John Crawley

#WritingCommunity Rising writer (copyright Don Winslow), crime fiction fan, Evertonian, Socialist, Lexit, interest in MMT, Music nerd. No Vaccine Passports.

[John Crawley @jwcrawley]

@EngerThomas @OrendaBooks @Bookloverworm1 Thanks Thomas, 1st chapter made it to print, just need rest of book there! https://t.co/d1Jw8CFXnv

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson opened a pub in August 2024 with one rule: every single ingredient British. Here is what that rule immediately deleted from a perfectly ordinary pub.

- No coffee.
- No Coca-Cola.
- No gin and tonic. Quinine will not grow here.
- No lemons. No limes.
- No ketchup, for two years.
- No avocado. No pineapple.

His own line was that instead of a slice of lemon you would be offered a slice of turnip.

That list is not a gimmick. It is an audit of how much of a normal British menu now arrives by ship, and the answer turns out to be most of the small things nobody thinks about.

Then the figure underneath it all. A sausage made from his own pigs costs 74p. The same sausage made from imported pig meat costs 18p. He is absorbing that gap on every plate that leaves the kitchen, which is precisely the gap every British pig farmer is asked to compete across, without a television programme paying the difference.

And the ketchup has the best ending in the whole story. So many people asked for it that a sign went up telling them to stop. Then a producer in Chatham built one out of Isle of Wight passata, Hampshire cider vinegar and Essex salt, and it went on the menu.

The demand was always sat there. Nobody had bothered building the supply.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I don't want to “download the app” to pay for parking. I don't want to “create an account” to see a menu. I don't want to “provide feedback” on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

This video hits hard — we've been sold a story that chicken is the ultimate "healthy" protein. But when you look at real nutrient density, it lands near the bottom.

According to nutrient density information chicken ranks nearly dead last. Here’s the order for nutrient dense meat:

- Beef (grass-fed shines): loaded with bioavailable iron, zinc, B12, creatine for muscle & energy
- Lamb: rich in healthy fats, selenium, and B vitamins — often ranks at the very top for nutrient density
- Bison: super lean yet mineral-dense, excellent protein with a clean profile many rank #1
- Venison: wild game packed with vitamins/minerals per calorie, low fat but high impact
- Fatty fish (salmon, sardines etc.): omega-3 powerhouses plus selenium and high-quality protein
- Pork (quality cuts): solid protein & minerals, but usually trails the ruminants

Chicken? Great for lean bulk, but it’s lower in key fats, iron, zinc, and other micronutrients compared to the above. Marketing changed everything — it went from occasional treat to daily staple.

One of the big reasons we switched from mainly eating beef was marketing from major companies like Tyson.

Chicken was historically more of a delicacy or seasonal food in the U.S., not everyday staple like beef or pork. Mid-20th century campaigns by companies like Tyson and others successfully repositioned it as a cheap, healthy, everyday “lean protein” alternative.

We have been lied to about everything...

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

Starmer’s EU UK Reset wants to create a certificate free border with the EU allowing these and other animal and plant diseases to easily enter into the UK.
#StoptheReset

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Utah has just put raw milk on the shelf of every grocery shop the state inspects, and most of America still cannot legally do the same.

House Bill 179 was signed on 26 March and came into force on 7 May. Every test and inspection on the producer stayed exactly where it was. The only thing struck out was the old rule confining the milk to the farm gate, or to a shop in which the farmer personally held a controlling stake. Fewer than a third of American states allow it on a shelf at all.

Which makes it worth knowing what Utah has actually handed its shoppers, because it is not the same liquid in a different bottle.

Milk is legally pasteurised when an enzyme in it can no longer be found. That is the test, literally. Heat to 72 degrees for fifteen seconds, measure the alkaline phosphatase, and if it reads under 350 milliunits per litre the batch is cleared for sale.

The enzyme was never the target. It got the job because it is slightly tougher than the bacteria, so once it has gone you can be confident they have gone too.

