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Why You Should Always Poo Whenever You Feel The Urge To Go
It’s hard to think about anything else when your bowel habits are off. But one doctor recommends giving yourself a break – and rethinking how you approach the way you poop going forward.
Gastroenterologist Dr. Trisha Pasricha, makes the case for changing up the way you poop in her upcoming book, You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy.
In fact, she swears that “pooping without judgment” is the way to go, noting that people – especially women – should think about their bowel habits less.
Data suggests that up to 20% of Americans have chronic constipation, meaning they regularly have trouble pooping, don’t poop often or feel like they don’t get everything out when they go. Women in particular face unique biological challenges that can make healthy bowel habits harder to achieve, Pasricha said.
That includes having more mast cells in the gut, which raises the odds of experiencing gut discomfort compared to men. Many women face GI symptoms like constipation, diarrhoea, and increased gas around their period, too.
“Progesterone levels rise and fall throughout the menstrual cycle every month, and this directly impacts how quickly the stomach empties and how sluggish the intestines feel,” Pasricha told HuffPost.
Prostaglandins, the compounds responsible for period cramps, also stimulate contractions in the gut, she points out. “That can cause diarrhoea at the most inopportune times,” Pasricha said.
If you’re dealing with bowel issues or if you simply feel a little concerned that your pooping habits aren’t up to snuff, Pasricha said it’s time for a change. Here’s what she suggests:
Stop assigning judgment to pooping and allow yourself to go whenever the urge strikes
Pasricha’s philosophy on “pooping without judgment” means a few different things.
“I want people to define a normal bowel habit by what’s comfortable for them, rather than by measuring yourself against some imaginary standard of ‘normal’ that likely doesn’t exist,” Pasricha explained.
“In my clinic, I find people often spend a lot of energy worrying that they should be pooping once a day like clockwork, or that their stool should look a certain way, or that needing a laxative is some kind of personal failure.”
Research suggests that there is a wide range of normal when it comes to pooping habits. What’s considered healthy for bowel movements can mean anywhere from pooping three times a day to three times a week.
“The range of ‘normal’ is enormous,” Pasricha said. “It’s going to vary so much for each individual – and will likely fluctuate over time – because of your diet, exercise, stress and other lifestyle factors that influence the pattern.” What really matters is whether your bowel movements are comfortable and whether they’re interfering with your life, she added.
But there’s more to pooping without judgment than that. “Pooping without judgment also means feeling free to respond to the call of nature without shame,” Pasricha said.
“People are so mortified to use the bathroom at work or at a friend’s house. That leaves you with such a limited window in which to finish your business and your body isn’t always primed to go when you decide it’s the optimal moment from a social standpoint.”
She stressed the importance of removing judgment for yourself and others when you do what your body needs you to do. “Spritz a little bathroom spray, give a courtesy flush and move on,” Pasricha said.
“Spritz a little bathroom spray, give a courtesy flush and move on.”
– Gastroenterologist Dr. Trisha Pasricha
Why is judging pooping bad for your gastrointestinal health?
Pasricha stressed that you can’t have comfortable, effortless bowel habits unless pooping is the least of your concerns – and that you just go when your body is ready.
“Suppose your body signals to you that you need to use the bathroom in the middle of the work day and you are worried about using the bathroom for fear of judgment,” she said. “Eventually, your colon may stop squeezing, which is what gives you that feeling of urgency, and you’ll feel like you can get back to normal so you can do your business at a more appropriate time later.”
Here’s the problem: Even though it may feel more socially appropriate to use the bathroom when you get home, it’s not necessarily best for your body.
“Once you get home from work, your colon is no longer offering you that extra ‘push,’ so you’re going to have to strain harder for the magic to happen,” Pasricha said.
Regularly avoiding the urge to go raises the odds you’ll end up dealing with constipation, too. This is because stool becomes drier and harder when it sits in your rectum, making it harder to push out than if you had simply gone to the bathroom when you had the urge to go, Pasricha explained.
What’s normal (and not) with poop changes
In general, Pasricha said you should simply do your business when the need strikes and move on. But it’s understandable to check out what lands in the toilet bowl.
There is a range of consistency, patterns and colours that are considered normal, according to Pasricha. But if you’ve spied something that’s concerning, she recommends taking a picture to show to your doctor.
