandemic. They must ensure key workers and the general population have better protection in the future.

The union body paid tribute to all those who lost their lives during the pandemic. And it expressed its gratitude to key workers that kept the country going at a time of national crisis.

The TUC has set out five key recommendations to prevent the mistakes of the Covid pandemic and protect workers.

1) Stronger union voice

The Inquiry showed that involving unions in decision making, from the NHS to the design and implementation of furlough, saved lives and jobs.

The TUC is therefore calling for a more dynamic approach to social partnership. It wants to bring government, unions and employers together to design, deliver and manage responses to future pandemics.

In particular, unions’ input will be essential when designing measures to ensure better workplace safety measures and protections for workers across all sectors.

The lack of a union voice in the early days of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic meant that decisions didn’t take into account workers’ needs. This often resulted in workers having to rely on ill-fitting PPE, or work in unsafe environments.

2) Stronger enforcement

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the body responsible for workplace safety. In 2021/22, its funding was 43% lower than in 2009/10 in real terms. This had caused a 35% staff number cut in the ten years leading to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This meant that there was limited inspection or enforcement – despite thousands of reported outbreaks, with many workers losing their lives. Just under 5,000 of the new ‘spot check’ visits were undertaken by contractors working to the HSE in the first eight months of the pandemic. There were only 78 enforcement notices and zero prosecutions.

The union body says that proper investment needs to go back into the HSE. This would bolster the inspection and enforcement of health and safety regulations and protect workers.

3) Stronger sick pay

The TUC says reform of statutory sick pay will be essential in preventing the spread of future pandemics.

Sick pay reforms coming into force from 6 April as part of the Employment Rights Act will mean that around 8 million workers will benefit from stronger sick pay provisions.

The experience of millions of low paid workers during the pandemic – with many having to work while infectious – demonstrates why these new rights were overdue, and why no government should now undo that vital safety net, the TUC says.

4) Stronger public services

The TUC says the pandemic revealed the dangers of under-resourcing our public services after years of significant Conservative cuts.

A decade of austerity leading up to the pandemic led the Inquiry to conclude that:

public services, particularly health and social care, were running close to, if not beyond, capacity in normal times.

The union body says that:

lessons must be learned to save lives in future.

The TUC is urging the government to continue to invest in public services and its workforce to repair and rebuild after the damage done by 14 years of Conservative government.

It says investment in the workforce is the only way to improve service quality, increase productivity and boost public sector resilience.

5) Stronger Employment Rights

Evidence the TUC gave to the inquiry illustrated how workers in insecure employment were less likely to report safety breaches. This included agency workers, those on zero hours contracts and bogus self-employment. They were more likely to work in low paid and unsafe workplaces and move between multiple jobs and workplaces. And they were less likely to access sick pay.

Insecure workers were nearly 10 times more likely to say they received no sick pay compared to secure workers.

Black and ethnic minority workers’ over-representation in these types of jobs was one reason for the disproportionate impact of the pandemic in those communities.

The experience of workers in insecure and low paid employment shows why there was such a need for the Employment Rights Act, says the TUC.

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said:

We owe it to those who lost their lives – and to those workers who put their lives at risk – to make sure we are prepared for future pandemics.

That means giving trade unions a seat at the table in pandemic planning – and adopting a social partnership approach by bringing unions, employers and government together to keep workers safe.

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And it means sustained investment in our public services to make sure they are resilient enough to cope with another pandemic.

The Conservatives took a sledgehammer to our cherished public services, leaving the NHS on its knees and struggling to cope when Covid-19 hit.

The Labour government has rightly increased health and education funding and gave many public service workers their first proper pay rise in years. But this cannot be a one off.

Covid showed us strong public services – and a properly supported workforce – are vital for the nation’s health and resilience.

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On tackling the scourge of insecure work and the Employment Rights Act, Nowak added:

The government also needs to address the structural inequalities and discrimination embedded in our labour market that put so many lives at risk.

That means delivering the Employment Rights Act in full, including new laws to ban exploitative zero hours contracts and give workers a right to a contract which reflects their regular hours.

From next month, workers will be able to get sick pay from day one. This is a game changer for millions of people up and down the country, and a positive first step towards building our resilience.

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Disgraced former Starmer adviser and UK ambassador Peter Mandelson has been released from his bail conditions after police decided he was not a flight risk, despite warnings from Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle that he was planning to leave the country.

Mandelson was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office after the latest Epstein files showed he had passed government secrets to serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Mandelson remained smitten long after Epstein’s first paedophilia conviction.

Although he supposedly remains ‘under investigation’, the kid-glove treatment the Zionist former peer is receiving is a stark contrast with the brutal detention without trial inflicted for up to nineteen months on young people who tried to prevent the manufacture of weapons for Israel’s genocide.

Mandelson denies any wrongdoing. Keir Starmer has placed one of his Israel-supporting cronies in charge of deciding which information about his decision to give Mandelson his plum appointments can be withheld from public scrutiny.

