The Telegraph (UK).

A police force is placing biological men in women’s cells despite the Supreme Court ruling that transgender women are not legally women.

Staffordshire Police says its custody policy means “detainees may be placed in accommodation consistent with their gender identity”, The Telegraph can reveal.

That means biological men who identify as transgender women can be placed in women’s-only custody cells.

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Staffordshire Police has also been accused of providing “contradictory” guidance on whether an officer of the opposite sex can carry out strip searches.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Villiers Revealed project includes an exploration of Care Bears as “a symbol for the LGBTQA+ community”, and says some of these bears are “transgender or gender fluid”.

The project was developed by Culture Leicestershire, backed by public funding from Arts Council England, to highlight “trans narratives erased by colonialism”.

Care Bears, spanning children’s toys and cartoon characters, were launched by the American Greetings card company in 1981, becoming highly popular throughout the decade.

The exhibition said one bear, called Funshine, had been variously depicted as male and female since the launch of the toys and could be considered “a symbol for the LGBTQA+ community” and a role model.

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A family summer beach event in the UK city of Nottingham now sits behind portable anti-ram steel barrier, the latest admission that open borders have turned public spaces into soft targets.

Local authorities across Britain are quietly installing more of what critics now call “diversity barriers” – heavy portable steel devices designed to stop vehicles being driven into crowds.

The annual artificial “Nottingham Beach” event opened this week behind a line of bright red Husson H-Stop units.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

Ben Nelson was a senator and governor of Nebraska. He is a senior adviser for Saving America’s Family Enterprises.

He explains how most advocates of ‘wealth taxes’ are ignorant of the way ‘wealth’ is measured these days and are dealing in superficial indicators that can only cause disaster.

The Telegraph (UK).

Minnesota is planning to hand out transgender dolls to children as young as four years old.

The paper dolls, which feature removable genitalia, were created by the University of Minnesota Medical School for children under ten to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be”, according to The New York Post.

Each doll has a gender-neutral name, removable internal and external genitals, and more than 100 pieces of clothing, accessories and hairstyles.

Governor Tim Walz reportedly funded the controversial project, which has prompted anger from conservative groups.

The Telegraph (UK).

A mega-dinghy carrying 165 migrants has crossed the Channel, setting a new record for the number of arrivals on a single small boat.

The packed vessel – intercepted by Border Force on Thursday – beat the previous record from July 11, when 128 migrants crossed in one boat.

It was one of three dinghies to cross the Channel on Thursday, bringing a total of 366 migrants. The other two vessels carried an average 100 people each.

The higher number reflects efforts by people-smuggling gangs to cram more migrants onto each boat to maximise profits.

No mention of stopping them, or of penalizing France for allowing this shit to go on, or to sending them back.

Imagine what Trump would do….

The Telegraph (UK).

When you’re chief qualification (sometimes your only qualification) is your skin color….

When Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive.

He had beaten almost impossible odds to get there. Diagnosed with autism, and non-verbal until the age of 11, he had only learnt to read and write at 18 but obtained a degree and a doctorate before forging a career in teaching.

And what wink-wink-nod-nod helped him get those degrees?

Now, on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, the University of Cambridge’s professor of sociology of education has become the subject of a bitter row over plagiarism that has pitted his peers against each other.

On one side of the argument are professors at other universities who believe Prof Arday’s published works, including his PhD thesis, contain passages that are remarkably similar – and in some cases identical – to other academic papers, without proper attribution.

My, what a surprise. “I’m black, y’all, I’m black, y’all, I’m black black blackety black, y’all….”

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The Foundry.

Under President Ronald Reagan, Americans understood communism for what it was. We knew it wasn’t an ambitious social program or a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Everyone knew—without question—that it crushed faith, confiscated property, silenced dissent, and turned citizens into subjects of the state.

Then the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. We defeated the communists so completely that following generations of Americans never witnessed their evils. They never saw the breadlines or watched families risk their lives to escape the regimes. They inherited freedom without learning what was required to preserve it.

