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Suella Braverman to Yvette Cooper "So let's stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress. The whole country knows that that is not true. And it is only the honourable members opposite who pretend otherwise. The system is broken, illegal migration is out of control."

@PhilHs10 He is a weak man. A modern-day Henry VI.

On this holy Saturday, the video below popped up on my feed. I feel physically sick. I am now convinced that His Majesty should not have been crowned Defender of the Faith by Archbishop Welby. Out of the 50+ colonised states of Islam, there is not one (as Jordan Peterson puts it) stellar state, not one that treats people, especially women, with dignity. Sharia Law is a blight, and children and women are used and abused. We haven’t even mentioned jihad yet. I am a monarchist, and I cannot believe how our king speaks about Islam, a war-mongering religion that seeks to subjugate - an antithesis of Christianity. Jesus is the ONLY way to the Father and source of Truth. x.com/HerdImmunity12… x.com/HerdImmunity12…

Yesterday in Rome, a gathering was held to celebrate the life & suffering of Rosy the Raped Cat. For those who don’t know, an African migrant raped this poor cat in Rome. She’s still alive and fighting but it is very tough. Italy is rallying around this cat and wants the migrant parasites OUT!

SERIOUS QUESTION What is the point of this person?

Boris was arguably the most famous politician when Mayor of London yet he travelled all over London on his bicycle with NO security and on the tube where he was usually inundated for selfies. Yet Khan immediately took a bomb proof carrier flanked by a back up and then a security guard. Absolutely no need for such an expensive security team. Signs of grandeur rather than necessity!

Three former soldiers will appear at Belfast magistrates court on April 20th. One is charged with a killing that took place in May 1972. He is not accused of acting outside his orders. He is accused of acting within them. The distinction no longer appears to matter. This is the reality behind Labour's Northern Ireland Troubles Bill, a piece of legislation dressed in the language of reconciliation that functions, in practice, as an engine of persecution. The state that sent these men to Northern Ireland, that gave them their orders, that relied on their judgment in circumstances no minister has ever faced, is now the state that funds the machinery pursuing them through the courts half a century later. That is not a technicality. It is the central fact. Taxpayer money flows to the lawyers challenging the actions of soldiers whose actions were sanctioned by the taxpayer. The government calls this justice. General Sir Peter Wall, who commanded the British Army for four years, calls it something without moral backbone. He is right. The operational consequences are already visible. Elite soldiers are leaving the SAS and SBS rather than face the prospect of prosecution decades hence for missions carried out under government orders. The crisis has become sufficiently acute that reservists are being brought into the regular SAS to fill roles vacated by those walking out. Britain's most capable fighting force is being quietly hollowed out by a bill whose architects appear indifferent to the result. Seven former SAS commanders have warned that the legislation is doing the enemy's work, that operational secrets exposed through inquiries give hostile states a narrative of lawless troops. Moscow, Tehran and Beijing do not need to discredit British special forces. Westminster is doing it for them. The asymmetry at the heart of this legislation is not incidental. It is structural. IRA members were released under the Good Friday Agreement. Many destroyed evidence, stayed silent, or received letters guaranteeing they would not be pursued. Soldiers kept records, gave statements, and remained traceable. Decades later, only one group remains available for scrutiny. Not because they are more culpable, but because they are more reachable. The Coagh ambush of June 1991 illustrates the logic perfectly. Three IRA men were stopped by the SAS on their way to murder someone. A coroner ruled the force used was justified. Years later a family challenged that ruling, arguing the soldier should have paused after each shot to consider whether to fire the next one. A judge described that argument as ludicrous and utterly divorced from reality. The challenge continues, funded by legal aid, heard at the Court of Appeal just days ago. No verdict ends the process. The process is the punishment. Keir Starmer has said publicly he is absolutely confident there will be no vexatious prosecutions. Three soldiers will be in a Belfast court in sixteen days. His confidence has not reached them. The government insists its bill provides robust protections for veterans. General Sir Nick Parker, who oversaw the final operations in Northern Ireland, says ministers do not understand the duty of the state to stand by those who serve it. The duty to stand by those who serve is contractual, not sentimental. A soldier who follows orders in a war the state authorised cannot later be offered up as payment for political convenience. What is being constructed here is not a legacy process. It is a permanent legal industry, sustained by public money, targeting the most traceable participants in a conflict the state itself waged. The soldiers kept their records. That is now their liability. A serious country does not behave this way. This one, apparently, does. "Keir Starmer has said publicly he is absolutely confident there will be no vexatious prosecutions. Three soldiers will be in a Belfast court in sixteen days. His confidence has not reached them."

