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@SamaHoole youtu.be/8e1xvyTdBZI?si…

In 1995, 45% of British milk was delivered to the doorstep before seven in the morning by a milkman in an electric float. In 2026, it is 3%. The milkman has been effectively abolished inside one human generation. The supermarket walked in, undercut the cost by a few pence per pint, and the daily ritual of British household life, glass bottles clinking on the step at half past six, was gone by the time the children of 1995 had finished secondary school. The cost to the customer was a few pence per pint. The cost to the system was, in rough order: the glass bottle that was washed and reused hundreds of times, replaced with a plastic bottle that is used once and recycled imperfectly. The local dairy that supplied one town, replaced with a national processor that supplies half the country. The milk that arrived four hours after milking, replaced with milk that arrived three days after milking after a journey of 200 miles. The conversation on the doorstep, replaced with a self-checkout beep. The milkman himself, incidentally, had the lowest recorded rate of heart disease of any male occupation in Britain. He walked approximately 12 miles a day, finished work by 10am, and ate a cooked breakfast. He has been replaced, in the same delivery role, by a zero-hours Amazon Flex driver sitting in a Ford Transit. A small piece of British daily infrastructure was quietly demolished. Nobody was consulted. The milk is still being produced. It is just being produced further away, transported further, kept in plastic, and sold at a different margin, by a different business, to a customer who never sees who milked the cow. The milkman knew your name. The self-checkout does not.

If this were a cricket innings #boro have gone from 282/2 to 291/9 and our two best bowlers are packed in ice. We need a hero to emerge and a resurgence as spectacular as our collapse. I for one don't rule it out.

Baghdad Barbie got the Lego treatment 😂 Karoline Leavitt standing at the podium with a giant cross on her chest… smiling while defending Epstein files and lying through her teeth. This Lego diss track is actually insane. PersiaBoi - Baghdad Barbie 🔥 #BaghdadBarbie #KarolineLeavitt #EpsteinFiles #PersiaBoi #SacredDefense #lego #LegoRap #PoliticalRap #LegoArt #TrumpLies #Iran #فارس_بوی #دفاع_مقدس #ایران_قوی #رپ_فارسی #PoliticalTikTok

@RealNatalieRowe I'm listening via Audible, last chapter (part V111) "Disgrace".

@AndrewSmelt I’ve haven’t read his shite Meghan & Harry hating book, and never will, unless it’s for a Court case. Send me the extract on McVey … if it even exists

Today, Iain Duncan Smith had the GAUL to stand up in Parliament lecturing Starmer ! Let me remind folks that Duncan Smith was Dunking Esther McVey, while his wife had Cancer. And then Mcvey had the cheek to stand up and put her two pence in also. Was like a tag team #PMQ’s

🚨HOLY COW: Jon Ossoff just HUMILIATED JD Vance: “I don't know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. NO ONE SHOWED UP. The stadium was empty.” AND THEN OSSOFF WENT NUCLEAR: “But JD came to UGA to attack the Pope, two days after Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ. The faithless President depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice. While he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes. While he plunders our health care to cut taxes for the rich. Meanwhile rent, power, groceries, and health care have hit all-time highs this year. Ground beef's up 20% since Trump took office. Coffee, 40%. Health premiums: through the roof. And remember: while you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it."

@floboflo @p8stie Saluki- The People's Front Of Judea.

@p8stie Poodle- Anarchist Afghan Hound - Communist Bichon Frise- Anarcho-Communist Husky- centre left Beagle- Liberal Democrat Pug- centre right Border Collie- right Spaniel- libertarian Yorkshire Terrier - Anarcho-capitalist Scotty Dog - SNP

Someone should make a list of right wing and left wing dog breeds

@terrychristian @haywardelmgrove @MbarkCherguia Pot Black with Winifred Atwell Ragtiming it up on the piano. "For those of you watching in black and white," etc

@haywardelmgrove @MbarkCherguia My memories of what BBC2 delivered were 'Call My Bluff' - The High Chaparall then Alias Smith & Jones on Monday night 8pm and a saturday afternoon film at 3pm. I sometimes would try and push to watch Horizon but my mum and dad ruled the TV after 6pm

How many TV Channels did you have as a kid?

@TouchlineX 25 mins of Coldplay, enough to pull anybodys hamstring.

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: For the first time in history, The World Cup Final will have a halftime show. It will be organized by Chris Martin & Coldplay and could take up to 25 minutes.

@sid_lambert The stricken Knight in The Holy Grail would concede defeat after this tackle.

This week in 1995: Boro striker Uwe Fuchs is red-carded for this utter abomination of a tackle vs Sheff Utd. Inspired the headline: UWE FUCHS OFF. Now that’s the sort of content we can all appreciate.

@RealTimVine How much oil do you think you could get in there?

I don’t know about you but when I see a bath I’m straight in it.

@Sillyshib His vetting was a rabies shot and 50mg of Bob Martins a day.

Bet Dominic Cummings did not pass his vetting

@hellothisisivan Genius, a northern Noel Coward, never saw him live but have seen his brilliant tribute act Fake Thackeray a few times who also co-wrote the biography

Hero

The United States is so toxic on the world stage right now that it can’t fill hotels or sell World Cup tickets. Let that land. FIFA projected $30.5 billion in economic impact from millions of international visitors. That demand never showed up. Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco have slashed match-day rates by a third from their peak. FIFA has cancelled tens of thousands of reserved rooms across all 16 host cities. Some hotels report cancellation rates above 95%. The reasons aren’t hard to find. Anti-American sentiment. Fear of border crossings. The Iran war driving up oil prices and airfares. And tickets priced into the stratosphere, with finals seats hitting $10,990 a pop. Industry executives are now openly blaming the Trump administration for the shortfall. Tourism economists say the Iran war made an already bad sentiment problem worse. Empty stadiums are now a real possibility. It happened at the Club World Cup last summer. It could happen again, on American soil, at the biggest sporting event on the planet. The White House says this will be “the greatest World Cup ever.” The market disagrees. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

🚨🇬🇧 They’re not documenting London’s “decline.” They’re manufacturing it. New GLA research found that: 🔺“London in decline” narratives have surged by 150–200% in just two years. 🔺Migration-related content is up 350%. And this isn’t happening organically. The push is being driven by coordinated networks: 🔺UK far-right ‘patriot’ accounts 🔺Russian and Chinese state-aligned bot operations 🔺MAGA-adjacent outrage merchants like Tommy Robinson and Adam Brooks One Vietnamese network reportedly used AI-generated imagery and fake local news branding to build an audience of more than a million followers. Meanwhile, London’s homicide rate is at its lowest level on record. So no, this is not fearless truth-telling or “citizen journalism.” It’s narrative engineering, disinformation dressed up as reporting. [SOURCE: GLA/BBC, April 2026]

@NoContextBrits Another fish.

What are you adding to this?

Top tip for eating out: avoid the Rat Inn near Hexham at all costs, unless you want a malignant landlady spying on your bill and running to the gutter press about you.

She's a cruel mistress, an errant child. #boro

@Sidthepainter Dooby dooby doo to you n those two for £2 and your neighbours too. Frank's best album for me was the Live at Sands, Vegas with the Count Basie orchestra. Swinging and then some. Good work.

While nipping about this morning. Picked up these two. Both very tidy. And all for a £2.00 coin. Will be treating the neighbours to both in a while (what a nice guy I am).

@danamalt Ipswich player tackles from behind with high studs and gets a pen.