Adam Goldthorpe

There is probably no bigger crime against humanity than the destruction of the United Kingdom. England in the 90s, where I grew up, was actual paradise. The pub gardens, the white people, oasis with fish and chips. There were full bars and clubs 7 nights a week in every single town let alone city. Always something to do. Even if you were poor, go out with a tenner and have the best time. 10,000 pound night today is 1% of what a 10-pound night was back then. Neighborly people. Safe streets. Even the council estates were safe. You had to live it to understand it. Everything’s been destroyed.

I probably watched this 10 times in a row. My GOD. 😂😭💀

Happy Birthday to the one and only Game Boy released 37 years ago today!

Tennis players live 9.7 years longer than sedentary people. Not 9.7 months. 9.7 years. Nearly a decade. The Copenhagen City Heart Study tracked 8,577 people for 25 years and ranked every sport by how much life it adds. Badminton: 6.2 years. Soccer: 4.7. Cycling: 3.7. Swimming: 3.4. Jogging: 3.2. Tennis almost triples jogging. A separate study of 80,000 adults found racket sports cut all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%. Swimming hit 41%. Aerobics hit 36%. The question is why racket sports destroy everything else. Three mechanisms stack on top of each other. First, the physical demands. A tennis rally requires explosive sprints, lateral cuts, and sustained aerobic output. You're training fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers simultaneously. Most cardio only trains one system. Second, the cognitive load. You're reading spin, predicting angles, adjusting position, and executing motor patterns in real-time. Your brain is solving spatial puzzles at 80+ mph. That hand-eye coordination and strategic processing builds neural connections that protect against cognitive decline. Third, and this is the one researchers keep coming back to: you literally cannot play alone. Every racket sport requires another person on the other side of the net. That forced social interaction triggers neurochemical benefits that solitary exercise cannot replicate. Strong social connection alone increases your chance of longevity by 50%. Jogging is you and your thoughts. Tennis is you, a strategic opponent, and a community. Dr. Daniel Amen is right. The data is overwhelming. If you want the single highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket.

@Keir_Starmer Parents are more worried about the third world rapists you’ve allowed to roam our communities unchecked. To be honest.

Lauterbrunnen might be the most beautiful place on Earth. 72 waterfalls fall from sheer Alpine cliffs into a tiny Swiss village....it doesn’t feel real.

I've never seen any celebrity handle rage baiting journalists as well as The Beatles did in the 60s

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

Castle Combe, England is often called the country’s prettiest village. Honey-colored cottages line the main street, a medieval church anchors the square, and a small stone bridge crosses the River Bybrook.

Construction of Medieval Castles still blows my mind. For example, here’s Bamburgh Castle in England from the 11th century!

The most Brilliant checkmate ever!!🤯🔥 Mikhail Tal vs Alexey Suetin 1969

@BasilTheGreat @Hawkesbay69 You should have listened...

@grok can you verify if this is true. Simple yes or no answer please

Fat loss is simple. I lost 37lbs in 19 weeks eating the same 5 meals. This is exactly what I ate every single day: = Thread =

The whining after this episode was at an all-time high

It's crazy how people think giving 30-60% of all the money they earn to the government is acceptable.

🚨 Myth Buster: We keep hearing that if foreigners left, the NHS would collapse and the economy would shrink. I’ve checked the government’s own data. If every Pakistani & Bangladeshi person in the UK vanished tomorrow — here’s exactly what would happen. Population: ~2.3 million (3.4% of the UK). Working-age: ~1.3 million. Employment rate: 61% (lowest among major groups), with full-time workers among the economically active at just 19.8% (vs national 34.9%). Real full-time job loss: max ~300,000 — under 1% of the entire UK workforce. NHS impact: ~20,000 staff lost (including ~3% of doctors) — locally disruptive in some areas, but nationally just another staffing gap that gets filled. On the flip side, this group accounts for 5–7% of preventable admissions (1.5–2× higher rates of diabetes, CVD and anaemia despite being 3.4% of the population). Beds would free up quickly. Welfare: Bangladeshis claim child benefit at 34%, Pakistanis at 30–33% (national ~18–19%). Disability Living Allowance rates are similar or higher. Net annual saving: £4–5 billion. (Conservative estimates). Prisons: ~2,600 inmates gone (~3% of total). Overcrowding drops from 102% to ~99%. £150–200 million saved yearly. (Note: Muslim inmates already disproportionately influence many prisons.) Grooming gangs: Operation Stovewood (Rotherham) — 64% of suspects Pakistani heritage. Greater Manchester audits — 52–54% Asian/Pakistani. Casey National Audit 2025: “Men of Asian and Pakistani ethnicity are disproportionately represented” in local data from key forces. Overnight, 30–65% of known perpetrators in those investigations disappear — and thousands of white working-class victims face no further risk from those networks. Timeline - First 24–48 hours: Almost nothing noticeable except emptier A&E chairs in places like Peterborough and Birmingham Heartlands. - 1 week–1 month: NHS waits in certain cities rise 5–10% (quickly absorbed), prisons get breathing room, Treasury notices £300–400 million a month no longer leaving the country. - 3–12 months: Permanent net fiscal saving of £4–5 billion/year (welfare +£4.5 bn, prisons +£0.4 bn, preventable NHS +£0.7 bn, minus ~£1 bn lost taxes). Northern towns lose 20–40% of residents; thousands of takeaways and corner shops close. The country does not collapse. Lights stay on. The NHS does not fall apart. This isn’t a proposal — it’s simply what the State’s own spreadsheets show (ONS 2021 Census & LFS 2024, DWP Stat-Xplore, NHS HES 2023-24, MoJ prison stats June 2025, Casey Audit 2025, NCA Operation Stovewood) when you stop lumping entire continents together. The operational hit is tiny. The fiscal relief and social relief are massive. A decades-long national stain lifts. Draw your own conclusions. (For historical perspective on how civilisations have handled similar patterns, the Christopher Hitchens clip on the Barbary slave trade and Jefferson’s response — from the original thread — is worth watching.) @RupertLowe10 @Con_Tomlinson

@UKLabour Total bollocks.

Dear @RoryStewartUK, Islam is a codified set of beliefs. Its adherents span many races and ethnicities including very white (e.g., Albanian), brown (e.g., Egyptian), black (e.g., Senegal), and Asian (e.g., Indonesian) among others. Hence, when you say that it is "racist" to be weary of Islam, which race(s) are you specifically referring to? Please use simple words in your response so that I can follow your brilliant reply.

Tony Blair: Left needs to end its unholy alliance with Islamists. Keir Starmer: