In 1958 a British doctor handed the nation the reason it was getting fat. It thanked him by forgetting he existed. His name was Richard Mackarness, and before medicine he trained as a painter, studying under Mervyn Peake, the man who wrote Gormenghast. Then he changed course, qualified, and wrote a book with a title that still reads like a dare. Eat Fat and Grow Slim. The subtitle was cheekier still: Banting Up to Date, a nod to the Victorian undertaker who had cured his own obesity on meat and fat a century earlier and been ignored for it. Mackarness was picking up a thread the establishment had spent decades pretending not to see. His claim was simple and, to the dieticians of the day, outrageous. The thing fattening Britain was the carbohydrate, the bread and sugar and refined flour that humans had eaten in real quantity for only the thinnest sliver of their existence. Fat was close to innocent. He called the alternative the Stone Age diet: two million years as hunters, a few thousand as farmers, and a body that never got the memo about the switch. He was also writing on borrowed time, in the last years before the official war on fat: before the advice that swept dripping and butter from British kitchens and poured in margarine and industrial seed oils. He defended animal fat at the exact moment the establishment was lining up to condemn it. He had met the men doing this work too, crossing to America in 1958 to sit with the doctors he called the anti-cereal doctors, Donaldson among them, comparing patients who were losing weight while eating like lords. Then he pushed past weight altogether. As a psychiatrist at Park Prewett in Basingstoke he set up one of the first food allergy clinics the NHS had seen, and suggested something properly heretical: that some of the depression and fog filling his waiting room came straight off the dinner plate. He wrote it up in 1976 as Not All in the Mind, a title aimed at every colleague who had ever told a patient it was all in theirs. The verdict was a polite, immovable no. Not accepted, not adopted, filed under eccentric, while the nation was told to eat its wholemeal toast and fear the butter. The book sold anyway. People tried it, felt the difference, and never quite worked out why their doctor looked pained when they mentioned it. Mackarness died in 1996. The thing he was mocked for, that refined carbohydrate rather than fat sits behind much of modern metabolic disease, is creeping back into respectable conversation as though no one had said it first. Somebody did. He trained as a painter, and he saw the picture fifty years before the rest of the room.