Communism is not making a comeback because it was ever successful. It’s returning because Americans forgot why it failed. Now its advocates are walking down a red carpet rolled out by the Democratic Party…

It is said that Nikita Khrushchev once claimed that “Your grandchildren will live under communism.” I have been unable to track down the source of that meme, but it matches what I saw of Khrushchev when I was younger. (Yes, I am that old.)

The American Mind.

The most consequential domestic policy development of the 2020s is neither COVID-19 nor Donald Trump’s reelection. It is Joe Biden’s decision to import ten million foreigners into the United States in violation of standing federal law. Many of the defining political fights of this decade stem from that choice: government shutdowns over border enforcement, states unilaterally redefining the meaning of citizenship, the growing willingness of the restrictionist wing of the Republican Party to defy its own business class, major fraud investigations in Minneapolis and New York, and the unraveling of consensus over whether federal law binds the states.

These are battles in a larger fight over who constitutes the American people, one that escalated with President Biden’s decision to actively facilitate the mass importation of illegal aliens into this country by land, air, and sea.

American politics is no longer primarily a contest over how we govern ourselves. It is a contest over who we are and who decides.

It is also a bitter lesson in the fact that any Democrat President, even a sock puppet like Joe Biden, can push the country further into the toilet than a subsequent Republican President can retrieve it.

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If California succeeds here, nothing stops it from imposing similar nationwide costs in energy, agriculture, transportation, consumer electronics, you name it. SB 54 is not just a plastics law. It is a blueprint for how one state can impose its preferences on the entire country.

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According to figures from Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, Berlin granted 53,598 family reunification visas during the first half of 2026, even though the government of Friedrich Merz had announced the suspension of this entry route.

The figure contrasts with the statements made during the federal election campaign. In April 2025, a month before taking office as Chancellor, Merz declared on X that his government would “manage and control migration better” and “suspend family reunification.”

Family reunification was suspended for two years on June 27, 2025, with Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder insisting on television that it amounted to “a return to the way things were before 2015 when it comes to law and order.”

The official records, however, show a gradual decline rather than a halt. In the first half of 2024, 63,637 visas of this type were granted; in the same period of 2025, around 57,000, a 10% drop; and in the first semester of 2026, a slightly lower figure. If the same pace is maintained in the second semester, the annual total would once again exceed 100,000 arrivals through this route.

The discrepancy between what has been promised and the figures is explained by the actual scope of the measure. The approved suspension affects only beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, a status granted to those who obtain neither the right to asylum nor recognition as refugees, but who could suffer serious harm if returned to their country of origin. It is a subgroup within the broader category of family reunification, not the whole of it.

Tie Times (UK).

Gary Lineker has called on Andy Burnham to tax millionaires more, telling the new prime minister: “We can afford it.”

If you can afford it, just write a check. But that’s not your point, is it? You want to force everybody else to pay what you think they ought to pay, rather than just deciding for yourself. This is what totalitarians do.

The former footballer joined more than 100 British-based millionaires including the screenwriter Richard Curtis, the novelist Val McDermid, and the ex-City trader Gary Stevenson who signed a letter urging Burnham to impose a 2 per cent levy on wealth over £10 million.

Note that these guys don’t have Real Jobs, where you have to make and sell a product and meet a payroll. They push words; words are free and there are always new ones available. No word-pusher ever has his supply of words liquidated in bankruptcy, or repossessed.

Burnham has previously signalled his intention to overhaul the tax system in order to fund his policy ambitions and refused to rule out a wealth tax when speaking on Lineker’s podcast earlier this month. He told the former Match of the Day presenter that his government may “ask for a little more”, adding: “I do believe we need a greater sense of fairness.”

Like many socialists, he apparently thinks that ‘millionaires’ have money-bins, like Scrooge McDuck, where their money just sits around waiting for them to swim in it. Word-pushers may have that, I don’t know. But most ‘millionaires’ have their money invested in businesses that provide jobs, provide goods or services, and actually generate the GDP that keeps the machines running.

