UK - The fetid, stagnant waters of the Theresa May era have been replaced by the foaming effervescence of The Boris Interregnum. It will be thus described whatever happens in the next election, which cannot be delayed for long. Turbo-charging the political scene with his customary élan, Boris Johnson cuts a dash to be sure, especially in comparison to the Artificial Intelligence which preceded him. Future generations will marvel at what possible question there could have been to which Mrs May was thought to be the answer.

UK - Given the ever-growing body of research, it can no longer be denied that repeated porn exposure has a tangible effect on consumers, and is connected to declining relationship satisfaction as well as various forms of exploitation. This isn’t a moral argument, it’s simply something to consider given the facts. Pornography is more widely accepted, accessible, affordable, and anonymous than ever before. For years, porn has often been thought of as an isolated issue, something that can be easily compartmentalized in the lives of consumers, unrelated to anything else that’s going on. Thanks to decades of research from major institutions, the world is beginning to see just how inaccurate that line of thinking is. "There isn’t pornography over here, and trafficking over there… they’re interlinked".

(Melissa Farley PhD, Executive Director, Prostitution Research and Education)

USA - Information technology company IBM is facing a number of lawsuits over firing some 100,000 employees to boost its appeal to younger generations and make it appear “cool” and “trendy” instead of “an old fuddy duddy organization.” IBM, which is short for International Business Machines Corp, has been hit by several lawsuits accusing the tech giant of discrimination against older workers, including a class-action case in Manhattan and individual civil lawsuits in California, Pennsylvania and Texas. According to the Manhattan case, the company started trying to “correct [its] seniority mix” back in 2014, as Bloomberg reported. Back then, IBM began sacking elderly workers to substitute them with the younger generation, who the company’s consulting department claimed to be “generally much more innovative and receptive to technology.”

USA - Have relations between the United States and China finally reached the point of no return? At this moment, it would be difficult to overstate how angry the Chinese are with the United States. Most Americans spend very little time thinking about relations with China, but over in China they are absolutely furious with us right now, and the developing situation in Hong Kong is one of the biggest reasons for that anger. Millions of people have flooded the streets of Hong Kong in recent weeks, and it appears that the Chinese have decided that enough is enough.

CHINA - China’s Communist Party is “very happy to kill tens of thousands of Americans each year” with its FENTANYL exports, knowing of overdoses related to the opiate’s abuse, said Gordon Chang, Daily Beast columnist and expert on China... Pollak asked Chang about China’s stated commitment to restrict manufacturing and exporting of fentanyl to the US, following President Donald Trump’s request for cooperation from Chinese President Xi Jinping on the matter.

USA - Why is there raw feces strewn across nearly all the beaches along the West Coast? The answer is simple: Liberal policies allow people to openly crap all over their own cities (like San Franshitsco), causing untreated raw human sewage to be flushed directly into the oceans every time it rains. Since liberal city mayors have refused to enforce basic human sanitation, liberal cities have been transformed into actual sh#tholes of human filth and feces, where diseases like Bubonic Plague (the “Black Death”) are on the verge of surging back. The extreme filth of liberal cities is the perfect metaphor for the filth and lunacy of liberalism itself, which defies biological reality and attempts to exist in an artificial bubble of sheer denial of reality.

USA - In an interview with CNBC, Goldman Sachs' CTO of electronic trading revealed that the investment bank has committed to investing $100 million to overhaul its stock trading platform to make it more appealing to the biggest quant funds like Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma, who are among the bank's "most demanding clients from a technology perspective." While Mike Blum, the Goldman quant CTO, didn't offer any specifics about what he bank's "Project Atlas" will entail, at a time when banks' trading revenue is shrinking, eliciting layoffs for hundreds of human traders, the biggest banks will be battling one another for a bigger piece of a shrinking pie, as more equity trading - and even some credit trading - shifts to high-frequency players who rely on algorithms to place orders at speeds that human traders couldn't possibly detect.

