Jill Forbes

Retired lawyer, now complementary therapist. Here for the political/independence chat.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The woman who taught America to cook was 6ft 2, used butter by the pound on public television for 40 years, and outlived most of the people who told her to stop.

Julia Child was born in California in 1912. She could not cook until she was 36. Then her husband was posted to Paris, she ate a sole fried in butter in Rouen, and that was that.

If you were in America in the 1960s, you remember her. Black and white, a voice like a trombone, dropping things and carrying on. She put a whole chicken on the board, rubbed it with butter, and told you to do the same. Cream went into the sauce. The fat stayed on the roast.

Then the 1980s arrived and the country was ordered onto margarine, skimmed milk and chicken breast with the skin off. Cookery writers fell into line overnight. Julia would not. She said the fear of food was doing more harm than the food. She carried on with the butter, in front of the cameras, while the nutritionists wrote to the network.

She was mocked for it as a relic.

She worked into her 80s, lived on her own, and died in 2004, 2 days short of her 92nd birthday.

The people who built the low fat pyramid have been quietly taking it apart ever since. This January the American government finally turned it upside down.

She did not live to see herself proved right. She just went on cooking as if it had never been in doubt.

[Pat Kane @thoughtland]

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[Jill Forbes @ForbesJill]

@pforpaddy I think you can ask for a test, always a good idea

[Paul B Lyons. @plyons45]

Folks could you please retweet ? I’d be very grateful thanks 🙏

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Our economy isn’t working. It’s built on lies: the myth of growth, the myth that profit comes before people, and the myth that wealth is more important than fairness. If we want a sustainable society, we need a new moral code for the economy.

In this video, I set out ten commandments for a just economy - principles that put people before profit, justice before greed, and sustainability before growth.

These commandments demand:

- People before profit
- Fair rewards for work
- Inclusion, not exclusion
- Respect for the earth
- Finance that serves life
- Fair taxation
- Transparency and accountability
- Measuring what really matters

This is a manifesto for a fair and sustainable economy. One we could all be proud to live in.

https://t.co/MJ09MbLpHY

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

We're working really hard on your behalf today, as every day, to tool you up for debate with doubters but lack of support threatens that in the near future.

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

'Top doctor' is more a top propagandist shamefully using his part-time experience and ignoring these 12 facts to misrepresent NHS Scotland https://t.co/oeGhhVzKxu

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

If we assume an SNP victory in 2026 then what is the worst scenario? A pro-Union majority. The SNP are then in office but not in power.

It’s entirely possible. Indeed some might argue it’s probable. A minority Indy Holyrood would be a disaster for the SNP as the BritNats sabotaged the agenda for government and blamed the SNP for every failure.

There’s an old phrase - You’re as well being hung for a sheep as a lamb.

What then would be the harm in running 2026 on an explicit manifesto commitment that a majority SNP Govt will be treated as an Indyref mandate that if ignored would trigger an immediate resignation of the new SNP administration followed by a single issue manifesto in the resultant Holyrood election rerun?

[Jill Forbes @ForbesJill]

@duolingo Hi Duo, for the last couple of days when I do a call with Lily, I then get an option to rate the call - just right etc. But then the continue button doesn’t work and I have to exit the programme and start again. Also I then don’t get the valuable feedback from the call. Jill

[Jill Forbes @ForbesJill]

@cbrookmyre @Waterstones Well deserved, I loved it

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

Just so everyone knows, there will never be any deals, under any circumstances, between the SNP and Nigel Farage. The SNP stand against his divisive politics.

[William G. Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹🇵🇸 @wgsaraband]

Imagine transforming one of your walls with an iconic Scottish landscape abstract painting 👨‍🎨

From smaller, intimate watercolours to bold, bright canvases painted with high-quality acrylics - have a look through my gallery online https://t.co/eixVkTflvm and get in touch!

[The SNP @theSNP]

@JohnSwinney has challenged @AnasSarwar ahead of today’s final budget vote.

If Labour backs:

👷‍♂️ £25m for Grangemouth
💷 Lower income tax
🏠 Business rates relief
❄️ A universal Winter Fuel Payment
✂️ Ending the two-child cap

Then they must vote for it👇
https://t.co/tD34MtgVPn

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Please click on the full blog post to help my stats. Maybe even read the full text? - I'm getting pretty demoralised by these after the effort put in.
John

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Two sub-polls in December now saying same thing - SNP pulling away from Labour with 18% and 15% leads https://t.co/MsNsb0tMLE

[Jill Forbes @ForbesJill]

@MrJohnNicolson I follow you on blue sky but am having a bit of a struggle getting the hang of a different platform

[Scotland’s Story @80_mcswan]

Final Indy poll of the year

Scottish Independence ? Or the Union ?

Please RT for a large reaponce

Will be shared with both pro Indy & pro Unionist accounts

[V&A Dundee @VADundee]

Thank you @DundeeCulture for including our Winter Design Market in your round-up 🥰

Make sure you check out all the other brilliant markets happening in the city! 👇

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Posted again huffily because reader numbers at the blog have not satisfied my clearly bloated ego and sense of entitlement after putting together such a definitive demolition of the Unionist view of drug deaths
https://t.co/r5TB7Jvza6

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

We really do need to reduce the consumption of ultra-processed foods https://t.co/T2PvbeoqGL Concerns are already being raised about the links between the use of GLP-1 type drugs to control obesity and deaths. Concerns do not prove that the two are linked, but when doctors raise them we should take note, most especially when cutting consumption of mass-produced ultra-processed foods is a much better way to tackle the health crises we face.