“Red, maroon or black stool has me worried for bleeding, and you should seek help immediately,” Pasricha said. But bowel movements that wake you up in the middle of the night or severe abdominal pain should also be checked out quickly.
“Outside of these bigger red flags, any symptom that bothers you or interferes with how you’re enjoying your daily life is worth discussing with your physician,” Pasricha said.
“Even if it seems like ‘no big deal,’ if any discomfort, bloating, or other pattern related to your bowels is keeping you from enjoying activities you love or causing you significant distress, talk to someone sooner rather than later.”
A host of Labour cabinet members are set to lose their seats to both Reform UK and the Greens at the next election, according to a new mega poll.
The More in Common study suggests Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting and Yvette Cooper are among those who could be kicked out by voters at the next election.
Labour leadership hopeful and former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner would also lose her seat, as would John Healey, Ed Miliband, Hilary Benn and Darren Jones.
Although Keir Starmer would be re-elected in the traditionally safe Labour seat of Holborn and St Pancras, his majority would be slashed.
Reform would win a staggering 324 seats – just short of an overall Commons majority – while the Greens would see their number of MPs quadruple to 21, the poll said.
However, Labour would plummet from 411 seats to just 102, with the Tories also falling to 81, the Lib Dems on 62 and the SNP on 26.
The findings are another blow to Keir Starmer and come less than a month before voters in England, Scotland and Wales go to the polls for crunch elections on May 7.
Around 15,000 people were polled by More in Common, who used the so-called MRP method to calculate their results.
This gives a seat-by-seat breakdown, based on the social and demographic make-up of each constituency, to come up with its forecast and is generally seen as the most accurate type of opinion poll.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that, almost as often as writers pinch Jane Austen’s most famous opening line, new adaptations must join the already hefty pile.
And this is especially true at the present moment, after last year marked the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth. While most of us settle for a bottle of pinot down the pub, for Austen, the celebrations of her semiquincentennial include a fresh Hollywood movie and the Netflix treatment for a fan-favourite novel.
The latest spin on Austen’s work is the new BBC series The Other Bennet Sister, which taps into the POV of the sidelined Pride & Prejudice sister, Mary.
Starring Ruth Jones as Mrs Bennet and Call The Midwife actor Ella Bruccoleri as the titular character, many fans have already torn through the series and are on the hunt for more where that came from.
If that sounds familiar, you may well be looking for your next Austen fix right now. Luckily, there’s plenty to look forward to this year – here’s what else you can look forward to getting stuck into…
Netflix’s Pride & Prejudice is coming to our screens soon
After recruiting Dakota Johnson for a tepidly-received film version of Jane Austen’s 1817 novel Persuasion, Netflix is having another go at bringing Austen’s work to life on screen.
This time around, Everything I Know About Love author Dolly Alderton has written a six-part TV adaptation of Pride & Prejudice that will arrive at a currently undisclosed date later this year.
The Crown’s Emma Corrin will play Elizabeth Bennet while Slow Horses star Jack Lowden will follow in Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen’s footsteps to portray Mr Darcy.
Meanwhile, Olivia Colman and Rufus Sewell will play Mrs and Mr Bennett, respectively, with Heartstopper’s Rhea Norwood and Industry’s Freya Mavor also appearing as Lydia and Jane Bennett.
The star-studded series will also include appearances from Daryl McCormack, Jamie Demetriou, Louis Partridge and Black Mirror’s Siena Kelly.
Describing Pride & Prejudice as the “blueprint for romantic comedy”, Dolly has teased what we can expect “both familiar and fresh” ideas in her take on Austen’s classic.
“In it lies the opportunity to examine the complexities of love, family, friendship, and society, while aspiring to Austen’s delightfully observational voice,” she enthused.
Another Hollywood spin on one of Jane Austen’s most popular books is also in the works
If you’re more in the market for a big screen-adaptation, there’s also a new Sense And Sensibility movie on the way this September.
Austen’s 1811 novel centres on the Dashwood sisters, after they and their widowed mother have become destitute following the death of their father, resulting in them moving to a modest cottage on their cousin’s estate.
Naturally, being an Austen novel, the sisters also navigate suitors of varying morals and suitability.
The 2026 adaptation is led by BAFTA-nominated Blue Jean director Georgia Oakley, with Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones and Hanna star Esmé Creed-Miles starring as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.
