- “Trump picks firebrand senator J.D. Vance as running mate” – Donald Trump has picked the author of Hillbilly Elegy as his running mate after promising to unite the nation following his attempted assassination, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump has pulled off another triumph – and chosen a VP who’d be an even better President than him” – J.D. Vance is a man who will carry forward the populist revolutionary flame, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “How J.D. Vance went from calling Donald Trump ‘America’s Hitler’ to his running mate” – Raised in an unstable home by a drug-addicted mother, Trump’s pick for VP couldn’t have come from more different beginnings to the ex-President, says Rozina Sabur in the Telegraph.
- “‘Trump 2.0’ ditches old rhetoric for new mission to unite America” – Donald Trump has changed his election strategy to focus on a message of national unity after the attempt on his life, writes Tony Diver in the Telegraph.
- “Trump supporters tried to warn cops about gunman” – The Mail has video showing a Trump supporter alerting a police officer to the presence of a gunman on a roof close to where the ex-President was speaking in Pennsylvania.
- “Trump’s shooting helps Biden to stay, but not to win” – “If I were a Democratic legislator looking for electoral success this November, I would be worried,” says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Courage and cowardice in Pennsylvania” – In trying to assassinate Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks inadvertently provided the ex-President with an opportunity to display the very qualities that have made him a cult icon, writes Claire Lehmann in Quillette.
- “The shot that created a martyr” – Biden’s defeat is now inevitable, says Lionel Shriver in UnHerd.
- “Edge of the abyss” – America’s divides are as much epistemological as political, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Leftist media downplays Trump assassination attempt” – In the European Conservative, Michael Curzon takes aim at the elements of the media either downplaying the seriousness of events in Pennsylvania or placing a portion of the blame on Trump himself.
- “Donald Trump racing ahead in key swing states, Times poll reveals” – New polling for the Times reveals that Trump has moved ahead of President Biden in every swing state, even before Saturday’s assassination attempt.
- “Trump classified documents case dismissed” – The classified documents case against Donald Trump has been dismissed by a federal judge, reports the Mail.
- “Cash-strapped Tories will use conference to replace Rishi Sunak” – The Conservatives are expected to use their party conference to hold the hustings between the final two candidates for leader amid concerns that the party doesn’t have enough money for a longer contest, says the Times.
- “What’s going to be in the King’s Speech?” – Wednesday’s King’s Speech will include plans to bolster housebuilding, enhance workers’ rights and give 16 and 17 year-olds the vote for the first time, reports the Times.
- “Starmer and the Blob” – The Conservative Party should propose a new constitutional reform act that reboots the primacy of freedom, equality before the law and human dignity, says Doug Stokes in the Critic.
- “Merciless Labour is following the Blair-Brown playbook” – Starmer is waging a forever campaign, re-burying the Tories in a blizzard of bad policies, writes Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “In conversation with A.D.M. Collingwood” – On the Bournbrook Podcast, Michael Curzon talks to A.D.M. Collingwood about the launch of Labour’s programme of radical constitutional reform, the Americanisation of British politics and the troubles besetting Reform.
- “David Lammy calls for Gaza ceasefire” – The immediate challenge for David Lammy is the thorny question of whether to limit or stop weapons sales to Israel over the loss of civilian life, says Katy Balls in the Spectator.
- “Yes, David Lammy’s old tweets are a problem” – If Trump does win the Presidency in November, David Lammy will be in an awkward situation, given how sophomoric he’s been about him on X, writes Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
- “World’s leading vaccinologist, and his compatriots, have just capitulated regarding the lack of vaccine safety!” – After decades of Dr. Stanley Plotkin and his vaccinologist disciples insisting vaccines are the most well studied products on the planet, they have just penned an article admitting precisely the opposite, says the team at ICAN.
- “Former CDC director says FDA underreported adverse vax side effects to prevent vaccine hesitancy” – Ex-CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield says that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pushed a false “safe and effective” Covid vaccine narrative by underreporting adverse events, according to American Greatness.
- “YouTube still censoring content questioning efficacy of the vaccines” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton recounts another hostile encounter with YouTube regarding vaccine-critical content.
- “Peter Hitchens on Lucy Letby – ‘I am uncomfortable about this trial’” – On SpectatorTV, Michael Simmons is joined by Peter Hitchens to discuss the key evidence presented in the Lucy Letby trial.
- “Labour shelves foreign worker crackdown despite population surge” – Labour has shelved a legal crackdown on foreign workers amid the biggest rise in the U.K.’s population for at least 75 years, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain has entered a birth rate crisis” – This year, England and Wales are almost certainly going to cross a remarkable threshold: the number of deaths will exceed the number of births, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “‘The London of my youth is gone’” – In the Spectator, American Monica Porter recounts how she fell in love with London when she moved there in the early ’70s – and why she now wants out.
