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[Cyndi..🌻🌹💙🩵🎶 @cyndiwanek]

For damn sure....

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Forward this to any moronic supporters of wee Tommy Robinson

[Alex @Alexdaftie]

Priorities 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Will Black 🍓🍄 @WillBlackWriter]

People are saying that Nigel Farage has asked Elon Musk to ban people from X for sharing this clip of him attacking his crony Robert Jenrick.

Surely free speech champion Nigel Farage isn't that petty? But just in case, THIS is the video that you mustn't download or share

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Scurvy killed more British sailors than France and Spain ever did. 🇬🇧

The Royal Navy's greatest enemy wasn't cannon fire. It was a disease.

In 1747 a Scottish naval surgeon named James Lind had a theory.

He took twelve sailors suffering from scurvy aboard HMS Salisbury. Divided them into six pairs. Gave each pair a different remedy the navy believed in... Cider, vinegar, seawater.

And gave one pair two oranges and one lemon a day.

After six days, five pairs were unchanged.

The sixth pair were almost recovered. 🍊

Lind had just conducted the first clinical trial in recorded history.

Every medicine you have ever taken was tested using his method.

He published his results in 1753.

The Admiralty ignored him for forty years.

Meanwhile Captain James Cook used citrus on his second voyage.

He lost only one sailor to scurvy in three years at sea.

The Admiralty noted it. Did nothing.

Tens of thousands of sailors died of a disease that had already been cured.

In 1794 one admiral finally acted. He ordered lemon juice issued to every sailor aboard HMS Suffolk for a twenty three week voyage to India.

Not one case of scurvy.

The following year the Royal Navy made it standard issue. Every sailor. Every ship.

Scurvy vanished from the fleet almost overnight. ⚓

Then the Navy switched from lemons to West Indian limes... Cheaper and easier to source from British colonies.

Limes carry a fraction of the vitamin C that lemons do.

American sailors watching British sailors drink their lime rations had a name for it.

They called us limeys. And it stuck.

Ten years later, at Trafalgar, Britain's navy was at full strength.

The French and Spanish fleets were not.

One Scottish surgeon. Twelve sailors. Two oranges and a lemon.

James Lind died in 1794. One year before the navy he served finally adopted his cure.

He invented the clinical trial. He saved more British sailors than any admiral in history.

Your ancestors proved the truth.

Did they teach you that?

It's time to prove the truth again.

Your support pays for the research, production and hours it takes to get it right.

https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

I’m pretty sure Trump really doesn’t want this photo of his bald spot circulating… so whatever you do, do NOT retweet!

[Yesterday's Britain, A Better Britain. @YesterdaysBrit1]

The year is 1981.
I've got a fiver in my pocket...

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Everything rotten in Britain stems from this period. Everything.
Landlord rents. Shit in the rivers. Zero work hours. No British industry. Gas, electric bills through the roof,
No affordable housing.
All of it.

[The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare @mouw5284]

Avro Vulcan intercepted by Brazilian F-5E off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. She was returning from operation Black Buck on the Falklands and had to divert to Rio de Janeiro (Galeão Intl. Airport) due to refuelling issues because the USA wouldn't let them land & didn't want to offer any support to the UK during the Falklands war so as not to upset the Argys.

"Brazilian air traffic wants to know where we're from."
"Tell them Huddersfield!"
😂

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

The real life part of Dubai not the ones you see in cameras

[paulstuart63 @paulstuart631]

@robsellers123 Used to be five York City was in there as well

[The Secret Accountant @TheSecretAcct]

Iran has appointed Samali Âlârdâys as interim Ayatollah until the end of the season.

[paulstuart63 @paulstuart631]

@GregMorseDPhil It looks to me it’s going into Didcot yard, you can see the Oxford avoiding Line behind. Great photo.

[paulstuart63 @paulstuart631]

@ZiaYusufUK @ElectionMapsUK That’s not how it works, as I think you probably know

[ASLEF @ASLEFunion]

Reform want to cut workers' rights.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

🇬🇧 American Tourists in London 🇺🇸

[Back in Time West London @OldLondonW14]

The expansion of Paddington Station in 1933 added 50 yarda to each of the main line platforms to be able to support the growing levels of holiday traffic.

[Bygone Britain @BygoneBritain]

Pannier Tanks Working At bromsgrove in the 50s/60s

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Tim Meadows is one of the most under-appreciated SNL cast members 😂 great sketch