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New surveillance footage appears to show a German migrant rescue group receiving around 90 migrants directly from masked smugglers off the Libyan coast.

The footage was recorded on May 11 by a surveillance plane operated by the EU border agency Frontex. It shows five masked men transferring around 90 migrants from a speedboat to two inflatable boats sent out by Sea-Watch 5, a ship run by the German NGO Sea-Watch.

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On July 1st, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner, and Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos travelled to Turkey. The purpose was to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

“Türkiye is a key partner on security, migration, and energy, as well as an EU candidate country,” Kallas posted on X after meeting Erdo?an, adding that the country “is making a significant contribution to protecting NATO’s eastern flank.”

Europeanconservative.com spoke with Emmanouil Koulas, Head of Office to Greek MEP Afroditi Latinopoulou and Board Member of the Patriots for Europe Foundation, about Brussels’ stance on Turkey, Erdo?an’s expansionist foreign policy, and how mass migration affects Europe.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau did not invent the idea that man is naturally good, but he was the thinker who gave it the intellectual form that would eventually transform much of modern political culture. Since then, the belief that human beings are born naturally good and are corrupted only by society has become part of the cultural mainstream. Consequently, if evil does not reside within man himself, then it must be found in institutions, traditions, the family, religion, inherited culture, or any form of authority.

Formulated in the eighteenth century, this thesis has survived revolutions, world wars, and the collapse of the great ideological systems. Today it reappears in the language of woke culture. The terminology has changed, but the underlying intellectual structure remains the same. The problem is no longer sin, human frailty, or personal responsibility, but a system of oppression said to have distorted an originally innocent human nature.

For Rousseau, natural man lives in harmony with himself. He is not virtuous because he has acquired virtue, but because he has not yet been contaminated by civilization. Property, social prestige, and institutions become the true sources of selfishness. History is thus understood as a process of degeneration.

Rousseau did greater damage to human civilization than Marx ever could.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but an illegal alien … from India … with a California commercial driver’s license … just made the news.

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If you want to know where a good deal of the modern rise of socialism is coming from, look no further than 90 miles off the coast of Florida, to Cuba.

That’s certainly where American leftists have been looking for a long time.

The State Department released a thorough and perhaps, to many, startling report on Monday highlighting how the authoritarian Cuban regime founded by Fidel Castro has been a prime mover of leftist activism and violence for more than half a century and poses a significant threat to the United States.

The 100-page report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” explained how the seemingly small Marxist gadfly has effectively made leftist ideology its chief export, which sets it apart from other, more militarily and economically powerful regimes hostile to the United States.

The report argued that Cuba has leaned into a unique brand of Marxism, what it calls “Third Worldism,” to deconstruct Western civilization and bring about a global communist revolution.

From this ideology sprang forth a variety of causes often associated with the American college campus New Left.

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Of course he does. That’s what socialism is all about.

Thank you, toxic feminism.

Not the Bee.

‘Assault weapon’ is, of course, not a thing, except in the fever dreams of the Wokerati.

To the extent that it means anything, it means ‘guns the Left find scary and want to stigmatize’, but of course they can’t say that, so they have to come up with a smear-term (like ‘price gouging’ and ‘black market’) to scare the people on the left side of the IQ curve.

They are attempting to conflate ‘assault weapons’ with ‘assault rifles’, a term invented by Adolf Hitler for what is now the standard configuration for a military longarm—which term they can’t use without looking like retards because ‘assault rifle’ refers to a fully automatic weapon, which is not what they are trying to ban.

The Telegraph (UK).

Scotland Yard is assessing claims that Labour banned fox hunting in return for a £1m donation from an animal rights group.

The Metropolitan Police is looking into new allegations that Lord Mandelson and another senior Labour figure suggested that the party introduced the ban in 2004 in return for the £1m donation from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

Brian Basham, a former Labour fundraiser, said he had “known for many years” that Labour’s Hunting Act 2004 was “bought and paid for by a political donation” from IFAW in 1996.

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I get all my news from Tim Pool.

