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@ianpayn I adore Miriam! The older I get, the more I’m morphing into her.

Right-Wing “Commentators”: I’m in favour of asset-stripping the country, vast profits for my friends, killing immigrants, degradation of the poor and selling off the NHS. But isn’t Miriam Margoyles disgusting? She said A RUDE WORD on the radio!!!”

@Itz__Priscy 3 or 4.

Which of these skirts is the most ideal for secondary school students? Best length goes to?

@iky_fwjett Yes - you are wrong. I can’t even believe that you’re asking the question TBH.🙇‍♀️🤬🙇‍♀️🤬🙇‍♀️

@Pixie1z @LynneBP_294 2 definitely

What is your preference?

@SamaHoole I still look forward to a “slice “ of bread and dripping, when I can. Food of the Gods.

Dry dripping on bread, with a pinch of salt, was, for approximately four hundred years, one of the most common things a British child ate when he came in from school. The dripping was what was left in the pan after the Sunday roast. Beef fat, mostly, sometimes with a dark jelly at the bottom where the juices had settled. Your mother spooned it into a white enamel bowl, covered it with a plate, and kept it on the cold shelf in the pantry. It lasted a week. Sometimes two. It fried the Monday bubble and squeak, the Tuesday eggs, the Wednesday onions. On Thursday afternoon, before it ran out, you got a slice of bread spread with the stuff, a pinch of salt cracked on top, and that was tea. It was a treat. It was also just food. A child in 1930 would have looked at you blankly if you had suggested that beef dripping on bread was in any way remarkable. It was what was in the bowl. It was free. It tasted of Sunday lunch three days later. Beef dripping is approximately 50% monounsaturated fat, 40% saturated fat, and carries the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K from the pasture the cow grazed on. The cow ate grass. The grass had been growing on British soil since the end of the last Ice Age. The fat was the end product of ten thousand years of continuous ruminant grazing. A slice of bread and dripping delivered, for roughly the price of the bread, a dose of fat-soluble vitamins and usable calories that the rest of the British afternoon was going to need. Nobody got heart disease from bread and dripping. The British cardiovascular mortality rate of 1930, when almost every family ate dripping several times a week, was a fraction of what it is now. The British obesity rate of 1930 was essentially zero. The British type 2 diabetes rate was so low that the Royal College of Physicians considered the condition a medical curiosity. Then the dripping was quietly removed. First by margarine, invented in 1869 by a French chemist trying to feed the army, mass-marketed in Britain after the First World War as a modern, clean, scientific alternative to animal fat. Then by Crisco-style vegetable shortenings in the 1930s. Then, decisively, from the 1960s onwards, by the dietary advice that saturated animal fat caused heart disease. The advice was wrong. The research behind it was flawed, selectively published, and in some cases deliberately manipulated. The corrections have been appearing in the peer-reviewed literature for thirty years. The public-health guidelines have not been updated. Bread and dripping was replaced, in the British kitchen, by margarine on bread. Then by low-fat spread on bread. Then by skimmed-milk spread on industrially processed bread from the Chorleywood process. Then by a plastic tub of something labelled "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter," made from a blend of palm oil, rapeseed oil, emulsifiers, and flavouring, spread on a slice of Kingsmill so pale and so soft it could be balled up in one hand. The cardiovascular disease rates climbed through the same decades. The obesity rates climbed through the same decades. The type 2 diabetes rates went from medical curiosity to national crisis through the same decades. The fat your great-grandmother scraped out of the Sunday roast pan and spread on her child's tea was never the problem. The problem was what replaced it. Industrial seed oil, chemically extracted from seeds using hexane solvent, deodorised, bleached, and sold in a plastic bottle as a health food. A substance no human population had consumed in meaningful quantities before 1910, and which now makes up roughly 20% of the total calories in the average British diet. The dripping bowl on the cold shelf was a complete piece of nutritional engineering, evolved over centuries, running on the natural waste stream of the Sunday roast, costing nothing, delivering real nutrients, and causing none of the conditions it was eventually blamed for. It was thrown out of the British kitchen on the basis of a mistake. The mistake has never been corrected. The bowl is still at your grandmother's house, probably, at the back of a cupboard, unused since about 1985. The cow that built Britain is still in the field.

@Jenny_1884 @JustSoDuckie I still use ss milk in coffee/tea because I prefer it it, but yes to everything else

I’ve gone back to drinking full fat milk, use real butter & lard because I think we were wrongly advised these products were bad for you when in fact they aren’t. Have others changed back?

@Mr_Husky1 In UK we rarely tip unless the service has been exceptional. The service providers are paid a wage like everyone else. My Window cleaner, bin men etc receive a small monetary gift at Xmas, but it is not seen as obligatory.

