If your measure of poverty is relative, not absolute, you will only eliminate poverty when everyone has exactly the same amount of money.
I'm sure there's a name for that kind of society, if only I could think of it.
Bristol AFAF is holding its inaugural event next week!
Lynne @nightsong53, remember the recent thread we took part in re Spanish Flu? The illness is discussed here, about 2/3 the way through.
The rest is a good listen of course 👍
It was quite a day in court yesterday. Grateful to Channel 4 News for covering the case.
It’s all there:
Avoidable deaths.
90,000 emails deleted.
An entire NHS email account erased.
A key board meeting note denied to exist.
Thanks to all our supporters. It was a great turn out as always.
If you're accused of 'hate speech', you're nearly twice as likely to be found innocent by a jury than if your case is just heard by a judge.
The British people know right from wrong.
It's a disgrace that this Government wants to cut them out of the justice system.
The first investigation in to the death of Victoria Agoglia was called Operation Augusta.
It was closed down suddenly.
No one knows who closed it or why and records have disappeared.
8 suspects went on to commit more sex crimes.
5 suspects applied for jobs requiring DBS checks.
When was Batley moved to the Middle East ?
Thank God that this sort of theocratic dictatorship could ever happen in England
Oh no !!!!
Wait a moment !
I could got to jail for this, couldn't I ?
Be careful !
Any resistance to these plans for world domination
may be classified as Islamophobia
Hey. At least we ended up catching all the bad guys and they're all in jail now so it will never ever happen again. Oh wait... that's right. Nobody anywhere on the planet has been held accountable for any of what happened during that time.
The hereditaries were human shield protecting the cronies from scrutiny and criticism.
Now they are (about to be) gone, the illegitimacy of the Lords and the corruption implied by a system of appointment will become much more of an issue.
Whether fair or not.
This paragraph by C.S. Lewis, written in 1948, still hits hard:
“If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
What happened to separation of church and state?
Oh, that’s right. I forgot. That only applies to Christianity.
Have chosen my job for today: to remind you about what prison of nations, so-called USSR, did to mothers and children:
There were three of us mothers. We were given a small room in a barrack. Bedbugs fell here from the ceiling and the walls like sand. All night long we picked them off the children. And during the day we went to work, leaving the babies with some certified old woman who would eat the food that had been left for the children.
Nevertheless, Volovich writes, for a whole year I stood by my child’s bed at night, picking off the bedbugs and praying. I prayed that God would prolong my suffering for a hundred years if necessary, but would not separate me from my daughter. That He would release me from imprisonment together with her — even if I were to leave as a beggar, even as a cripple. That I might raise and bring her up, even if it meant crawling at people’s feet and begging for alms.
But God did not answer my prayers. Just as the child had begun to walk, just as I heard from her the first words — so tender to the ear, so wonderful — “mama,” “mamusia,” we were, in the winter frost, dressed in rags, put into a freight wagon and taken to a “mothers’ camp,” where my angel-like little chubby girl with golden curls soon turned into a pale shadow with blue circles under her eyes and cracked, dried lips.
Volovich first worked at logging sites, and later at a sawmill. In the evenings she would bring a bundle of firewood back to the camp and give it to the nannies, who in return would let her see her daughter outside the regular visiting hours.
She saw how at seven in the morning the nannies woke the babies. With pokes and kicks they dragged them out of their unheated beds. <…> Pushing the children in the back with their fists and showering them with coarse abuse, they changed their little shirts and washed them with icy water. The babies did not even dare to cry. They only groaned like old people — and cooed. This terrible cooing came from the cribs all day long. Children who should already have been sitting or crawling lay on their backs with their legs drawn up to their stomachs and made these strange sounds, like the muffled moan of a pigeon.
There was one nanny for seventeen children. She had to feed them, wash them, dress them, and keep the ward clean. She tried to make the task easier for herself: from the kitchen she brought steaming hot porridge. Having divided it into bowls, she grabbed the first child she could from a crib, twisted the child’s arms behind its back, tied them to the body with a towel, and began stuffing the hot porridge into the child like a turkey, spoon after spoon, not giving it time to swallow.
Eleonora began to waste away.
