Jack Needham

The new proposed salaries for NYC's elected officials are insane. Mamdani's proposed salary would be more than the combined salaries of the Governors of FL & TX. NYC Council members would have higher salaries than any state legislators in all 50 states. Legalized robbery.

🤯 Listen to this extraordinary exchange between Camilla Tominey and Labour’s Health Secretary James Murray. It is genuinely jaw-dropping. Camilla: “You’re quite pro-trans, aren’t you? Do you think a woman can have a penis? Because you did previously?” Murray: “No, I don’t.” Camilla: “So you’ve changed your mind?” Murray: “Yes.” Camilla: “Why?” Murray stumbles. He says he’s been thinking about the issue over recent years and would not now say trans women are women. Camilla hits back: “You must have known that before. You are very well educated. How on earth can you have previously thought that a woman can have a penis?” He had no real answer. Because there isn’t one. This is not some backbench MP. This is the Secretary of State for Health, the man responsible for the entire NHS, puberty blocker policy, women’s health services, and child safeguarding. He spent years either believing or pretending to believe that biological sex is fluid and that women can have penises. Only now, when the Cass Review, court rulings, and public opinion have made that position politically toxic, has he magically “changed his mind”. Think about the damage done while he held that view. The eroded women’s rights. The confused children fast-tracked toward hormones and surgery. The female prisoners and athletes forced to share spaces with biological males. All enabled or ignored by senior Labour figures like him. This level of ideological delusion at the very top of government is not just embarrassing, it is dangerous. Basic biology should never have been up for debate, let alone something a Health Secretary had to “evolve” on.

A quick audit of my week, since people ask what it’s like at Palantir. ✅ Brought NATO’s first AI-enabled command system to full operational capability, live across the Alliance’s classified networks. ✅ Was declared evil. ✅ Accused of dodging tax I demonstrably overpay. ✅ Informed that the software 32 nations now trust to deter Russia — the same software that’s helped the NHS deliver 110,000 extra operations and faster cancer diagnoses — may be deemed too hazardous to be used to schedule hip replacement operations back home. ✅ Remained evil. The rule seems to be: the more it works, the angrier the room. Onwards.