We went out to dinner with a group of five, and by the end of the night the bill was right around $577 and change. When it came time to pay, we left a $60 tip because we felt like that was a fair amount and wanted to leave something extra for the service. What I didn’t expect was the server making a comment that she was expecting closer to $120. And no, it didn’t come across like some light little joke either. The tone felt serious, the moment got awkward fast, and suddenly we were standing there feeling uncomfortable over a tip we had already chosen to leave in the first place. When we pushed back and mentioned possibly talking to a manager, that’s when the story suddenly changed to “I was just kidding.” But let’s be real — not every rude comment magically becomes a joke just because someone gets called out on it. The whole thing left us feeling weird and honestly kind of embarrassed, because we weren’t trying to short anybody. We tipped what we thought was reasonable, and being confronted like that completely changed the vibe of the night. So now I’m curious — was $60 on a $577 bill really that unreasonable, or would most people also think asking for $120 was way out of line?🙄🙄 By Martha Barker

@ronsterd89 Bud vases. Also placed on table linen to rest spoon or knife on. Very pretty and, I would imagine, quite valuable.

What the hell is this... found in my grandmother's crockery cupboard 🧐🕰️ At first, I thought they were strange plastic bars, maybe cocktail accessories 🍹 or pieces of an old Christmas tree ornament 🎄. But no: they were glass, light, fragile, and obviously made with care ❤️. Thin lines, translucent colors—orange, yellow, green... Different shades, but all shaped the same way: thin, with a little “bun:g” next to them. I held them in my hand, wondering: what could they be used ..

@DeanoCummings85 Hubby is a Mackem so I had no problems reading it …. even from the wilds of Kent.

This was us four weeks ago.. moved into our new gaff, the bairn out on her scooter hoping to get the attention of the other kids, so they can be friends. That was me one worry... will she be accepted and as a parent it knocks ya sick. Well. Since Wednesday, me passage has been...

@isaaczburke Enoch should never have been jailed I agree, but the family should show respect to the court when/if they attend.

Judge Brian Cregan has threatened to ban Martina Burke, Ammi Burke and me from all future court hearings involving Enoch Burke, our son and brother. We wrote to the High Court today objecting to this unjust and unlawful proposal. burkebroadcast.com/2026/03/25/a-l…

@Geniustechw I think it’s perfectly reasonable. Parents or guardians should be responsible for their children’s behaviour and safety wherever they are.

What does everyone think about this?

@mrmojorisin1962 @_RoadToSuccess_ My 5 kids (41 -54) call each other and me quite often. There’s no need not to with so many options of contact available. The ones who live within an hours drive, visit each week or 2 weeks.

I get all the reasons why we as children of dysfunctional homes do not call our parents. But I have lived long enough to fail in places with my son and now he doesn't call me. And I have also lived long enough that my father has passed twenty years ago, and I find myself missing him and wishing I could pick up the phone and call him now. So a little piece of advice from someone who has been there, done that, and am paying the price today, don't miss the opportunity to do today what you might wish you could do tomorrow. 😎

Psychology says that children who don't call their parents often after moving out aren't..

@BishopDewar @MDymore Thank you. Let’s hope that this at least makes the Royal House see the direction things are taking.

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

@Peacock2828 Why does this creature feel that he is untouchable? Who has promised him this and how much was he paid? Now may be a good time to disappear Kweir. Please take your friends along for the ride on the “Arrogance of the Waves” dinghy.

Again his judgement is so flawed.

@WHLeavitt I truly pray that this is not the case, however, certain actions of the King have caused me to think otherwise. My Christian country will no longer exist in a few years if this comes to pass.

🚨 “KING CHARLES IS A MUSLIM” The secret’s about to blow—too many are saying it now, including insider Lauren. Do you believe King Charles secretly converted to Islam? A. Yes B. No

@Stucore1 @NotFarLeftAtAll Thank you. I was worrying about how to put the difference into words.

@NotFarLeftAtAll Prescribe vs Proscribe.

Man Detained for Wearing an Armband The Armband The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a far-right political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1932 by Sir Oswald Mosley. It is most known for its paramilitary style, "Blackshirt" uniforms, and increasingly radical antisemitism

@MbarkCherguia Swede

I’m currently having a blazing argument, please help me settle this once and for all. What is this???

@Mofoman360 Why is the Government still in power? Nobody wants them, nobody likes them and most importantly - nobody respects them! KCIII should act whilst he has a Country to reign over.

The Labour government led by Keir Starmer are an embarrassment as officials say that the Warship HMS Dragon won’t be deployed to Cyprus until next WEEK LABOUR ARE NOT FIT TO GOVERN

@SuburbanDuchess You really need to be careful! By intimating that MI5 released this information, you have laid yourself wide open to serious repercussions.

It's been confirmed Meghan Markle had a sexual relationship with Andrew Mountbatten Windsor from 2012-2014 when she worked as a yacht girl. This was revealed by M15. There's no running from this now. Meghan had sex with Harry's uncle first. Did she ever tell Harry this? Will this revelation be enough for Harry to finally see what an opportunistic, lying, skanky person Meghan is. How can any man stay with his wife if she lied about having sex with his uncle? How can Harry ever hold her hand again? Any amount of blackmail Meg is using against Harry doesn't warrant playing happy family with her any longer. Harry did not marry a woman like Diana. Meghan was never like Diana. Meghan worked as a prostitute or sex worker, if you prefer, on yachts. Meg can take care of herself. No security needed at all. Harry is living such a lie. And Meg's story is coming out.

@Africanzwagger @EliAfriatISR Abass, you should be ashamed. Israel will always be saved as they have God on their side. Am Yisrael Chai

The world media will not show you the truth. Here is Gaza 3 days ago. Luckily we are the media.