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Lucy singing Purple Rain in her final high school Christmas Spectacular - 2023. 💜 💜 💜 – at Lowestoft, England
Was so very pleasing that yesterdays minutes silence, after the Last Post, was observed impeccably. Not always the case these days.
#wewillrememberthem
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31 October 1973. 1st episode of the 26-part classic ITV documentary series World at War was broadcast. It was narrated by Laurence Olivier with music by Carl Davies. It cost £900,000 (worth £11 million today).
28/9/1915.
My Grandfather L/Cpl John Carroll DCM 8686 2/Leicesters after the battle of Loos.
Went over the top at 6 a.m. they were heavily gassed and sustained massive casualties. 72 men were killed, 217 wounded with 42 badly gassed and 96 missing.
#wewillrememberthem
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THEY RAPED MORE THAN 1,000 CHILDREN IN TELFORD. SOME WERE 11. LUCY LOWE WAS 14 WHEN SHE HAD A CHILD BY THE MAN WHO WAS ABUSING HER. SHE WAS 15 AND PREGNANT AGAIN WHEN HE SET FIRE TO HER HOME AND BURNED HER TO DEATH WITH HER MOTHER, HER SISTER AND HER UNBORN CHILD. AFTER HER MURDER THE MEN USED HER NAME TO KEEP THE OTHER GIRLS QUIET, TELLING THEM THEY WOULD BE NEXT IF THEY EVER SPOKE.
The police and the council knew what was being done to those girls and left them to it for another twenty years. When the truth finally came out, the Labour leader of the council wrote to the Home Secretary to stop an inquiry. The man who tried to stop it went on to become MP. He has now been promoted to Labour Government Whip.
In July 2022, Tom Crowther KC's independent inquiry concluded that an estimate of up to 1,000 children sexually exploited over three decades was reasonable, and recorded that those who knew the cases called that figure conservative.
The police, the council and the other agencies had the warning signs in front of them for years and did nothing with them. The girls were written off as prostitutes and blamed for what grown men did to them. Crowther found that nervousness about race had discouraged investigations. The girls had told him the men were Pakistani. He wrote their word down once, as their description, and then gave his own finding as men of "southern Asian heritage". The nervousness he found in the police and the council runs through his own report.
The police knew who the men were. The council knew which girls were being passed between them. Lucy Lowe's murder told the girls of Telford who were thinking of speaking exactly what it would cost them.
Then the council leader tried to stop anyone looking. On 22 September 2016, Shaun Davies, the Labour leader of Telford and Wrekin Council, wrote to the Home Secretary that "we do not feel at this time that a further inquiry is necessary". For two years the council found reasons to say no.
Lucy Allan, Telford's MP at the time, listed them in the Commons. The national inquiry would cover Telford. An inquiry would cost too much. Ofsted had given the council a good report. There was nothing to see. Only after sustained pressure from survivors and campaigners did Telford commission Crowther's investigation.
THE INQUIRY TELFORD GOT HAD NO POWER TO COMPEL A SINGLE WITNESS. THE DETECTIVE WHO RAN THE LUCY LOWE CASE AND THE COUNCIL'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE STAYED AWAY FROM IT.
The survivors asked for a statutory inquiry with the power to summon witnesses. Davies gave them one without it. Crowther took evidence from 170 witnesses.
- Eleven people refused to give evidence, provided very limited evidence, or refused permission for their contact details to be passed to Crowther's inquiry.
- Another 20 people could not be interviewed. Seven could not be located despite repeated attempts. Another 13 had known contact details but failed to respond despite repeated attempts.
- Victor Brownlees, chief executive of Telford & Wrekin Council from 2009 to 2011 and formerly acting director of children's services, declined to meet the inquiry. He submitted a very brief statement by email and said he had retained no council documents after leaving.
- Clive Harding, a West Mercia Police Detective Chief Inspector who led the Lucy Lowe triple murder investigation, declined to speak to the inquiry. He argued that the original investigation records contained everything relevant. Crowther wrote to him again, but Harding did not reply.
- Geoff Harding, a retired West Mercia Police Detective Chief Inspector who subsequently worked for Telford & Wrekin Council as an Integrated Services Manager supporting children and families, declined to meet the inquiry. He submitted a very short written summary through West Mercia Police. Crowther described his inability to recall relevant child sexual exploitation cases as remarkable.
- Shropshire Council, whose predecessor had responsibility for children's social services in Telford until 1998, provided responses Crowther described as potentially combative. A request for historical taxi licensing information remained partially outstanding when he published his report, although Crowther did not believe the council had deliberately withheld documents.