The Met has returned Mandelson’s passport to him. The paedophile-protecting Starmer regime has still taken no action on behalf of victims of serial child-rapist and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. For more on the Epstein Files, please read the Canary’s article on how the media circus around Epstein is erasing the experiences of victims and survivors.

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Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran is distracting from new Epstein file revelations showing testimony from a child victim alleging Trump raped and sexually assaulted her when she was between 13 and 15 years old. Trump’s farcically-named ‘Operation Epic Fury’ has been dubbed ‘Operation Epstein Distraction’ by disgusted service people and anti-war activists.

The latest evidence consists of three 2019 FBI interviews with a female Epstein victim who FBI alleges that Trump sexually and physically assaulted her as a young teenager after the serial child-rapist forced her to pander to Trump. Her main allegation is that the president orally raped her then beat her after she bit him in self-defence.

Trump’s allegations

The allegations are not new. A third party’s evidence of them was found in newly-released Epstein files in January 2023, but the Justice Department has now released additional FBI documents with the victim’s testimony, which had wrongly been marked as duplicates, supposedly because of their similarity to the other evidence. The victim reported that she and others close to her had received threatening calls for years demanding she keep quiet.

Even though the files released so far only amount to around 2% of the total, Trump appears thousands of times. In one witness submission, he was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl who eventually became pregnant — then standing by as the girl’s uncle killed the baby and dumped its body from a bridge into a lake.

Analyst and former Israeli diplomat Shaiel ben-Ephraim told Al Jazeera that Trump’s ‘war as distraction’ tactic is working, at least for now:

[He] really needs a distraction from [Epstein and other domestic issues] in the form of a war. And if you look at searches on Google for the Epstein files, they’ve plummeted since this started. So, at least temporarily, it’s succeeding. It’s taking up Congress’s time and it’s taking up the media’s time.

Many believe that Trump agreed to Israel’s demand for war on Iran because Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu must have threatened him with the release of incriminating evidence during Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington. Epstein was an Israeli spy whose apartment and presumably houses had Israeli cameras and recording equipment installed.

The ‘Epstein class’s first act in the war was to bomb a girls’ school, killing almost 170 children. Murdering children to distract from sex crimes against them. Trump, unsurprisingly, denies any wrongdoing.

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1) Having a lower sex drive than their partner

2) Pain during penetrative sex

3) Not orgasming during partnered sex

4) Body image issues

5) Losing desire thanks to the mental load

6) Not putting their own pleasure first

So, uh, any advice?

Fossil Free London campaigners protested outside the National Gallery dressed as suffragettes today. The action took place ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, drawing attention to the tightening of anti-protest laws.

The group held placards drawing direct comparisons between the jail terms received by climate protesters, and those handed to militant suffragettes in the early twentieth century.

Suffragette protest still echoes today

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, Just Stop Oil activists, received a combined 44 months in prison for throwing soup in the National Gallery. They caused minor damage to the frame of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting.

Their action recalled the famous National Gallery protest by militant suffragette Mary Richardson, arrested for slashing Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus. A crime for which she got a considerably shorter sentence of six months in prison.

Successive governments have systematically reduced the right to protest in recent years, with a wave of draconian legislation.

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, 2022 dramatically expanded police powers, including the ability to restrict protests for being too noisy; a vague measure that is at the discretion of officers.

It also shifted the burden of proof onto protesters themselves, making it an offence to breach a police condition, even if a demonstrator could not reasonably have known about it.

The Public Order Act followed this in 2023. It introduced sweeping new criminal offences including “lock on” protests and obstructing major transport works. And it brought in stop and search powers that require no reasonable grounds for suspicion.

These powers came in the same year as the Casey Review. The review described stop and search as a ‘racialised tool’ used by an ‘institutionally racist’ police force.

These same laws have been used to impose disproportionate sentences on non-violent activists. Several Just Stop Oil protesters received multi-year custodial sentences, the longest ever handed out in the UK for non-violent protest.

Robin Wells, Director of Fossil Free London, said:

In 1906 Suffragettes were called criminals, locked up for fighting for their right to vote. Now, they’re rightly celebrated. But their modern counterparts – the women leading the climate movement – face harsher penalties than 1906. Back when it was normal to see women as less than full human beings.

The government uses one hand to erect statues to historic rights advocates, and swipes away the rights those advocates used to achieve their success with the other.

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They say we’re in a democracy. Then they make almost all effective protest methods illegal.

The government says they’re acting on climate. Then they approve third runways and subsidies, and hint at waving through carbon bomb oil projects like Rosebank.

We, women campaigners of today, mean to celebrate the Suffragettes by continuing in their fight. Heed our clarion call, the same as our sisters from the past: deeds not words.

Deeds on climate!

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Defend people, protect our one home and Stop Rosebank!

Deeds on our right to protest!

Repeal the Public Order Act 2023!

