Only the BBC could devise a funding model where the solution to people not watching your programmes is to charge them for watching somebody else's.
Under this logic, every time I order a Domino's, I should send Pizza Hut £2.50 to support the future of British pizza.
You know what I did on Sunday? After a river walk with my two Labradors (one black, one blonde), my wife of 28 years and I went for a pint (in my case Timothy Taylor’s) in a nice country pub.
We had a roast beef dinner later.
I guess I’m basically Hitler.
In the last 12 months:
A migrant who sexually assaulted three women avoids jail.
A migrant who raped a teen avoids jail.
A migrant who assaulted a 12-year-old girl avoids jail.
A man who threw a plastic bottle at a migrant protest and swore at police is jailed for two years.
@Artemisfornow My carbon footprint is minimal, I don’t drive, I don’t fly, I have gas central heating for which I am about to be penalised for. After November COP30 they can all fuck off
@recusant_raja@andyburnham Some Fathers and Mothers lost their Daughters. Good people lost their livelihoods due to Operation Hexagon. That’s where my empathy lies.
The UK's new folic acid law kicks in on 13 December 2026. From that date, all non wholemeal wheat flour, white and brown, must be fortified with folic acid.
The aim is to prevent around 200 cases of neural tube defects like spina bifida every year.
Here's the catch: wheat flour is in far more than bread. It shows up in pasta, pizza, crackers, biscuits, cakes, pastries, pies, breakfast cereals, and most flour based batters, fish fingers, chicken nuggets, scampi, onion rings, tempura. It's also used as a thickener in soy sauce, gravy granules, stock cubes, soups and sauces. Malt vinegar and malt extract can be wheat derived too.
Because so many of these foods are eaten together every day, the folic acid adds up across the whole diet, not just from one slice of bread.
Let's look at a typical day for a child. They have cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, then pasta for tea or a pizza. That is cumulative to a high degree.
Why some people may want to avoid it. Folic acid isn't risk free for everyone. The main medical concern is vitamin B12 deficiency, including pernicious anaemia.
Folic acid can correct the anaemia on blood tests while the nerve damage continues, that can lead to permanent spinal cord damage called subacute combined degeneration.
Official guidance says it should never be taken alone in these cases. It's also contraindicated in most cancers, because some tumours are folate dependent and extra folic acid may fuel them.
People on methotrexate, used for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and some cancers, should be careful, as folic acid can reduce how well it works. And epilepsy medicines like phenytoin, phenobarbital and primidone can have their levels lowered by folic acid, risking more seizures.
Wholemeal flour is exempt, as are non wheat flours like rice, maize, rye, oat and buckwheat, and small scale mills producing under 500 tonnes a year. But even though wholemeal is exempt, people checking packaging are already finding folic acid listed on wholemeal flour and wholemeal bread.
That is because many products mix in some non wholemeal flour, or manufacturers are fortifying voluntarily. The supposed safe option is not always safe.
We need to stop this altogether.
Sign the petition to end the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately It closes on 8 December 2026 and needs 100,000 signatures for a debate in Parliament.
If you have already signed please share with family and friends to make them aware.
Its in the comments 🇬🇧
@Artemisfornow Maybe it should be done on carbon footprint, like … for credits. I don’t have a car, I can’t afford it. I don’t fly anywhere, I can’t afford it. But I do have gas central heating which cancels out the car and the plane. Maybe a good topic when they fly to Brazil for chats
If illegal emigrants are spread across every town and city in the UK.
With three meals a day, buffet style.
Why can’t the local homeless go there for three meals at the same time?
Why can’t they claim a bed, healthcare, and other support too?
@andyburnham thoughts?
2 weeks after @andyburnham promised on national TV news to “listen” to #Piddington
💻 We’ve emailed
🖊️ We’ve written
📞 We’ve called
📱 We’ve tagged
📺 We’ve been on TV
📻 We’ve been on the radio
📰 We’ve been in the news
…TOTAL SILENCE!
😱 Only released that pamphlet!
🚨 EXPOSED: TOP CIVIL SERVANT GIVEN HALF A MILLION POUNDS OF TAXPAYER CASH AFTER 14 MONTHS IN THE JOB!
Look at this face.
You honestly have to laugh at the absolute golden parachutes awarded to failed establishment elites in Great Britain! 🤡
Sir Chris Wormald became the shortest serving Cabinet Secretary in history, leaving after just 14 months.
Yet Keir Starmer personally signed off a staggering 500,000 pound severance payout using your tax money just to get him out the door quietly!
While working class Brits face record tax hikes and frozen allowances, failed civil servants get handed half a million pounds for a year's work.
They treat the British taxpayer like an absolute cash machine while managing our total national decline. The mask has completely slipped.
RT and SHARE this everywhere to expose establishment payoffs and demand our money back! 🇬🇧🔥
🚨NEW: A 14 year old boy has DIED after Hampshire police FALSELY identified him in a fight and went to his parents house looking for him 🇬🇧
14 year old Leo Gurr ran out the back door of his mothers house on 21st June and collapsed in the back garden due to heart attack/ cardiac arrest.
Police records show they KNEW that young Leo had a heart condition but his file was NOT read prior to the home visit, and it has since been revealed that Leo was falsely identified and the police had NO RIGHT to even be looking for the young boy.
Hampshire police literally scared a 14 year old boy to DEATH.