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Professional associations drive progressive bias into college classrooms, and this needs to stop. Accreditation is not just a tiresome administrative routine. It’s a seal of approval that drives access to student loans, official diplomas, and occupational licenses. The Trump administration’s work to reform accreditation should give lawmakers new energy to challenge progressive orthodoxy.

Start with the American Psychological Association. The APA is the professional organization representing clinicians and educators in the field. Yet it also accredits university psychology departments. Most states require psychologists to have a degree from an accredited program.

The APA’s accreditation standards push diversity, equity, and inclusion into the classroom. In 2025, the Trump administration began putting accreditors under pressure to stop abusing their power, and the APA announced it was suspending the worst of its DEI standards. But while the organization froze the use of racial preferences in admissions, it kept the rest.

Even worse, specialist divisions within the APA are still pushing DEI in the form of racial preferences and even antisemitism. For example, the president of Division 39, the APA section representing psychoanalysis and psychologists, graduate students, and allied mental health professionals, openly advocates for intersectionality, a Marxist theory of victimhood that underpins DEI.

Not the Bee.

Even for Trump, this is pretty freakin’ Trump.

Trump doesn’t mess around.

Weep not for the Woke lawyer. He has made friends with the Mammon of Iniquity, and they will welcome him into their luxurious houses. Not to shabby for less than a day’s work.

New York Post.

Hypergamy Watch;

Gender stereotypes have come a long way, but that isn’t to say that in 2026, some women are just fine giving up their careers to marry rich to never work another day in their lives.

In the r/GirlDinnerDiaries forum on Reddit, one 20-year-old decided to do just that. She described herself as an ambitious person who was studying to become a dentist, yet had recently had a change of heart and decided that life is too short to spend it stressed and working.

So instead, she’d rather give it all up and marry a man with money to live a life of luxury.

Hard to pretend that you’re a princess with your fingers in somebody’s mouth … unless it’s on your OnlyFans page.

“… until I turned 19, I was very ambitious and passion-driven, I wanted to establish a stable career and become financially independent asap, but in the last two years of my life, I’ve experienced a sudden and dynamic shift in my way of thinking and being,” she wrote.

“I’ve realized that it’s quite literally impossible for me to achieve all the things I wish to, at least in this lifetime alone. My time here is limited, I can’t build a career, buy a house, afford basic necessities and also travel the world, buy designer and do as I please while also being under 30. Those things take a lifetime,” the original poster wrote.

As a result of having this ephiphany, she declared that she now wants to marry rich, have kids and “do as I please without working again a day in my life.”

So let some schmuck beta male do all of the heavy lifting and bill-paying. So much for feminism.

OH NOES WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.

But we never actually do.

The Other McCain.

Sometimes I have to remind people that I actually knew Sam Francis who, in recent years, has been recognized as a sort of prophet who foresaw the rise of what has become known as the MAGA movement.

Most of Sam’s younger admirers, knowing of his long battle against neoconservatives — which came into focus with his criticism of the 1991 Iraq war — are not exactly friends of Israel. What many of them may not realize is that Sam made a remarkable contribution to an understanding of the Middle East conflict, which his neoconservative opponents sought to erase from memory once he fell out with them during the first Bush presidency. Good luck finding an online copy of Sam Francis’s 1981 policy paper, “The Soviet Strategy of Terror,” which had an enormous influence on the Reagan administration’s foreign policy. Sam was at one point a research fellow for the Heritage Foundation, which published that paper, but once he was cast out for being too politically incorrect, Heritage effectively “de-published” it, removing it from their website, a deliberate insult they have not repented more than 20 years after Sam Francis died.

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Amnesty International UK is under growing pressure after experiencing pushback from a number of organisations it smeared for their alleged ‘anti-trans’ or ‘transphobic’ outlook.

A Growing Threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK was published on July 8th, 2026, and removed just two days later. The hasty response—from an organisation which took two yearsto acknowledge the Hamas October 7th atrocities—was prompted by a backlash from many of the groups the report berated for being part of an “anti-rights” movement. Past donors also raised concern about Amnesty’s capture by gender ideology.

