Matt Bourne

@trainpal_go tell me why you have refused my refund request when ALL the trains were cancelled to my intended destination last Thursday? You have essentially stolen my money and not provided me any service whatsoever. I even purchased more tickets to a different destination.

Hey Keir. You will never read this. I’m just a tiny press photog account. I’ll write it anyway. No, you shouldn’t resign. Yes, you should get on with the job you were elected for. But do meet with Greens & Libdems, they are not your enemy - fight together against the far right.

During the 2020 COVID lockdown, a bored student named Josh challenged every other Josh he could find on Facebook to meet up and fight for the right to keep the name. One year later, nearly 1,000 Joshes actually turned up to a random field in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, armed with pool noodles, for a free-for-all battle. The ultimate winner was a four-year-old boy named Josh Vinson Jr.

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry. The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine. The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true. The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either. The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought. The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to. The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus. He is confident. He has always been confident. The confidence has never been the problem. The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem. Source: COVID19 VACCINE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES

Liver and onions was on the kitchen table of roughly every British household in the country, at least once a fortnight, from approximately 1850 to approximately 1985. A Tuesday meal. Whatever day the butcher had lamb's liver in, or pig's liver if you were further down the week, or ox liver if the household was stretching the budget. Your mother bought it that afternoon. Still warm, or nearly. Deep burgundy, slick and glossy on the butcher's paper. Half a pound. Tuppence. Change from a shilling. She sliced it quarter of an inch thick, dusted it in seasoned flour, and laid it in a pan where a pound of onions had been going soft in bacon fat for twenty minutes. Two minutes one side. Two minutes the other. The middle still faintly pink. Overcooked liver was a mortal sin in a British kitchen, spoken of by grandmothers with genuine sadness, the way a priest might discuss a lapsed parishioner. Pan juices deglazed with water and Worcestershire, poured over. Mashed potato. A pile of cabbage. A rasher of bacon laid across the top if it was a good week. The whole thing cost, in 1962, approximately 8p per serving. It delivered, in a single plate, the highest concentration of bioavailable vitamin A in any food on earth, more B12 than any supplement will ever contain, haem iron at absorption rates a plant source cannot match, copper, zinc, choline, folate, and selenium. Nobody called it a superfood. Nobody called anything a superfood. It was called Tuesday. Then, between 1985 and 2005, liver quietly disappeared. Mothers stopped buying it. The butcher stopped ordering it. The supermarket stopped stocking it. By 2010, most British adults under thirty had never knowingly eaten it. The word now carries a faint cultural embarrassment. A food your nan ate. Something to move past. Meanwhile, 20% of British women of childbearing age are anaemic. The NHS prescribes them ferrous sulphate tablets that cause nausea and take six months to address a deficiency one plate of liver a fortnight would correct in weeks. The women taking the tablets are, in many cases, the granddaughters of the women who ate the liver. The deficiency is cultural amnesia with a prescription attached. Your butcher still has lamb's liver in the counter. Ask him. He will be delighted. He might throw in the kidneys. Flour. Bacon fat. Onions. Four minutes total. Worcestershire. Mashed potato underneath. The grandmother is gone, but the dish remembers her, and so do you, whether you knew her or not. Eat it. Pass it on.

The new Sussex Cricket League season is around the corner and @ChippsCC reckon it's going to be an exciting one at the Rotary Ground - trib.al/lmvZO0m

@MatthewStadlen @montypanesar He was good but let’s be honest never a great.

A spin masterclass from England cricketing great @montypanesar

@CinemaTweets1 Really disappointing

My Peaky Blinders review is up & as I wrote in my analysis, I love this film. It really hit the spot for those of us who missed Tom Shelby. It also contributed to a really memorable weekend for Cinema. Cillian Murphy just gave us another awesome film to start off 2026.

@urPapaDeyCraze @grok who is the actor?

A piece of paper was all the assassin needed 😲

@Nigel_Farage You seem to have forgotten about Nathan Gill??

This is deeply shocking. Labour’s links with China run deep. It’s time we knew the truth about their full relationship with Chinese Communist Party.

BREAKING: Muhammad @ZiaYusufUK has promoted himself! Congratulations Mo!

@PatrickChristys Oh do behave and do a little research…it’s from 2022 when the Tory so called government was embroiled in all their sleeve and hiding the skeletons.

What the…

@AllisonPearson Yep..the swamp was drained at the last election…

I was going to say this was astonishing but, honestly, any misdeeds the British state is involved in come as no surprise at all any more. Drain the Swamp!

@HarrietSergeant Oh behave..you know fine well that was in 2022 under the Conservative government so bin your faux outrage.

Think nothing can shock you anymore? The Cabinet Office ethics team no less broke into a safe - then shredded the confidential report into Dame Antonia Romeo. Our new criminal class - the Great and the Good. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@EssexPR You’re relentlessly ridiculous- very easy to fact check but you choose to try and deceive people.

More Labour corruption… “The Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team broke into a safe and destroyed the department’s copy of a historic bullying investigation into the new head of the civil service.” thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@darrengrimes Your idiocy is only surpassed by your ignorance be a good idea to occasionally check your facts.

How come Britain can police the borders of the Chagos Islands but does sweet FA for the borders of ENGLAND?!

@ZiaYusufUK Are you even an elected MP?

I am delighted to be Reform’s Shadow Home Secretary. Here’s my promise to the country👇

@ClarksonsFarm1 Nothing that begins with an R or a C!

If a General Election were to be held tomorrow, who would you vote for?

@Patrici89225734 …many of us didn’t believe a single thing this lying charlatan ever said..for good reason.

This is what this liar told us in 2016 and millions of us believed his lies!

If you vote for this lot you are fucking mental