- “Private school exodus begins in Surrey” – State schools are being flooded with new pupil queries as parents brace for a planned tax raid on private schools, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ukrainian army deserter shot dead as anger grows over recruitment drive” – A Ukrainian army deserter has been shot dead and a military recruitment centre has been bombed as tensions rise over the country’s aggressive mobilisation drive, says the Telegraph.
- “Putin is leading Russia into a demographic catastrophe” – “Moscow can always find more men,” one hears people say, justifying a fatalistic attitude to the war in Ukraine. But it is simply not true, writes Francis Dearnley in the Telegraph.
- “National Grid: Britain will remain dependent on gas for years” – According to the National Grid, Britain will be forced to rely on natural gas for years to come, says the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband is the new face of Britain’s Net Zero folly” – We are 1% of emissions (and 1% of the world’s population). So why not – more sensibly – aim to never be more than 1% of global emissions? suggests Neil Record in the Telegraph.
- “The Science Museum will pay a high price for surrendering to the mob” – Museums and galleries petulantly refusing to take any donations from the oil and gas industry will only put more pressure on the public purse, warns Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting is right about the evils of puberty blockers” – We need brave adults in the room to defend vulnerable families from the policy demands of gender activists, says Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
- “‘Censorship isn’t working’” – On SpectatorTV Australia, Toby Young explains to host Alexandra Marshall how the censorship drive of our ruling elites has backfired, prompting more populist revolts not less.
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A very helpful example of pseudo science.
It’s the kind of garbage collectivists lap up while searching for policies to solve social problems. We’re all, not just the homeless, like little lab rats on which they can act upon to “make the world a better place”.
This is similar to the Universal Basic Income which is another fraud. Hand every person £1K per month on top of the welfare system which sets a minimum level of income. Ridiculous. If you are homeless you cannot be handed cash. You need to repair many other issues first. The Welfare state is broke and broken. Enough already.
UBI would actually be better than the current welfare system. No means test, no discrimination, no perverse incentives.
There are big differences in why people might be homeless (or appear to be). Complex mental or physical health issues make some people unsuitable to ‘normal living’. Given social housing or sheltered accommodation and these people will still find their way back on the streets. Similarly there are the drug addicts and alcoholics that exhibit severe anti-social behavioral traits that money alone wont fix. Then there are the ‘professional’ beggars, there are also those exploited by criminal gangs in what is known as modern slavery.
Only anecdotally, but in a country like the UK with it’s generous welfare system and councils having a statuary responsibility to house anyone – I cant think of any reason why a person could be on the streets for lack of money. The first time in my life I saw real, genuine hardship was on a stag-do in Eastern Europe and ironically also in the supposedly wealthy USA.
FYI, you can watch Eva Vlaardingerbroek’s new (35min) documentary about the sorts of people living on the streets across Germany here. You will not be in a rush to visit after watching this. She speaks German too, clever lass. I can’t see how major cities in the UK would differ much from this tbh. Worth watching.
https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1703157698219458989
The study may not have been perfect, but Occam’s Razor would say that giving them unconditional cash DOES make them better off on balance, at least at the margin. I know conservatives don’t like the idea of “something for nothing” (unless they themselves benefit directly from it, and not “those people”) and think that everything must have more strings attached than a spider’s web (often conflating the normative with the descriptive), but come on now. Behind such opposition, I detect “the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism” that is causing such cognitive dissonance.
Well this conservative doesn’t like the idea of giving his money away. Occam’s razor would suggest to me that in the long run, giving people money without giving them other help does more harm than good.
1) No one in favor of it, including the authors, is saying they should be denied other help. That is a straw man, as we can walk and chew gum at the same time. 2) The money can simply be created, like all money is when you really look at it, so you don’t have to “give away” your own money if that bothers you. 3) And finally, as the late, great John Maynard Keynes famously said long ago, “in the long run, we are all dead”.
(Mic drop)
“2) The money can simply be created, like all money is when you really look at it, so you don’t have to “give away” your own money if that bothers you”
I don’t have the ability to create money, so giving mine away does bother me. Money can be created with a printing press, value can only be created through work.
This study has already been savaged in the Canadian and other media.
One was the pre-screening – everyone with addiction or mental issues were excluded. Only shorter-term homeless were excluded.
“age 19 to 65, homeless for less than 2 y (homelessness defined as the lack of stable housing), Canadian citizen or permanent resident, and nonsevere levels of substance use (DAST-10) (21), alcohol use (AUDIT) (22), and mental health symptoms Colorado Symptom Index (CSI) (23) based on predefined thresholds”.
There were many dropouts from the study etc.
“Of the 732 participants, 229 passed all criteria (31%). Due to loss of contact with 114 participants despite our repeated attempts to reach them, we successfully enrolled 115 participants in the study as the final sample (50 cash, 65 noncash0”
There were many problems with this study.