BigJohn_0007

University Professor. Patriot. Military Historian. Former Cricketer. Cider connosieur.

[David Vance @DavidVance]

Here’s where your taxes go in Foreign Aid.
It’s a scam.

1. Ukraine — £270m
2. Afghanistan — £192m
3. Ethiopia — £182m
4. Syria — £158m
5. Somalia — £143m
6. Yemen — £142m
7. Sudan — £141m
8. West Bank & Gaza Strip — £138m
9. Nigeria — £138m
10. South Sudan — £132m

[Tim Healthy lifestyle 🏋️‍♀️ @clint_timmy]

Put turmeric on a boiled egg and watch what happens

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

When learning the English language, remember this simple rule: I before E except after C, unless your foreign neighbour Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Mr Starmer,

You say you have made Britain a better place. I beg to differ, let’s have a look at how you have made Britain better shall we?

▪️tried to cancel elections
▪️arrested 12,000 ppl a year for posts
▪️300,000 businesses closed
▪️125,000 increase in unemployment
▪️Unemployment up to 4.9%
▪️Vacancies at lowest level since 2021
▪️Borrowing higher than forecast
▪️Inflation rose again after falling
▪️NHS waiting list still over 7 million
▪️Record Channel crossings
▪️Heat pump rollout stalled
▪️AI data centres priority grid connections
▪️Offshored emissions
▪️increased subsidies to wind farms
▪️Lied to Trump about free speech
▪️27 More quangos and regulators
▪️Expanded facial recognition policing
▪️Online Safety Act censorship
▪️operation scatter of illegal migrants
▪️Winter fuel allowance cancelled
▪️highest tax in 70 years
▪️highest electricity in the world
▪️fake £22 billion black hole
▪️ 22.3% pay rise for doctors
▪️15% pay rise for train drivers
▪️attempts to join EU by stealth
▪️ Closed the migrant barge
▪️4 more years of hotels for illegals
▪️NI tax rises for businesses
▪️£500 million to foreign farmers
▪️£3.4 BILLION on consultants
▪️Two tier policing at protests & riots
▪️crackdown on free speech
▪️No deportations for foreign criminals
▪️let prisoners out early
▪️net zero madness spending
▪️Carbon capture experiment
▪️solar factories on green belt
▪️oops had to cancel non Dom policy
▪️VAT on private schools backfired
▪️Softer sentences, prisons are full
▪️Free clothes for MPs
▪️Free tickets for MPs
▪️Rent free house for MPs
▪️free Pass for Ali for Downing Street
▪️introducing pay per mile
▪️Ended steel production
▪️Stopped oil and gas licenses
▪️ refused to use huge new gas field
▪️Spaffed £8.3b on British energy
▪️Energy bills went up TWICE
▪️Palestine marches out of control
▪️Ended free speech in universities
▪️Increases in fuel duty
▪️Said “free the sausages”
▪️Fired his chief of staff
▪️Fired his energy minister
▪️gave Peter Mandelson a job
▪️Chancellor isn’t an economist
▪️Gave £millions more to Ukraine
▪️Gave £50 million to Syrian militants
▪️Richest pop star got free police escort
▪️made up some ‘science’ on fly wheels
▪️stopped Rwanda
▪️largest number of illegal migrants ever
▪️Didn’t change his ‘special’ pension
▪️Gave away the Chagos Islands
▪️lost Rosie Duffield
▪️let Ukraine use Storm shadow
▪️revoked land wind farm ban
▪️announced Pylons near houses
▪️Banned Elon from ‘Investment Summit’
▪️misogyny would be classed as terrorism
▪️ investigated by Electoral Commission
▪️ Lord Ali under investigation
▪️Inheritance tax on farmers
▪️Lied to WASPI women
▪️Attempting to bring in blasphemy laws
▪️Gave £500 million to foreign farmers
▪️Chancellor turned out to be unqualified
▪️highest government borrowing in 34 yrs
▪️MP investigated for corruption
▪️Banning parents from seeing curriculum
▪️ Anti Muslim blasphemy law
▪️stabbing up
▪️Called ordinary people far right racists
▪️Rapists allowed out of prison early

Have I missed anything? Apart from taxpayers now funding free school breakfasts?

[Scott Lewis @WarriorSpeech28]

You’re sat in the pub on a Friday night with a few lads you’ve known for years.

One of them mentions he doesn’t let his daughter walk home from school anymore, another says his street doesn’t feel like his street, someone else says he’s started noticing who’s in the room when certain topics come up.

Most people calling this “racism” are either lying or too stupid to understand what they’re actually looking at, this isn’t some sudden outbreak of hatred, it’s what happens when normal men start realising the system no longer has their back, when the government imports millions of people from cultures that don’t mix, when it lets organised gangs rape and traffic British girls for decades while protecting the perpetrators, when it applies different rules depending on who you are, people don’t stay neutral forever.