I’ve just learned that @leicspolice have investigated @ABridgen for sharing the Amelia video below. I’d like to inform the Leicestershire constabulary that I made the video, the @ukhomeoffice created the character, and that they’re great bloody Orwellian wankers who can sod right off. cc @makeukgood @AmeliaOnSolana @AmeliajakSolana @BasilTheGreat @benonwine @RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain_ @elonmusk @godblesstoto @SmashJT @RoyalFamily

Latest footage from Nasa's Artemis II mission

I can’t get my head around how destructive the Milibands are - seemingly with total unawareness of the results of their actions. Surely no one can be that stupid? But other than money (for David) and power (for Ed) how do they justify to themselves the devastation wreaked on economies, lives and the environment thanks to their obsession?

I write two posts about the Passion of the Christ and lose over 40 followers. I’ll take it.

Let's check in on Freya, who is ruining Denbighshire. Freya is a four-year-old European bison at Rhug Estate in north Wales. She weighs approximately 450 kilograms. Her ancestors grazed Britain until six thousand years ago. The fossil record is clear, the bones are in the cave deposits, the bison were here: then they retreated eastward as the forest shrank and the hunting intensified, and by 1927 they were gone from the wild entirely. Twelve individuals in captivity. One century of careful breeding. Freya is the result. 6:45am - Freya is at the woodland boundary. She stands with her head up and her nose working. The estate manager times this every morning. Four minutes and twelve seconds. Then she moves. The estate manager follows her route two hours later. This morning: elder scrub cleared from fifteen metres of the south margin. Two ash saplings browsed back. A section of bracken disturbed at the root: nothing else on this estate is heavy enough to push bracken rhizomes out of the ground with its face. Freya does it by walking through. 8:30am - The wallow. The wet depression at the base of the east slope has been deepening for eight months. It holds water after rain now. Marsh marigold in April. Water mint in June. Eleven dragonfly species in August, none in the survey from six years ago, before the bison, before the wallow, before the pool. Freya made the dragonflies. Freya was having a roll. 10:00am - Bark work on the ash section. Bison strip bark with their lower incisors: one side of the bole, the cambium heals over. What remains is rough exposed wood: habitat for bark beetles, mosses, lichens. The woodpecker has been using this section since October. Three consecutive surveys now. The woodpecker doesn't know about Freya. The woodpecker knows there is good bark. 12:00pm - Freya grazed the grassland section. She pushes through rather than crops, disturbing the surface, opening the sward. The seed bank under British permanent grassland contains species that haven't germinated in decades, waiting for exactly the kind of disturbance a 450-kilogram animal at pace provides. Wild garlic this month on the disturbed sections. Wood anemone at the margin. Neither recorded on this estate before. They were in the soil. They needed Freya to let them out. 4:30pm - Boundary assessment. North field. Four minutes, unhurried. The estate manager is on the track with binoculars. He can see dense hawthorn encroaching on the north ride. A rank area of coarse grass untouched for two seasons. He writes: "Tomorrow." Freya walks into the trees. The Wisent is back in Wales. She has been waiting six thousand years to get back to work. She is not in a hurry. She has the whole field.

Look at how differently the police handled young football fans yesterday in comparison to the young looters in Clapham. They remembered how to use the batons again!

@UKLabour Where's Nick Brown?

@Keir_Starmer Well?

