UK Prime Minister’s Approval Rating Hits Post-Election Low – Poll
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s approval rating has hit its lowest since the election amid widespread unrest in the country, the Telegraph newspaper reported, citing a survey conducted by sociological and consulting company Savanta.
On Saturday, Sky News reported that Starmer had canceled his holiday amid ongoing protests in the country.
“With violent disorder spreading across the UK, his favourability among the public is the lowest it’s been since the election. It remains to be seen whether his response to the riots has a long-term impact on his standing with voters,” the newspaper quotes Savanta’s director of political research Chris Hopkins as saying.
The study showed that Starmer’s approval rating peaked on July 28, the day before the first unrest, but by August 4 it had fallen significantly. In addition, the share of voters who strongly disapprove of the new prime minister’s performance has grown. The publication does not provide information on how many people took part in the survey.
On Tuesday, YouGov published a study according to which almost half of the UK population believes that Keir Starmer was doing a poor job of handling mass unrest.
In late July, mass protests broke out in many cities in the UK after a 17-year-old teenager attacked children with a knife in the city of Southport. Three children were killed, several more children and two adults were taken to hospital in critical condition.
The protests escalated into clashes with police and riots after rumors that the attacker was a refugee. It later became known that the attacker was born to migrants from Rwanda. Hundreds of people were detained, dozens of police officers were injured during the riots organized by supporters of far-right groups. A number of British media outlets claimed that Russia had been allegedly involved in inciting the protests. The Russian Embassy in London rejected all such accusations.
Amid the unrest, the British authorities convened the COBRA emergency government committee three times. Starmer promised to increase the police presence on the streets of British cities, speed up criminal proceedings, and prosecute those responsible for inciting unrest on social networks. The Justice Department reported that an additional 500 prison places had been freed up and 6,000 officers from specialized police departments had been deployed to combat the violence.
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UK Government Plan Will Force Tech Giants To Ban ‘Fake News’
Tech companies will be forced to ban ‘fake news’ from their platforms under plans being considered by Britains new labour Government. The latest crackdown on what the government deems ‘misinfornation’ comes in the wake of […]
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Second Boxer at Center of Gender Controversy Wins Olympic Gold
Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting won Olympic featherweight gold in Paris on Saturday, defeating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta. The victory comes amid controversy over Lin’s gender identity.
Lin, who won in a unanimous decision, was one of the athletes disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championship in New Delhi in 2023 after failing the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) gender eligibility tests. Commenting on the results, the organization’s president, Umar Kremlev, said the tests “proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) admitted Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif – who was also disqualified from last year’s tournament – to the Paris Games.
Earlier this month, IOC spokesman Mark Adams claimed that all the athletes “comply with the eligibility rules,” while casting doubt on the tests conducted by the IBA last year. On Friday, Khelif won Olympic gold, defeating China’s Yang Liu in the women’s welterweight finals.
Both Lin and Khelif have been at the center of a heated debate due to their failed DNA tests, with some commentators arguing that it is unfair to allow people with male genetic characteristics to compete against female athletes. Supporters, however, say it is not clear whether the tests found XY chromosomes or elevated testosterone in their blood samples.
Two years ago, the IBA, which is headed by Kremlev, a Russian national, overturned a ban on Russian and Belarusian boxers, becoming one of the few global sports bodies to allow athletes from the two countries to compete with their national flags and anthems despite international sanctions. In 2023, the IOC stripped the IBA of its recognition over an alleged failure to implement governance and finance reforms, and took charge of boxing at the Paris Olympics.
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Border Towns Sketchier Than Ever Amid Biden-Harris Invasion
The border has been seedy and dangerous for a long time. The Biden Border Invasion has made it worse.
To visit or not to visit Mexico? If you do, know where you are going and study the route. Travel during the day. Be careful.
Some Americans don’t want to visit Mexico at all, and I understand that. Some would just prefer to travel in the U.S. and of course, there is plenty to see in the United States.
Others have heard of the violence in Mexico and don’t want to risk being caught up in it.
On the other hand, some will criticize you for saying that Mexico is dangerous – and it can be.
The U.S. State Department has a useful travel advisory page which actually breaks Mexico down state by state.
I recently returned from a trip south of the border, and didn’t encounter any criminal, legal, or mechanical problems, which is always good when traveling anywhere.
I actually lived in Mexico for many years and my wife, now a naturalized U.S. citizen, is a native of Mexico.
On this trip, we visited and stayed in the same city where we previously resided. We had to take care of some things.
My wife has some real estate in Mexico and had to do some legal work she could only do in Mexico.
We also recovered some personal and family items. My wife’s parents both passed away within the past five years, so there was much to process.
Many Americans travel to Mexico. In calendar year 2023, there were 36.71 million Americans who traveled to Mexico, an increase over the previous year’s total of 33.54 million.
There are actually 1.6 million Americans who live in Mexico, as I once did.
Americans who live in Mexico are English teachers, retirees, missionaries, businesspeople, employees of American corporations – and nowadays, “digital nomads” who work online and can live anywhere.
For me, residing in Mexico was a real education.
One important aspect was seeing immigration from the other side of the border. I learned that Mexicans don’t see immigration to the United States the same way that Americans view it.
On our trip, we entered Mexico at one border crossing and exited via another.
In the city where we stayed, I encountered some Hondurans begging from cars on a street. And that’s not the first time I’ve met Hondurans in Mexico. Hondurans have been passing through since before the Biden Border Invasion.
In some ways, the border area (on both sides) has long been a region unto itself. It can attract some sketchy characters from all over.
For example, I was once on the Mexican side and encountered an American who boasted of being on the lam from the law in the U.S.
Over the years I’ve crossed the border many times. Depending on the traffic, doing so in an automobile can take a long time.
