Phil J

Congratulations to everyone who campaigned to defeat the Scottish Assisted Suicide bill - what a fantastic victory.

This is where a £1.14 load of bread goes in terms of profit (4.35p) and the Scottish Government wants to introduce a price cap. The end result of this is farmers being screwed over more than they are already and greater exploitation in the supply chain. Disaster

@alancornett Alexa too

Didn’t everyone know this?

@DSDOConnor Had no idea they timed it to coincide with sacred heart - no coincidence there

Steven Spielberg on Colbert yesterday ⤵️ I hope that by now even my critics can see why I’ve got whole chapters in my books (and whole segments in my podcasts for years) warning that it is especially Mr. Spielberg’s 50-years of efforts have groomed us for the Great Deception. He is and has long been the chief contemporary architect of the “myths” to which men will “wander into” after “turning away from the truth” in the apocalyptic times (2 Timothy 4:4) No, “Disclosure Day” isn’t “just a movie.” It’s a deliberate attempt to seduce you into believing ETs are here to save us, and the timing is not accidental. With this topic, Spielberg’s goal is not merely to entertain. He just essentially admitted as much. Rather, with it his goal is–and has been since his famous 1977 “Close Encounters” blockbuster—to convince you of the Great Lie and convert you to the Anti-Church. And next month, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Spielberg is releasing his Magnum Opus. PS: As to the rhetorical question that Spielberg puts on the lips of a Catholic nun in this trailer, supposedly theologically proving ETs, one need only look at the Sacred Heart for the correct answer... which has nothing to do with "aliens."

@Gda1238 Peak

This is my Bank Holiday viewing. I've watched it countless times but each time I learn something new and am constantly refreshed by the intelligence and quality of such a series and presenter.

@alex_prompter Interesting

I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok the same question: "If you were a human, what is one small thing you would do to outcompete as many other humans as possible?" 4 completely different answers. All of them are correct 👇

@gymrat_bookworm @inscothen Have you looked into the RCCX gene?

@inscothen I am working on converting 90 pages of my medium-/high-risk neuroimmune/neurodevelopmental SNPs into a spreadsheet and assigning a weighted score to recommended supplements/medication based on impact rating (medium/high) ---I truly am implicating myself lmao

"Self-perpetuating mitochondrial damage" ohhhh I wonder what could cause that...could it be chronic activation of mast cells from a neurological injury or infectious disease???? Hmmmmmmmmmm

@RollingHedge You gone off Restore then?

Great to see @WilliamClouston, @MellonSdp6741, @ross_baglin and the wider team getting their flowers recently. Long, long overdue, for my money. It has become increasingly clear that the @sdphq are the only political party with intellectual rigour and Benthamite-adjacent policy formation in the national interest. The old left vs right framing is outmoded and no longer of use as we navigate the new multipolar world order. Clouston’s call for a Singaporean (LKY) inspired approach to running the state, and a De Gaullist approach to industry, energy, defence and sovereignty, is logically correct. In this new paradigm, it is critically important to heed his impulses. Moreover, their Energy Abundance paper, launched last year, would solve vast problems Britain faces if implemented. The SDP calculate Britain has lost £3 trillion in cumulative output to post-2004 energy policy, with productivity now 10.8% lower than it would otherwise have been, and that 77.6% of the rise in net energy prices since 2004 has been driven by non-wholesale costs rather than gas. Their fix is a 60GW build of state-owned gas and coal within five years, a 40GW nuclear fleet over a decade, and a permanent 10p/kWh price fix for consumers and industry. That gets you a disinflationary impulse across virtually all goods and services, the ability to reshore manufacturing and heavy industry, and the baseload we need to participate in the automation revolution. Without it, the Engels pause I’ve written about recently looks baked in and the rebound less likely. If you think as I do, and want a better long-term solution to moribund Britain’s many problems after the immediately necessary Milei/Thatcherite medicine (reset) that Reform are most likely to be able to deliver, then consider joining: sdp.org.uk/join

@CptHastings1916 I’ve started reading some Cormac McCarthy recently and am pleasantly surprised

@PhilJC2 It's a bit of a vague term but I suppose it's a book where character and psychology and the dilemmas and tensions of human existence are explored in depth, in good prose, and are as important as the plot.

My main takeaway from that Guardian list and the associated Discourse is that I need to read more serious fiction.

