August 3, 2026
PUTIN’S QUAGMIRE: More Fuel Tankers, Warehouses and Oil Refineries Are Burning in Russia.
JASON GUMP: Cambridge professor made impossible claim he was on Seven Up.
Now footage of a talk Prof [Jason] Arday gave in October 2022 has re-emerged, revealing his claim that he appeared as a child on Seven Up.
He told the University of Bath’s Race Equality Taskforce: “I was part of a programme, actually, which – it doesn’t really exist any more – but it was called Seven Up at the time.
“And Seven Up is basically when they follow you over the duration of your life, so they follow you at [ages] 7, 14, 21. I was pulled out of the project when I was 14.”
During the same talk, he also claimed: “I had just turned 18 when I learnt to read and write.”
Seven Up was the first episode in a decades-long TV series created by Granada Productions for ITV.
The series follows 14 people’s lives at seven-year intervals, beginning when they were seven years of age. The final instalment is expected to be broadcast later this year.
The inaugural episode was broadcast in 1964, meaning its subjects were born in 1957. Subsequent programmes have been titled 21 Up, 28 Up and so on as the participants have grown older.
The BBC also commissioned a spin-off series titled Up: Millennium Generation. This began in 2000, also featuring a group of seven-year-olds. At the time, Prof Arday would have been 15.
A BBC spokesman confirmed that Prof Arday was not involved with the Up: Millennium Generation films.
Like Forrest Gump, or his prototype, Woody Allen’s earlier Leonard Zelig character, Arday has made claims of being seemingly everywhere, apparently not considering that he’d eventually be caught, or that he’d be too entrenched in academia for anything to happen to him if he was. And he may be right — over to you, Cambridge: Cambridge Can — but Evidently Won’t — Catch Jason Arday.
A source close to Mr. Driscoll adds that in 2011 at the Freakanomics blog, Fred Shapiro wrote:
The Yale Book of Quotations traces the proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” back to 1989. Subsequent to the publication of the YBQ, I found that Toni Morrison was quoted in Essence, July 1981: “I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.” The forthcoming Yale Book of Modern Proverbs notes: “The saying is often referred to as an ‘African’ or a ‘West African’ proverb; however, no prototype from Africa has been discovered — though several sayings from that continent do urge cooperation in child rearing and other enterprises.”
Regarding Hillary Clinton’s 1995 book popularizing the quote, a source close to the late P.J. O’Rourke famously wrote that the title is “an ancient African proverb which seems to have its origins in the ancient African kingdom of Hallmarkcardia.”
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THEY’RE THE POWERHOUSES OF THE CELL: Mighty mitochondria: Scientists uncover new role for fighting bacterial infections, including drug-resistant superbugs.
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
Socialists realizing the working class isn't with them is something special. pic.twitter.com/hCmVGK0mSL
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) August 3, 2026
DO THEY THINK IT’S STILL 2020? THERE’S PLENTY OF OIL. Ferrari Thinks Biofuels Can Help Keep Combustion Alive. And “climate change” as an issue is already fading.
COVERING THE IMPORTANT NEWS:
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WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?
Another great example of man-made global warming … placing thermometers next to heat-generating solar panels. https://t.co/i1rxv7NAXs
— John Shewchuk (@_ClimateCraze) August 3, 2026
MY NEPHEW HAS AN AR-15 IN .458 SOCOM. IT’S IMPRESSIVE. Ammo: .458 SOCOM.
A RESCUE MISSION FOR A RESCUE MISSION: Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission.
YOU DON’T SAY: Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19: ‘It probably was a lab leak.’ “Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, tells Dana Bash, ‘When I went into the White House, my view was this was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak. Based on information I learned and based on information I’ve seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak.'”
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Javier Milei Just Proposed a Great Idea. Every Government Should Follow His Lead. “Essentially, if the Argentine national government runs a fiscal deficit for several months in a row, the Congress receives a warning that it has a matter of weeks to fix it. If it doesn’t hit the deadline, the ‘shackle’ activates automatically, and the political class will be the ones impacted.”
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PODCAST: Hefty enrollment drop clashes with Colorado school funding.
Colorado public schools are projected to lose roughly 16,000 students heading into the 2026-27 school year, part of a continuing enrollment decline that has significant implications for how state education dollars are distributed.
In a recent episode of Independence Institute’s* Learning Curve podast, hosts Erin Brantley and Ross Izard lay out the enrollment decline in the context of Colorado’s school finance system.
Because state funding is closely tied to the number of students attending schools, declining enrollment ultimately means fewer dollars for affected districts.
The decline comes as Colorado is working through major changes to school funding. Lawmakers rewrote a decades-old funding formula in 2024, and made additional adjustments through the 2026 School Finance Act. The new system remains a work in progress, further complicating funding calculations.
What I wasn’t able to find out is whether the enrollment decline is due to remigration, homeschooling, or whether Colorado has gone so far left that we’re not having enough kids anymore.
MISOGYNY IS IN OUR DNA!!! Female mammoths were cavemen’s preferred prey.
COMMUNITY NOTES FOR THE WIN:
The inconvenient truth. pic.twitter.com/P8QmsX5GcA
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) August 3, 2026
If you’re on mobile — or like me, you sometimes forget your reading glasses — the Note reads, “The monument in this image is located in Zanzibar and depicts one of the country’s last slave markets, which was run by the Arabs and closed by the British in 1873.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN PHOTO ID: Mamdani’s Grocery Stores Expose the Democrats’ Biggest Voter ID Lie.
AIR CONDITIONING FOR EVERYONE! German official calls for national heat action plan for 2027. Haha, just kidding. They seem more concerned with “tackling climate change,” which no doubt means further carbon emission reductions that will be a pimple on the ass of China’s increased emissions.
SUICIDAL EMPATHY: Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Commission Raises ‘Preferential Treatment’ Concerns.
Massachusetts lawmakers are taking steps toward using taxpayer dollars to prioritize the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions through a permanent so-called Islamic commission, sparking concerns that the Left is prioritizing a religion that contradicts its own political agenda.
If enacted, Bill S.2134, “An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American Muslims in the commonwealth,” would create a “permanent” commission to help recommend Americans who practice Islam for appointed government positions in the New England state.
The commission, as stated in the bill, would consist of a panel of 11 Muslims appointed by Democrat Gov. Maura Healey and other state officials to represent the Islamic faith on issues such as business, the economy, health care, and other concerns.
It’s exactly the sort of move you’d expect from a collaborationist government.
SKYNET IS NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME: One California town found Flock’s license plate cameras were wrong 71% of the time.
WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?
We're told climate disasters are getting worse.
According to the world's leading disaster database, climate-related disasters show no trend since 2000.
And climate-related deaths have collapsed by over 98% since 1920, with deaths dropping from nearly 500,000 per year to under… pic.twitter.com/uDBokJVTnW
— Electroverse (@Electroversenet) August 2, 2026