We crossed back into the U.S. from Piedras Negras to Eagle Pass, Texas.
This crossing has often been in the news in recent times. It’s Ground Zero for Governor Abbott’s much-ballyhooed border operation, which hasn’t lived up to the hype but is more than any other border governor is doing.
Our crossing from Piedras Negras to Eagle Pass took two and a half hours and we almost ran out of gas. It wasn’t because the process took longer, it’s just that there were so many cars.
There is a hill on the Mexican side overlooking the Rio Grande and the U.S. beyond. Before we crossed, I stood on that hill and looked down on the border. I saw a line of shipping containers with wire forming a makeshift border barrier.
It’s better than nothing, but when is our country going to have a decent border barrier and an effective border policy?
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UK Police Chief Threatens Elon Musk
London’s Metropolitan Police commissioner has threatened to charge foreigners for “whipping up hatred” online, naming X owner Elon Musk as someone who could be prosecuted. The warning comes amid a nationwide crackdown against supposed hate speech following a spate of right-wing riots.
“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News on Friday.
Asked whether the Metropolitan Police planned on charging people posting on social media from other countries, Rowley replied: “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law,” and named “the likes of Elon Musk” as potential targets for investigation.
As of Friday, more than 700 people had been arrested and more than 300 charged over their alleged participation in the riots, which kicked off after a teenager of Rwandan descent killed three children and injured ten others in a stabbing spree in the town of Southport late last month.
Initially sparked by a false rumor that the knifeman responsible for the stabbings was a Muslim immigrant, the demonstrations grew into a wider backlash against Islam and mass immigration, culminating in rioters setting fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham last Sunday.
Of those arrested, more than 30 have been charged with online offenses, such as sharing footage of the riots or posting content that – according to the Crown Prosecutorial Service – “incites violence or hatred.”
Critics, including Musk, have accused the government of stifling free speech, and of operating a “two-tier” justice system, in which white British suspects are punished far more severely than immigrants.
Musk shared a post on Saturday highlighting the disparity between the cases of Steven Mailen and Mustafa al Mbaidib. Mailen, 54, was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for shouting and “gesticulating” at a police officer during a violent demonstration in Hartlepool last week; Al Mbaidib, a 27-year-old Jordanian national, was fined £26 ($33) last month for assaulting a female police officer in Bournemouth in May.
Sure seems like unequal justice in the UK https://t.co/4obUDDE7S1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 10, 2024
“Sure seems like unequal justice in the UK,” Musk wrote on X. The billionaire also shared a series of memes comparing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to a Nazi officer and the British government to the totalitarian dictatorship of George Orwell’s ‘1984’.
Starmer is considering amending Britain’s Online Safety Act to punish social media companies that allow the spread of “legal but harmful” content, The Telegraph reported on Friday. The act, passed by the country’s previous Conservative government, was originally set to include such a clause, but the passage was ultimately pulled after Business and Trade Minister Kemi Badenoch complained that it amounted to “legislating for hurt feelings.”
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Link Between Plastic Chemical Exposure and Autism in Boys
Prenatal exposure to the plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is associated with increased risk of autism in boys, according to a new study.
Researchers at an Australian university looked at two large birth cohorts in Australia and the US, and found that higher levels of exposure to BPA in utero, as indicated by BPA levels in maternal urine samples, were associated with significantly increased risks of autism diagnoses during childhood.
Boys exposed to higher BPA levels in late pregnancy were 3.5 times more likely to have autism symptoms by the age of 2 that boys whose mothers had lower levels of BPA in their urine, and six times more like to have a verified autism diagnosis by the age of 11.
The researchers were able to show, through rodent experiments, that BPA appears to have these effects, at least in part, by deactivating the important enzyme aromatase, which is responsible for converting the hormone testosterone into estrogen.
“Exposure to plastic chemicals during pregnancy has already been shown in some studies to be associated with subsequent autism in offspring,” Professor Anne-Louise Ponsonby, one of the lead authors, said in a press release.
“Our work is important because it demonstrates one of the biological mechanisms potentially involved. BPA can disrupt hormone controlled male fetal brain development in several ways, including silencing a key enzyme, aromatase, that controls neurohormones and is especially important in fetal male brain development. This appears to be part of the autism puzzle.”
BPA is one of many chemicals that have become ubiquitous in the modern world thanks to our dependency on plastics. In recent years, awareness of the negative effects of exposure to BPA has grown, especially with regard to products like sippy cups aimed at children. Replacement chemicals have been introduced and many products now proudly claim to be “BPA-free,” but many of these replacement chemicals, such as bisphenol S, have similar or even worse effects.
“We all ingest plastic chemicals in many ways—through ingesting plastic food and drink packaging, inhaling home renovation fumes, and through the skin from sources such as cosmetics. There are so many ways these chemicals enter our bodies, so, it’s not surprising that BPA was present in a large proportion of the women’s urine samples we studied. It’s important for us to understand how these plastics affect our health,” Professor Ponsonby added.
IS GLYPHOSATE CAUSING THE MASSIVE RISE OF AUTISM?
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) June 17, 2024
On @infowars last week with @HarrisonHSmith, I talked about possible links between glyphosate exposure and autism. In the US, over 80% of people over the age of 6 have detectable levels of the chemical in their urine. pic.twitter.com/vl2mzZrpAS
Back in June, INFOWARS looked at whether exposure to the herbicide glyphosate could also be behind the stunning rise in autism cases in the US. Glyphosate has already been linked to cancer, endocrine disruption and obesity.
Autism rates have skyrocketed in the US in recent decades. Currently, 1 in 36 children in the US is diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 150 children just 20 years ago.
Some possible factors to explain the rise that have been proposed include better awareness and screening for the condition, changes in diagnostic criteria and environmental or genetic factors.