Neil Bone

Boy oh boy oh boy… This just about sums it ALL up… Man asks clear question. Moderator immediately panics. Politician is permitted to get away with talking rot. Man receives no answer. Rinse & repeat…

Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward, who lives in a six-bedroom mansion with a pool worth £1.7 million, now doesn't want her precious refugees living in her corner of Sussex. She's objecting to the 600 illegal male migrants arriving on her doorstep, citing safety concerns.

Italian olive oil is one of the most adulterated products in the global food supply. Estimates suggest 70 to 80% of "extra virgin olive oil" sold worldwide is either mislabelled lower-grade oil or cut with cheaper seed oils. The fraud is run by organised crime. The 'Ndrangheta operates olive oil adulteration rings that generate more profit than cocaine trafficking. They import cheap oil from Tunisia, Morocco, and Turkey, relabel it as Italian, and export it at premium prices to people who think they're buying authenticity. Or they cut extra virgin with refined olive oil, lampante (lamp oil grade, unfit for human consumption), or seed oils like sunflower and soybean, then sell the mixture as pure extra virgin to supermarkets and restaurants. The Italian government knows. The EU knows. Occasional busts happen, the headlines run for a week, the fraud continues. The margins are enormous. The penalties are a rounding error. Even the legitimate stuff has problems. Intensive olive cultivation in Spain has eroded hillsides, drained aquifers, and contaminated groundwater with pesticide runoff. Traditional groves are being torn out and replaced with high-density intensive plantations that demand irrigation in arid climates, heavy spraying, and mechanical harvesting that wrecks the soil. The waste water is highly polluting. Every litre of olive oil produces 1 to 1.5 litres of effluent loaded with organic compounds, phenols, and residual oil. It gets dumped in evaporation ponds or discharged with token treatment. Your £12 bottle of "Italian extra virgin" is probably mislabelled Tunisian oil cut with sunflower, possibly sold by organised crime, definitely draining a Mediterranean aquifer, and generating toxic waste at the press. But it's from plants. So it's definitely healthier than butter from a British dairy cow grazing on rain-fed grass three miles down the road.

Absurd. This woman thinks Jews are being stabbed because of “rip-off Britain.” Nothing to do with granting British citizenship to deranged fans of Islamist ideology who SHOULD NOT BE HERE? If you cannot name your enemy you are in big trouble.

Absurd. This woman thinks Jews are being stabbed because of “rip-off Britain.” Nothing to do with granting British citizenship to deranged fans of Islamist ideology who SHOULD NOT BE HERE? If you cannot name your enemy you are in big trouble.

This is the way. Get them to be specific and they fall apart.

Switzerland 🇨🇭 Solar panels on train tracks. A hell of a lot more logical than plastering over prime farmland.