Crowther said the four witnesses he named for staying away did not materially affect his conclusions. I do not accept that. Davies himself admitted to Parliament on 21 January 2025 that people the inquiry wanted to talk to did not come forward.
An inquiry that 31 people could refuse, dodge or vanish from, that a former chief executive could answer by email, and that a neighbouring council could stonewall was the inquiry Shaun Davies chose for Telford's children.
AND TELFORD TODAY.
In July 2024, Shaun Davies became Telford's Labour MP. In May 2026, he was appointed Assistant Government Whip. On 22 July 2026, he was promoted to Government Whip, formally Junior Lord of the Treasury. The man who argued against a further inquiry into the rape of Telford's children enforces discipline among Labour MPs.
Anne Longfield chairs a statutory inquiry with the power to compel the witnesses Crowther could not. Telford is not on her list. On 17 July 2025 the council's Labour leader, Lee Carter, passed a motion that welcomed any role the inquiry might give Telford and wrote to the Home Secretary to say so. He did not demand a local investigation. Neither has Shaun Davies.
If Longfield has any desire to expose the cover up, she must name Telford herself. Maybe I can help her.
Last night, I drove to Telford to meet with a whistleblower. What I know now will destroy the council. It will also expose the Labour Party's part in the rape gang cover up in a way nothing before it has. When it is published, Longfield will have to name Telford. It is my intention to publish this weekend.
Raja Miah MBE
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You know what we are up against. The mainstream media will not touch my work. Institutions I investigate do not volunteer their records. Politicians do not suddenly decide to hold themselves to account.
And yet, despite every attempt to stop us, we forced the national inquiry. We did that because enough ordinary people refused to go away.
But getting the inquiry was never the end of this campaign. In many ways it was only the beginning. Now we have to watch where it goes, what it investigates, which places it avoids, which witnesses it calls, which records it obtains and whether the same institutions that failed these children are allowed to control the story again.
Nobody else is going to do that work for us. And I cannot do it indefinitely working on my own. That is why I keep talking about 50,000 committed subscribers.
It is not a vanity number. I did not pluck it out of the air. With fifty thousand people with me means when we uncover something important, it does not depend on a newspaper editor, a television producer or an algorithm deciding whether you are allowed to see it.
It gives us reach they cannot easily shut down.
But there is another reason. I need to build a proper backroom operation around this work. At the moment I am investigating, researching, writing, publishing, producing the videos, running the newsletter, dealing with the technology and then starting again. It is unsustainable.
I need people behind me who can take care of the technical and production work so that I can spend my time doing the thing I do best. That is why we have been pushing so hard for new paid subscribers.
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We forced the inquiry. Now we need the numbers to make sure they cannot control what happens next. Unfortunately, we are reaching the end of the road where I can continue working this way.
The paid subscriptions have stalled. The audience is growing, but the number of people actually standing behind the work is not growing with it. Over a million people engaged in my content this week. Only a small fraction followed up with a subscription to my newsletter This is becoming impossible to sustain.
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Raja Miah MBE
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A restaurant makes more on the pasta than the steak, and the entire food system worked that out before you did.
The ribeye is £42 on the menu. It cost the kitchen about £14 to put on the plate.
The pasta is £18. It cost about £2.50, most of which was the parmesan.
The salad is £14. It cost about £2, and the lettuce was the expensive bit.
The risotto is £19. It is rice, stock and a knob of butter, and the stock was free.
The steak returns twice what it cost. The pasta returns six times. The salad returns six times.
So the chef's special is the pasta, the salad gets a paragraph on the menu, and the steak sits at the bottom with no adjectives.
Now scale the restaurant up to a country.
A box of cereal is 20p of grain and £3.50 on the shelf.
A plant-based burger is pea flour, rapeseed oil and a red dye, and it sells for more than the beef one it is pretending to be.
An oat drink is oats and water and sells at twice the price of the milk it replaced.
Every tier of the trade makes its margin on the plant, because a plant is nearly free and an animal takes two years of grass.
Bill Gates owns more farmland than any other man in America, holds stakes in the fake meat firms, and told the rich world to switch to synthetic beef.
The pattern in the restaurant and the pattern in the policy are the same pattern. Talk down the expensive ingredient. Sell the cheap one at the expensive price. Keep the difference.
The advice you were given about meat was written by people who make eight times more when you order the pasta.
Nobody is giving you a diet. They are giving you the menu with the margins folded over.
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For the Westminster bubble, Campbell getting challenged on BBC Question Time is treated like political pantomime and studio theatre.
