Barry Whittingham 🇬🇧 (@bjwhittingham) 's Twitter Profile
Barry Whittingham 🇬🇧

@bjwhittingham

Lifelong cynic. Clean your room. Hail, Lobster!

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Chips fried in beef dripping were a different object to what passes for a chip today. Walk into a Whitby chippy in 1978. The fryer has been on since 11am. The fat in it is beef dripping, held at 180 degrees by a man in a white apron who has been frying chips since he was

Chips fried in beef dripping were a different object to what passes for a chip today.

Walk into a Whitby chippy in 1978. The fryer has been on since 11am. The fat in it is beef dripping, held at 180 degrees by a man in a white apron who has been frying chips since he was
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The year is 80 BC. You are a slave on a Roman estate. Your master eats reclining on cushions: suckling pig, lamb, oysters brought in from Baiae. You are fed puls. Puls is grain boiled in water until it forms a thick grey paste. You eat it in the morning. You eat it in the

The year is 80 BC. You are a slave on a Roman estate. Your master eats reclining on cushions: suckling pig, lamb, oysters brought in from Baiae. You are fed puls. Puls is grain boiled in water until it forms a thick grey paste. You eat it in the morning. You eat it in the
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The Domesday Book, compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086, contains an astonishingly detailed accounting of the livestock of England. Sheep: approximately 6.5 million. Cattle: approximately 1.2 million. Goats: approximately 120,000. Pigs: approximately 760,000. This was

The Domesday Book, compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086, contains an astonishingly detailed accounting of the livestock of England.

Sheep: approximately 6.5 million.

Cattle: approximately 1.2 million.

Goats: approximately 120,000.

Pigs: approximately 760,000.

This was
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Rome thought flogging a queen would silence her people. It did not. Her name was Boudicca. It means Victorious Woman. 🇬🇧 She was queen of the Iceni, a tribe that had lived in modern Norfolk for centuries. Her husband Prasutagus made a deal with Rome. When he died in AD 60, he

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The 5 Steps of Leftist Radicalization 1. Safe Spaces 2010-2015: Disagreement was reframed as harm and individuals were offered protection. 2. Cancel Culture 2015-2020: Ruin the lives of anyone with "harmful" ideas. 3. Censorship 2020-2022: People with "dangerous" and

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I don’t focus on Israel because it’s a Jewish nation. I focus on Israel because they’ve corrupted my nation’s Parliament and have effectively colonised our political process. I’ll stop talking about Israel when Israel gets the fuck out of my country’s politics.

I don’t focus on Israel because it’s a Jewish nation.

I focus on Israel because they’ve corrupted my nation’s Parliament and have effectively colonised our political process.

I’ll stop talking about Israel when Israel gets the fuck out of my country’s politics.
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Read this slowly. In 2020 the Bank of England created money at the push of a button. They bought government bonds at £100. Today they sold them for £23.41. Half a billion pounds. Gone before lunch. They printed it. They lost it. They billed you. Paid from your wage. Your

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Squeeze an extra £15,000 out of a nurse, a tradesman and an accountant through fiscal drag and then use it to fund welfare for fifteen people who are dependent on the state. You lose three votes. You gain fifteen. That is modern British democracy in a nutshell. Approximately

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Matt Jarbo freely admits saying some pretty dumb things. It's in his bio! But this has got to rank as one of the dumbest ones yet. 🤦‍♂️

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The uncivilised meat-eating barbarian is one of the oldest myths in the curriculum. The hairy savage on the steppe. The cattle-eater at the gate. The man who would not bow to the city. Nowhere does the myth fall apart faster than with the man it should fit best. In 1162, in a

The uncivilised meat-eating barbarian is one of the oldest myths in the curriculum. The hairy savage on the steppe. The cattle-eater at the gate. The man who would not bow to the city.

Nowhere does the myth fall apart faster than with the man it should fit best.

In 1162, in a
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Linoleic acid is the dominant fatty acid in seed oils. It is also one of the most abundant fatty acids stored in human body fat, where its concentration is a direct reflection of what you have been eating. In 1959, a measurement of linoleic acid in the subcutaneous adipose