The most pressing threat to Amnesty came from Beira’s Place, a women-only women’s refuge set up by J.K. Rowling. Lawyers acting for the charity accused Amnesty of defaming the organisation and have threatened legal action. Rowling has invited those on the “blacklist”—from the LGB Alliance to a now-defunct group dedicated to keeping men out of women’s prisons—to apply to the JK Rowling Women’s Fund to help with legal costs.

A Growing Threat claims that a key UK Supreme Court ruling, that ‘sex’ in Section 10 of the Equalities Act means is defined biologically, has led to discrimination (and worse) against ‘trans’ people, mostly crossdressing men who claim to be female. Amnesty now claims to ‘regret’ compiling the list, and its head was urged to quit over the report and related documentation. It has now reported itself to the Charities Commission for investigation.

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Italian prosecutors are investigating the captain of the ship Sea-Watch 5 for possible aggravated complicity in illegal immigration after aerial footage recorded by Frontex showed the German NGO vessel receiving migrants directly from a boat apparently operated by smugglers.

The footage, recorded on May 11th, approximately 45 miles northeast of Tripoli, shows five masked men supervising the transfer of 90 people using several smaller boats. Once the transfer is completed, the men wave to the crew and head back at high speed towards the Libyan coast. The following day, other videos show another vessel approaching the Sea-Watch 5 without any visible signs of damage or distress.

The ship later disembarked 166 people in Brindisi, Italy. Most of the illegal immigrants are Bangladeshi nationals, reports say. Italian police searched the vessel, copied its navigation data and seized several logbooks.

Sea-Watch denies that any prior rendezvous took place and maintains that its crew was fulfilling its international obligation to assist people in danger. The organisation also alleges that a Libyan patrol boat fired at and threatened the vessel during the operation.

Here’s how this scam works:

1. ‘Smugglers’ put migrants in a boat and travel outside of the source territorial waters.
2. NGO Pro-immigrant ‘rescue boat’ swoops in to ‘rescue’ the puir wee distressed migrants.
3. NGO ‘rescue boat’ takes migrants to European territory, where the promptly claim asylum upon landing.
4. Pro-immigrant bureaucrats start the Dance of Eternal Paperwork.
5. ‘Migrants’ disappear into the sunset, never to be seen again.

The Telegraph (UK).

Andy Burnham is planning to hand billions of pounds of income tax to Labour mayors.

The incoming prime minister is expected to accelerate plans to give more power to mayors to fund economic growth projects as part of his devolution strategy.

The Telegraph understands that Treasury officials have worked up a plan for “income tax sharing” to be presented to Mr Burnham in his first days in office.

Gee, Democrats have been doing that for years; so much so that when Trump cuts them off they sue.

The Telegraph (UK).

My, what a surprise.

Not the Bee.

Gee, who could have predicted that?

Not the Bee.

Details have yet to be released here, but I’m guessing it involved one of the blue-haired trantifa types.

I love the term ‘trantifa’ and intend to add it to my vocabulary.

Liberal women are already storming buildings because they are upset that the foreign criminal was shot while attempting to mow down officers:

As they do.

Not the Bee.

How unexpected.

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Britain’s Labour government is under pressure to pause its new prisons’ early release scheme. On Tuesday night, July 7th, Labour MPs in parliament abstained on a vote drafted to prevent the release of child sex offenders—including grooming gang members, paedophiles, and rapists—before the end of their sentences.

Now, the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales and the domestic abuse commissioner have joined forces to call on the government to pause its new early release scheme.

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Drama requires uncertainty.

But there is a creeping challenge across our film and television dramaturgy; progressive ideology, in which we’re told that certain groups are inherently more oppressed, and thus more moral than others.

This sits uneasily with dramatic storytelling, particularly in mixed-race casts, for a simple reason:

Unlike drama, which requires uncertainty, progressive ideology requires moral certainty based around people’s identities.

