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@SamaHoole Remember the routine fondly. Alas, now 72 and my milk addiction turned on me. Been lactose intolerant for a decade now.

Every British primary school child between 1946 and 1968 had a small ritual at morning break. Eleven o'clock. The crate had been sitting on the back step since seven, where the headmaster had been told to leave it by the council, on the grounds that the milk was supposed to come up to drinking temperature before the bell. Whether this was a kindness to the children or a kindness to the cleaners has never been satisfactorily explained. By July the milk was warm. By September it was on the turn. A whole generation of British adults can still describe, with uncomfortable precision, the taste of a glass bottle of full-cream milk that has been standing in the sun for four hours next to a brick wall. You drank it anyway. You put a paper straw through the foil, stood by the radiator, and got it down in two minutes flat because the milk monitor was watching and the bell was about to go. The cream stuck to the inside of the foil cap and ended up on your nose if you were impatient. The empties went back in the crate. You ran outside. The 1946 School Milk Act, pushed through by Ellen Wilkinson, the first female Minister of Education, gave every child under 18 a third of a pint a day. Infant mortality fell by close to 90% over the post-war decades. Rickets, a routine paediatric diagnosis in industrial towns in the 1930s, more or less disappeared from British wards within a generation. The milk was not the only reason. The milk was a substantial part of the reason. The programme was withdrawn in two stages. In 1968, Harold Wilson's Labour government cut free milk for secondary schools. The headline never quite stuck because Wilson, Wilson, Milk Snatcher does not scan. In 1971, Margaret Thatcher, as Education Secretary under Edward Heath, cut it for primary schoolchildren over seven. The headline stuck to her for the rest of her career. The under-sevens kept their third of a pint. Everyone else lost it. A piece of national nutritional infrastructure built brick by brick between 1906 and 1946, that had survived two world wars, was dismantled in two parliamentary acts inside three years on grounds of cost. The kids who got the warm September milk are in their seventies now. They will still tell you, given half a chance, that it was disgusting. They will also tell you, in the same breath, that nothing tastes quite the way it used to, that they walked four miles to school in the snow, and that they are not on any tablets. The cream is still rising. Just not in any school in the country.

@RealJamesWoods No contest. DJT.

Who is the most notorious liar in modern political history?

@ThrillaRilla369 100%

How Many Have You Seen in Your Life? • Princess Diana’s death • The 911 attack • OJ’s white Ford Bronco • Berlin Wall Coming Down • Man landing on the moon • Three Mile Island • The Cold War • The World’s Fair • JFK being shot • Cuban Missile Crisis • Pres. Nixon resigning • Lennon’s Assassination • Monica Lewinsky • Japan Tsunami What did I miss?

@Babywwir 20

7 for me!! I feel confident nobody Has all 20 How many for you?

@PolitlcsUK Rachel from Accounts needs all the help she can get

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has appointed Gordon Brown as his Special Envoy for Global Finance

@adamtaggart Much more acceptable than Tomahawking 170 Iranian schoolchildren.

I'm sure I'm going to regret wading back into the fray, but here goes... I'm hearing a lot of people say, "The US attacked Iran unprovoked, so of course Iran has the right to seize the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is just defending itself." First off, "the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz...are governed by international maritime law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)" britannica.com/question/Who-o… Second and more important, since when has it ever been acceptable to attack or hold hostage neutral parties, in war or otherwise? Spoiler alert: NEVER Your enemies are fair game in war. But NOT neutral parties. Again, NEVER. If I'm wrong here, please some one show me historical precedent. But Iran's attempted taking hostage of the Strait and the ships of neutral nations held captive there, threatening them with deadly violence should they attempt to transit, flies in the face of this. Honest question: why do so many people see this as acceptable?

@BritainForTrump Heresy

Should the Republic of Ireland rejoin the United Kingdom and become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland once again governed directly from Westminster? The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1922) existed longer than the Republic of Ireland has (1949-present).

@USATRUMPMAN1 Kent State ?

Who knows what this picture is from ?

@ThrillaRilla369 Meatloaf. The kindred spirit of Spam.

No one actually likes meatloaf I said what I said

@Normanjam67 Starmer waging war on Gazan children to appease his Jewish constituents. Jewish constituents who remain silent on the genocide being committed by Israel in Lebanon and Palestine. Not in my name.

This is why I'll never vote Labour again.

@benonwine Can't forget Orgreave

Who thinks it’s about time Margaret Thatcher was put on our banknotes? 🇬🇧

@MissLauraMarcus Yes. I also get the same. The lowest state pension in Europe. 35 years of NI contributions. Not a benefit. Earned. I guess one day it'll be means tested, but not before it's aligned to the median of state pensions in Europe.

I’m a pensioner. So I benefit from the triple lock. I get the full state pension. Which is £965 every four weeks; so equivalent to £1045 a month. I get the full amount because I have 50 years of working and paying my stamp and income tax. I get no other pension. It’s not luxury!

@mike_piacenza @ThrillaRilla369 Me too. All along the Watchtower. 30.8.1970

@ThrillaRilla369 Purple Haze

Without naming who you saw at your first concert Name one of their songs 🎶 🎸 🎤

@ThrillaRilla369 All Along the Watchtower

@itsrosesm Trump grifts. Pay attention.

Obama donated NONE of his salary. Michelle had a staff of 23. Trump donates ALL of his salary. Melania has a staff of 4. In life there are givers and there are takers.

@MmisterNobody Hitler Youth

So what is this look called?

@ssmb291_ Big heart

A husband gently cuts his wife’s hair as she cries during cancer treatment, then quietly shaves his own too… this hits deep

@_adamcherry_ Let me vote. Put him in power NOW.

The Burnham manifesto: •Rejoin the European Union •Break the fiscal rules to borrow more for defence. Thus destroying the fiscal rules… •Extensive devolution, including tax powers. •A wealth tax •Nationalise water, energy, utilities, and what remains of rail •A land value tax •A council tax revaluation •A ‘National Care Service’ •Rollout of nationalised bus franchising, modelled on Greater Manchester’s Bee Network •A £2 single fare bus cap •A fully elected upper chamber to replace the Lords •Bring in “free transport for teenagers in England.” •No welfare reforms. •Build more council houses. By borrowing £40 billion… •Scrap the whipping system in the Commons. An old favourite, truly barmy… •MAYBE: Proportional representation. Once behind the No10 door, people tend to lose interest in that one…

@PolitlcsUK Meanwhile, ripping out Palestinian olive groves, the Zionists expropriate land in their war on everything and everyone.

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer's full address to the nation over the Golders Green terror attack "If you stand alongside people who say Globalize the Intifada, you are calling for terrorism against Jews" "I call on everyone decent in this country to open their eyes to Jewish pain"

@Number10cat Farage the Fluffer ?

What will the donor expect for their money?