For those who lived through the consequences of the 2003 invasion, there is nothing entertaining about it.
One hundred and seventy-nine British service personnel came home from Iraq in flag-draped coffins. Thousands more returned with shattered limbs, catastrophic brain injuries, and minds destroyed by blast trauma.
While New Labour spin doctors were massaged in Downing Street corridors and redrafted intelligence dossiers to manufacture a pretext for war, young British soldiers were sent into meat grinders like the siege of CIMIC House in Al-Amarah and the streets of Basra—patrolling in lightly armoured "Snatch" Land Rovers that ministers knew were death traps against shaped IEDs.
From the desert wastes of Iraq to the legendary brotherhood of the SAS—where British and Commonwealth operators like New Zealanders in 22 SAS fought and bled shoulder to shoulder, from the harrowing evasion of Bravo Two Zero to black-ops counter-terror raids in Baghdad—our soldiers fulfilled their oath with unmatched courage. They fought for the man on their left and the man on their right. They did not die for corporate reconstruction contracts, Downing Street vanity, or Blairite messianism.
For over twenty years, Alastair Campbell has enjoyed lucrative book deals, fawning media platforms, and podcast respectability lecturing the country on "integrity in public life".
Calling him to account on live television isn’t a political stunt. It is the absolute bare minimum owed to 179 dead British troops, their grieving families, and the generational destruction unleashed in our name.
@ZiaYusufUK said to his face what millions of veterans and citizens have wanted said for two decades. #bbcqt
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Yes, Louise is correct. 'Almost Immortal' is available now. We like to think that Louise's exceptional front cover illustration sets the tone for the 288 pages inside the book too.
My painting for the cover of a brilliant new book celebrating Bobby Robson’s England era - Almost Immortal 🏴👩🎨
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Customer: "Why did mutton disappear? My gran talked about it like it was Sunday itself."
Butcher: "Because you stopped wearing wool."
Customer: "What's wool got to do with it?"
Butcher: "Everything. For a thousand years this country kept sheep for the fleece. The wool paid the rent. A ewe was clipped every summer for six or seven years, and when she'd given her last fleece she gave you Sunday dinner. Every leg of mutton was a sheep that had already paid for herself."
Customer: "And lamb?"
Butcher: "A luxury. You'd no more eat a lamb than burn a five-pound note. That's seven fleeces walking into the oven."
Customer: "So what changed?"
Butcher: "The jumper went plastic. From about 1960 a fleece was worth less every year until it was worth nothing, and today a farmer gets roughly what it costs him to shear her. Nobody keeps a sheep seven years to collect two pound a time, so they bred her for the one thing left that paid."
Customer: "Meat."
Butcher: "Fast meat. Lambs that fatten by four months and leave before they've cost anything. Inside one generation the sheep went from a wool animal with a dinner at the end to a dinner in a hurry that grows a coat nobody wants."
Customer: "And the old ewes?"
Butcher: "Still coming off the hill every autumn, and still the best eating in this shop. Five years of grass and heather in the fat, meat the colour of beef, and she's never seen a bag of feed in her life. Grass-fed is the label people pay double for on a steak. On her it's just Tuesday."
Customer: "Why's she half the price, then?"
Butcher: "Because nobody asks. A leg feeds eight, low oven, four hours, and the gravy off it will make you forget lamb was ever invented. The old boys who come in for it never bother with anything else."
Customer: "My gran used to say the fat was the point."
Butcher: "Your gran was right about most things. The jumper went to plastic and the roast went with it, and nobody noticed they were the same sheep. You can undo the whole thing in one shop. I've got the leg. The jumper's your problem."
Adam Carroll retweeted
Somewhere in the last fifty years the word extreme moved from the scalpel to the steak.
Normal:
- Removing four fifths of a 13-year-old's stomach, now on the table in American guidelines for severe obesity
- A weekly weight-loss injection for a 12-year-old, approved in America in 2022
- A cholesterol tablet from your forties for the rest of your life
- An acid blocker every morning for a decade
- Insulin before every meal
- Dialysis three times a week for kidneys worn out by diabetes
- More than 185 diabetic amputations a week in the UK
- 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day in the average American
- Cereal, a meal-deal sandwich, a pasta bake and a biscuit
Extreme:
- Steak, eggs and butter
Everything on the first list is paid for, prescribed or recommended.
The one thing on the second list is the one that would have made the first list unnecessary.
Adam Carroll retweeted
Constipation on carnivore means you've gone lean, and the cure is the thing the diet was supposed to be built on in the first place.
