July 31st;
Friday. Three Gorges Dam in China above Wuhan continues to hold back floodwater. 24-hour webcam shows the dam still stable with some overflows.
July 30th;
Thursday. Sweden's refusal to close down their country for this year's COVID-19 quasi-flu already paying dividends.
July 29th;
Wednesday. An "AI" program makes "hand-painted" artworks?
July 28th;
Tuesday. Amazing this needs to be said, but seems it has to be. The case for teaching Western civilisation.
July 27th;
Monday. Canadian academic censored for criticising diversity hiring.
July 26th;
Sunday. Armed militia threaten violence in Louisville "within four weeks" if no justice delivered for Breonna Taylor, a woman killed during a March police raid. The group is called the 'Not Fucking Around Coalition' and is led by John Fitzgerald Johnson, also known as 'The Real Grandmaster Jay'.
July 25th;
Saturday. Interesting story of a charity founder who comes up against Black Lives Matter's 'cancel culture'.
July 24th;
Friday. Potent image of a nude Portland protestor's apparent pussy power gently questioned in an UnHerd piece.
July 23rd;
Thursday. Given inside-page treatment in the press, what looks like a covert war in Iran continues.
July 22nd;
Wednesday. Interesting new work on biology of ageing.
July 21st;
Tuesday. Interesting discussion of an old Hannah Arendt worry that space exploration was "Earth alienation".
July 20th;
Monday. February book review about sports-result racism.
July 19th;
Sunday. "Bow-wielding 'Forest Rambo' Disarms Four Police Officers", escapes into German Black Forest, recaptured after 5-day manhunt.
July 18th;
Saturday. The Three Gorges dam above Wuhan might be deforming under the weight of holding back floodwaters during heavy rains. Denials from Peking are coming thick &
fast now.
July 17th;
Friday. Huge fake-gold scandal emerges centred on Wuhan.
July 16th;
Thursday. Hominid footprints in old rock might undermine the Out-of-Africa theory.
July 15th;
Wednesday. Wokeism examined as a new religion. The author twice mentions "late-stage capitalism" as if it's a real thing, rather than a rhetorical foil for the idea that Marxism has some kind of content. He also seems to believe that inequality is as bad as absolute poverty.
July 14th;
Tuesday. Bastille Day. The day an entire prison was torn apart by a mob, killing several innocent people in the process, to find fewer than ten inmates, none of them the imagined political prisoners. Apparently July 14th in France now commemorates both the 1789 mayhem and (to reduce the embarrassment a bit) the more peaceful Feast of the Federation on July 14th 1790, before France really descended into police-state horror.
July 13th;
Monday. A town in North Carolina has decided to institute compensation for pre-1865 slavery, in the form of business grants.
July 12th;
Sunday. Douglas Murray on campaigns to punish choice of lover.
July 11th;
Saturday. Wokeness examined as a totalitarian mindset.
July 10th;
Friday. Legislation in the next two weeks might remove jury trials for some cases while the backlog of hearings caused by the (of course, completely unnecessary) COVID-19 "lockdown" is cleared.
July 9th;
Thursday. Anyone not yet up to speed on 'deep faking' simply must watch this 1-minute vintage Star Trek re-edit.
July 8th;
Wednesday. Policy statement by part of the UN that seems to entail reorganising the entire world under their control.
July 7th;
Tuesday. Three more from the impressively upbeat Confidence Man (who apparently should, strictly speaking, be written "Confidence, Man"):
Don't You Know I'm in a Band /
Santa's Coming Down the Chimney /
Better Sit Down Boy.
July 6th;
Monday. Shouty in parts, but fascinating details about COVID-19 test's flawed design.
July 5th;
Sunday. Vital piece on cultural self-hate.
July 4th;
Saturday. Africa's role in slavery, bravely raised by venerable Jamaican newspaper.
July 3rd;
Friday. The Greeks are toughening up against the continuing Turkish stealth invasion.
July 2nd;
Thursday. El Trumpo's patient & low-cost Syria policy seems to be working.
July 1st;
Wednesday. Depressing but informative discussion of Cultural Marxism in education.
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