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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Things people did in 1965 without a second thought, and what they cost you now.

- Skipped breakfast when they weren't hungry. Now it is intermittent fasting, with an app, a podcast and a forty-pound book explaining what your grandfather did on a Tuesday for free.

- Drank from the tap. Now it is reverse-osmosis, remineralised, glass-bottled and four pounds a litre, because the tap is suddenly beneath us.

- Went out without sunscreen. Now it is reckless UV exposure, factor 50 reapplied hourly, on an overcast February morning in Glasgow.

- Had three eggs for breakfast. Now it is a cholesterol risk and a worried chat with a doctor still reading off a leaflet the science binned years ago.

- Put butter on their bread. Now it is saturated fat exposure, gently steered toward a tub of fourteen ingredients, not one of them a cow.

- Walked somewhere because that was how you got there. Now it is a logged step count, a heart-rate zone and ninety-pound carbon-plated trainers for the trip to the corner shop.

The factory settings of 1965 turned out a population leaner, fitter and far less medicated than the one now filling the waiting rooms. None of it was for sale, because none of it was a product. It was simply what people did, before someone realised you could sell it back to them at a markup. It still costs nothing. It always did.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Seems Palestine Action advocates are going to try their luck with the Supreme Court and even the European Court on Human Rights. Smashing up stuff and attacking police is NOT a fundamental human right.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Streeting has gone quite mad by blaming X for the Belfast riots and demanding it pays to repair.
Remember the Brixton riots of 1981? 28 buildings burned to the ground, another 120 damaged, 117 police cars destroyed, 300 officers hurt.
Who would Wes blame? The telephone?

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky.

Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky.

This proves one thing.

It's not about protecting children.

It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

We are ruled by idiots.

Do they not know every 15 year old revises GCSE’s on YouTube?

Do they not know that teenagers track their friends are home safely on SnapChat?

Do they not realise that - especially in rural areas with no transport - teenagers social lives are on… social media.

Do they not know that teenagers will find ways round - as has been shown in Australia.

This ban is illogical and damaging.

If I hear another parent say “it’s so hard to police them” I’ll scream. It’s a parent’s job. Take responsibility the children you are meant to be bringing up.

It is not the government’s job to look after your children.

But the government will now insist all adults provide ID to prove we are over 18.

😡

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

15 June 1925 | A Polish woman, Alodia Kokosza, was born in Sosnowiec.

In #Auschwitz from 22 January 1943.
No. 30504
In 1944 she was transferred to KL Flossenbürg and liberated there.
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Women at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://t.co/79j62xuV1E
🎧 Podcast: https://t.co/znkoN8Gwpp

[Colin Spencer @ColinSpenc4257]

Who Remembers.

[Al's Café Americain™ @therealADWarren]

@FT

[siobhan @siobhan1437154]

So this is how Brighton Lefties & police think it's ok to abuse myself and my daughters , then say my daughter Rhiannon deserved to die at the hands of an illegal migrant. What do the police do? Fk me onto the floor! But not allowed to incite violence ,clowns 🤡

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Sir Keir Starmer is set to ban under-16s from 10 major social media platforms, including X, but not Bluesky, the Left-wing app. https://t.co/TIqZk7QbZr

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For thirty-five years it was illegal to put a particular red dye in your lipstick, because it caused cancer in laboratory animals. It stayed perfectly legal to put the same dye in sweets aimed at children.

The dye is Red 3, the bright cherry colouring known in the trade as erythrosine. In 1990 the American regulator banned it from cosmetics and skin creams, having accepted that it caused thyroid cancer in rats. There is a law, the Delaney Clause, that is meant to be simple. If an additive causes cancer in people or animals, it should not be in the food supply.

So it came out of the lipstick.

It stayed in the food. Sweets, cakes, frostings, some medicines, the cheerful red things pointed straight at children. For more than three decades the very same substance was judged too dangerous to wear on your lips and perfectly fine to feed to a five-year-old.

It took until January 2025, after a campaign group filed a formal petition, for the regulator to finally pull it from food as well. Manufacturers have until 2027 to take it out.

For thirty-five years the system held two positions at once. Too risky for your face. Acceptable for your child's mouth. And it took an outside group, not the regulator, to finally force the contradiction shut.

These are the people whose judgement you are told to trust completely on butter, beef and salt.

Bear that in mind.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

15 June 1919 | A Polish Jewish woman, Chaya Bluma Hauszwalb, was born in Puławy. She lived in Paris.

In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy. She did not survive.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Bluesky won’t be included in the under-16s social media ban.

Twitter will be.

This is abuse of power.

[Colin Spencer @ColinSpenc4257]

GOOD MORNING. LOVE WHERE I LIVE.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Meeting the new member of the family.. 🥺

[The Right Angle @EuRollout]

The next Prime Minister is being decided by some 1,000 or so people in Makerfield who are voting Restore, when any sensible person would be backing Reform.

For the avoidance of doubt, Burnham and Milliband will be a disaster for you and your children.

This was not the election to make your point. Please see sense.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

My 15 year old got her two most recent paid (holiday) jobs on one of these sites. 👇

Should she be banned from working?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Right, time for the Truth.
The smoke and mirrors and blatant deceit going on in the asylum system is horrifying.
Nothing the public is told is reliable. Hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants are unaccounted for. Home Office hasn’t got a clue where they are.
Government is shovelling migrants out of asylum hotels and giving them money to find a place to stay in the community. Desperate to look like the backlog is coming down.
Asylum caseworkers are granting leave to remain to known sex offenders from Eritrea, Sudan and Afghanistan because they are not allowed to refuse applicants from those “unsafe” countries.
It’s a sick joke.
The safety of women and children is at risk and these bullshit graphs are shared to prove how things are improving.
Things are NOT improving. Asylum caseworkers know it’s a ticking timebomb. Another Belfast attack can happen any day.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

The Assisted Suicide law as it is written is a Charter to Murder

I am very serious when I call for future criminal prosecutions.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Soil is a bank account, and modern farming has quietly run it into overdraft.

Plough a field and take a crop, and you make a withdrawal. The structure breaks down, the carbon escapes, and a little more topsoil washes or blows away. Do it year after year with nothing going back, and the account empties.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation reckons a football pitch of soil erodes somewhere on earth every five seconds, and that ninety percent of the planet's topsoil could be at risk by 2050. It takes a thousand years to build a few centimetres. We are spending it in decades.

Grazing animals run the account the other way. They make deposits:

- They crop the grass so the roots dig deeper and pull carbon down.
- Their hooves work seed into the ground and break the crust so rain soaks in.
- Their dung and urine feed the worms and the microbes.
- Managed well, they build measurable topsoil, year on year.

The Dust Bowl fits in one sentence. America took the bison off the plains, ploughed the grassland the herds had built over millennia, and within fifty years the soil got up and blew away.

The repair walks on four legs and runs on grass. We keep choosing the overdraft, then act surprised when the balance falls.