They start thinking in “us and them” terms because they can see it with their own eyes every time they leave the house, the system spent years training men to feel guilty for noticing any of this, called it racism, far-right, bigotry and for a long time it worked, most stayed quiet, stayed comfortable and kept their heads down.

That era is over and the system is shitting itself about it because a population of atomised, guilty, spectator men is easy to manage, a population that starts thinking in tribal terms, that starts looking after its own is much harder to control, that’s why they panic every time normal British people show any sign of group awareness.

They spent decades breaking that instinct on purpose, now it’s coming back, because the system gave them no other choice.

[Londonist @Londonist]

This has got to be London's most beautiful cafe. St Mary Aldermary on Bow Lane in the Square Mile. People pack out the chain coffee shops all around it, perhaps not realising they could be getting their caffeine fix in a Wren church.

[Healing Tai Chi @GymBr_o]

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[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

Before the protocol, the principle. Because if you understand the why, you do not need to memorize the what.

Everything I do serves one goal. Keep my insulin low. Keep my inflammation low. Keep my muscle high.

That is it. That is the entire strategy. Low insulin means my body burns fat instead of storing it. Low inflammation means my arteries and brain stay healthy. High muscle means I stay insulin sensitive and strong as I age.

Every food choice, every workout, every habit below comes back to those three things. You do not need my exact routine. You need the principle. Then you build your own.

[charlesdickenspage.com @dap1955]

When I launched my Dickens website in 1997, I wanted to experience the novels spatially, as Dickens’ first readers might have. I began mapping the characters’ journeys through each story—and eventually shared them online.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I want to tell you about a two-time Nobel Prize winner who figured out why humans get heart disease and almost every other animal does not.

His name was Linus Pauling. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

In 1989 he published something that should have changed cardiology forever.

He called it the Unified Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease.

Nobody listened.

[The Stoic Path @TheStoicPath_]

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[BetterMe: Health Coaching @betterme]

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[Kezia Noble @kezia_noble]

The U.K. gives more international aid than any other country (excluding the USA)

We give:

🇵🇰 Pakistan: £133 million
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: £120 million
🇸🇾 Syria: £109 million
🇾🇪 Yemen: £101 million
🇳🇬 Nigeria: £100 million

This is OUR money.

It can’t go on.

It’s all mental.

[Mauro Hernández ⚡ @MauroSports24]

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[Historic Cricket Pictures @PictureSporting]

Another example of how brilliant Championship cricket can be and what we are missing for the next seven weeks ... July 3rd 2024 at Cheltenham ... Glamorgan, chasing a record 593 to beat Gloucestershire, on 592 for 9 as the last ball was bowled. One to win, one wicket for a tie, with a draw also possible ...

[🎩 Russ Smith 🎩🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇱🇺🇸🚜🩵 @Chiefyruss]

I’m not interested in how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I am interested in how politicians become millionaires on £95 grand a year

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

We are used to seeing the 1920s in black and white. This is what London actually looked like, in full color, more than a hundred years ago.

What you are watching comes from The Open Road, filmed in the summer of 1924 by a British cinematographer named Claude Friese-Greene. It is some of the earliest colour film of London ever made.

What I love about this film is that the color collapses the distance between us and them.

The black-and-white footage we are used to is beautiful, but it makes the past feel like another world. Colour changes that. Red buses, a blue sky, the green of the trees, and suddenly 1924 does not feel like history at all...

What most people don't know is that this footage was one man's attempt to finish his father's life's work: Claude was the son of William Friese-Greene, one of the pioneers of early cinema. Together they had spent years developing a way to capture true color on film, using a system of spinning red and blue-green filters in front of the camera. The process was flawed. It flickered, it produced strange color fringes around anything that moved too fast, and it was soon overtaken by better systems and forgotten. Claude set out on a journey by car from Land's End to the north of Scotland, filming the whole country in his imperfect color, trying to prove that his father's dream could work.

For decades the footage sat largely unseen, its flaws making it almost unwatchable. Then, in our own century, the British Film Institute used digital technology to clean away the flicker and the fringing, revealing what Friese-Greene had actually captured: a lost world, brought back to life in color.

[The Global Tablet of Jurisprudence @gtj1247]

That Harry Kane penalty is the most blatant dive you will ever see in your life - literally kicks his own foot then dives like he is diving into a swimming pool - he should be called up by FIFA & given a 3 match ban for cheating for that

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

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[BetterMe: Health Coaching @betterme]

Reach your muscle goals 💪
Stick to this simple plan to succeed:
1. Take a 1-minute quiz
2. Get a workout and meal plan
3. Follow the program (easy-peasy)