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Surgeon: "Gallstones. Until we take it out, I want you on a low fat diet. Nothing fried, no cheese, no cream, skimmed milk."
Patient: "What does the gallbladder do?"
Surgeon: "Stores bile. Squirts it out to digest fat."
Patient: "When?"
Surgeon: "When fat arrives."
Patient: "And if no fat arrives?"
Surgeon: "It sits."
Patient: "Full of bile. Not emptying. For months."
Surgeon: "That's the idea. Rest it."
Patient: "What do stones form from?"
Surgeon: "Bile that sits too long and thickens."
Patient: "So the treatment for a bag that's gone solid from not emptying is to stop emptying it."
Surgeon: "The fat triggers the pain."
Patient: "The fat triggers the squeeze. The pain is the stone in the door."
Surgeon: "Which is why we're removing it."
Patient: "What was I eating when the stones formed?"
Surgeon: "I'd have to look."
Patient: "Low fat. Since 2019. The slimming club."
Surgeon: [does not look]
Patient: "I've been resting it for six years. It's the best rested organ I own."
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Kale carried a weedkiller on nearly 60% of its samples that America banned in an emergency in 2024, over what it could do to babies in the womb.
The chemical was DCPA, sold as Dacthal, and it kept the weeds down in exactly the crops the healthy plate is built on: kale, collards, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, bok choy and onions.
Europe had refused to approve it back in 2009. America kept it for another 15 years.
The government had known since the 1990s that it interfered with the thyroid in animal studies. In 2013 the regulator asked AMVAC, the only company that made it, for a proper study of what it did to the thyroid of a developing baby. The company handed it over in 2022, nine years later.
When the regulator read it, the findings were bad enough to skip the queue. A pregnant woman handling the stuff, or simply working in a field after it had been sprayed, could take in four to 20 times the dose considered safe for her unborn child, protective gear and all. The harm ran through the baby's thyroid hormones to low birth weight, impaired brain development, lower IQ and poorer motor skills, some of it for life. A treated field could stay unsafe for 25 days or more. In the first months of pregnancy a baby has no working thyroid of its own and borrows its mother's hormone to build its brain, which is how a chemical that disturbs hers gets to it.
So in August 2024 the agency used its emergency suspension power for the first time in almost 40 years. The chemical before it to get that treatment was EDB, in 1983. By October the maker had cancelled the lot.
The women in that warning were the ones weeding the kale, cutting it and packing it, in the weeks after the spray went on.
And the residue rode out of the field with the crop. When the government last tested kale, DCPA was on nearly 60% of it.
The leaf has a go at the same gland on its own account. Like the rest of the cabbage family, kale makes glucosinolates, which break down into compounds that interfere with the thyroid's use of iodine. The weedkiller and the vegetable it was protecting were aiming at the same organ.
Kale spent a decade as the leaf a person eats to prove they are taking it seriously, the one in the cold-pressed juice and the massaged salad and the crisps sold in health shops.
The healthiest leaf in the shop, by its own reputation, was carrying the one weedkiller its regulator couldn't wait to ban.
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The supermarket chicken is 42 days old, and it's had a hard 6 weeks.
Chicken:
- 6 weeks in a shed, 19 to the square metre
- 2.5kg, legs buckling under its own breast
- Over a quarter walk badly by catching day
- Fed soy and maize, never a blade of grass
- Fat about 5x higher in omega-6
- Breast tastes of whatever you marinated it in
- Needs a sauce, a rub and a sprinkle of creatine
Mutton:
- 5 years on a hill, in all weathers
- Walked for every mouthful
- Made its own fat from grass
- Gram for gram, about 4x the iron, 5x the zinc, 10x the B12
- Fat that stays solid in the pan and crisp on the plate
- Tastes of the hill it grew on, with salt
- Needs nothing but an oven and time
Only one is on the dietician's list, and it's the one that struggles to walk.
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Conveniently left out of John Healey’s budget speech.
£150 million of taxpayers money to fund additional large sites to accommodate asylum seekers.
More money. More accommodation. More of the same.
This government is failing the British people.
Deport them all.
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Andy Burnham gags Cabinet on rejoin EU plot as Labour braces for Brexit civil war
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I’ve now been contacted by numerous people about the ‘Boob Man of Oxford’.
Those who work or study at Oxford have asked for anonymity, so I can’t share identifying details. But some common themes have emerged:
- Unsurprisingly, women describe feeling uncomfortable about a male lecturer wearing what appear to be oversized prosthetic breasts in their place of work or study
- Some question whether there is a sexual element or whether it is a ‘power play’. These are their concerns, rather than established explanations for his behaviour - but are legitimate concerns nonetheless
- They say they’re afraid to raise concerns because he is surrounded by ‘allies’, including staff, who defend his appearance as 'self-expression'
One source has even wondered whether this is an elaborate stunt to embarrass the university - along the lines of Josh Seiter, who pretended to be a trans woman as an 'experiment'. Another source says this has been going on for three years - which does seem a long time to keep up the act.