Which tells you what happened to everything more fragile than it. Lactoferrin, the iron-binding protein running the milk's own defence, largely lost. The immunoglobulins the cow puts in for her calf, the same. The native whey proteins, denatured. The living bacterial community that has arrived in human stomachs alongside milk for ten thousand years, removed entirely and by design.

All of it survives the udder and dies in the plate heat exchanger.

A cow in a field outside Provo can now send her work to a neighbour with the whole lot still in it.

Everybody else is one bill behind.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

English has been rating fat for a thousand years, and every single entry says the same thing.

- The fat of the land: the best of everything.
- Living high on the hog: the costly cuts, up the back.
- Butter wouldn't melt: innocence itself.
- Bring home the bacon: to provide.
- Butter someone up: to win them over.
- The fatted calf: what you kill for the son who came back.
- Fat years and lean years: the good ones and the bad.
- The cream of the crop. The cream always rises.
- Chew the fat: what good company does when the work is done.
- Fatten up: what you do for someone who has been ill.

Not one idiom in the language treats lean as the good news. Not one.

That is a thousand years of people who worked outdoors, raised the animal, rendered the fat and buried their own dead, all arriving at the same verdict and building it into the words their grandchildren would inherit.

Set against that, a committee formed in the 1980s.

Your ancestors wrote their nutritional advice into the language itself so it could not be lost. Go and read it back, then go and eat the butter.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

How the British government has protected our sheep

For a thousand years the sheep built Britain. It made the wool that made the money that built the cathedrals. Here is how we have chosen to protect it lately.

- We let the price of its wool fall below the cost of shearing it, so the fleece that once paid the rent now gets burned in the yard because burning it is cheaper than selling it.

- We let its other great product, mutton, be forgotten entirely, until a grown animal that once fed the nation became something no supermarket will stock and most butchers no longer sell.

- We recast the animal itself as the villain. The influential environmental argument of the last decade calls sheep a white plague and woolly maggots, and the hills they graze sheepwrecked, a nuclear winter, a desert.

- We started paying farmers to take them off. Public money that once kept sheep on the hills is being redirected to remove them, plant trees where they grazed, and rewild the ground from under them.

- We blamed them for the floods, on the theory that the grazing high in the hills drowns the towns below, while the flock in Wales quietly shrank by nearly a million head in a decade.

- We shut out the shearers who keep the survivors shorn, and slapped testing on the ones crossing a line on a map, for a disease carried by a midge that does not read maps.

Look at the shape of it.

Every single one of these was sold as progress or as protecting something. Cheaper clothes, a wilder landscape, a greener country, a kindness to the animal. And the sum of them is a country that has spent a decade making it pointless to keep a sheep, worthless to shear it, unfashionable to eat it, and now shameful to graze it at all.

The sheep did not change. It still turns rain and rough grass, ground that grows nothing else, into meat, milk, wool and a landscape people drive for hours to look at. It is the same animal it was when it made this island rich.

We just decided, quietly and without ever quite saying so, that we would rather not have it.

Ask what replaces it on those hills, and who profits from the swap, because it will not be the shepherd and it will not be you.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Government modelling on folic acid dosing estimated adult daily consumption at 59g of flour per day.

It is actually over 80g per day whichever way you measure.

Article below on the secret flour consumption from trips to the biscuit tin.

Plus SIGN the petition.

[Ben Timberley @BTimberley]

But you and Andy aren't telling people the truth about the Prosperity 2030 manifesto from UCL are you?

It's PFI with a big fat dollop of misdirection.

I'm a lefty. I'm sick and tired of this shite from people like you selling us all down the river. 🤬

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The last overseas shearers Britain intends to let in are on the fells right now, working out the final weeks of their leave.

The door shut on 30 June. No vote, no debate, no announcement, just a date passing quietly in a summer when everyone was looking elsewhere. Those still working the Borders this week are here on leave that expires on 1 October, and when they fly out that is the end of it.

Understand what is walking out.

