Right, so The Canary has just been debanked and this is something that should raise immediate alarm bells with all of us.

An independent media outlet has just had its banking services withdrawn. A fundraiser is now being launched to help keep it going, and I’m covering this because when an independent media organisation is financially cut off like this, we are looking at something much bigger than one outlet having a bad week with a bank, because we’ve seen too much of this going on, certainly at individual levels, but this is a whole other ball game and as independent media as well, this could literally happen to any of us, hence the importance of those who support us and as such we support each other too.

Obviously, facts matter here. The appeal process depends on them being known, but the democratic issue, much easier to talk about ...