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So long, Starmer

Keir Starmer
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Sir Keir Starmer has officially announced his resignation as leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:

Yay, I guess.

There goes our sixth "leader" in ten years, and in comes our seventh.

I know some quarters - on both right and left - will be going full Holy Grail...

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But I can't bring myself to care about what is, at absolute best, a PR exercise.

The only real change is that, moving forward, I will likely be italicizing the word "Sir" a lot less.

As always, when there's a leadership change, people will rush to talk about "legacy". But Starmer doesn't have one. He's just sort of there.

The process that started before he arrived carried one while he was there, and will continue after he's gone.

He's not done anything. He never had the power to do anything and never tried to do anything. The Online Safety Act and Social Media Ban will likely be the things he is most remembered for, but - again - they would have happened whether or not he even existed.

Wall Street

Alan Greenspan, Longtime Fed Chair And "Maestro" Of Markets, Dies At 100

Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman who led the central bank from 1987 to 2006, under four presidents, died at 100 from complications of Parkinson's disease, NBC News reported.

Greenspan became known as the "maestro" of monetary policy, spanning one of the longest and strongest economic expansions in U.S. history, marked by booming stocks, rising home prices, low unemployment, and confidence that he could steer markets through financial crises.

"Alan passed away at our home this morning at the age of 100 from complications of Parkinson's disease," stated his wife of 29 years, Andrea Mitchell, who is the chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News.

Books

What history teaches us about why so many eventually flee Socialism

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History is filled with political movements born from noble promises. Few have been more appealing in theory than socialism. At its heart, socialism promises greater equality, economic fairness, and protection for those who struggle in a competitive marketplace. It speaks to the desire for justice and the belief that no person should be left behind.

Yet history also teaches a sobering lesson: While millions have voted for socialism, millions more have ultimately fled from it.

Why?

The answer is not found in campaign slogans or academic theories. It is found in the lived experiences of ordinary people across generations and continents.

Gavel

Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down race-based Scholarships, ruled 'unconstitutional'

The Wisconsin Supreme Court
© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York TimesThe Wisconsin Supreme Court
The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state-funded scholarship program that awarded financial aid based on the race of college students. The Democrat-controlled court followed the precedent laid out by the United States Supreme Court in finding that Gov. Tony Evers and the state were violating the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. Two of the most liberal justices, however, wrote a concurrence denouncing the bar on the use of race for such scholarships. If Democrats are able to pack the Supreme Court as demanded by many party leaders, this concurrence is an example of the likely changes that a packed court will bring in reversing anti-discrimination and other rulings.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty represented the taxpayers in this successful challenge of the Wisconsin Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant Program. That program administered taxpayer-funded grants of up to $2,500 per academic year to eligible students of Black American, American Indian, Hispanic, or certain Southeast Asian backgrounds.

The state paid out roughly half a million dollars in scholarships, now found to be racially discriminatory.

Rose

NHS pharmacist left paralysed by Covid vaccine takes his own life

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John Cross, pictured with his wife Christine, suffered a rare reaction to the AstraZeneca jab which left him in hospital on a ventilator, unable to move, talk or breathe
The terrifying number of patients who have suffered Covid jab complications is finally being revealed

Nearly half a million Britons claim to have suffered from side effects from the Covid jab, analysis of official figures reveals.

Over 2,500 people have submitted reports claiming that a family member has died as a result of the jab.

The figures from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) yellow card reporting scheme - which allows anyone to report complications from a drug - showed that the AstraZeneca jab had the most reported complications.

This comes after a report of John Cross who took his own life after the Covid vaccine left him paralysed has finally been awarded compensation, three years after her husband's death.

Comment: They all would likely be alive today if they had been given no vaccine, regardless of brand.


Bullseye

Musk calls for Nuremberg-style trials after UK rape gang inquiry report is released

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Up to 250,000 young British girls raped, imam said 95% of suspects were Muslim men
"Those migrants have colonised large parts of our country, and live their lives how they choose to do so because our authorities are too frightened of being called racist to challenge them."

— Rupert Lowe, MP
After Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe released the Rape Gang Inquiry Report, which documented the systemic rape and often torture of up to 250,000 young British girls at the hands of predominately Muslim rape gangs, SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk agreed with calls for Nuremberg-style trials for the perpetrators and those who enabled the heinous attacks.

One post calling for Nuremberg Trials in connection to the rape gang inquiry and executions for those who were responsible, also received a one-word response from Musk, who stated: "Yes."

People

LA City Council advances measure to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections

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The Los Angeles City Council voted 10-5 to advance a controversial proposal that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, including mayoral, city council and school board races.

The New York Post reports that the proposal is part of a sweeping charter reform package headed for the November ballot.

The proposal to allow noncitizens to vote was proposed by Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez who argues that noncitizens who live, work, pay taxes and raise families in Los Angeles should have a voice in local affairs.

Hardhat

'Two-tier Britain' fears as white people shut out of taxpayer-funded jobseeker schemes

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White people are being shut out of taxpayer-funded jobseeker schemes across the nation.

The programmes - only available to ethnic minorities - have been labelled an example of "two-tier" Britain, and come just as the nation's youths stare down the barrel of an unemployment crisis.

In Sheffield, the Labour and Green-led city council offers "targeted employment support for ethnic minority groups" as part of a pathways to work programme.

A £340,000 project, operated by local charities, aims to help find jobs for "economically inactive" minorities.

The scheme is part-funded by the "Economic Inactivity Trailblazer" run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the £2.6billion UK Shared Prosperity Fund provided by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

Warning

ECB: Iran peace deal won't erase Europe's energy price shock

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Europe will have to contend with the energy price shock for months despite the tentative U.S.-Iran agreement to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, European Central Bank (ECB) officials said this week.

The ECB last week raised key interest rates for the euro area for the first time since 2023 as the Middle East conflict hiked energy prices that have started to feed into core inflation.

The ECB raised the key interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%, its first hike since 2023. Eurozone annual inflation climbed to 3.2% in May, from 3.0% in April, due to the Middle East conflict.

ECB officials are not ruling out further increases in interest rates this year, despite the U.S.-Iran deal, as the energy price shock is expected to linger for months to come.

Bizarro Earth

Argentina moves to legalize "non-human corporations" run by AI

Milei
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You could already make the case that corporations are faceless monoliths geared purely towards maximizing profits with only a peripheral consideration of human wellbeing.

So when Argentina's scandal-laden president Javier Milei called for the creation of "non-human corporations" run by AI in a new opinion piece for the Financial Times, you kind of have to applaud him for dispensing with the formalities and just admitting to the misanthropy at the heart of our glorious capitalist free enterprise system.

The tone is set with the very first line, where Milei extolls the 1602 founding of the Dutch East India Company — the infamous colonialist monopoly that committed countless atrocities and massacres, as well as exploiting and trading hundreds of thousands of slaves.