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Sad to hear a man has died after his car was crushed by a falling tree at lunchtime in Abercorn Road Finchley N3
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A reminder in Dec 2023 when an ashen @SebGorka emerged after watching Hamas' own videos of the atrocities they committed on 7 Oct.
A man beheaded alive with a garden hoe, the bodies of dead babies, one in Mickey Mouse 🐭 pajamas.
He wishes Bibi @netanyahu will kill them all & "God bless Judeo-Christian civilisation." ✡️ ✝️
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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.
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The BBC has agreed to pay £400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7.
Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta.
Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as “evil”, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre.
When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was “too partial” to oversee it because she was Jewish.
She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it.
She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings.
The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as £400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism.
Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.
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A giant fin whale has been seen off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales.
Footage taken by Rhys Morgan, a videographer, shows the world’s second-largest animal expanding its pleats.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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Along with reading, writing, math, & science, #PublicSpeaking should be part of the core curriculum taught in every primary & grade school.
It builds confidence, and is a vital skill that everyone will use at some point in their life.
REPOST if you agree.
#PainlessPublicSpeaking
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The one place in modern life where the law obliges you to sit on wool is at thirty-five thousand feet, and the reason is fifty-five people who died on the ground at Manchester Airport in 1985 without the aircraft ever leaving the runway.
British Airtours Flight 28M was a Boeing 737 bound for Corfu. An engine blew on the take-off roll, the pilot aborted, and a fire took hold under the wing. The plane stopped, the doors opened, and the passengers had about a minute. What killed most of the fifty-five was not the fire outside. It was the cabin: the seat cushions, the wall panels and the overhead lockers, all polyurethane and plastic, which caught, melted and filled the aisle with hydrogen cyanide and black smoke so thick that people a few feet from an exit died in their seats. The investigators found bodies in a heap at the over-wing door.
The inquiry changed the rules on both sides of the Atlantic. Every seat cushion on every airliner had to be wrapped in a fire-blocking layer, and the covers over them had to meet a burn test that most synthetics could not pass. What passed, cheaply and without treatment, was wool. A wool and nylon blend, nine parts to one, is the standard airline seat cover to this day, because wool needs more oxygen to burn than there is in the air, chars rather than melts, and goes out when the flame is taken away. The aviation handbooks list it first. The upper cabin panels on a wide-body are often pure wool tapestry for the same reason.
So the airline that sells you a plastic cup and a nylon blanket seats you on a sheep, by law, because the last time a cabin was fitted in plastic it killed a planeload of holidaymakers who were still on the tarmac.
Your sofa, the one you fall asleep on with the heater going, is the 1985 seat.
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Why is a wealth tax evil?
There is no voluntary element to it. It is seizure of property.
It’s a thin line but most taxes are technically voluntary.
A person who doesn’t want to pay 40% income tax can withhold their labour at £50k. Many people do this.
A person who doesn’t want to pay stamp duty can decide not to buy a house. Millions of older people are currently refusing to downsize for this exact reason.
Many people refuse to buy a new car because of the 20% VAT on the purchase.
One of the reasons there’s no VAT on basic food, clothing and accommodation is because these things are not a choice. One of the reasons the first £12k isn’t taxed is because it’s deemed to be the poverty line and not a choice. The concept of voluntary participation is a built in consideration in a free market system.
Wealth taxes are different. The government reaches into your life and simply takes what they deem “fair”. There’s no transaction involved. There’s no choice in the matter. You have it, so they take it.
It breaches the concept of taxation being triggered through some sort of voluntary action.
It’s a slippery slope. Give government that power and who knows where it will end. Socialists minded people have proven time and time again they want it all.
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After the @UKLabour party got rid of Starmer, they had over 400 MPs from which to choose a new leader. Those MPs were so bereft of talent that the socialists had to connive in order to get @andyburnham into number 10. And now he's showing how unworldly and gormless he is.
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WATCH: @KemiBadenoch wipe the floor with Andy Burnham at PMQS 👇
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What will the Government’s Budget mean for hospitality and the night time economy?
Join the NTIA and Institute of Hospitality for a special webinar the day after the Budget, bringing together industry leaders to discuss the impact on taxation, operating costs, employment, investment and business confidence.
Hosted by Michael Kill, CEO of the NTIA, alongside a panel of hospitality experts.
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A rare moment of political courage in the British Parliament.
British MP Nick Timothy tells Muslims crying “Islamophobia” to shove it: “Muhammad was a false prophet. Britain is not bound by Islam or Sharia.”
What turned the nation that once set the standard for Western civilisation into a people that now hates its own history, sacrifices its own children, and bends the knee to those who want it destroyed?
Britain was the moral compass of the free world. Cold, reserved, unsentimental. Never stupid, never suicidal. While America turned the hamburger into a global brand, you drank tea with an accent that announced you as the heirs of Shakespeare, common law, parliamentary government and an empire that had shaped the modern world. You were not ashamed of what made you British. You treated it as a birthright.
What changed?
How did a people famous for the stiff upper lip become addicted to self-flagellation?
How did defending your borders, your culture and your own become a thought crime, while importing those who openly despise everything you represent became a civic virtue?
