C'mon, bring back Truss!

+Writing for Counterpunch about Zohran Mamdani’s appeal in the New York Mayor’s race, Stewart Lawrence had this to say:
 
'Why are younger Jews so supportive [of Mamdani]?  Research conducted by Samuel J. Abrams at the conservative American Enterprise Institute among Jewish college students gives the answer. “My  recent research on Jewish college students reveals that many progressive Jewish students are reinterpreting what it means to be Jewish; traditional practices, historical beliefs, and faith-based ideas and traditions are being hollowed out for a more general, humanistic world view. For young, progressive Jews, their identity is now defined less by faith and traditional Jewish practices or solidarity with the state of Israel, but more by universalist ethics, justice, and opposition to oppression—wherever it occurs.”'
 
I doubt that research supported by a right-wing think tank would bias their polling in a way that would favour Mamdani. If what they have found is true, then it is a good thing, and possibly reflects what has also happened elsewhere, not least in our own beloved ‘Christian’ country, where younger people are increasingly rejecting organised religion for more humanist solutions to human problems. Still, the Democrat Party old guard will still try to scupper Mamdani as they did Bernie Sanders—he may encourage genuine two party politics in the U.S.
 
+Up north in that big beautiful country Canada a recent by-election saw Pierre Poilievre the leader of the Conservatives, re-elected in a riding (constituency) formerly held by an MP who resigned to create the vacancy. Poilievre was booted out of parliament earlier this year in Canada’s general election. He had held his previous seat for over 20 years but was seen as too pro-Trump in what has been described as the ’Trump election.’ It says something when an MP stands down to help out the leader—no friendship greater than this, etc., etc. There’s surely a lesson here for the UK Tories. If they want to ditch Kemi, why not rehabilitate Liz Truss?
 
+The Independent’s travel writer Simon Calder recently wrote of his disdain for those Bexiteers who bemoan how UK passport holders will soon be no more accommodated at E.U. borders than any other ‘third country’ nationals such as Venezuelans. That’s just one way Brexit has allowed us to cherish our new blue passports. Another benefit of Brexit is our freedom to do separate trade deals, such as the recent tariff deal with the U.S. which means their ethanol imports to the U.K. will now arrive tariff-free. This means 160 U.K. jobs will be lost at Hull’s Saltend ethanol refinery, with, it is estimated, another 4,500 indirect jobs put at risk. Surely Reform UK will be celebrating ‘taking back control’ or at least the numpty Reform UK character elected this year as Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire will be happy—ignorance, as they say, is bliss.