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Red wall voters most strongly back mental health action

β€œ81% are rooted patriots. So what that says to me is that the red wall that we often gets portrayed as homogeneous, sort of like, Farage, populism, Brexit, etcetera, probably because of their lived experience of family or self, they are the the keenest or the strongest believers that we have to do more on mental health.”

β€” Alastair Campbell

Don't give up too quickly on therapy or medication

β€œThe medication I'm on now, or sertraline, is probably the sixth medication that I've been on, and some of them have been terrible side effects. You have to keep keep experimenting. You do, and you have to kind of this is why the relationship's so important. And I had this this David who was so wonderful, because he wouldn't say this is gonna work, he'd say let's give this a go. And you give it a go and eventually you find something. And I find too many people give up too soon on the talking therapy and they give up too soon on the medication.”

β€” Alastair Campbell

Talking about death openly creates a better ending

β€œI think that's I think that's how you create a good death. Another great book about this, Philip Gould, another I've had so many close friends who've died, and he wrote a book called when I die because he knew he was going to die. And I just think we don't talk about death enough. We don't think about it enough. We're scared of it.”

β€” Alastair Campbell

Suez exposed Britain's dependence on American backing

β€œSuez is really interesting. So it's interesting for two things. Firstly, the Suez Canal was thought about in the same way that we think about the Straits Of Hormuz today. The second thing is it's about US power, because, actually, it's really a story about the fact that, The UK, France, and Israel assumed that The US would have their back. And, actually, what happened is The US turned entirely against them, organized the United Nations to vote them down, and then threatened to bankrupt the entire British economy and destroy Sterling so that the chance to fix Jack Macmillan has to go in and see even the prime minister and say, we need to be out of this war in twenty four hours or we're bankrupt.”

β€” Rory Stewart

Liberal media reporting on Gaza shows systemic bias

β€œHe also makes a point that, he uses headlines to illustrate that in Ukraine, the headline will always be Russia bombs somebody. And in Gaza, the headline was always a bomb went off with no subject. So Israel's never identified. He also points out that when it comes to Russia, they're very happy to use the word genocide, to take, the views of the Ukrainians, to always be skeptical of the claims the Russians make. Whereas when it comes to Gaza, they assume that the Israeli military is always speaking the truth.”

β€” Rory Stewart

Jimmy Kimmel should be fired for conspiracies, not the Melania joke

β€œBut getting Jimmy Kimmel for saying what he said on Thursday is like getting Al Capone for tax evasion. You're hitting him with the wrong charge. Jimmy Kimmel has spent years at this point calling the president a pedophile. He has he has imputed Epstein involvement to him. Again, that is the thing in the actual shooter's manifesto.”

β€” Ben Shapiro

Three speech categories: illegal, inflammatory, permission-structure rhetoric

β€œSo I wanna discuss three basic standards when it comes to political speech in The United States. First, there's the illegal. There actually is illegal political speech in The United States. If you say, I want to go kill the president of The United States, that's illegal. It's incitement. Then there is typical inflammatory rhetoric. This would be stuff like fight, fight, fight. And then there is the permission structure for violence we have been talking about a lot over the course of the last couple of years. That's the stuff that's truly dangerous.”

β€” Ben Shapiro

Johnny Carson's 1981 Reagan response shows lost civility

β€œBack in 1981, somebody tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, and it was a few days before the Oscars. And Johnny Carson, who was then the dominant late night host, was hosting the Oscars. And I just wanna show you what Johnny Carson said after an attempted assassination against Ronald Reagan. Does anyone think any any late night comic today would say the same if the president was wounded? The answer is obviously no. There this used to be a country where people actually, you know, held some basic standards in common.”

β€” Ben Shapiro

California's wealth tax could trigger $1.2 trillion exodus

β€œCalifornia is actively attempting to undermine all of that, which is the reason why Gavin Newsom, despite his sort of quasi Marxist leanings on economics, has been opposing a referendum that would force a wealth tax onto the ballot. Well, it turns out it made the ballot. The California Tax Foundation visiting fellow, Jared Walczak, estimates in a new paper, reported departures already total 777,000,000,000. By his estimate, the wealth tax exodus could total $1,230,000,000,000, reduce annual state revenue by $3,530,000,000 to $4,490,000,000.”

β€” Ben Shapiro

LA's 6th Street Bridge sits dark after copper theft

β€œHe went over to the 6th Street Bridge. It is completely dark. The reason it is completely dark is because Karen Bass, the mayor, allowed criminals to steal all of the copper wiring from all of the lights. And her solution to this is not to police crime. It is to launch a program to install, wait for it, 60,000 solar powered street lights.”

β€” Ben Shapiro

Iran has 12-22 days of oil storage left under blockade

β€œMeanwhile, according to Bloomberg, Iran is rapidly running out of places to store their crude oil. That is because of the blockade that we have put on Iranian ships. The Islamic Republic has enough unused storage capacity to last another twelve to twenty two days. At that point, they have to stop pumping. So right now, they're keeping up the pumping. But because they can't get it out, they're filling up legitimately, like, old storage facilities that are incapable of even holding the oil.”

β€” Ben Shapiro

Iran's propaganda showing armed children signals desperation

β€œThe Islamic regime is putting out propaganda showing women and children with guns. That, by the way, is not a sign of strength. When you have to show your women and your kids with guns, that means you are down to the very end. This is like the last days in Berlin in the Nazi regime. They've got a real problem on their hands when they're relegated to using human shields like women and children and just stuffing guns into the hands of nine year olds.”

β€” Ben Shapiro

Qatar allegedly promised to protect ICC prosecutor Karim Khan

β€œKarim Khan put out a request an arrest warrant for Israel's leaders in 2024. That was Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Galant, the defense minister at that time. That was shortly after he had learned he had been accused of sexual assault, and then he went on leave in May 2025. Well, now a witness statement says, the Qatari government promised to look after mister Khan if he moved against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”

β€” Ben Shapiro

Rosa DeLauro attacked Lee Zeldin instead of engaging the law

β€œRepresentative Rosa DeLauro, you might remember her from her Halloween hair. She she's along with a gigantic purple strip down the middle of her hair for for no reason that anyone can discern and some of the ugliest glasses you've ever seen. She was questioning Lee Zeldin, and she was questioning him about the fact that the EPA has said that it cannot regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act, which, again, is black letter law. The way she approaches this issue is she says, it's because Lee Zeldin is a liar and a bad man that he is not using the EPA to do something illegal.”

β€” Ben Shapiro
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