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US President Trump has joined Israeli PM Netanyahu in an illegal war of aggression on Iran. Consequently, Trump has proudly stated he should be involved in deciding who the next Iranian leader will be. This comes after the US assassinated Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Trump has made clear that his ambitions reach beyond the Middle East, as he openly seeks to influence elections across Europe, including in the UK.

UK PM Starmer has received a number of biting put-downs from the US tyrant. Trump’s outbursts have followed after apparent dither and delays in coming to the US’ heel like good little lap dogs. Today, widespread reports suggest that oppressive Trump has made his decision who the next leader of the UK will be as he welcomes Nigel Farage to Mar-a-Lago.

Farage has had no shame in worshipping the policies of the demagogue leader in the US, even pledging to replicate his dangerous policies at home against the interests of the British public.

This signals that Starmer’s days as PM are numbered if the new MAGA world order goes unchallenged. I hardly imagine the British public will soon forgive a party that stood by timidly whilst our hard-fought civil freedoms are stolen from us by a megalomaniac in the US.

#TrumpsPoodle Farage will be going to roll over and get orders from his master #Trump pic.twitter.com/UERb6qTAoy

— Chris 🙃 #FBPE #RejoinEU (@ChrisyDrThomas) March 6, 2026

Trump and the rod for our own back

We have all experienced someone in our lives who demands everything on their terms with precious little patience or self-reflection. Throwing their toys out of the pram when they’re disappointed, leaving us scrambling to calm things down and move forward. Yes, if you’ve raised children especially, you’ll relate to the struggle. But like every parent will know, you don’t play by the rules of a toddler as you only create a rod for your own back.

Starmer and the UK government have willingly and lucratively made a rod for their own backs by bowing down to the US and Israel, and ours will likely follow. After all, their actions are beginning to come back to bite us, as what they legitimise in Iran and Palestine may soon come home to roost in the UK.

However, it won’t be rich politicians that suffer — it will be the British public, especially those without wealth, privilege or power.

‘President Trump’s rhetoric is often intense’

David Lammy says the UK wants ‘the Iranian people to determine their future’ after Trump said he wanted to pick the new leader of Iran

‘That sounds like you believe Trump is wrong but you won’t say it on camera?’, Lammy is asked pic.twitter.com/7y5hL51I4v

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) March 6, 2026

David Lammy says citizens should democratically choose their own leaders. Yet he has long been reluctant to challenge the US president, putting more effort instead to keeping Donald Trump happy. For far too long the UK government has been hypocritical in condemning crimes by enemies whilst providing diplomatic cover for crimes committed by the US and Israel. This weakness risks leaving the UK increasingly exposed to even more foreign interference in our democracy.

These latest machinations by the US tyrant signal that our government’s spinelessness in the face of war crimes will undoubtedly cripple our democracy at home.

UK government MUST uphold rule of law and democratic freedoms

We already know what the US is terrified of, as it will strip their power and dominance away. The US saw it as ‘too risky’ when Jeremy Corbyn stood a strong chance of becoming PM. The former leader of the Labour Party achieved huge popular support in 2017 and stood for Prime Minister in the 2019 General Elections. However, a concerted smear campaign by the mainstream media and other public figures destroyed those chances.

This highlights the power and influence the US are able to exercise in the UK. It also forewarns of their ability to succeed and hoodwink the masses into lapping up US interference in our democracy.

Declassified UK’s Matt Kennard confronted this issue on X in 2020, underscoring that this unwelcome meddling is not new:

In June 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was recorded saying the quote below.

I never heard one journalist follow up and ask what US “push back” against Corbyn involved.

Imagine if Sergei Lavrov had said something similar. That we are a US vassal state is just accepted. pic.twitter.com/A0FCshs8r1

— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) July 21, 2020

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There are no red lines for Farage, as was evident in his unqualified support of Trump’s threats to take over Greenland:

One taste of Trump’s posterior is never enough.https://t.co/apQyQMfW85 pic.twitter.com/3Uwk9FQxpb

— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) January 21, 2026

US strength and lawlessness will only mean our weakness and struggle, as this X post pointed out:

The US-Israel war with Iran has driven up oil & gas prices

This is boosting Kremlin revenues for its war on Ukraine

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Putin is smiling thanks to Trump & Netanyahu

Higher energy prices will hurt UK consumers already reeling from the cost of living crisishttps://t.co/n3zs35bVzP

— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) March 4, 2026

When will enough be enough?

The Starmer government must find some courage before it is too late. Men like Trump exploit weakness and thrive on making others vulnerable. That is clear as day. If the Labour Party wants any chance of remaining relevant, it must remember that it was elected to serve the UK — not the US.

When we allow others to break the law against other nations, we invite those same consequences to return and haunt us. By silently watching war crimes unfold, we help set the very precedents that may one day threaten us. We cannot stand by whilst Zionists undermine stability and peace in the Middle East, bombing countries into submission.

Otherwise, we risk leaving ourselves defenceless without the very norms we helped erode.

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