Meanwhile, George MacKay, Fiona Shaw, Caitríona Balfe and Frank Dillane are also in the cast.
The 2026 adaptation is the first major take on Austen’s novel since Ang Lee’s 1995 adaptation, featuring Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman, which picked up seven Oscar nominations and 12 Bafta nods at the time.
What about a season 2 of The Other Bennet Sister?
Unfortunately, that’s not looking likely.
The TV series is adapted from Janice Hadlow’s book of the same name, with the events of pretty much the whole novel being covered over the course of the 10 episodes.
Screenwriter Sarah Quintrell did tell Radio Times that she would “love to do more” shows like The Other Bennet Sister, but clarified that she meant “more stories taking a different angle” on classic tales we already know and love, rather than specifically more shows set in the Pride & Prejudice universe.
There’s also a spruced-up Pride & Prejudice audiobook you can enjoy right now
If it’s even more stars you’re after, perhaps you’d be interested in the revamped audiobook of Pride & Prejudice, which features a bunch of the biggest new acting names as well as a few legends.
Alright, so technically this was released in 2025, but we reckon it’s new enough to pique your interest if you’re still coming off the Other Bennett Sister high.
Audible’s reading of the novel sees Industry star Marisa Abela take on the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet, with Babygirl’s Harris Dickinson joining her as Mr Darcy.
Elsewhere, Will Poulter voices Mr Wickham, while Oscar-winner Jessie Buckley is Caroline Bingley, Glenn Close stars as Lady Catherine De Bourgh, and Mr and Mrs Bennett are played by Bill Nighy and Marianne Jean-Baptiste
The Other Bennet Sister is streaming now on BBC iPlayer.
If there’s one statement parents have probably heard a lot these past two weeks, it’s “I’m bored” – usually with the added request of “will you play with me?” tagged onto the end.
But often we’re working, or trying to catch up on an admin list that’s as long as our arm (and the rest), or doing chores, so it’s not always possible to down tools and get stuck in.
While turning the TV on or handing over an iPad can feel like a simple fix (hey, we’ve all been there), experts are increasingly nudging parents to try and reduce kids’ screen time where possible.
So, if your children say they’re bored, how’s best to respond?
Get them thinking about what they want to learn
Yes, there’s the age-old classic of: “Great, grab the vacuum!”
But children’s author Ty Allan Jackson suggests you could say something along the lines of: “Wow. That’s awesome. What a great opportunity for you to be creative.”
And then he suggests you ask them a simple question: “What is something you wish you knew how to do?”
In a reel on Instagram, the TedX Presenter said: “That question will get them thinking and give you directions on how to entertain them, or better yet, on how they can entertain themselves.”
Of course, there’s every possibility they’ll respond with a shrug or an “I don’t know.”
But some parents have found it successful. One user, known as @mom.outofoffice, said she tried the ‘Wow method’ with her daughter and, admittedly, the first time she asked the question her daughter “just stared” at her.
“But then she said she wanted to learn how to use the coffee machine. We tried it together, and soon she was making it by herself,” said the parent. “Before I knew it… she had turned our kitchen into a full-on coffee shop. And wow… it became one of her favourite ways to play.”
Boredom is good for kids (yes, really)
Neuroscientist Alicia Walf, a researcher in the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, told Forbes boredom is critical for brain health, noting it can improve social connections and foster creativity, too.
According to psychiatrist and author Dr Carl Marci, letting your kids figure out how to keep boredom at bay could be far more beneficial than stepping in for them.
When his children tell him he’s bored, he’ll urge them to go and figure out how to deal with it – but without technology or something connected to the internet.
“They get mad at me,” Dr Marci previously told HuffPost UK, “but after a few minutes, they start to creatively solve their problems or distract themselves with social interaction or play.”
Bring on the summer holidays…
Police have today, 11 April 2026, arrested Lisa Minerva Luxx under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. Luxx is a spokesperson for the ‘Filton 24 Defence Committee’ working to free Palestine Action activists imprisoned without trial for almost two years.
Filton 24 organiser arrested
The High Court ruled the government’s terrorism ban on Palestine Action unlawful. The government is appealing the decision, but the Filton 24 prisoners were arrested before the ban and are not charged with terrorism offences. Several have been acquitted and were granted bail while the Starmer regime tries to re-prosecute. At least one, former hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah, was rearrested shortly after being granted bail.