We all know the moral totem pole that progressive ideology has constructed, with cis white hetero able bodied men at the bottom, and a trans black disabled woman at the top.

,,,

I once attended a lecture by a brilliant black professor on the power of the Wire, one of the most diverse shows in history at the time. She said that the great achievement of the Wire was that there was a broad range of black characters, so no one character carried the moral weight of representing blackness.

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I have a question for Bernie, AOC, the DSA, and all the Ivy League professors who are convinced 21st century America is the optimum time and place for “real” socialism to be tried.

When Marx wrote his rant, industry was in the Age of Machinery. Should the workers take over the Means of Production at that time, they would have little or no trouble keeping the factory running. Any shop foreman had all the technical knowledge needed. We were still in the Age of Machinery in 1918 when Lenin took over the Means of Production. Even in the Age of Machinery, however, socialism can’t innovate. But, change did not come fast in the Age of Machinery. The U.S.S.R. strategy of relying on copying Western innovations was a tolerable strategy. The U.S.S.R. was always behind the West, but the gap was not too big.

After WWII, America began to leave the Age of Machinery and transition into the Age of Computers. The pace of innovation increased, and the gap between the West and the U.S.S.R. increased. Reagan pushed for a huge technological advance in Defense. The U.S.S.R. strained to respond, and collapsed.

Since the collapse of the world’s most advanced socialist country, the pace of change has steadily accelerated. The Age of Machinery exists only in museums. The shop foreman with good mechanical talent still exists, but he is ill equipped to run the factory full of robots. In 21st century America, the most important Means of Production are not factories. Microsoft is a collection of highly trained, and highly rewarded, coders. Apple has its factories overseas. Apple in America is a collection of highly trained, and highly rewarded, engineers forever devoted to designing something better than they designed the year before.

A socialist takeover of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, or any other of America’s top companies, ends in instant disaster. The common worker couldn’t take over squat. The highly paid elite engineer or programmer is essential and not replaceable. These folks are all very big winners under Capitalism. They will not start saying Comrade to everyone and continue working under socialism.

Marx was convinced factory workers were woefully underpaid. Therefore, a worker revolt would result in higher wages. Essential workers in 21st century America are not underpaid. A worker revolt, today, would do nothing more than piss off the workers.

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British policing has reached new depths of absurdity and authoritarianism. Officers are inventing pre-crimes, harassing citizens for lawful filming or standing in public, and deploying to pubs to warn people off tweeting about councillors.

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Democrats are at a crossroads as Democratic Socialists of America candidates win primaries, even unseating incumbents. Particularly vexed are well-off Democrat politicians as the DSA engages in its war against the wealthy.

Two prime examples: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and California Rep. Ro Khanna. Pritzker is a billionaire in a party that demonizes wealth. Khanna, who is also very wealthy, has been the face of going after the rich.

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A senior adviser in the far-left French party La France Insoumise (LFI) has spoken bluntly about the party’s desire to create a “New France,” a society reflecting the country’s demographic and cultural realities—a vision that the French right has described as a push for population replacement.

Imane El Hamzaoui, a senior national coordinator within LFI who oversees the party’s anti-racism campaign and youth mobilisation, delivered the speech to party members on Sunday, July 5th as part of a presentation on the concept of a “New France.”

The New Neo.

I’ve written many many posts on this topic over the years. I don’t know when the first one was published, but it was probably at least as far back as Obama’s campaign in 2008 (see this, for example). But right now it seems especially appropriate.

By 2018 and 2019 – the years AOC first became prominent – I was writing about the topic more often, and especially noting how popular socialism had become among the young.

It’s no surprise that young people are comfortable with socialism—they’ve lived under it all their lives. Mom & dad control all of the household property and money and the way you get something is by wheedling. Transferring this attitude to government feels natural.

The Telegraph (UK).

At least five county cricket clubs are in danger of having their funding cut because their boards are not diverse enough.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) threatened to withhold critical funding from first-class domestic cricket clubs that have not appointed an ethnically diverse director and achieved 40 per cent female representation on their boards.