The moment anyone names the pattern, it is not outsiders who come for them. It is their own institutions.
You keep open the embassy of the Iranian regime that has plotted terror on British soil and called for the murder of Britons. You sanction the one ally that warned you and helped stop the attack. You send troops abroad while jihadists walk free on your streets. Anyone who points this out is branded the problem by the same establishment that created it.
Other nations should study Britain as a warning, not a model. Watch for the symptoms: when your elites treat your own people as the enemy. When patriotism becomes a sin and open borders a sacrament. When the votes of those who reject your civilisation matter more than the safety of those who built it. Britain chose that path. The results are no longer deniable.
Protect your own people first. Stop appeasing those who hate you.
Enough is enough is enough!
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Content by itself onstage may not be enough.
Live podcasts, ask-me-anything sessions, and attendee participation across the board.
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John Cowperthwaite did more for human prosperity than any development economist drawing a government salary ever managed, and he did it by refusing to do almost anything at all.
As Hong Kong's Financial Secretary from 1961 to 1971, Cowperthwaite ran one of the most radically free economies the modern world has ever seen. He kept taxes flat and low (the top income tax rate sat at 15%), ran consistent budget surpluses, abolished import tariffs, and blocked nearly every subsidy request that crossed his desk. When British civil servants demanded economic statistics to justify intervention, he refused to collect them. Not out of laziness. He genuinely believed that giving planners numbers gave them excuses.
The results? In 1960, Hong Kong's per capita income stood at roughly 28% of Britain's. By 1997, Hong Kong had surpassed Britain. That trajectory happened without natural resources, without foreign aid, and without a single five-year plan drafted by well-intentioned economists from Oxford. Hong Kong had a harbor, people willing to work, and a bureaucrat with enough intellectual discipline to keep the state out of their way.
Capital flows toward secure property rights and reliable rules, and flees the moment politicians start allocating it. Every industry Beijing picked as a "priority sector" during those same decades burned through subsidies and produced junk. Hong Kong's industries emerged organically, serving real demand, building real wealth.
You benefit from this history whether you know it or not, because Hong Kong's success gave the world a controlled experiment that still embarrasses every advocate of managed development. The control group thrived. The planned economies didn't.
Cowperthwaite retired to St Andrews, received a knighthood, and gave almost no interviews. That restraint was entirely in character.
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#OnThisDay 221 yrs ago in 1805 @RoyalNavy was successful in defeating the Franco-Spanish Fleet at #Trafalgar confirming British superiority of the seas. Lord Nelson died before the end, having done his duty, handing over Command to another great commander Admiral Collingwood.
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When I lived in Melbourne a restaurant opened up downstairs from our office.
The owner would go from table to table and introduce himself. He would ask where we worked and when we said in the building upstairs he would:
- bring out a free serving of fries or drinks
- discount something off the bill
- introduce us to his staff as a vip
- completely wave the bill if it was morning coffees.
It worked. We all went there almost every day.
About month 4 we would only see him in the restaurant every other day. Then once or twice a week.
By about 9months he was hardly there at all - he was opening another location.
The restaurant was always full of local workers and the discounts and freebies faded away as he did.
The following year he sold the business for several million. We discovered he had done this 6 times in 10 years.
Simple formula.
- focus on repeat business only.
- keep the menus simple and affordable (wood fired pizza, sandwiches, salads).
- win people over with special treats in the first 3 months.
- normalise in the next 6 months.
- Run the business profitably for 12 months.
- sell the business to a PE backed competitor.
He found what worked and he repeated it. Sometimes we overcomplicate success.
.@TalkTV @jkyleofficial October 21st Trafalgar Day ought to be a national holiday....
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What drives me absolutely insane is the lack of action on feedback on social media and in forms from event professionals.
I understand operations have priority, but getting attendees upset x2 means you lost thousands in CAC.
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Regarding posture, remember what your parents taught you: “Stand up straight!”
That’s not a problem for most presenters when there’s nothing between them & the audience.
But when a lectern is present, some speakers forget what their parents told them.
#PainlessPublicSpeaking
#PublicSpeaking
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The plate on every NHS leaflet in Britain was signed off with the food industry in the room.
Most people have never been told.
The Eatwell Guide, the picture of a plate divided into coloured slices, was launched by Public Health England in 2016. Sitting on the group that helped put it together were representatives of the food and drink industry, including the Food and Drink Federation and the British Retail Consortium. The finished plate tells people that just over a third of what they eat should be starchy food like bread, rice, pasta and potatoes, and still lists some fruit juice, sugar sweetened cereal and crackers as part of the picture.
The thinking goes back to 1983, when Britain first told the whole country to cut fat and eat more starch and fibre. A year later the government's own committee on medical aspects of food followed with official targets, and every guide since has been a variation on the same theme.
Starch is glucose with a few chemical bonds holding it together. Digestion breaks those bonds within minutes, blood sugar climbs and insulin follows, telling the body to store.
In 1980 fewer than one in ten adults in England were obese. Today it is more than one in four.
Forty years of the same plate, and it was never designed by the people eating off it.