We are coming apart: How asylum, multiculturalism and contempt for the masses turned Britain into a tinder box.

It’s been almost a year since the Southport massacre. That sunny morning, etched forever in infamy, when Axel Rudakubana committed his barbaric, depraved murders of three young girls at a dance class in the Merseyside seaside town. It sparked the worst anti-migrant riots Britain has seen in modern times, fuelled by false claims Rudakubana was a Muslim, small-boats asylum seeker. But to anyone who had been paying attention, the seeds of that horrific unrest were sown long before that.

Sounds familiar.

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$233,000 in reparations to each black Californian – at a cost of half a trillion dollars.

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Governor Newsom Virtue-Signals on the Taxpayer’s Dime

California governor Gavin Newsom has announced he plans to give $233,000 in reparations to each black Californian, at a cost of half a trillion dollars. This taxpayer-funded largess comes on the heels of California’s projected $25 billion budget deficit, with state revenue now 41% below expectations due in part to lost tax-revenues from rich residents––who pay half of state income taxes–– fleeing California’s 13.3%, the nation’s highest rate, on incomes over a million dollars.

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New York Magazine’s cover about Canadian fury got people talking. This is why it matters

A buck toothed national mascot throttling a squawking bald eagle under the headline “You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are” had to get people talking. I suspect many who opined about it have not even read the extensive cover story in a recent issue of New York Magazine by Simon Van Zuylen Wood that attempted to let Americans know just how angry Canadians are about President Trump’s trade war.

I promptly posted about it on LinkedIn with the caption: “Captain Kirk is quoted in New York magazine”.

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Obama and his team, to destroy Trump’s presidency, effectuated Putin’s election interference goals

When you read as much news as I do, it’s often very tempting to rely solely on other people’s summaries and analyses of the information that’s out there. If I trust the source, why shouldn’t I let that source do the heavy lifting? Occasionally, though, you need to go to the original material to get the full impact.

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The Polish Tommy Robinson leading anti-migrant vigilantes

From Swinoujscie on the Baltic coast to Zgorzelec in Silesia, the yellow-vested activists turned out in their hundreds at a dozen border crossings between Poland and Germany.

They peered into car windows for evidence of illicit migrants, conducted periodic “citizen’s arrests” and on at least one occasion flew a drone over German border guards.

With Germany now routinely turning back asylum seekers at the border, the message from the vigilante patrols was frank and uncompromising: if the Polish state would not protect its side of the border, then the Polish people would do it themselves.

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Why the Hockey Canada sex assault verdicts hinge on the legal meaning of one word

The first two lines of the Crown’s opening statement in April at the high-profile Hockey Canada sexual assault trial clearly articulated what would become the dominant issue in a trial that captivated the country’s attention.

“This is a case about consent,” Crown attorney Heather Donkers said. “And, equally as important, this is a case about what is not consent.”

It’s an issue that will be finely parsed by Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia when she delivers her verdicts Thursday in the case of five professional hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a young woman in a London, Ont. hotel room in 2018. Whether the judge finds the woman consented is yet to be decided; both sides have argued over what happened that night, and what it means with respect to Canadian law.

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A Grateful Nation Thanks You President Trump!

Ellen DeGeneres: I moved to the UK because of Trump

US TV star Ellen DeGeneres has made her first public appearance since moving to the UK, saying she decided to settle in England the day after Donald Trump was re-elected US president.

The comedian and host told a crowd in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, that life “is just better” in the UK.

Ellen said she and wife Portia de Rossi were considering getting married again in England after some moves in the US to reverse the right to gay marriage, and that America can still be “scary for people to be who they are”.

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Has AI caused the jobs recession? Previous unemployment crises were temporary

Young people have always struggled to find work. During the Great Depression, they stood first in the breadlines. In the Seventies, youth unemployment hit 18% in many countries. After the 2008 financial crisis, it doubled in places such as Spain and Greece. But each time, the economy recovered and young workers eventually found jobs.

This time might be different. Britain’s unemployment rate, according to figures released this week by the Office for National Statistics, is at its highest in four years. We are in a jobs recession. And it appears that young people are being disproportionately affected. Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022, entry-level jobs have dropped by one third — a development for which large language models have been blamed. Companies are increasingly replacing junior workers with AI that can write code, analyse data, and handle customer service. The first rungs on the white-collar ladder — research assistant, junior analyst and so on — are disappearing.


Jobless young people with no future prospects, unable to afford rent or even dream of home ownership.

It’s a good thing we’re in demographic decline.

Silicon Valley and our Corporate Titans have begun to admit that a jobs Armageddon is at hand.

Is this why UBI has received attention these past few years?

But why import the 3rd World into a jobless 1st World? What is the game?

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‘I don’t really use it’: Canadians split on value of Canada Post ahead of strike vote

Canada Post?

Fifty-five thousand Canada Post employees are set to vote this week on the latest offer for a new collective bargaining agreement.

The potential new deal would see wages jump more than 13 per cent while adding more part-time workers.

Negotiations between the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have been ongoing for more than 18 months.

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The Doug Ford Doctrine: Don’t Be Conservative!

The Doug Ford Doctrine: ‘We really have to flex our muscles’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is hosting Canada’s premiers in Muskoka starting Monday at a Council of the Federation summer gathering. Premiers of the 13 provinces and territories can look forward to enjoying Alberta-bred and Ontario-fed beef on the grill at the Ford family cottage. They will have a special guest: Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“For the first time ever that I can remember,” Ford says, “the prime minister is invited. That would have never happened with Trudeau, but it’s happening under Mark Carney. And he’s going to be welcomed with open arms.”

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Two Days Inside the Movement to ‘Reindustrialize,’ and Rearm, America

Handy vehicle to have come the civil war.

Investors from Silicon Valley and senior officials in the Trump administration descended on a convention hall in downtown Detroit last week for a conference committed to spurring a “techno-industrial renaissance” in the United States.

In some ways, it looked like a normal convention. The makers of everything from carbon brushes to boat propellers milled around a large hall, looking at a flying boat, a customizable electric truck, an air taxi and a humanoid robot. But at times, it turned into an urgent and literal call to arms as discussions moved from manufacturing to national security.

“You will help us forge a future where we can build and sustain an industrial base that can deliver the critical weapons we need, fast and at scale,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the participants in a video message. “Time is short.”

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Privy Council Office runs psychological unit to shape Canadians’ behaviour

Despite its growing influence across multiple policy areas, few Canadians are aware of the IIU’s reach — or the extent to which their behaviour is being subtly shaped by design.

Canada’s Privy Council Office (PCO) has a behavioural science unit established under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that quietly shapes public policy and influences citizen compliance through psychological experiments and data modelling.

The Impact and Innovation Unit (IIU), which bases its framework on a UK government initiative and tools issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), has quietly pioneered its approach to behaviour change using psychology, economics and social sciences for years  — but its role became most visible in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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