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On the morning of November 30, 2021, a judge in a Frankfurt courtroom delivered a verdict no court anywhere in the world had ever delivered before. The defendant, a former ISIS member, was guilty of genocide. The specific crime: the death of a five-year-old Yazidi girl named Reda. He and his wife had purchased Reda and her mother as slaves in 2015. As punishment for wetting the bed, he chained the child outside in the open sun in Fallujah, Iraq — in heat that reached fifty-one degrees Celsius — and left her there until she died. Her mother survived. She testified. It was the first time any court anywhere had convicted an ISIS member of genocide. The first time any court had ruled in law that what was done to the Yazidi people constituted genocide. The path that made it possible to use that word, in that courtroom, six years after Reda died, leads back to a twenty-two-year-old Yazidi woman who decided, in December 2015, not to speak in generalities. Her name is Nadia Murad. She was born in Kocho — a small Yazidi village of about seventeen hundred people in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. On August 3, 2014, ISIS surrounded Kocho. They separated the men from the women and took the men to the edge of the village and shot them. They shot the older women too. Among the dead were six of Nadia's brothers and her mother. The younger women — Nadia among them — were loaded onto buses and driven to Mosul, where they were sold. She was twenty-one years old. She spent the next three months in captivity, passed between captors, until one day she found a door left unlocked and ran. A Muslim family in Mosul sheltered her at enormous risk to themselves and helped her escape. She crossed into northern Iraq, then a refugee camp, then Germany, which granted her asylum. She was free. She was also free to be silent. Most survivors of mass sexual violence choose silence — and that choice deserves every ounce of respect. Nadia Murad chose differently. On December 16, 2015, she walked into the chamber of the United Nations Security Council — accompanied by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney — and described what had been done to her and her community. She did not use diplomatic euphemisms. She did not speak in abstractions. She said the women had been sold. She said the children were as young as nine. She said her mother had been executed. She said what had been done to her. Then she made the demand her testimony had been built to make: international recognition that this was a genocide, and prosecution of those responsible. The room went silent. The transcript exists in the UN archives. That specificity was not accidental. Vague testimony cannot become evidence. A genocide conviction requires testimony precise enough for a judge to rule on intent, on system, on pattern. Nadia's testimony — and the testimony of survivors she helped gather in the years that followed — was precise enough to do exactly that work. In 2016, the UN Commission of Inquiry formally determined that ISIS's treatment of the Yazidis met the legal definition of genocide. The United States, the European Parliament, and the UK Parliament reached the same conclusion. In 2017, the UN established a specialized investigative body to collect evidence to courtroom standard. In 2018, Nadia Murad was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She used the acceptance speech to remind the room of the women still missing. And in 2021 in Frankfurt, in a case where Amal Clooney represented Reda's mother, the legal architecture built from that testimony produced the verdict that had never existed before. Further convictions have followed. Open prosecutions continue in multiple countries under universal-jurisdiction laws that allow genocide to be tried wherever the perpetrator is found. Nadia Murad is thirty-two years old. She continues to travel and testify and run Nadia's Initiative, which rebuilds water systems, clinics, and schools in the Sinjar region she came from. More than two thousand eight hundred Yazidi women and children are still missing or held in captivity. Mass graves are still being excavated. The first time a court used the word genocide for what was done to her people, the year was 2021. The first time anyone said it in a chamber where the law could hear it was December 16, 2015. The woman who said it was twenty-two years old. She did not speak in generalities. She spoke in names, and ages, and facts — and the law followed.

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game.

What dismal news that the Assisted Suicide bill is coming back. They are hoping to use the Parliamentary override to force it through without any of the improvements and safeguards offered in the Lords last time including by the Bill’s advocates like Lord Falconer. We’re going to be offered the same bill that left the Commons (left with lots of ‘oh the Lords will clean up that glaring problem, don’t worry just pass it’) on a take-it-or-leave-it, unamendable basis. Even if you accept the case for assisted dying this Bill is terrible, far too expansive and full of holes to be filled in after it’s in statute… but the advocates know they’ll never have a such a ‘progressive’ Parliament for years, so it’s now or never. So they’re trying to push through a dangerous bill that they admitted needed significant improvement, because it’s their last chance. They must be stopped.

Any attempt to impose mandatory Digital ID will be fully repealed, scrapped and eradicated by a Restore Britain Government.

🚨 Potential redundancies are up 62% in the last year under Labour. That figure comes directly from the Office for National Statistics. This should come as no surprise. The government made it more expensive to employ people. Businesses warned this would cost jobs and the government pressed ahead anyway. Now redundancies are rising and workers are paying the price. The question is not why this is happening. The question is why the Government seem determined to carry on regardless.

Can anyone explain what this means? £1,893,600 to "Justice in Critical Minerals Governance and Energy Transitions" "This fellowship responds to the dearth of knowledge that leads to deep contestations over the origins, meaning and purpose of ‘justice’ in the transitions to net zero emissions. It develops a unique methodology called Hermeneutical Ethnography, defined as the collection, co-creation, and analyses of verbal and non-verbal communications, silences and voices (e.g. texts, symbols, speech) to co-create meaning for justice. The methodology offers an exchange of meaning between the producer, author or storyteller and the audience, which if holistically interpreted, allows them to share a deep sense of reality, whether fictional or factual. It enables the collection and analysis of aspirations that would otherwise be restrained in formal research designs. This FLF’s innovative methodology will capture and synthesise the ‘voices’ and ‘silences’ of people who are impacted but would otherwise not be heard in policymaking. Its premise: the impact of the extractive industry on the environment and society causes avoidable losses to biodiversity, livelihoods and socio-political order; inadequate granular data and the unsystematic consideration of local communities’ perspectives in decision-making account for the persistent grievances and violent protests that respond to these impacts." gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=UK…