During visits I would find bruises on her little body. I will never forget how, clinging to my neck, she pointed with her thin little hand at the door and moaned: “Mamysia, home!” She had not forgotten the bug-infested shack where she had been born and where she had always been with her mother. Little Eleonora, who was one year and three months old, soon realized that her pleas to go “home” were useless. She stopped reaching out to me during visits and silently turned away. Only on the last day of her life, when I took her into my arms (I had been allowed to breastfeed her), she looked somewhere to the side with wide eyes and began weakly hitting my face with her little fists, pinching and biting my breast. Then she pointed her hand toward the crib.
In the evening, when I came to the ward with an armful of firewood, her crib was already empty. I found her in the morgue, naked, among the bodies of adult prisoners. In this world she had lived only one year and four months and died on March 3, 1944. <…> That is the whole story of how I committed the gravest crime — the only time in my life I became a mother.
Hava Volovich, Jewish Ukrainian.
What on earth is "genetically predicted linoleic acid"?
It comes 100% from diet, with main source in the US being salad dressing and therefore highly correlated with salad intake, which is in turn correlated with other behaviors.
An excellent result especially as Lib Dem’s changed their minds and did not support
I don't think people understand the scale of the constitutional crisis that Starmer and his mates have put the King in
Tell me.
Tell me!
When a King gave away his subjects' lands to a foreign power?
And against their will?
He is the King of Chagos, his duty is to defend it.
From the replies:
"When a solar panel farms turns into a toxic waste farm
...
Idiots create these solar farms as if bad weather never happens. Solar is unreliable, unscalable, unaffordable, and fragile.
...
the land is now a toxic waste site, the land can't be use for grazing (animals will eat shards of glass) and the land can't be farmed, as during harvest bits of glass will be stirred up with the dust.
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These damaged panels will potentially be leeching cadmium, lead and PFAS into the ground water. Under typical service where the cells remain encapsulated there is little heavy metals and chemicals compounds that are shed by the panels. The dangers are when the encapsulated cells are shattered in which the heavy metals are released."
One day, there will be a reckoning over why NINE doctors and nurses were granted full anonymity at Lucy Letby's trial.
Several of them admitted they could not be trusted to testify truthfully and accurately – unless, that is, the court barred the public from ever finding out their names.
The court, ever so obliging, gave these witnesses what they asked for. As a result, anyone in England who publicly names them faces a substantial fine or arrest.
All nine of the now-anonymous doctors and nurses had worked side-by-side with Letby, during the nightmarish year when 13 babies died on their unit.
Many still have A LOT of questions to answer about the care these babies received.
One of them, a bona fide consultant, had just months before been found at fault for accidentally killing a baby under her care.
The jury never got to hear about this.
The government wants to inject people with GLP-1 drugs and call it ‘prevention.’
My friend Isabella Cooper put healthy people on government dietary guidelines. Their natural GLP-1 production collapsed. Insulin nearly doubled.
We’re suppressing the hormone with our diet, then injecting it back in.
Read that again.
#MetabolicHealth #GLP1 #InsulinResistance
THE WORLD BANNED ASTRA ZENECA AND NZ IMPORTED IT AND OFFERED IT AS OPTION TO KEEP YOUR JOB...
In November 2021 New Zealand imported Astra Zeneca Covid vaccines for use here.
This was at the time of the widespread employment mandates.
If a mandated person experienced life threatening anaphylaxis with dose one of Pfizer mRNA, they were offered three options, in order to keep their job
1) Take a second dose of the Pfizer mRNA in a hospital with a crash cart and resuscitation team at hand
2) Take the Astra Zeneca vaccine
3) Lose their job (and probably their home)
Watch the video and marvel that NZ Medsafe deemed the Astra Zeneca vaccine "safe" for mandated New Zealanders to take in November 2021....when the rest of the world was BANNING it
No discussion whatsoever about this in the Royal Commission of Inquiry report into the NZ Covid response (with terms of reference: vaccine safety)
@winstonpeters @CaseyCostelloMP @BrookevanVelden @chrishipkins @chrisluxonmp @dbseymour @SimeonBrownMP @chrislynchmedia
Hilarious — but let’s not forget that the number of people actually asking these questions at the time was infinitesimal.
Most were far more like the boss than the worker.