Pork gets a lot of grief in carnivore circles. It's not beef, which counts against it. It has PUFAs, which sounds damning. And it carries two thousand years of religious taboo, from Leviticus to the Quran, which has a way of embedding itself in cultural intuition long after the theology has left the room. So let's be fair about what pork actually is. Pork is a superfood. Not in the way that word has been debased by bags of goji berries in health food shops. A genuine, nutrient-dense animal food that has sustained entire civilisations. Thiamine: pork is the richest common dietary source of vitamin B1. More than beef. More than lamb. Thiamine is critical for glucose metabolism, nerve function, and cardiac health: and its deficiency, beriberi, was historically catastrophic in populations eating refined rice. The traditional populations eating whole pork alongside their rice didn't get beriberi. The ones eating polished white rice without the pork did. The pork was doing work. Selenium. Zinc. Complete protein. Choline for liver function and brain development. Carnosine. B vitamins across the board. It is an animal food. It does what animal foods do. Now the PUFA question, because it deserves a direct answer rather than a dismissal. Yes, pork fat contains more linoleic acid than ruminant fat. This is real. The pig, unlike the cow, has a simple stomach and cannot biohydrogenate polyunsaturated fat, cannot take the problematic seed fat and convert it into saturated fat the way a rumen can. What goes in largely comes out. Pigs raised on grain and soybean meal will have fattier, more linoleic acid-rich tissue than pigs raised on a more natural diet. Here's the context that changes everything. If you have already removed seed oils, you have already removed the industrial cooking oils. If you have removed legumes, you have removed soybean-derived everything. If you have removed nuts, you have removed the other major linoleic acid sources. You have, in the process of cleaning up the obvious problems, already addressed the bulk of your PUFA load. In that context, pork's linoleic acid content is not the marginal straw that breaks the metabolic camel's back. It is a manageable contribution from a whole food that was never the issue. The issue was always the bottle on the kitchen counter. The bottle is gone. And then consider: pork is the staple meat of Asia. The cooking traditions of China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Thailand: cuisines built on pork belly, slow-braised shoulder, trotters, ears, offal, these are not the cuisines of populations historically defined by metabolic disease. The metabolic disease arrived with the industrial food, the refined carbohydrates, the vegetable oils. Not with the pig. The religious prohibition on pork is ancient, contextual, and pre-refrigeration. The carnivore prohibition on pork is aesthetic, recent, and optional. Eat the belly. Render the lard. Use the lard to cook the rest of the pig. Beef is exceptional. Pork is not beneath it. They're different tools. Both animal. Both complete. Both doing what no bag of seeds ever managed.

The Ibérico pig spends its final months eating acorns. Not as a boutique indulgence, but for ancient land management. The dehesa, the oak woodland savannah of southwestern Spain and Portugal, has been grazed by pigs for at least two thousand years. The pigs eat the acorns, the acorns are the seed crop of the cork and holm oaks, and the pig's rooting aerates the soil and suppresses scrub, keeping the woodland open and productive. The fat that results from this acorn feeding is exceptionally high in oleic acid: the same monounsaturated fat that makes olive oil the darling of every cardiologist at a Mediterranean diet conference. Jamón ibérico de bellota has a better fatty acid profile than most olive oil. It also tastes like something carved from a particularly good dream. The Spanish classified it as a health food. Then ate it. Then lived long lives. Nobody held a press conference.

Germany's Military Service Modernization Act, effective January 1, 2026, requires men aged 17-45 to obtain approval from a Bundeswehr career center for stays abroad longer than three months, for purposes like work, study, or travel; this is a record-keeping measure tied to military readiness reforms rather than an outright travel ban.

Male citizens aged 17 to 45 no longer allowed to leave Germany without permission under a newly enacted military conscription rule. The United Kingdom will be next!

Is it just me, or does £7.50 for a coffee and a croissant in a cafe seem extortionate?

This is massively disingenuous. Lamb costs have soared because input costs to farmers have gone up. The number of abattoirs has significantly dropped…and supermarkets are setting prices that fleece consumers.

HMRC say it could take between 2 - 3 years to conclude their investigations into Angela Rayner and her stamp duty dodge. 😲