Six New Zealanders spent three months in one Northumberland valley last year and sheared nearly 90,000 sheep. Fifteen thousand head each, across farms from the Scottish Borders down to County Durham. They have been coming into Coquetdale for over thirty years. Since 2011 a concession has let up to 75 of them in each spring, and between them they take the wool off one and a half to two million British sheep in a window a few weeks long.

The Home Office rejected the application on 2 February. Twenty-six days of farmers writing to their MPs got it reinstated on 10 March for one final year, with a line about the sector having had fourteen years to train British workers and now being expected to transition to domestic labour.

Here is what that sentence is standing on. British Wool trains over 800 people a year, most of those courses are basic level, and most of the people on them are sheep farmers learning to do their own flock. Training was never the bottleneck. A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes, calm hands, no panic in the animal, hundreds a day for weeks on end, and reaching that standard takes years of conditioning and a place in a global trade that follows the season around the planet.

Fourteen million breeding ewes. A few weeks to do them all. A sheep left in fleece gets eaten alive by maggots, so the job is not optional and the date is not negotiable.

Next spring those farms make phone calls that nobody answers.

Seventy-five shearers, once a year, and a government that could not find room for them.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Nat @Arwenstar]

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered."

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Toxicity is measured as the LD50 = lethal dose 50 = amount that would kill half of those given it.

Flour does not have an LD50 because it is food.

Folic acid is not food.
It is a drug.

[ben kavanagh @bkava]

Make no mistake. They aim to demoralise and degenerate young men to the point that they would rather risk life and limb on the Russian battlefield fighting as fodder for the ruling class than to be subjected to more humiliation at home.
A path to conscription.

[Phil Collins💙 @PhilC273]

Just to say large data centres don’t need water. They need cooling. It’s just that water is by far the cheapest way.
We & nature need water. This is essential to life.
The big Tech companies need to be made to pay to solve the problem, not to put a greater pressure on us

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This moorland farmer talks a lot of common sense about how to manage the land to prevent wildfires from spreading. He knows way more than the idiots in government who enforce rewilding schemes without any form of fire breaks.

[Jacqui Deevoy @JacquiDeevoy1]

Someone I used to work with had two young daughters - both allergic to peanuts. I told her that nut allergies were often caused by vaccines as some have peanut oil as one of the ingredients and that by injecting it into children’s bodies it can cause a longterm reaction.

She looked at me as if I’d just sprouted an extra head and quickly changed the subject.

Most people think it’s normal for kids to have allergies. They believe it’s genetic. Or they just don’t think about it.

In this fascinating article - https://t.co/b7gVQrWjA2 - it’s said that vaccines contained peanut oil as an adjuvant from the 1940s to the 1990s but since then, because vaccine manufacturers are not obliged to reveal all the ingredients they use in their products, peanut excipients are often unlisted. This causes the public to erroneously believe that these excipients are no longer contained in modern vaccines.

“The epidemic of peanut allergy is just one facet of this much broader social phenomenon. We (the US) have the sickest, most allergic kids of any country, industrialised or not, on Earth. A study of the standard literature of vaccines is identical to a study of the history of adjuvants - an exercise in cover-up and dissimulation. Unvaccinated children don’t become autistic. And they don’t go into shock from eating peanuts.”

Parents don’t realise this and continue to get their children injected, believing that the development of allergies after injection is just a coincidence. Oddly, most don’t apply this same lack of logic to other medications.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

A great deal of effort and attention went into this article on the Karim Khan case and on Venezuela, and it contains key information you will find literally nowhere else.
I was up all night writing and editing, and published at 7am.
https://t.co/xzNywnzMuD

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

110 acres of prime agricultural land, 42% of the entire farm has been stripped away from a 2nd generation farm tenant with a 3 generation lease legally! … for a SOLAR factory!

Under the lease land could be reclaimed by the landlord if they could get non agricultural planning permission. The local council refused but Ange overruled the decision.

Leaving the farm unviable, with little compensation and losing food producing prime land forever.

All for the greater good.

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

Food production compromised. Pockets lined. Assets seized. Socialism.