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Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months." Conspiratorial nonsense. Some vaccines like Covid shots need seasonal doses as immunity fades & viruses change.

1850: Every kitchen has a hearth. Everything is cooked over fire using cast iron in animal fats. Butter, lard, tallow, dripping. These are the only cooking fats that exist. The hearth cooking required skill. Managing fire temperature, using the right fat for the task, understanding smoke points. Butter for low-temperature cooking. Tallow for frying. Lard for everything in between. These were standard kitchen knowledge. 1850-1900: Cast iron stoves replace open hearths. More temperature control but same fats. Still butter, lard, tallow. Home rendering of fats still common. 1900-1920: Gas and electric stoves begin appearing in wealthy homes. Temperature control becomes precise. But still using animal fats because nothing else exists for cooking. 1911: Procter & Gamble invents Crisco. The first artificial cooking fat. Made from cottonseed oil, hydrogenated, marketed as "modern" and "scientific." The advertising campaign is massive. Free cookbooks distributed nationwide. Magazine advertisements. Radio spots. The messaging: animal fats are old-fashioned, unhealthy, inferior. Crisco is modern, pure, better. 1920s: Cookbooks start showing "butter or Crisco" as options. Recipe books published by Crisco itself are distributed free. 1930s: The Depression makes Crisco attractive - it's cheaper than butter. Economic pressure drives adoption. Once people start using it, they continue. 1940s: WWII rationing. Butter is rationed because it's needed for military rations. Crisco and other shortenings aren't rationed. Housewives forced to use substitutes. Post-WWII: The rationing ends but the habit is established. Entire generation learned to cook with shortening. They teach their children. 1950s-1960s: The lipid hypothesis gains traction. Butter is "bad for your heart." Seed oils are "heart healthy." Medical authorities recommend switching. 1970s: Seed oils dominate. Corn oil, soybean oil, canola oil, sunflower oil. All heavily advertised as healthy. Butter sales decline. 1980: USDA Dietary Guidelines officially recommend reducing saturated fat. Replacing it with polyunsaturated oils. This becomes government policy. 1990s: Trans fats discovered to be harmful but this information is suppressed until 2000s. Meanwhile everyone's cooking in partially hydrogenated oils. 2000s: Trans fats finally banned. But by now, three generations have grown up cooking in seed oils. The knowledge of cooking in animal fats is nearly lost. 2020: Most restaurants use vegetable oil exclusively because it's cheap and staff doesn't know any other method. Home cooks use it because that's what they learned. The transition took 110 years. From 100% animal fats to 95% seed oils in four generations. Obesity goes up 3400% in that timeline. The shift wasn't driven by nutrition science. It was driven by marketing, economics, and war-time rationing creating new habits. Now we cook everything in oxidized seed oils and wonder why chronic disease is epidemic. While our great-grandmothers cooked everything in butter and were healthier. The hearth didn't give us chronic disease. The industrial oils did.

Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs He also went on to say “It also has huge racial implications in terms of the people who are being criminalised for this.”

If Keir Starmer had said before the election that he would remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners, enforce mandatory digital ID, record numbers of small boat crossings in the English Channel, hammer the disabled with welfare cuts, add inheritance tax to family farms and family businesses causing thousands of them to close, his deputy prime minister dodging £40,000 in tax, his Chancellor getting busted over a house rental license, council tax & energy price increases, raise university tuition fees, plaster mass-scale solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland despite huge local community objections, hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius at a cost of £35bn, spaff £30bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines, give £3bn a year of taxpayers’ money to Ukraine, betray WASPI women, hang out with BlackRock, 50,000 small boat crossings in one year, create a new £100bn economic black hole, increase the overall tax burden to record levels, destroy business growth with national insurance rises resulting in over 200,000 job losses, get exposed for receiving over £100,000 worth of freebies - he almost certainly wouldn’t have won. He duped the electorate. An utterly shameless display of snake oil political salesmanship. And still he lectures all of us in that gratingly sanctimonious manner of his that gives off a pompous and hypocritical impression that everyone else is somehow the problem here. He’s the author of his own tanking approval ratings. The most unpopular Prime Minister in living memory. But tragically, we are all paying the price.