There is interest in covering this in the mainstream press. What would help now is more documentary evidence: complaint letters, responses or correspondence showing how concerns have been handled.
My inbox is open: [email protected]. Happy to have a confidential chat about any aspect of this. All messages treated in confidence.
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Andy Burnham accused of 'abandoning' Makerfield constituents as locals claim he 'lied to everybody'
Residents raised concerns that he was just using the Makerfield seat as a 'stepping stone' to try and make a move for the job of Prime Minister 🤨
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My reply from Wetherspoons 👇
Dear Vowaleswren
Thank you for your further e-mail on this matter.
We would like to emphasise that there is definitely no ban on the wearing of poppies in Wetherspoon pubs.
We have now reviewed the video of what was said at the door of the pub, shortly before it closed on police advice.
We appreciate that some customers were told that they could not wear a poppy, which was a clear mistake.
There is great pressure on our pub staff in these sorts of situations, and it is easy to say or do the wrong thing in an unfamiliar set of circumstances.
We apologise to any veterans or their families who have been affected by the incident, and they are, of course, welcome at our pubs at all times.
Yours sincerely
Callie
Customer Services
J D Wetherspoon plc
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🚨 NEW: Homeless Kosovan migrant who stole from disabled people cannot be deported because she is "culturally and socially integrated", judge says.
• An immigration tribunal has ruled that Barbara Osmanovic, 40, a heroin and cocaine addict of Roma heritage from Kosovo, cannot be deported because she is “culturally and socially integrated” in the UK.
• Osmanovic arrived in the UK as a child in 2000 and was granted leave to remain in 2006. She has 13 convictions for 29 offences. Her offending began almost immediately after she arrived. There is little evidence she has made a positive contribution during her time in the country.
• In April 2023 she was jailed for two and a half years in Manchester for theft, fraud, attempted burglary and possession of a knife. She was described as carrying out a “mean” campaign of stealing from vulnerable and disabled people, including taking a purse from a woman in a wheelchair and spending £1,640 on her card.
• The Home Office sought to deport her over her persistent offending, but the tribunal found removal would be “unduly harsh” under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
• The judge said it was “too soon” to conclude she was no longer a persistent offender. Osmanovic did not attend the appeal hearing as she did not have a working phone.
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Yesterday I was talking with an economist. A genuinely sharp guy.
We ended up agreeing on a conclusion that isn't comfortable: Europe and the West are down to two scenarios.
Scenario one: communism gets defeated within the next 5 years. We finally do what has to be done on immigration and on the economy. It will be hard, really hard. But better a horrible ending than horror without end.
Scenario two: communism wins. And right behind it, most likely, Islamic tyranny. Not in 50 years. Soon after.
There is no in-between. No "it'll sort itself out," no lukewarm third way where everyone keeps their little comfort zone.
What fascinates me is that the vast majority of people don't see this at all. They're living through this period as if it were just another political cycle.
But there's good news. The people who've been sounding the alarm for 20 years were right. They were called crazy, doomers, prophets of decline. And every month, reality proves them a little more right.
The faster people realize this, the further ahead we get.
Waking up is already half the battle.
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🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
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🚩 RAYNER CONFIRMS NO SECOND REFERENDUM: Plan is to reverse Brexit via Labour’s next manifesto!
Angela Rayner has let the cat out of the bag on Labour’s plan to reverse Brexit.
On @LBC, Lewis Goodall put it to her that any serious move to rejoin the EU must be subject to a second referendum. She said no. Instead, she confirmed the plan is to put rejoining in Labour’s next manifesto and let a general election decide it:
“I would expect that in the run up to the next general election, when we put it to the country, that the country then can see what the Labour Party is offering and whether they want to re-elect a Labour government.”
There it is, straight from the horse’s mouth (no pun intended).
This is a disgrace and fundamentally undemocratic. The 2016 Brexit vote brought out millions of people who had long given up on politics, voters who had never cast a ballot in their lives. Labour now wants to tell them their vote was meaningless and can be quietly overturned without their specific consent.
They constantly lecture the public about “getting involved” and “making your voice heard”. Yet when those same people turned out for one of the biggest democratic votes in this country’s history, Labour’s answer is to sidestep that result entirely.
A general election is not the place to settle a constitutional question of this magnitude.
Labour’s last “landslide” was nothing of the sort once you look at the numbers. A low vote share and a fragmented opposition handed them a huge majority. Treating that as a mandate to drag Britain back into the EU without a dedicated referendum is a calculated insult to the voters who delivered Brexit.
If they go ahead with this, it will cause uproar, and rightly so. Don’t do it.
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One of the more irritating aspects of the Remain campaign was the lazy characterisation of all Brexit supporters as little Englanders who hate Europe.
