Graham Binks

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@crockpics Beneath the Southern Cross https://t.co/DBLwo8J5BZ

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@Englishremnant Wasn't the Black Watch absorbed into an amalgam of Scots regiments called 3 Scots. I seem to remember a lot of protests at the time. But I think the Watch as a stand alone regiment no longer exists 😕

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@AestheticaMag More 'conceptualist' than Artist. He doesn't actually produce anything himself, just ideas or 'concepts' then relies on others to realise his 'Concepts'.
I'm 72 and still find conceptual Art hard to understand.

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@Ferdinand641 @InTheTrenchesUK Not forgetting the Met's own SPG unit during the Seventies and Eighties. They were a law of their own until broken up in the late eighties.

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

The Englishmans love of nature didn’t just appear. It goes back a long way. Our Anglo-Saxon and Celtic ancestors lived in the valleys, along the rivers, and among the oak woods. They worked it, moved through it, farmed it, fought in it and knew it properly.

That sort of connection sticks. Even after towns and industry took over, people still felt drawn back to the countryside. Not wild, empty land, but fields, hedges, footpaths. Land that’s been lived on.

That’s why walking it feels familiar. It’s more than just liking nature, it’s something carried forward, in the blood and in the memory of those who came before us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 Creeping up the blind side, shinnin’ up the wall Stealing through the dark of night
Climbing through a window, stepping to the floor Checking to the left and the right Picking up the pieces, putting them away
Home by the Sea
Home by the Sea (Genesis)
https://t.co/eei1org8l6

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 'Like the dust that settles all around me
I must find a new home
The ways and holes that used to give me shelter
Are all as one to me now'
Afterglow (Wind and Wuthering)
https://t.co/2Uoqa1FSOU

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 'Take a little trip back with father Tiresias
Listen to the old one speak of all he has lived through'
Cinema Show (Selling England By The Pound)
https://t.co/0nHKBOKRKU

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
https://t.co/MvXZBksPIV

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 The Band -Chest Fever
https://t.co/mHqZSqifOw

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 The Guess Who - These Eyes
https://t.co/KT3GS9L20d

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 Genesis - Firth of Fifth ☺️👍
https://t.co/sWgTJy5Vme

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The pig is the most democratic animal that has ever lived.

Everything that follows is built on that. A pig needs no pasture, no hillside, no shepherd, no barn full of winter feed. It eats what you cannot. Acorns, windfall apples, kitchen scraps, the peelings and the whey and the spoiled milk headed for the midden. You feed it nothing and it gives you everything: a year of fat, lard, protein and crackling from an animal that turns household waste into the richest meat a poor family will ever taste.

One sow. A back garden. No land, no lord, no permission.

That is the problem with the pig. Not hygiene. Not parasites. Not the desert heat, though you will have been told all three by someone confident and wrong. The problem with the pig is that it made the poor man independent, and independence is the one thing the powerful have never been able to abide in people they mean to keep.

Walk it back. In Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt, pork was everywhere, thriving in the muck and crowded backstreets of the cities, above all the meat of the urban poor. Protein from almost nothing. And, crucially, protein the tax collector could not see. A field of barley is visible. A herd of cattle is visible. A pig in the yard, fattening quietly on scraps, is wealth that appears in no ledger.

So the herders who chased status moved to cattle and sheep. Cattle you could drive, count, tax, lend and inherit. The pig was wealth you could hide, and a ruling class has never had any use for wealth it cannot count.

The taboo did not fall from the sky. It crept in. In the southern Levant, pork consumption had been eroding since around 3000 BC, long before a word was written against it. By the early Iron Age the pig was a flag: the Philistines, migrants from the Aegean, ate it; the Israelites, native to the hills, largely did not. You could tell whose a settlement was from the bones in the midden.

Then comes the part we can date. When the Biblical texts were codified, the priestly elite of Judah took a custom that already existed and carved it into law, hardening a soft regional habit into a line of identity you would die rather than cross.