And, of course, it’s a relief that most people finally came to their senses but the scariest part of the whole thing — and the most important in to terms of planning for the future — was how legions of seemingly reasonable people fell in lockstep with obviously nonsensical BS.
Bye bye NCHIs. 👋
Our General Secretary Lord Young of Acton just won a tremendous victory in House of Lords when his amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill scrapping non-crime hate incidents — cosponsored by Lords Hogan-Howe and Strasberger — was passed by 227 votes to 221. 👊
Timely advice from Glasgow City Council. 👍🙄
The UK is one of the few countries in the world where scientific evidence is not allowed to play any part in the age determination process, and the asylum lobby works hard to keep it that way. They know what they're doing.
I've observed this before in education, but it's worth reiterating: note that this guidance refers simply to ‘Jesus’, but to ‘Prophet Mohammed’, as though that prophethood is uncontested. It isn't even ‘Jesus Christ’, and one wonders if that's because in Islam Isa/Jesus is not the Christ. That, of course, makes Mohammed a false prophet; an antichrist (cf 1Jn 2:22). The ‘sensitivity and awareness’ is unashamedly one-way: inclined to sharia.
Wool can make a comeback.
Not by competing with polyester on price.
By competing with polyester on everything else.
Wool is naturally fire-resistant: it chars rather than melts, and does not sustain combustion easily. This is why firefighters' proximity suits historically used wool and why wool upholstery is still specified in commercial aviation.
Wool is naturally antimicrobial. The lanolin and the protein structure of the fibre inhibit bacterial growth. A wool garment worn multiple times between washes does not smell the way a synthetic does. This is why Merino base layers exist and why endurance athletes pay significant money for them.
Wool is biodegradable. Entirely, completely, within years rather than centuries.
Wool is a carbon store. The protein structure locks up atmospheric carbon sequestered by the grass the sheep ate.
Wool regulates temperature in both directions: the crimp structure traps air as insulation in cold and wicks moisture in heat. No synthetic fibre does this across the full range.
Wool is renewable. It grows back.
The British wool industry is not dead.
It is undervalued and under-marketed and competing with a product that is only cheaper because nobody is pricing in the plastic in the ocean and the microfibre in the food chain and the petroleum extraction at the start of the supply chain.
Price those in.
Price the plastic honestly.
Suddenly the sheep in the Cumbrian field is producing something that costs 30 pence a kilo and saves the water system.
The sheep has always been the better option.
The sheep has been waiting patiently for the accounting to catch up.
3/3 Yet, humans, ‘in their infinite wisdom’, threw a hand grenade (a statin) into this pathway, thinking it would prevent heart disease🙄. It’s 2026, and we’re still killing cells to lower an arbitrary number on a lipid panel. Science hasn’t moved past the dark ages. 😒
China’s trawlers are electrocuting the Persian Gulf to death.
Their industrial scale Pulse fishing kills everything in the water, leaving a dead ocean.
They need to be stopped before the ocean is completely lifeless.
It's wild that just a few months ago Sadiq Khan and Mark Rowley were saying there were no Grooming Gangs in London
Then they admitted there were thousands being covered up
Now it's headline news
Why have they both not lost their jobs for this?
How can it be that an 800 year old right central to our constitution can be taken away by a government that has no mandate for doing so?
The justification of clearing a backlog is ridiculous given the law has been in place for 800 years!
Labour are traitors to the UK!
Things that seem too good to be true usually are. 😢
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
Why do politicians never think any more about how their policies might be abused in future?
This should be their go to question all the time and yet it never seems to be asked.
WTF‼️305 Labour MPs voted to end jury trials.
This means magistrates will be able to jail people for up to TWO YEARS without an automatic right to appeal.
Last year, 40% of appeals from magistrate courts were upheld because they were flawed. 🇬🇧
More misinformation from the government. We need to recruit dentists from overseas because we have a huge shortage!
When actually … Every year in the UK, there are only about 1,100 dental school places. With THOUSANDS of applicants competing for them e.g, Sheffield had 1,250ish applications for just 71 places, and King’s College London receives over 1,000 ish applications for 120 places.
Yes, the answer is slapping you in the face.
In the last few days, jury trials have been scrapped, Churchill has been taken off bank notes and hereditary peers have been booted. England’s cultural heritage is being gutted terrifyingly quickly.
To my fellow citizens: this is who we are.