On 17 January, the UK government released the list of its stated reasons for using against the Scottish parliament. Alex/Rose Cocker / the Canary* The unprecedented move blocked the new Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill, which would otherwise remove requirements for gender dysphoria diagnosis in order to obtain a Gender Recognition […]
Politics
The Doomsday Clock and the global crisis
Climate change, the war in Ukraine, the post-Covid era, the exploitation of nature and the rise of inequality portray a grim picture of our world. We are 90 seconds to midnight. Juanjo Andrés Cuervo It was the year 1947 when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the […]
Afghanistan, the no man’s country others left
The balance of the Christian West’s expansion across the planet leaves a panorama of desolation, plundering and destruction that benefits those peoples very little, if at all. And it is no different in Afghanistan.
Life expectancy is not a commodity!
This ingenious graffiti visually expressed the whole philosophy underlying the massive demonstration against the Pension System Reform that took place on 19 January in Paris on an asphalt that still hides the cobblestones of a not-too-distant French May. Miguel Angel Ferrís The look of astonishment and concern on […]
Keir Hardie would have turned in his grave
When I was invited to an exclusive event, commemorating 130 years since the inception of Keir Hardies Independent Labour Party, with a meeting of exactly 130 people capable of beginning something similar, in the actual building where it happened 130 years ago! I felt honoured. Lizzie Fletcher I […]
