@KingBobIIV So many people turn a blind eye to it

My town, (which is only 0.4m big) now has 14 "Turkish barbers". We also have countless vape shops, mobile repair shops, and "international shops", not to mention all the kebab shops, shit clothing shops, and various takeaways. Until lockdown, this was a really sweet little town with pasty shops, bakeries, clothe shops, greengeocers, butchers, and oddity bespoke shops. Now, unless you want some crack or to be sexually harassed by large groups of foreign men, there's zero reason to go in. The town had been destroyed. They're now spending £mns, putting up our council tax by 10.5% to pedestrianise the town, but given people refuse to be raped or robbed, this is unlikely to help the town. Companies House shows the Same names come up over and over. They just change the deeds every 12 months to avoid paying rates. It doesn't need to be pedestrianised, it needs to be made safe and Cornish again. Nobody is going to go and park their car to walk through a town full of crackheads and foreigners.

@Con_Tomlinson Thanks for highlighting this Connor. I feel that it doesn’t get as much attention as it should - everyone turns a blind eye to it. It will be interesting to see if any Reform led councils will take any action - haven’t seen any yet

Ever wondered why there are so many neon-lit phone repair and vape shops in your local high street? A new BBC investigation has found that many are money-laundering fronts for the international people smuggling gangs conducting the small boat crossings in the English Channel. One in Woolwich was caught offering to facilitate the smuggling of two illegal migrants for £2,700. An Islamic honour-based finance system called Hawala ensures legal migrants in Britain can sponsor family and clan members for smuggling into Britain as illegal immigrants, using brokers in these currency exchange, phone, and vape shops. While business rates and COVID lockdowns have destroyed local businesses, organised crime is making a killing and replacing the honest brokers in our towns and cities. The government know it's going on, and do nothing.

@CoachDanGo You can get the same effect by taking prebiotic fibres like inulin

Resistant starch is one of most underrated nutrient nobody talks about. When you cook starchy foods (rice, potatoes, pasta) then cool them, the starch crystallizes. Your small intestine can’t digest it, so it travels to your colon and feeds your gut bacteria instead of spiking your blood sugar. Those bacteria produce butyrate, a fatty acid that reduces inflammation, improves insulin sensitivity, and is linked to lower visceral fat and better liver health. This is on top of the fact that 95% of people in the west are not meeting the recommended intake of fiber (25-35 grams). The trick is to cook your carbs, chill them overnight, eat them cold or reheated. This way you’re eating the same food but with a better metabolic profile.

@CptHastings1916 There was a great conversation between @kalezelden and @PageauJonathan on this topic a few weeks ago that’s worth a listen youtu.be/9zps7RIov44?si…

Some people saying I should just read what I like. I don’t agree with this. You should push yourself to engage with higher art and train yourself to appreciate it. That doesn't mean you never read (in my case) detective stories but it's about balance.

@AdtebeateIoseph Did you have much interaction with them?

@PhilJC2 This has been going on for years in NZ. The senior leadership really has a lot to answer for. I hate to say it, but don’t expect answers from Fr Michael Mary or his brother. It’s slowly being exposed as a cult and it’s very sad what they have done to well meaning people.

What on earth is happening with the Transalpine Redemptorists? Have they lost the plot? Those of us lay faithful who have supported them over the years - in justice - deserve some answers.

I really hope I am wrong on some points of information and I am happy to be corrected but this on the face of it looks rather scandalous and I hope the Bishop/Rome intervenes soon.

Whats mad is that Brother Ignatius went missing on 11 April and they published their sede declaration on 2 May. His body was found on 6 May. So while search parties were trawling the open water for one of their brethren they decided that was the most important thing…

JUST IN: Vatican announces that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical — titled Magnifica Humanitas, on the safeguarding of the human person in the age of AI — will be presented at 11:30am on Monday, May 25, in the Vaticanʼs Synod Hall, in the presence of the Holy Father. Speakers at the presentation will include: Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development; Professor Anna Rowlands, Political Theology, including Catholic Social Teaching, and theological ethics of human migration, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, United Kingdom; Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic (USA) and head of interpretability research for artificial intelligence; Dr. Leocadie Lushombo, Political Theology and Catholic Social Thought, Jesuit School of Theology / Santa Clara University, California. Concluding remarks will be delivered by thel Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The presentation will also include an address by Pope Leo XIV. Magnifica Humanitas was signed and dated on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum.

@PaulinusOfTrier @RCCoulombe Have you said the Fr Ripperger prayer against generational curses?

When I was received into the Church I wrote to the then Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster to ask him what I should do about my membership of masonic lodges, given the oaths I had taken. He wrote back to say that I could continue to go masonic meetings if my conscience permitted. Now if the SSPX is excommunicated, and I write to the present Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster about going to SSPX, do you think I shall get a similar response from the present Archbishop? And if not, why not? (PS naturally I resigned from all masonic lodges, repudiated freemasonry altogether, burned all masonic papers and regalia and have devoted some time to arguing why masonic ritual is contradictory to Christian faith)