Greg Loades

Writer | The Modern Cottage Garden | The 30-Minute Gardener | NT Gardener’s Almanac 2024/25/26

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

Advance copies of my new book - out in July - have just arrived - The 30 Minute Gardener is a book that aims to help you get in the habit of spending quality time in your garden every day, whether you've got a paddock or a balcony, and see great results too 🌿

[Prof Norman Fenton @profnfenton]

By Oct 2021, only 13.3% of pregnant black women in England had received at least one covid vaccine dose by the time of delivery. In contrast, 41.3% of white pregnant women in England had received at least one dose by the time of delivery.

In the following year there was a 27.4% increase in maternal mortality among white women. But in the same period the maternal mortality rate of black women dropped.

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@ClarkeMicah @northerness You can still get them wrapped in newspaper in at least one chip shop in Hull - if an old English tradition is dying out, good chance it’s still being kept alive in Hull! There are still ‘cash only’ shops too

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@ZubyMusic Customer service

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@ClarkeMicah Listened to a sermon reflecting on these very words in church today

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

I absolutely did try to warn you

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Zac is right

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

It’s hard to understand how anyone (who has actually thought about it) can support this.
On the face of it (full details yet to come) this law will make it ILLEGAL for responsible parents to caution a child against making a decision that could & likely would leave them sterile, sexless, permanently dependent on aggressive drugs, amputations & genital surgery that is almost always catastrophically damaging. 
How can a sentient person support this? How have we ended up with ANY MPs who think it’s a good thing for government to be doing? I’m certain a majority don’t in fact. They are just too feeble to say so.
I hope it is stopped. If it isn’t then I hope there is mass refusal to comply. I know it wouldn’t cross my mind not to break this law to protect a child, irrespective of the consequences

NB the real Conversion is of course the practice of tricking vulnerable (&they are always vulnerable) children into believing nature has given them the ‘wrong’ gender and that they can change sex

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

.@jordanbpeterson: “When people read the history of N×zi Germany, they always think they'd be Schindler. They never think they'd be the perpetrator… Did you watch people during Covid? Many were thrilled to inform on others to feel moral superiority.”

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@ClarkeMicah John Burningham’s Mr Gumpy - kind, generous and unflappable

[David Foord @DavidJFoord]

@PaulAnthonyTho6 @ClarkeMicah @Furq266400 This is probably the least contrarian view Mr Hitchens holds, anyone with a brain knows the left have been in power for decades. if you're still working on the Tories are right, Labour are left model you need to update your understanding as politics.

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@DadsArmyFans …well if I wasn’t I’d be a soprano…

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@Steviejb23271 @archivetvmus71 @DadsArmyFans I think it’s from an episode called ‘Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel’

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@DadsArmyFans @Iborra79L Mrs Yateman is also called Tracey - Walker’s girlfriend Edith Parish and Shirley both played by Wendy Richard

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@DadsArmyFans @Iborra79L Mrs Prosser was Jones’s some time companion - upset in the episode ‘War Dance’ when Jones is dancing with one of Walker’s girlfriends

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@DadsArmyFans Getting the Bird
Things That Go Bump in the Night
The Godiva Affair

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

1/2 The Tory Party is a passive blancmange, which enacts the laws of the cultural revolution without understanding them or pursuing them with energy. A Starmer government would be vigorously Eurocommunist, reminiscent of the early years of the Alastair Campbell premiership of 1997. @Andrewdunnigan1

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@ClarkeMicah My mother reminds me of this annually and I’m with the pre-1970s approach - reflect when you want to/are ready to reflect - it is likely to mean much more

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@BraxM @DadsArmyFans @goldchannel @RadioTimes @DavidBensonSays @RealJackLane Ah I see! Thanks! Yes I know the radio episode, with Graham Stark voicing Walker, but I thought Ian Lavender was in it?

[Greg Loades @greg1724]

@ZubyMusic Highly recommend pre marriage counselling from people who have ben married a long time if for nothing else but being advised on how to tackle a lot of mundane but unavoidable practicalities