The Filton 24 ‘Defend and Mobilise’ support group said:
This state harassment comes just two days before the retrial of six of the Filton24 defendants.
Being detained under Schedule 7 means counter-terror police can interrogate for hours, without the right to say ‘no comment’.
The circumstances of the arrest have not been confirmed. However, it appears that Luxx was arrested while entering or leaving the UK. The ‘counterterrorism policing’ website says of Schedule 7:
Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 provides police officers with unique powers to examine people who pass through the United Kingdom’s borders. It allows them to stop, question and when necessary, search and detain individuals and goods travelling through the UK’s borders to determine whether they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
The Starmer government has frequently used Schedule 7 against journalists and others to interrogate them without legal representation and because of its provisions making it a criminal offence to refuse to disclose passwords. Border police have used it for harassment and for ‘fishing expeditions’ to go through a journalist’s or activist’s contacts and communications. Some have refused to disclose passwords but no one has yet been prosecuted for it.
Featured image via the Canary
On 4 April, we covered the accusation that Your Party’s Jeremy Corbyn had endorsed three ex-Tories in the upcoming local elections. As we reported at the time, Your Party (YP) and Corbyn denied that they’d endorsed these men, but the situation was clearly more complicated than they cared to admit.
Now — a week later — we’re reporting on the accusation that YP have endorsed three ex-Tories in the upcoming local elections.
But for clarity’s sake, that’s three entirely different ex-Tories.
Because apparently we’re stuck in some sort of Groundhog Day-type scenario:
‼️Your Party endorses three MORE ex-Tories 😂
🔵Oldham: Graham Sheldon, Tory Cllr until 2025
🔵Pendle: Mohammed Adnan, Tory Cllr until 2022
🔵Birmingham: Obaydul Kabir ran for Tories in 2022 pic.twitter.com/Odp2cmXHn1
— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 10, 2026
The difference this time is not all of these men are independents; Obaydul Kabir is a “Your Party Candidate”.
The other difference is that not all of three of these men are running in the 2026 local elections as far as we can tell.
As we’ll get into, things are once again a bit of a mess.
Obaydul Kabir
Obaydul Kabir is named on the Your Party list of endorsed independents:
It’s easy to confirm that Kabir was a Conservative because his old posts are still up on his Facebook. The following is what he’s posting now:
These posts, meanwhile, are from 2022:
Fair play to him; Your Party’s man does not abide fly tipping.
Garbage aside, Kabir was a certified Tory, and yet Your Party have endorsed him.
Embarrassingly, they’ve done so despite all the controversy last week; controversy which should have given them the kick up the arse needed to stop this happening.
Currently, we can’t say if the endorsement happened because they don’t care or because they think ‘vetting‘ is something that happens to pets. We did send them a right of reply at 9:00am Saturday 11 April, but at the time of publishing they hadn’t responded.
Graham Sheldon
First things first, here’s the list of independent groups endorsed by Your Party as of today’s date (11 April):
Using the Wayback Machine, we can see this list looked pretty different on 8 April:
Looking into Graham Sheldon, we can see that he’s currently a Saddleworth South councillor, with his party listed as ‘Oldham Group’ (he’s also listed on the Oldham Group page). Despite listing him as part of the Oldham Group, his council page states the following (presumably he forgot to update it):
On why Sheldon is no longer a Tory, the BBC wrote this in January 2025:
The leader of Oldham Council’s Conservative group has resigned after police were called following a heated council meeting.
The meeting on 18 December had to be adjourned after members of the public and councillors hurled abuse at each other following a debate about housing and planning.
Councillor Graham Sheldon, who has stepped down both as leader and as a member of the Conservative group, said he believed “the actions of two members of my group caused the mayhem and deterioration of the meeting”.
“Mayhem and deterioration” were the Tories’ mission statement when they were in power, so we don’t know what he was complaining about.
That aside, Sheldon was a Tory, and Your Party were — at one point — endorsing his group.
Here’s the thing, though; we’re not sure Sheldon is running in this year’s elections. Oldham Times lists all of the councillors running, and Sheldon isn’t on there (despite several of his Oldham Group comrades appearing). He’s also not listed on Who Can I Vote For?.
