Alan Watson

1️⃣ A few questions for those who believe that Absorbed Solar Radiation (ASR) is the cause of rising global temperatures:

Israel killed 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon. They were wearing blue helmets. They were in UN uniforms. They were peacekeepers. Israel bombed them anyway. Not a peep in Western media. Not a word from the international community. Kick Israel out of the UN.

35% of people in the UK never own their own home. 10% of adults are reliant on Food Banks. 15% of people will never have £10,000 at one time in their entire lives. And we are supposed to worry about farmers who aren't happy getting only £3,500,000 inheritance tax free. F*ck off

Iran just dropped the M.O.A.T. (Mother of All Trolls) video on Pete Hegseth… holy mother of fuck, this is top-tier propaganda.😳But the concepts/track? Absolute fucking banger. 🔥🤣

🇺🇸 Trump at 9:00 –– "Regime change was not our goal. We don't want that" 🇺🇸 Trump at 9:07 –– "Regime change is what we want. It is needed" Trust me, both statements are just 7 minutes apart made in the same speech 🤣 🇮🇷 Iran has made him lose his mind

BREAKNG: Yvette Cooper says Britain rejects Iran's blockade of the Hormuz Strait, but not Israel's blockade of Gaza or America's blockade of Cuba for some reason 🤔

Your critique falls apart the moment you look at the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They’re essentially a built-in control group: Same religion. Same community structure. Same low smoking/alcohol rates. Same “lifestyle” factors you’re pointing to. But different diets within the same population. And what happens? The more plant-based the diet, the better the outcomes: - lower mortality - less cardiovascular disease - less diabetes If “it’s all lifestyle,” that gradient shouldn’t exist. But it does. Yes - Blue Zones are messy and over-marketed. But dismissing diet entirely doesn’t survive contact with a population where most variables are controlled and diet still clearly matters. The real answer isn’t “it’s all lentils” or “it’s all lifestyle.” It’s that diet is one of the few variables that still moves the needle even when everything else is held relatively constant.

The Blue Zones concept is brilliant marketing. Take regions with: - Pension fraud - Poor record-keeping - Unusual social structures - Low stress lifestyles - Physical activity - Tight communities - No access to processed food (poverty, not choice) Then attribute everything to diet while ignoring the other variables. Package it in a Netflix documentary. Sell books. Partner with meal kit companies. Launch "Blue Zones lifestyle" corporate wellness programs. Revenue: Millions. Actual evidence: Sketchy at best, fraudulent at worst. But people want to believe you can live forever eating lentils, so they ignore the fraud and buy the books. The centenarians are probably dead. The diets weren't that plant-based. The ages are often fiction. But the truth doesn't sell meal kits.

There is a village in Okinawa that stopped being notable in roughly 2004. Before 2004, Okinawa was one of the most studied populations in longevity research. The Okinawan elderly had some of the highest concentrations of centenarians on earth. Researchers arrived in numbers. Books were written. The "Okinawan diet" became a wellness industry staple. The traditional diet was high in sweet potato, pork, and pork fat. The pork was nose-to-tail. The fat was rendered pork fat, called lard, used for cooking everything. The elderly Okinawans ate substantial quantities of it, and had done their entire lives. The researchers noted the pork. The researchers noted the lard. The researchers noted the sweet potato more prominently. The books described a plant-rich diet with moderate animal protein. This was accurate in the sense that sweet potato was the primary caloric staple. It was less accurate in the sense that the animal fat, in a traditional diet with minimal other processed fat sources, was doing considerable nutritional work. Then the younger generation of Okinawans switched to a Western diet. Fast food. Processed foods. Seed oils. Less sweet potato. Less pork fat. By 2004, Okinawa had some of the highest obesity rates in Japan. The longevity researchers stopped visiting. The wellness industry had already extracted the part of the story it wanted. The lard did not make the summary. The lard never makes the summary.

🎉 Great victory in Rossendale tonight! Huge congratulations to Cllr Laura Diamond and team! 💚 All over the country, Greens keep beating Reform into 2nd place! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Reform Party beaten again by @TheGreenParty Interesting.

"The Romans occupied England in the 5th century, so anyone of Roman descent has a historical claim to the land." It's one of the best sketches I've ever seen, it is so accurate and highlights the situation in Palestine.

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: British surgeon gives HORRIFYING testimony to the UK Parliament. He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children, right on the spot. Repost this. Please I beg you

BREAKING: An Israel-backed terror group called "the United States of America" has blown up a bridge in Iran

Imagine if Iran bombed and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge in California, what would you call it? TERRORISTS The U.S bombed and destroyed the highest bridge in Iran, the B1 bridge, why do you call it “PEACE”? Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law

Keir Starmer utterly silent on the war crimes that are happening. He'll drone on about a special relationship but nothing to say on war crimes in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine. Trump and Netanyahu able to behave like we have law of the jungle.

Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

Dr. Homayoun Sameh is an Iranian Jew and a member of parliament in Iran. He represents the Iranian jewish community in Parliament. The Iranian Jewish community does not recognise Israel, like many other civilised Jews around the world. You do not hear much about the Iranian Jewish community because Israel and the western media has entrenched the false narrative that Iran hates Jews. Iran hates Israel and its Zionist ideology.

Trump: "We're gonna bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong". Keep in mind that an initial justification for the war was to "help" Iranians.

Probably the most accurate nailing of the MAGA base I have ever seen.

This “bacon vs rocket” post falls apart on two things: bad numbers and oversimplified chemistry. First, the maths is wrong. Those huge nitrate figures for rocket, spinach, and celery are quoted as mg per 100 g, but they’re actually mg per kg in the source data — off by ~10×. Leafy greens are still higher in nitrate than bacon, but not by the cartoonish margin claimed. Second, the nitrosamine story is being hand-waved away. Yes, antioxidants in vegetables can inhibit nitrosamine formation - but processed meat is a different matrix. It already contains nitrite, and N-nitroso compounds can form during curing, processing, and high-heat cooking (e.g. frying bacon). You don’t need some rare “perfect storm” - these reactions are well documented. Also, “1.18× risk” is relative risk, not absolute. And comparing that to “23× for smoking” mixes colorectal cancer vs lung cancer, which is epidemiologically meaningless. Bottom line: Vegetables ≠ processed meat, despite both containing nitrates. The dose, chemistry, and biological context matter - and the numbers in the post are simply wrong.

Nitrates in bacon: approximately 5mg per 100g. Nitrates in rocket: 4,800mg per 100g. Nitrates in spinach: 2,100mg per 100g. Nitrates in celery: 2,800mg per 100g. The bacon is not the story. Your own saliva contains more nitrate than a rasher of bacon. Your body produces nitric oxide from nitrates endogenously. Nitrate is in your blood right now, doing jobs, largely without your permission or concern. The nitrate that enters your gut from food is broken down before it gets anywhere interesting. The specific chain of events that creates carcinogenic nitrosamines requires: high heat, low antioxidant environment, and specific conditions that a plate of eggs and bacon at 8am on a Tuesday does not reliably produce. The WHO report that everyone cites classified processed meat as Group 1 carcinogenic. Same category as alcohol. Same category as the sun. The question is not whether something is in Group 1. The question is what the actual risk increase looks like. The absolute risk increase for colorectal cancer from daily processed meat consumption: approximately 1.18x. Compared to 23x for smoking. They are in the same category. The arugula does not get a press release.

I’ve had loads of abuse for this, predictably, and plenty of people have accused me of supporting Hezbollah. But no one seems keen to explain why targetting the Lebanese medics who came to help the 3 TV journos was justified.