Retired Master Mariner & Offshore Construction Manager. Rational optimist. Former 1970s member of GreenPeace & FoE. CO2 GHG theory grossly exaggerated.
Lancashire, England
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John Stretch retweeted
This is Nagasaki in 2026. Imagine if they spent the past 80 years wallowing in self-pity and blaming the US? It's incredible what you can accomplish when you decide to pick yourself up, move forward, and take responsibility for your own outcomes.
John Stretch retweeted
I don’t want to post the video. You’ve all seen it. But I do want to write a love letter…
Dear everyone in Britain, ( even you illegals)
Just so you understand. The poppy is for the boys who never got to grow old. For the boys who were still somebody’s baby, brother, uncle or father. More than 600,000 of them.
It doesn’t matter if you support war, hate your country, think you are a woman (even though you are a man). It doesn’t matter which God you pray to, or if you pray to none at all.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for, what climate narrative you believe, or whether you believe Israel should exist or not!
The poppy isn’t for you!
It’s for those who came before. Those who fought for your right to be weird, annoying or even foreign.
The poppy is how we say thank you. Thank you for giving us time, peace and choice.
And attempting to ban our poppy by declaring it politically divisive isn’t a move towards freedom. It is an act of suppression. Understand that.
The poppy is about love and loss. For you!
So stick your rainbow flags and every other flag where the sun doesn’t shine and just wear your poppy. Those boys did not die as symbols. They died for you!
Did you know that poppies grew across the battlefields where so many fell? As though even the land refused to forget the blood once given to defend it.
So the poppy is for them. For those who came before us and paid in youth, in hope, in breath, in blood, so that we might have the freedom to be arseholes.
So that we might even have the freedom to fight over the ridiculous, the inconsequential and the insane.
Revere it, celebrate it and wear it. The very least you can do is that.
Best
The ordinary people.
John Stretch retweeted
Extreme cold related deaths are responsible for 1.1M deaths in tropical (warm) Africa. Heat related deaths stand at just 36k.
Extreme heat/cold is not the culprit. It's moderate most of the times. Nevertheless, cold is more dangerous than heat- 9 times globally.
Extreme heat is putting pregnant women, newborns and children at growing risk.
New UN guidance will help countries track these risks, strengthen preparedness and take action to protect those most vulnerable to heat.
Details from @WHO: who.int/news/item/21-10-2026…
John Stretch retweeted
🇯🇵🇬🇧 What's happening to the UK is really sad.
I can't believe that such an ancient country is being lost to people who hate everything about it.
We Japanese stand with you and hope you can win it back before it's too late.
John Stretch retweeted
The daughter of one of the founding leaders of Hamas left Islam and converted to Christianity.
She explains how they are all raised to kill Jews and Christians.
They even have a different version of Jesus, where he will come back and ‘break the cross’, and help Muslims kill all Christians.
It really is a cult of death.
John Stretch retweeted
I want to do a simple survey...
Do you think Brexit has been a success?
I'll publish the result on Friday.
31%Yes
69%No
30,285 votes • Final results John Stretch retweeted
When a Flydubai flight FZ1073 suddenly plunged into a violent, steep dive - sending passengers flying and screaming in terror - most people would have frozen. Yaniv Hayun ran straight toward the danger.
With the aircraft hurtling downward, Yaniv managed to breach the cockpit with a crew member's help thanks to the Captain opening the door. Inside, chaos unfolded. Realizing a physical threat was actively compromising the flight, Yaniv did what had to be done: he fought the co-pilot, locked him in a chokehold, and dragged him out of the cockpit.
With nobody at the controls and seconds ticking away, Yaniv went back in and grabbed the yoke and pulled back to help level the aircraft.
His professional aviation experience? Zero. His qualifications? "I had seen Air Crash Investigation on TV."
Another qualified off duty pilot eventually stepped in to bring the aircraft down safely, but Yaniv's split-second bravery and iron-willed intervention stopped a catastrophe.
A husband. A father. An everyday passenger who faced the ultimate nightmare and chose courage.
Say his name so the whole world knows it: Yaniv Hayun.
John Stretch retweeted
Zack Polanski has repeatedly said that his family "fled the Nazis", but it's now emerged that all four of his grandparents were born in Britain, long before the war. dailysceptic.org/2026/10/02/…
John Stretch retweeted
Activist: "Beef is the least vegan thing on the planet."
Farmer: "What did he eat?"
Activist: "Who?"
Farmer: "The bullock. What's been in him for two years."
Activist: "Grass."
Farmer: "Grass, clover, a bit of hedge when he can reach it. Two years of nothing but plants. He's the strictest vegan on this farm and he's never once mentioned it."
Activist: "That's not the point."
Farmer: "It's the only point. You eat a plant and keep a tenth of what's in it. He's got four stomachs and a tank of bacteria that strips the lot and hands it back as fat and marbling. He's a plant with the hard work done."
Activist: "You're twisting it."
Farmer: "Your lunch was a bean that got boiled, a leaf that got washed and a tablet to replace what neither of them had. His was a hillside. One of you got the nutrition out of the plants, and it wasn't the one with the lanyard."
Activist: "Eating him isn't vegan."
Farmer: "It's the most vegan thing you'll ever do. A steak is six tonnes of grass with the roughage taken out. You've been eating the roughage and calling it the principle."
John Stretch retweeted
A quarter of 18 to 24 year olds have mental health problems.
2 million kids self-harm.
Those who screamed to close schools during Covid - and attacked those of us who said it was a terrible mistake - how do you feel now?
Sweden didn’t close a single school for under-16s.
John Stretch retweeted
It’s worth reading this brilliant article by @matthewsyed in the Sunday Times on how so many “hyperliberal” political leaders are the “true extremists of our age” and “defined by the tenets of wokeism” via net zero zealotry, trans ideology and open border illegal migration.
“I believe history will judge the likes of Cameron, Johnson, Trudeau, Hollande, Macron and von der Leyen as the most disastrous in postwar history.”
He says this as an old school liberal. He’s absolutely correct.
John Stretch retweeted
My list of the five most evil people ever to have lived, from least to most evil:
5. Adolf Hitler
4. JK Rowlling
3. Margaret Thatcher
2. Sidney Sweeney
1. Ed Sheeran
John Stretch retweeted
Absolute nonsense. Net zero is costing the taxpayer an absolute fortune and it won’t make a blind bit of difference apart from lining the pockets of the corporations who receive government contracts - funded by us. It’s a gigantic virtue-scam at our expense.
John Stretch retweeted
There is no greater HYPOCRISY than criticizing House of Lords until they sit in the House of Lords.