Fair’s fair, it doesn’t seem to be accurate to say that YP have endorsed the ex-Tory Graham Sheldon for the 2026 local elections.
It is, however, accurate to say that YP briefly endorsed an independent group which included him (although they don’t seem to endorse them anymore).
Confusing stuff, anyway!
And it all could have been avoided if Your Party had vetted its own candidates instead of throwing its support behind independents.
We don’t know who needs to hear this, but ‘independent’ is not a synonym for ‘socialist’.
Mohammed Adnan
For this feller, we’re once again looking at the Your Party-endorsed community groups. YP listed the following group on 8 April:
Pendle Community Independents
As with the Oldham Group, however, Pendle are no longer listed on the endorsement list.
On the Pendle Borough Council website, this collective is referred to as the ‘Independent Group‘. From their Facebook, however, we can see that the Pendleton Community Independents and the Pendleton Independent Group are one and the same.
On his journey from Tory to independent, we can see that Adnan took issue with the PM in 2022, as reported by Burnley Express:
Southfield and Marsden ward councillor Mohammed Adnan has resigned as a Conservative councillor and joined the Labour group on Pendle Council.
Coun. Adnan explained that he had become tired of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and accused his former Pendle Conservative colleagues of not speaking up.
More of that notorious mayhem and deterioration, we see.
In his own words, Adnan said:
Over the past 12 months I have like many local people become tired of the manner in which Boris Johnson and the Conservatives have lurched from crisis to crisis at the expense of hard-working people in my ward.
Unfortunately, the Pendle Conservatives leadership have decided not to speak up against the wrong and damaging decisions made by their government which they appear to be happy to implement. I believe the Labour Party offer the hope we need in Pendle.
We’re not sure when Adnan quit Labour for the Community Independents, but did end up in the group – a group which Your Party would later briefly endorse.
As was the case with Sheldon, however, Adnan is not listed as a candidate for the 2026 local elections.
So all in all, Your Party seem to have endorsed just one ex-Tory in the upcoming elections.
As we’re sure any YP member will tell you, though, that’s one ex-Tory too many.
Other updates from Your Party
On 4 April, we covered the accusation that Jeremy Corbyn had endorsed the Walsall Community Independents — a group which included three ex-Tories (or would include three ex-Tories — the timeline was hard to pin down).
At the time, we said that endorsing independent candidates and groups which don’t have to align with YP politics would cause problems. Now, a week later, we’ve been proven entirely correct.
This is what Your Party told us last week:
Neither Jeremy nor Your Party has endorsed these candidates in Walsall. Any suggestion otherwise should be immediately corrected.
No permission has been given for Jeremy’s name to be used on any individual candidate’s leaflet.
As we reported:
- Corbyn spoke at a Walsall Community Independents Group meeting at which the ex-Tories were present.
- The Walsall Community Independents promoted this meeting online and claimed that Corbyn was supporting them in the upcoming local elections.
- No one at Your Party or Team Corbyn seemed to take issue with this claim.
Since then, further evidence has come out that Your Party did indeed endorse the Walsall Community Independents:
‼️NEW | Leaked Your Party documents confirm the party **did** endorse Walsall Independents, which includes three councillors who were Tories until 2026.
YP claimed they had NOT endorsed Walsall Independents. But a leaked web page (now deleted, but archived), shows they did… pic.twitter.com/djRNK1ptkp
— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 8, 2026
Now, one might say: Eleanora, why does this matter?
Well, I’d say it is rather significant that the party led by a former Labour leader got caught with their pants down, and instead of admitting their mistake they lied through their teeth and tried to cover it up. Bad look.
— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 8, 2026
Independents will keep embarrassing YP as long as the party keeps endorsing them, because these footloose and fancy-free politicians are independent from having to give a shit.
Your Party — Clown-show
As we said last week, we don’t think that Corbyn was introduced to the three ex-Tory councillors and immediately started rubbing his hands together with glee at the prospect of endorsing them. At the same time, YP’s insistence on backing independents is quite clearly doomed to these sorts of embarrassing outcomes — especially when combined with a lax attitude towards vetting.
We’re sure people would prefer that we keep looking the other way, but we’re not going to do that. The left has won the argument at this point; what we need to achieve next is competence.
