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NEWSCATS (Diana Zapata) - Massive New Forest, Hampshire Wildfire rages across rare Heathland as 120+ Firefighters battle flames Tue Aug 11 04:32:53 2026

Smoke from the wildfire spreads to heathland from the dual carriageway at Ringwood Published August 11, 2026 NEW FOREST, HAMPSHIRE, U.K. — More than 120 firefighters are battling a “devastating” wildfire tearing through internationally protected [...]

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Steven Tucker) - Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline Tue Aug 11 04:19:34 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham can’t do that—because it would mean blaming himself. The post Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline appeared first on The American Conservative .

Takimag Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline Prime Minister Andy Burnham can’t do that—because it would mean blaming himself. TakiMag Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Just before becoming Britain’s prime minister in July, Andy Burnham revealed his father has late-stage dementia. Politically speaking, so does much of the Labour political class, including Burnham: its impressions of the 1970s and its lessons are foggy. In northwest England , whence Burnham hails, political dementia is a transmissible disease, particularly regarding the legacy of the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Local mythology has it that Thatcher “deliberately” destroyed the economy of the entire area, simply because she was from…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Taki) - The Cambridge Con-Rag Tue Aug 11 04:19:33 2026

The Arday saga provides hope for confabulists everywhere. The post The Cambridge Con-Rag appeared first on The American Conservative .

Takimag The Cambridge Con-Rag The Arday saga provides hope for confabulists everywhere. TakiMag OK, you lazybones out there, read what follows and blush like you’ve never blushed before. Imagine you were diagnosed with autism from age 3. You could not speak until you were 11 years old. Then, at 18, you learned to read and write. This was in 2003. Things got better after that. Out of the blue, you earned a BA in education and PE. Two master’s degrees and a teaching qualification followed, and then, miracle of miracles, you were awarded a PhD by Liverpool John Moores University.  No Hollywood hack would ever dream of passing this off as fiction to any self respecting studio. Snoopy himself, who pretends to be a World War I fighter…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Kelley Beaucar Vlahos) - Do Hegseth’s Reforms to Military Universities Go Far Enough? Tue Aug 11 04:19:31 2026

Wokeness isn’t the only problem at war colleges and service academies. The post Do Hegseth’s Reforms to Military Universities Go Far Enough? appeared first on The American Conservative .

War Do Hegseth’s Reforms to Military Universities Go Far Enough? Wokeness isn’t the only problem at war colleges and service academies. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images) In his crusade to exorcise “wokeness” from the military and imbue it with a new spirit of lethality, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is waging battles on the nation’s storied war colleges and service academies. But is he fighting the wrong war? The American Conservative spoke to several former and current instructors at such institutions, plus retired senior officers who have attended these schools. All said that Hegseth’s reforms may not go far enough and result in worsening a broken system. While no one who spoke to us believes there is a place for intrusive…Open

JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - FDA proposed rule would require manufacturing companies to notify them of new food additives Tue Aug 11 03:29:57 2026

“Nearly 60% of the American diet is made up of ultra-processed foods, and childhood obesity now affects more than one in five American children,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said.

JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Senate stopgap carves out over $800B for defense amid funding freeze Tue Aug 11 03:29:56 2026

The short-term funding bill the U.S. Senate passed early Saturday would provide about $843.9 billion for defense, nearly half of the about $1.7 trillion in annualized budget authority it covers, according to a new Congressional Budget.

JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - Judge pauses Mamdani's roll-out of luxury home tax Tue Aug 11 03:29:56 2026

Judge Wayne M. Ozzi of State Supreme Court granted temporary restraining orders on the tax, after New York City homeowners sued to stop its implementation. The Mamdani administration filed an appeal shortly thereafter.