I've worked in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Romania. I've led teams of IT guys from all over Europe and worked happily with them. I've travelled all over Europe for business and pleasure. My first travel abroad as a teenager was to France and Italy. I can get by speaking French and speak some basic German. I proposed to my wife in Greece. I love Europe in all its diversity, its different languages, cultures, landscapes, history, food. I'm in France right now, for the second time this year.
What I don't love is the attempt to obliterate all of this genuine diversity by merging it into one huge superstate run by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, remote from the people being governed, on the shaky pretext that it was necessary to prevent another war or to allow free movement of citizens.
To me, wanting that for Europe is hating Europe.
(Ironically it's the EU along with NATO that is now cheerleading for yet another war in Europe).
And there are many, many Brexit supporters like me.
The unwillingness of Remain supporters to recognise the difference between 'the EU" and "Europe" was one of the more baffling and infuriating aspects of the referendum campaign.
And it remains true even today. It's as if they've never thought very deeply about any of it.
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So, our traitorous Establishment are "warning" us about 2 separate things: (1) They know the National Grid is going to collapse during this winter & it will take "3 days" to re-boot it. (2) They want us to go to war with Russia "1,000 days" from now, so they can cancel elections.
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BBC World Service has broadcast scores of documentaries about cross-dressing men around the world over the last few years.
Today's RAJAR figures reveal that, despite being bailed out by the taxpayer this year, BBC World Service has seen an unprecedented drop in radio listeners.
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All wars come to an end. It’s just a case of deciding when enough people have been killed. The Ukraine war has now killed around one million people and I’d say that’s plenty. I remember the troubles in Northern Ireland. That was a war that seemed like it would never end. Each side was so far apart with completely different views that would never change. But there came a day when everyone decided that enough was enough. The killing stopped and people’s lives improved. So, we can either argue until the end of time as to whose fault the Ukraine war was, or we can say that’s enough killing and let’s stop. It will stop, but let’s make it now and not after another million people have been killed.
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Illegal migrants are receiving free dental care all over Britain whilst our people pull their own teeth out.
You're not angry enough.
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As a neurosurgeon, let me tell you how frightening this injury actually is - an occipital compound depressed skull fracture treated with a WIDE craniotomy (outer staple line).
What's scary isn't the fracture; it's what's adjacent to the damaged skull. The axe blows (that tree-branch scar at the center) hit right over the posterior superior sagittal sinus, a large vein that runs lengthwise between the 2 cerebral hemispheres and carries blood from the brain to the heart.
Penetrating injuries to the sinus can carry upwards of a 40% morbidity/mortality - partially because a transection of the sinus can be difficult to repair and can result in extreme blood loss, venous air embolism, or thrombosis - all of which can be fatal.
There's scary, and then there's the "you go to elevate the fracture and risk unroofing the sinus, losing 2 liters of blood in a minute" scary.
The surgeons likely had their hands full and did an amazing job. Divine providence called many heroes into service that day. Damn fine work.
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456 PATIENTS DIED
This is one of the biggest medical scandals in British history and there is a decent chance you have never heard of it.
Between 1988 and 2000, patients admitted to Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire for things like hip fractures and chest infections were routinely put on syringe drivers pumping a steady stream of diamorphine, a powerful opioid. Many were not in pain. Most died within days of being hooked up.
Nurses noticed straight away. In 1988, staff on the Redclyffe Annexe told their managers something was badly wrong. They told their union, the Royal College of Nursing. They kept raising it for years. Management's response was to tell them to stop making waves.
The doctor overseeing the prescribing was Dr Jane Barton. In 2010 the General Medical Council @gmcuk found her guilty of serious professional misconduct in the care of 12 patients. She was not struck off. She retired instead, presumably somewhere with no syringe drivers.
3 separate police investigations by Hampshire Constabulary went absolutely nowhere across 3 decades. Zero prosecutions. Grieving families asking why their relatives died 5 days after routine surgery were treated as the problem.
Then in 2018, after a 4 year inquiry costing 14 million pounds, the Gosport Independent Panel confirmed what those nurses said in 1988.
456 patients died after being given opioids with no medical justification. The panel said probably 200 more died the same way, but their records had gone missing, because of course they had.
Kent Police @kent_police then launched Operation Magenta, reviewing over 750 patient records, taking 1200 witness statements and eventually naming 24 suspects. In November 2025, 7 years into that investigation and 37 years after the first nurse spoke up, police told the families of 101 patients there would be no charges. Their cases did not meet the evidential test. The rest remain under review, with the Crown Prosecution Service @CPSUK holding the final say on any charges, whenever that call finally comes.
So here is where things stand. A regulator confirmed the misconduct. A panel confirmed the cover-up. Nurses were proven right 30 years after the fact. And to this date, not one person has been prosecuted for any of the 456 deaths.
If you raise a concern about patient safety and get ignored for 3 decades, congratulations, you were right all along. Doesn't bring anyone back though.
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