🚨Breaking: 17 year old gang raped by between 4 or 5 illegal migrants in Arbroath Police have asked NOT to share this information. Please share far and wide! @KevinTheRanter

JUDGE LORD JUSTICE TIMOTHY HOLROYDE This is the judge who REFUSED Lucy Connolly her appeal after she was convicted for a social media post. Meanwhile this very same judge CUT the sentence of Labour's Lord Ahmed by THREE YEARS after he was convicted of child sex offences. His sentence was reduced to just two and a half years from five and half years.

#Pfizer erased him! How Pfizer and EU officials silenced a critical voice during the ongoing scandal surrounding vaccine contracts and transparency. Redacted documents, evasive answers, and missing communications with Pfizer CEO Bourla — the pattern of cover-ups continues.

Classic Konstantin Kisin street interview. Bloke marching with a big sign demanding a “socialist intifada” for the New Workers’ Party. Kisin: “What’s a socialist intifada?” Bloke: “If I’m being honest with you, I just got this at the stand over there… I don’t actually know the definition of the word intifada.”😂🤣 Zero clue what he’s chanting for, but the sign looked revolutionary so why not? Peak protest cosplay. The slogans are loud, the understanding… nonexistent. Much love and respect to @KonstantinKisin @triggerpod 👊🏼

"women and children naked, shackled, being whipped" Muslim slave raids on Europe were massive and savage. Ottomans, Tatars and Barbary pirates enslaved over a million whites in one century alone. History they hide while telling us Islam is peaceful. @RaymondIbrahim5

350.000 signatures! A huge thank you to the 350.000 patriots who have already joined the Save Europe Act. Every signature strengthens our movement and sends a clear message that Europeans want their voices to be heard. The momentum is growing across the continent. 350.000 down. Next stop: 500.000.

“Remigration is not extreme. Becoming a minority in my own homeland is extreme.” “Your smears are powerless.” Immediate follow.

HORRIFYING: Yasmeen Khan, owner of a beauty salon, offered free courses to young Christian and Hindu women to lure them in. Once there, she drugged their drinks. When they lost consciousness, she called her husband Mohammed Khan, who raped them while she stood watch at the entrance. They recorded the abuses to blackmail them and force them to have relations with more Muslim men. When questioned, Yasmeen justified the crimes by saying that helping to rape "infidel girls" would lead her to Paradise. This is Islam.

This is the video Andy Burnham doesn’t want you to see 👇

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For thirty-five years it was illegal to put a particular red dye in your lipstick, because it caused cancer in laboratory animals. It stayed perfectly legal to put the same dye in sweets aimed at children. The dye is Red 3, the bright cherry colouring known in the trade as erythrosine. In 1990 the American regulator banned it from cosmetics and skin creams, having accepted that it caused thyroid cancer in rats. There is a law, the Delaney Clause, that is meant to be simple. If an additive causes cancer in people or animals, it should not be in the food supply. So it came out of the lipstick. It stayed in the food. Sweets, cakes, frostings, some medicines, the cheerful red things pointed straight at children. For more than three decades the very same substance was judged too dangerous to wear on your lips and perfectly fine to feed to a five-year-old. It took until January 2025, after a campaign group filed a formal petition, for the regulator to finally pull it from food as well. Manufacturers have until 2027 to take it out. For thirty-five years the system held two positions at once. Too risky for your face. Acceptable for your child's mouth. And it took an outside group, not the regulator, to finally force the contradiction shut. These are the people whose judgement you are told to trust completely on butter, beef and salt. Bear that in mind.

£5,778,570 from Buckinghamshire Council to one taxi firm in 2025, across 3,215 transactions. That's an average of £1,797.38 per transaction. And yet people are saying there is nothing wrong here.