And men did. By the time of the Maccabees, under Greek rule, it was no longer about cuisine. Hellenistic officials forced Judeans to eat pork precisely because they knew what refusing it now meant. To refuse was to declare who you were. Men chose death over a single mouthful. The animal had become a border drawn through the human body.

The Greeks ate pork happily. The Romans ate it by the wagonload. So refusing it became a way of being Not Them, and the taboo grew in power because it was useful: every time an empire pressed down, the pig was a way to stay yourself. Centuries later Islam inherited the line and hardened it again, and now some two billion people will not touch the most efficient protein a poor household can keep.

Notice what is absent from all of it. Nutrition. Health. The body. The pig was banned not for being dangerous to eat but for being dangerous to own: an animal that let the landless feed themselves without asking, invisible to the men with the ledgers.

Power has never minded what you put in your mouth, only what you can do without it.

The pig let people do without.

That was the sin. It always was. It quietly still is.

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 Woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
https://t.co/iAQVGyRg1u

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

Today, 30 May, we remember Saint Walstan, one of England's most distinctive Anglo-Saxon saints.

Born around AD 975, Walstan was said to be of royal blood, related to the family of King Æthelred the Unready. Yet at just 12 years old he turned away from wealth and privilege, choosing instead a life of prayer, humility and hard work as a farm labourer in rural Norfolk.
According to tradition, an angel appeared to him while he was scything a field and foretold the day of his death. After making his confession, Walstan instructed that two bulls should pull his body wherever God willed. When he died on 30 May 1016, the bulls carried his hearse from Taverham to Bawburgh. Along the route, miraculous springs were said to appear, and his shrine became a place of pilgrimage for both people and livestock seeking healing.

Saint Walstan is the patron saint of farmers, farm workers and farm animals. His memory remains deeply rooted in the English countryside, where faith, work and the land were once woven closely together. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Sorry is not enough.

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@JVMonte2 'There will never be another one like you'

Shaman's Blues

https://t.co/yZjAmirnru

[Graham Binks @graham_binks]

@oaksandlions Unfortunately we no longer have Thrushes and haven't seen them for about 5 years now. Gone too are our Blackbirds, Sparrows and Starlings. All that remain are our Crows, Magpies, Pigeons and strangely Blue Tits whose brood sadly failed this year 😞

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

This case strikes me as extraordinary, both for the police behaviour and judge's apparent direction to the jury.

Carrying an 8" knife is illegal with very limited exceptions which do not include "self defence". The Criminal Justice Act makes that plain, and the Sentencing Council says in terms "carrying a knife or other weapon for protection is not a lawful reason. "

The Attorney General should be reviewing both this case and the case of the two teenage rapists ASAP.

I don't know what is happening with our justice system at the moment, and I am not alone in that concern.

https://t.co/JVEI8WGdNN

[HonestWelshmen @WakeUpWales777]

🚨Read this absolute piss-take of a trial regarding the brutalisation of Henry nowak …

‘The judge, William Mousley KC, told the jury that he had ordered Digwa to face a charge of manslaughter as an alternative to the murder charge.’

Manslaughter ?!!!!

He was stabbed in the back of both legs and stabbed through the chest with a 21cm blade

We need trials for these judges , absolute traitors to their people.

It gets better …

He claims Henry racially abused him , punched him and knocked of his turban.

He said then in ‘self defence’ , he stabbed nowak in the back of both legs then…. Did not realise he thrust a 21cm blade through his chest

There’s more , in response to this . That piece of shit judge said this

"If a person may not have deliberately have caused the fatal injury or may not have intended to kill or cause reasonably serious harm, he or she is not guilty of murder.”

HE WAS STABBED IN THE BACK OF THE LEGS TO STOP HIM RUNNING AWAY 🤬

This was clearly intentional

Judge William wasn’t done their though he told the jury … ‘do not allow any feelings of sympathy , your decision must be unbiased’

Yeah the whole thing sounds real unbiased

Absolute fucking bullshit

We need body cam footage and real justice

If this is normalised, it sets the premise that you can murder white people and get away with it if you claim racism

https://t.co/Iilc5isL3q