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The principal of a secondary school in Co Mayo said there is 'sadness and disappointment' following extensive vandalism at the school's convent and chapel jrnl.ie/7218883

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: The other day, Milei, the president of Argentina, came here to say that socialism is fascism. We will not allow Milei to define socialism, because socialism was defined, for example, by a great Catalan like Ernest Lluch when he helped build public healthcare in our country. The history of socialism is full of men and women who suffered repression, exile, death and imprisonment for defending democracy. Those who are the descendants of his friends, those who stood on their side in the past, were the ones who destroyed democracy in our country. That is the great difference.

1/5 Estas declaraciones de Gina Hinojosa tras ganar Texas dejan una lección para la izquierda mundial: la victoria no fue por moderación ideológica, sino por cambio radical en la arquitectura del clivaje. "Vencimos porque la izquierda woke ha muerto". 🧵

Governor DeSantis says young people chose socialism because the Republican alternative is crony corporatism which resembles the Soviet politburo funneling power and benefits to a handful of elites. “Is just screaming socialism going to work? Obviously, it didn't work in this election. And why? I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise to socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism. So the best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist Republicans who propagate these crony policies. Because the average person seeing that would say, wait a minute, you're trying to bend the government to funnel benefits to this corporation or that industry or this. What about having a competitive market? If you have a competitive market and you truly have free enterprise, that's going to benefit small businesses. It's going to benefit individuals. You are going to see the standard of living rise. The problem is these young people really aren't seeing that. They're seeing just a handful of companies that have an outsized influence on our economy and on our society. And they see government policy, for example. The Republicans in Washington wanted to do a 10-year effective amnesty for big tech where states and locals wouldn't be able to provide any type of regulatory oversight over artificial intelligence. And I'm thinking to myself, what other industry gets this? These hyperscale data centers that have become very controversial, you go to places like rural Texas, these are conservative people that are just beside themselves because these things are getting, in some of these instances, they're getting no property tax. People say they give money. Well, not if you give them tax breaks. So they're getting subsidies in some parts of the country. Now I think it's gotten so unpopular that they know they have to pay tax and everything. But a year or two ago, it's a much different thing. So the way you're going to end up having socialism is if you don't have a clear contrast between freedom and socialism. If it's cronyism versus socialism, there's going to be enough people who are going to choose socialism because on the surface, it seems like, well, it's government stepping in on behalf of people. Now we know a socialist society is going to be a highly cronyist society as well. Just look at how the Castro family lived in Cuba for all these decades while their people suffered. Look at how the Soviet Politburo lived back in the day or how the Chinese communists lived. It's human nature kind of at its worst. It's a different veneer, but ultimately, it's funneling power and benefits to a handful of an elite.”

Cloyne diocese likely to be amalgamated with Cork and Ross irishexaminer.com/news/munst…

🔴 @Santi_ABASCAL sobre la dimisión de Óscar Puente: "Sánchez se está escondiendo detrás de todos sus esbirros. Sánchez es el principal responsable de lo que está pasando en España. Es el principal responsable de la destrucción de la red ferroviaria de la red eléctrica, de la red energética, de la red de carreteras y de la red hospitalaria. Y también es el principal responsable de unos impuestos que solo se pueden calificar como atraco fiscal a los españoles más desfavorecidos, a las clases medias, a las pymes, a los autónomos y a los trabajadores".

Not the determining issue, but one sub-theme of the election is that the idea of an accelerationist "tech right" in 2022-2024 was associated with cool rocketry and new military hardware, but once in power it ended up associated with the terrible vibes of the AI industry instead.

Oh dear. It is a day ending in ‘y’ – so of course another Labour backbencher is going to the stake for a mad cause. Mr S has had plenty of fun in recent months covering the antics of Samantha ‘the nibbler’ Niblett, the Derbyshire dilettante whose calls for a ‘summer of sex’ were quickly lampooned as a Karma Sutra kamikaze mission. But now, it seems, one of Niblett’s colleagues is not content to let her have all the fun when it comes to policing Britons’ sexual norms… Step forward Jessica Asato, the usually-sensible Member for Lowestoft. The new MP has taken it upon herself to defend the government’s new restrictions on pornography. In her bid to clamp down on non-fatal strangulation, Asato has now ended up posting online about British Board of Film Classifications guidelines around ‘choking or gagging during oral sex.’ This has, predictably, led her to engage with an online spat with a sex worker, furious about the new changes. Quelle surprise… ‘All we are doing is bringing our law towards online pornography into parity with what we allow in offline pornography’, sniffed Asato to self-proclaimed ‘femdom mommy’ Jessica Starling . ✍️ Steerpike Article | spectator.com/article/labour… | @MrSteerpike

The Government are planning on extending workers' rights to illegal immigrants meaning they could take employers to court and earn huge payouts. Far from removing pull factors, Labour is introducing ever greater incentives for illegals to cross the Channel. More worryingly, bringing illegal immigrants into the workers rights framework moves us further down the path to a mass amnesty. The only thing a Restore Britain government will offer illegals is a plane ticket home.

Rather than importing, and then permanently settling, care workers from the third world, many of whom are unable to speak English and lack the necessary qualifications or attitude, the answer is quite straightforward. Get the millions of healthy Brits on benefits doing that work. That, or they lose their universal credit. If someone is fit, healthy, and capable of working they should be expected to take up suitable employment or training. That includes training and working in social care. For those who can work and simply refuse? The taxpayer should not be expected to fund that choice. Participate and contribute, or you will lose your benefits. We cannot keep importing workers to do jobs that capable people already living in Britain should be trained to do.

Labour MPs are now trying to ban oral sex. We're bringing back sodomy laws, chaps. And because no one wants to be known as 'the sex mp', we're simply letting these awful miserable sexless puritanical modern mary whitehouses roll back the sexual freedoms hard won sixty years ago

"Être de gauche c'est d'abord penser le monde, puis son pays, puis ses proches, puis soi. Etre de droite c'est l'inverse."

"We encourage the UK to be brave and to come back home because they are not doing well there in the middle of the ocean." Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama tells Euronews at #EnlargementSummit26.

Abdul El-Sayed: I'm a capitalist. Capitalism is about the leveraging of supply and demand to allocate capital. It's about free entry and exit into the market. If you read Adam Smith, he'll tell you that there's no market without morals. He'll tell you that the biggest risk to capitalism was never government regulation. It was always monopoly and oligopoly. When you think about the most lucrative sectors of the economy, they are dominated by a few very, very powerful corporations.