Meat is almost entirely absorbed. There's very little left over to pass, so a carnivore going once a day or once every two days, comfortably, isn't constipated. That's what happens when food stops being mostly packaging. The bran that used to bulk everything out was never doing you a favour; it was a cargo you paid to carry through.
The actual complaint, hard, dry, an effort, is a different thing, and it has one cause. Fat.
Fat is what moves the gut. A fatty meal tells the gallbladder to empty, bile goes in, and bile is the body's own laxative, which is why a pound of lean steak sits like a brick and the same steak with the cap on and a knob of butter melting over it goes through like it was expected. Lean mince, chicken breast, egg whites and a tin of tuna is a plate with the plumbing turned off, and the person eating it blames the meat.
So the fix is never fibre and never a sachet. It's the butter you were told to leave off, the 20% instead of the 5%, cream in the coffee, the fat cap eaten first. Within a day or two the problem has gone, and it stays gone as long as the plate shines.
Which is the point. A diet of meat only works when the fat is on it. Take the fat off and you have a bodybuilder's cut with worse manners, and the gut is the first thing to file a complaint.
Carnivore is high fat by definition. The bathroom is where people find that out.
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Clotted cream is the richest dairy product in the British kitchen, nearly two thirds fat, and it was invented as a way of keeping milk in a county with no ice.
The method is older than anyone can trace. Fresh milk from the morning is left in a wide pan until the cream rises, then the whole pan is set over a very low fire or in a cooling bread oven for hours, never boiling, until a thick crust forms on top the colour of old gold. It cools overnight and the crust is lifted off with a skimmer. That crust is the cream, and the scalding is what kept it. Heated that way it lasted for days when fresh cream would have turned by teatime.
Devon and Cornwall argued over it for centuries and still do. The Cornish got the legal protection in 1998, on condition that the milk is Cornish and the fat is at least fifty-five per cent, though the good stuff runs higher. The argument about whether the cream or the jam goes on the scone first has split the two counties for as long as there have been scones, and it is the only question in British food that people will genuinely fight over.
If you grew up in the West Country it came in a cardboard tub with a crust you broke through with a knife, and it went on everything: the scone, the apple pie, the porridge, a spoon of it straight off the blade when nobody was looking. A pot sent by post to a relative in London was the standard Christmas present from Cornwall for a hundred years.
It is milk with the water taken out and the fat left in, and it was the ordinary household food of the two poorest counties in England.
The cream tea is now a treat you drive to and photograph. In 1930 it was what a dairy farmer's wife did with Tuesday's milk, and the fat was the whole point of doing it.
Palacios:
Always in space.
Always wants the ball.
Never wastes a pass.
He's a decent player..
#itfc
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They blew up our power stations, they capped the oil wells, taxed the remaining power stations and threw subsidies at useless intermittent generators the grid wasn't designed for, and now they're telling us to stock up on food and water. They've deliberately made us poorer and put the brakes on the economy while flooding the country with hostile low IQ third worlders. Our politicians at war with us and its time we did something about them.
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In 1979 Britain's most beautiful butterfly went extinct because the country had killed its rabbits and taken its sheep off the hills, and the scientist who worked out why had to put a flock back to bring the insect home.
The large blue is a thing of chalk and limestone downs, and it has the strangest life of any animal in these islands. The caterpillar feeds on wild thyme for a few weeks, then drops to the ground and does an impression of an ant grub so convincing that a red ant carries it underground, where it spends ten months eating the ant's own young. Only one species of ant will do it, and that ant only lives in turf cropped so short the sun can warm the soil to the depth of its nest. Short turf means grazing. For a thousand years the grazing was sheep, and from the eighteenth century it was rabbits as well, millions of them, mowing the downs to a lawn.
In 1953 myxomatosis arrived and killed ninety-nine rabbits in a hundred. Hill sheep were already coming off the downs as the farms went to the plough or to subsidy. Within a few years the turf grew long and cool, the ant died out of it, the caterpillar was carried underground by the wrong ant and eaten, and the butterfly dwindled through the sixties and seventies while everyone blamed collectors. The last British colony, in Devon, died in 1979.
Jeremy Thomas spent the decade on his knees in the grass before he understood it. The whole chain ran back to a mouth cropping a hillside. In 1983 the butterfly was reintroduced from Sweden onto a Somerset slope where the first thing the project did was put the cattle and sheep back on, hard, and the ants returned, and the large blue came after them. It is now on thirty sites, every one of them grazed on purpose.
A butterfly the colour of the summer sky disappeared from England for want of a sheep, and the people who saved it did not plant a flower or build a fence. They hired a grazier.