POLAND - The archbishop of Krakow in southern Poland is facing backlash for comparing the “red plague” of Communism to the gay rights movement, describing the latter as a “rainbow plague” brainwashing his countrymen. "Our land is no longer affected by the red plague, which does not mean that there is no new one that wants to control our souls, hearts and minds," Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski said on Thursday, delivering a mass to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising against the Nazi occupation. Jedraszewski argued that the communist ideology and the LGTB-championed ideas of equal rights for sexual minorities are effectively rooted in the same source. In May, a Polish LGTB activist was arrested for offending religious beliefs after she printed out posters showing baby Jesus and Madonna with rainbow halos over their heads. Gay rights events in Poland are often marred by violence.

UK - A Liberal Democrat councillor said schools could suggest prostitution as a career choice for pupils, at a party conference. Dennis Parsons, chairman of the Cheltenham Lib Dems, made the off-hand suggestion at a special session in Brighton on sex work. The father-of-five said school career advisors are currently not allowed to mention prostitution as a line of work, then added: "Why shouldn’t they?" He also compared prostitution to accountancy in a debate to combat the stigma attached to sex work. Mr Parsons said: "The fact that we are asking ‘should we seek to prevent people entering sex work?’ is part of the problem. You wouldn’t ask the question ‘should we prevent people becoming accountants?’ You’d just take it for granted."

SWEDEN - As the Pride festival in Stockholm continues, it has turned out that several leading persons in the organisation have been convicted for sexual crimes. Rape, child pornography and grooming against under-aged boys and girls are listed among the crimes carried out by men as well as women. It is the Christian news site Världen idag which has examined cases of child molestation within the Swedish LGBT community. The Pride organisation’s press department does not want to respond to questions from the news site since it considers that the questions “are incorrectly asked”.

USA - Plant-based burger 'Opens a New Window' makers say their burgers are better for the planet than beef burgers. But are they better for their consumers’ health? The Meatless Farm claims its products are "almost indistinguishable from meat in terms of taste and texture" and are 100 percent plant-based, which is basically the same thing that Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods say about their burgers. “The trick to all of these meatless burgers is they want them to taste like real meat in order to convert traditional meat-eaters. When they do that, they add processed chemicals to them, they add high sodium content to them because if something doesn’t taste salty, it doesn’t taste like real meat. From a nutritional aspect: this is still an indulgence. This is a processed food. This is a junk food. It just happens to be a vegetarian or vegan junk food."

FRANCE - An animal rights activist is facing unwavering ridicule for urging people to not kill mosquitoes, and instead give them the “blood donation” they need to nourish their future children. French TV presenter Aymeric Caron was answering questions for the animal rights channel Komoto.tv when he was asked: “What do we do if we are anti-special and we are attacked by mosquitoes?” Anti-specists are people who believe that all species should be treated equally. In an explanation that has attracted enormous criticism, Caron explained that mosquitoes who bite people are simply hunting “for protein to feed their developing eggs, and therefore their babies.” Unsurprisingly, the suggestion was extremely poorly received and Caron was quickly branded a “fool” and “dangerously irresponsible.”

UK - A nationwide poll has revealed that 89 per cent of 16- to 29-year-old's believe that their lives have no meaning or purpose. The poll, conducted by Japanese company Yakult and reported by The Sun, also found that 30 per cent of young people believe they are stuck in a rut with 84 per cent saying that they believe they are failing to “live their best life”. With religion being a major source of sense of purpose, a separate survey reported last month that those professing a Christian faith in the UK is at a record low at 38 per cent, with only one per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds identifying as belonging to the Church of England.

UK - Eurosceptic sentiment has divided the Conservative Party ever since the creation of the European Community in 1957 but there was one Tory MP people should have listened to who predicted the project would become a political power stripping member states of their sovereignties. Prominent Tory figure Enoch Powell was one of the first Conservative eurosceptics to warn of the political agenda of the European Union who fought for the UK to never join the bloc.

EUROPE - Brussels correspondent for Express.co.uk, Joe Barnes, has revealed the mood of EU politicians as Boris Johnson nudges the UK towards a no deal Brexit. “The mood is very much no deal is going to happen, it is going to be Britain’s fault. Because Britain had a deal that was offered and agreed by the British Government and the EU. Now you have rejected it and want to rip it up so it will just be no deal. There won’t be a last-minute compromise unless they find a joint landing zone that is acceptable”. EU leaders have stuck firm insisting the withdrawal agreement, which was secured by Theresa May, will not be altered.