I eat a perfectly balanced diet, exactly as the dietitians keep telling me to. Here is the plate.
Red meat for the heme iron, the zinc, the B12, and the creatine. The absorbable kind, not the sort your gut waves past.
Pork for the thiamine. No everyday food on the table carries more vitamin B1.
Eggs for the choline and a complete protein, yolk and all. About as nutrient-dense as food gets.
Cheese for the calcium, and the vitamin K2 that steers that calcium into your bones instead of your arteries.
Butter for the fat-soluble vitamins, A, D, E, and K, plus the fat that lets you absorb any of them at all.
Sardines for the omega-3, the vitamin D, and the calcium straight out of the soft little bones.
Now line it up. Iron, zinc, B12, thiamine, choline, calcium, K2, retinol, omega-3, vitamin D, complete protein.
Every box ticked, every corner covered, from a handful of foods that all came off an animal.
That is a balanced diet. The dietitian only ever assumed balance had to arrive on a bed of leaves.
The animal plate was balanced the whole time. Nobody thought to check.
The Home Office bussed hundreds of asylum seekers into a former army camp at Crowborough, East Sussex — at 3 o’clock in the morning.
Not at noon.
Not with a press release. Not with a briefing to local councillors.
At 3am.
Wealden District Council — the elected local authority responsible for that area — says it was deliberately kept in the dark.
Not a courtesy call.
Not a heads-up.
Nothing.
They discovered what their own government had done to their community the same way the residents did: after the fact.
The Council’s Deputy Leader James Partridge has now formally stated that the Home Office’s secrecy “carries a high risk of public disorder and injury to people and property.”
Read that again.
Elected local politicians are warning Parliament that their own national government is creating the conditions for violence — through deliberate concealment from the people who live there.
This isn’t bureaucratic incompetence.
Incompetence doesn’t require a 3am operation.
This is a government that knew the public would object, decided they didn’t have a right to know, and moved at night to get ahead of any resistance.
They chose secrecy over safety.
And now they’re blaming the public for reacting badly to being lied to.
@patcondell As a girl I had a pretty serious penknife. It never occurred to me to use it on any live thing. Just string and sticks and cutting up apples.
No, Maliq. This is silly
People are aware that a number of radical Muslims are threatening to take Britain over, and kill infidels
Many Muslims do not have this intention, but they seem loathe to speak, up for some reason
It's hard for someone like me to figure out how strong the moderates are, and whether the radicals can be controlled
In the meantime it's safer for me to take the threats seriously
And the threats are not coming from the Buddhists
.@zarahussain999, the far right card. Every time. Without fail. A man is nearly beheaded on a residential street in Belfast and within hours the story becomes about the far right.
A Sudanese national, granted leave to remain, pinned a man to the ground and stabbed him repeatedly in the face, eyes and neck. A member of the public stopped it with a hurling stick. That is where this started. Not with protesters. Not with the far right. With a man who should not have been in that community, in that country, given leave to remain by a system that admitted it had no trace of him on any security database.
The burning of homes is wrong. That has been said. Now say this: the near murder of a man on a residential street is also wrong. The policy that put an unvetted Sudanese national in that neighbourhood without the community's knowledge or consent is also wrong. Three consecutive years of immigration-related disorder in Belfast is also wrong.
You feel unsafe. So does the man in hospital with stab wounds to his face and neck. So do the communities that have been told for years that their concerns are racism. So do the families who were not consulted before unvetted young men were dispersed into their streets.
The far right label is a silencing mechanism. It has been used to shut down this conversation for thirty years. Look where that has got us.
@AlexandrosG@Ajaon_of_All@Conviction19c@NoFarmsNoFoods@sainsburys It seems transport costs and methods don’t affect “climate scam” but the colour of the chicken and their eggs does. More education for the masses is needed so they don’t swallow this codswallop.
Good morning Annette
Since the "taboo has been broken" as you put it, perhaps you can tell your readers and the British public why they should want to accept:
⚫️ An obligation to adopt the Euro
⚫️ An obligation to join Schengen
⚫️ An obligation to be part of the Migration Pact, which would allocate tens of thousands of additional illegal migrants to the UK each year
⚫️ Annual membership fee exceeding £35bn a year
⚫️ Worse trade deals with major global economies
⚫️ Worse trade with USA - our largest trade partner
⚫️ Worse animal welfare regulations
⚫️ Worse financial services regulations
⚫️ Worse agriculture regulations
⚫️ Worse AI regulations
⚫️ Worse environmental protection regulations
Am sure you have an answer for all the above.
Good morning Liz.
You seem to be unaware of a few things. Let us help you out here.
⚫️ As an EU member, around 27% of types of goods were able to be imported into the UK from fellow WTO members without a tariff applied - from outside the EU that level is now over 50%
⚫️ Food inflation since Brexit has been *lower* in the UK than it has in the EU, so food is cheaper in the UK
⚫️ As for the NHS, the NHS budget has been increased by over £750 Million a week since we left the EU
⚫️ As for UK global trade, the UK has trade deals in place with over 100 countries around the world, many of which are on the same or better terms than the EU had or indeed has
⚫️ In 2016 the UK exported a total of £582.6 Billion worth of goods and services - in 2025 that had increased to £930.6 Billion
You continue to talk about a topic that you appear to know absolutely nothing about - or perhaps you do, and so you simply lie to your followers in the hopes that they are too blinkered to fact check you.
Perhaps you could confirm whether it is ignorance or deceit that drives your posts of continued misinformation.
@SamaHoole I’ll take that! Don’t drink. Don’t smoke and I’ve cut out sugar, flour, pastas and potatoes. A little 85% won’t do too much harm. Hopefully!
If you were off school poorly in 1979, the medicine came out of the kitchen. The chemist barely got a look in.
You were parked on the sofa under a blanket, and the treatment began. A boiled egg with soldiers, because an egg was what you gave someone who needed building back up. Egg custard, baked slow and eaten warm. A mug of Bovril, hot beef in a cup, for when you had no strength left in you. Warm milk at night. And if you were really run down, a bit of liver, because every nan in the country knew liver put the iron back in you, long before anyone had heard the word ferritin.
On the side table sat the bottle. Lucozade, in the glass bottle wrapped in that crinkly yellow cellophane, bought specially, because it only ever turned up when someone was ill. The crackle of that wrapper was the sound of being looked after.
It was simple, it was mostly animal, and most of it was older than the doctor.
Now you come down with something and the cupboard answers with a sachet. Electrolyte powder. Effervescent vitamin C in a tube. Immune-support gummies. A ginger shot in a tiny plastic bottle. Berocca fizzing away in a glass like a magic trick. A carton of oat milk for the tea.
The egg, the broth, the liver and the warm milk gave your body real materials to repair itself with. The sachet gives you flavoured sugar and a printed list of vitamins, and asks four pounds for the privilege.
We used to keep the medicine in the larder. Now it comes in a wrapper, costs more, and does less.
@Ajaon_of_All@vetrissimo@sainsburys Well said. As an aside I have 14 rescue brown hens. They’re probably 2-3 years old and lay around 5 eggs a week during summer. I’ve had older girls live til 7 or 8 stilllying an occasional egg. No good commercially but still providing food!