The affirmative action has been described as an overreach on behalf of the national governing body, which critics say has become too powerful.

The Foundry.

continue to work. Some families in low-income neighborhoods turn to Head Start, a program whose very name suggests children should expect to finish their time at one of these centers better prepared for school. But today, after more than 60 years and over $240 billion in spending, the program has fallen well short of that goal.

A new Heritage Foundation report reveals a harsh reality: Head Start centers are overregulated, unsafe, expensive, and fail to deliver lasting results for children.

Head Start sits under a thick, strict set of rules. A recent analysis compared federal Head Start rules with state childcare rules. It found that nearly all Head Start settings are stricter than state settings.

Moreover, the program is also burdened with bureaucratic red tape that does nothing to help children and families. The second Trump administration is trying to help. In May 2026, the Department of Health and Human Services released a notice of proposed rulemaking to scrap burdensome wage and benefit rules from the Biden administration.

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Political orientation has been shown to correlate with fertility, raising the possibility that demographic processes contribute to long-term ideological change. Using data from the US General Social Survey, we analyze completed fertility across 17 birth cohorts (1898–1982) to examine how political orientation has contributed to fertility decline in the United States and whether emerging selective forces can be detected. Earlier cohorts show little difference in fertility by political orientation. From the 1943–1947 birth cohort onward, however, a pronounced divergence emerges: individuals with right-wing political orientations maintain fertility at or above replacement level, whereas fertility among left-wing individuals declines sharply to well below replacement. Applying Lande–Arnold selection gradient analyses, we find increasing directional selection that may favor right-wing political orientation over time, while education shows consistent negative associations with fertility and religiosity positive but weaker effects. Separate analysis of Black and White Americans reveals, however, that the increasingly stronger association between political orientation and fertility in more recent cohorts holds only true for whites but not for blacks. Nonetheless, these findings suggest that recent fertility decline in the United States is driven disproportionately by left-leaning individuals and point to contemporary demographic processes that may gradually shift the ideological composition of populations.

Evolution acts to weed stupidity out of the gene pool. It’s slow, but it’s sure.

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One way our nation’s most “prestigious” newspapers show they’re Democratic Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses).

Robin Givhan of The Washington Post was a transparent Democrat, and so is Vanessa Friedman of The New York Times. A white pantsuit worn by Hillary Clinton, as well as the feminist Democrats at the State of the Union, was very chic. But when Tulsi Gabbard wore one while she criticized Hillary at a Democrat debate in 2019, it suddenly carried “connotations of the fringe” and displayed “somewhat combative righteousness (also cult leaders).”

When Kamala Harris lost in 2024, Friedman invested great meaning in the cravat she wore to her concession speech, that it represented “the idea that some fights were long. That this one had been going on for decades (even centuries) and would continue afterward. It was, in that way, a symbol of both a promise and a lament.” Feminism lost. Women were shortchanged again.

Not the Bee.

I thank God that I don’t live in Britain.

Not the Bee.

Oh, look, another trans person plotting a mass shooting.

The Telegraph (UK).

From the banks of the river Trent, the ruined stone walls of Newark Castle should be the iconic backdrop to this historic Nottinghamshire market town. But all that’s actually visible on a humid July afternoon is traffic backed up along its famous Great North Road, battling its way to and from the A46. It’s been this way for decades now.

So when National Highways announced “critical investment” to improve the A46 Newark Bypass in February 2022, it wasn’t just the people of Newark breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was seen as a nationally significant trade and export route too. As Heidi Alexander, Secretary of State for Transport, said less than four months ago, upgrading the A46 at Newark “will support sectors such as logistics and manufacturing which are dominant in the local economy and reliant on roads for growth, as well as improving access to Humber ports”.

But then, with one dismissive wave of Keir Starmer’s Defence Investment Plan this week, the £297m project was abruptly shelved. It wasn’t the only roads project immediately mothballed; the A38 Derby Junctions project – also in the East Midlands – was earmarked for “potential cancellation”.