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@Keir_Starmer You are a traitor and a coward. How dare you even mention St George or our flag - you have lost the right to do so.

Today, we fly our flag proudly and we're reminded of the values it represents - service, generosity, and respect. When we stand together, united in our communities, we are stronger than any attempt to divide us. Happy St George’s Day!

Dry dripping on bread, with a pinch of salt, was, for approximately four hundred years, one of the most common things a British child ate when he came in from school. The dripping was what was left in the pan after the Sunday roast. Beef fat, mostly, sometimes with a dark jelly at the bottom where the juices had settled. Your mother spooned it into a white enamel bowl, covered it with a plate, and kept it on the cold shelf in the pantry. It lasted a week. Sometimes two. It fried the Monday bubble and squeak, the Tuesday eggs, the Wednesday onions. On Thursday afternoon, before it ran out, you got a slice of bread spread with the stuff, a pinch of salt cracked on top, and that was tea. It was a treat. It was also just food. A child in 1930 would have looked at you blankly if you had suggested that beef dripping on bread was in any way remarkable. It was what was in the bowl. It was free. It tasted of Sunday lunch three days later. Beef dripping is approximately 50% monounsaturated fat, 40% saturated fat, and carries the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K from the pasture the cow grazed on. The cow ate grass. The grass had been growing on British soil since the end of the last Ice Age. The fat was the end product of ten thousand years of continuous ruminant grazing. A slice of bread and dripping delivered, for roughly the price of the bread, a dose of fat-soluble vitamins and usable calories that the rest of the British afternoon was going to need. Nobody got heart disease from bread and dripping. The British cardiovascular mortality rate of 1930, when almost every family ate dripping several times a week, was a fraction of what it is now. The British obesity rate of 1930 was essentially zero. The British type 2 diabetes rate was so low that the Royal College of Physicians considered the condition a medical curiosity. Then the dripping was quietly removed. First by margarine, invented in 1869 by a French chemist trying to feed the army, mass-marketed in Britain after the First World War as a modern, clean, scientific alternative to animal fat. Then by Crisco-style vegetable shortenings in the 1930s. Then, decisively, from the 1960s onwards, by the dietary advice that saturated animal fat caused heart disease. The advice was wrong. The research behind it was flawed, selectively published, and in some cases deliberately manipulated. The corrections have been appearing in the peer-reviewed literature for thirty years. The public-health guidelines have not been updated. Bread and dripping was replaced, in the British kitchen, by margarine on bread. Then by low-fat spread on bread. Then by skimmed-milk spread on industrially processed bread from the Chorleywood process. Then by a plastic tub of something labelled "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter," made from a blend of palm oil, rapeseed oil, emulsifiers, and flavouring, spread on a slice of Kingsmill so pale and so soft it could be balled up in one hand. The cardiovascular disease rates climbed through the same decades. The obesity rates climbed through the same decades. The type 2 diabetes rates went from medical curiosity to national crisis through the same decades. The fat your great-grandmother scraped out of the Sunday roast pan and spread on her child's tea was never the problem. The problem was what replaced it. Industrial seed oil, chemically extracted from seeds using hexane solvent, deodorised, bleached, and sold in a plastic bottle as a health food. A substance no human population had consumed in meaningful quantities before 1910, and which now makes up roughly 20% of the total calories in the average British diet. The dripping bowl on the cold shelf was a complete piece of nutritional engineering, evolved over centuries, running on the natural waste stream of the Sunday roast, costing nothing, delivering real nutrients, and causing none of the conditions it was eventually blamed for. It was thrown out of the British kitchen on the basis of a mistake. The mistake has never been corrected. The bowl is still at your grandmother's house, probably, at the back of a cupboard, unused since about 1985. The cow that built Britain is still in the field.

#DefundTheBBC Just do it, it’s liberating!

@campbellclaret Just leave X Alastair? you hate patriots, you hate @RupertLowe10 , you hate @elonmusk and you hate Britain and British culture. You and Rory are parasites.

Free speech Rupert! My view on yours. Ps I note you didn’t respond to our invite to come on and discuss all of this. Amazing how people like you and Nigel really don’t like robust intelligent conversation and examination of your own views. Is it enough just to have Musk pumping it all out for you?

Tough night at home. Time to reset, bounce back and stick together for the next games.

@LUFC Amen

🔥 The Devil Slayer!

"I'm not talking about the referee, if I talk about the referee I'm going to get in very big trouble" Bruno Fernandes was not happy with the referee in Manchester United's defeat to Leeds.

@georgegalloway @ManUtd

The most absurd Red Card in football history @ManUtd

Defeat at Old Trafford.

@SkySportsPL Oh.

🗣️ "I think United will be too strong for Leeds" Roy Keane shares his thoughts ahead of Man Utd vs Leeds ⏳

The night just gets worse… Night everyone 🤦🏽‍♂️

@AdamJSchwarz @campbellclaret

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union: "I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."

@rioferdy5 @FA_PGMOL

Explain @FA_PGMOL

@Keir_Starmer @lisanandy You do not deserve to mention their names, you evil man.

The brutal, senseless murders of Bebe, Elsie and Alice marked one of the darkest moments in our country’s history. The report today is truly harrowing and profoundly disturbing. It sets out systematic failures that led to this terrible event. I’ve been overwhelmed by the bravery and determination of their families and while nothing will ever bring these three little girls back, I’m determined to make the fundamental changes needed to keep the public safe. I will do everything I can to honour the memory of Bebe, Elsie, and Alice.

@campbellclaret You are one sinister individual Alastair.

Orbán is out - and now the world knows another way is possible - The New World thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-campb…

@JackWDart ‘Traitor’

Tomorrow I’m running the London Landmarks Half Marathon for Refugee Action. At a time when refugees are so often dehumanised, lied about, and turned into political targets, Refugee Action does vital work supporting people who deserve safety, dignity, and a fair chance to rebuild their lives. So, tomorrow, I run. If you’d like to support me and support Refugee Action’s work, I’d be hugely grateful. ❤️ Link below!

@toadmeister @Emma_A_Webb He’s an awful character Toby.

Amol Rajan has said he is "very worried" about his children growing up in England and is considering relocating to India so his children can "fall in love with the civilisation that’s in their blood". dailysceptic.org/2026/04/11/amo…

@ClaudiaWebbe I would immediately deport him to the Gaza Claudia.

If this is Britain’s idea of the terrorist threat, then British counter-terrorism has lost all connection to reality.

@LondonLabour Gimmick.

We're bringing youth clubs back!

@Keir_Starmer You have actually spent your entire career putting the rights of others above that our British citizens. You are a liar, a traitor and a coward. We all despise you. We are all voting @reformparty_uk