In other words, don’t turn up in a clown car if you don’t want us to start whistling circus music.
Featured image via Obaydul Kabir (Facebook)
A direct action activist in Ireland has used a hammer to damage a US warplane on the tarmac in Shannon airport. While posturing as opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and US assistance for Israeli aggression, the Dublin government has allowed continued US use of Irish airports to supply Israel and attack peaceful nations.
Just last week, Irish anti-genocide activists called for “more actively disruptive protests” against Ireland’s collaboration in US crimes. Today, 11 April 2026, they appear to have got their wish as footage posted by Irish anti-Zionist ‘Páddafi’ shows the black-clad protester hammering away at the stabilisers of the military transport aircraft:
The US warplane in question had been identified this morning, after its overnight arrival in Shannon, by the ‘Shannonwatch’ human rights group:
US Air Force C-130H Hercules 91-1653 landed at Shannon yesterday from Rosecrans Air National Guard air base St Josephs Kansas, via St. John’s Canada. It spent the night at Shannon, and hasn’t yet gone in to its next military base.#USMilitaryOutOfShannon pic.twitter.com/BkllQx68HX
— Shannonwatch (@shannonwatch) April 11, 2026
The Irish government — and the craven Starmer regime in the UK — must stop enabling US wars of aggression and equipping of genocide.
Featured image via the Canary
People on social media have noticed that the winners of Nigel Farage’s energy bill prize are the same people pictured with the Reform leader at a Brexit party rally in 2019:
Left: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick meet the winners of Reform UK’s competition to have your energy paid for the whole year
Right: Here are the two winners with Nigel Farage at a Brexit Party rally in Fylde on the 4th May 2019
Credits to @linfitlass @donmcgowan for putting… pic.twitter.com/k5gZblNK5U
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) April 10, 2026
There’s more to it
While this is interesting, it may be a coincidence. There are other important points to consider. Reform have offered a lottery (where the winning household gets last years’ annual energy bill paid) that may amount to the electoral offences of ‘treating’ or a ‘bribe’, as pointed out by Karl Turner MP. Under the 1983 Representation of the People’s Act, it is an offence to offer money in order to influence someone’s vote.
On top of that, the gimmick shows that Reform have little to offer the country. Instead of dropping energy bills nationwide through public ownership, the party is giving everyone who enters the lottery false hope. That’s because only one household will actually win. And the winners turned out to be longterm Farage loyalists.
Such a lottery is a con job — like the whole gambling industry. That industry is only profitable because the odds are highly stacked against the player. Indeed, Farage has long spoken in favour of the gambling industry. In 2025, at Reform’s business conference, he said:
What I would say about the high street is that one of the things that does still survive is the bookmaker shop – which actually, for a lot of lonely people, is a place they can go in and meet people.
Farage’s current system is a gamble of birthright
It’s no wonder that Farage is pro-gambling because the addictive process is emblematic of the neoliberal capitalist system he supports. The system we live under is largely a lottery of birthright whereby, in the UK alone, 60% of private wealth is inherited.
And is it possible for most people to take ownership of their labour through their own business? No: 90% of bank lending goes to finance or inflating the price of pre-existing assets, rather than enabling small businesses to thrive. Also, 85% of start ups initially rely on personal capital, most of which is inherited, while 43% of 500 surveyed business founders have said they started their venture with family wealth.
Neoliberal capitalism is largely a gamble of birthright. And private-schooled Farage wants to uphold his position within it through pretending to be an anti-establishment counter offer.
Featured image via the Canary
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A user of the Bloomin’ Algae app has reported the year’s first sighting of blue-green algae at Lough Neagh, a reminder that the pollution crisis on the water body is not yet averted. The app is used for:
…reporting the presence of blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria. The app helps speed up public health warnings about harmful algal blooms and can help teach you how to recognise the risks to you, children and animals.
It lists the dangers of the substance as:
…skin rashes, eye irritations, vomiting and diarrhoea, fever and pains in muscles and joints.
It further states:
Blue-green algae have caused the deaths of dogs, horses, cattle, birds and fish across the UK.
You can see the user’s image below:
The photo shows growth that might not look like much at the moment. However, once it expands, the vast coating of green sludge can appear like something from a horror film, choking marine life around it.
The lough, which is the largest freshwater body in Europe, has been devastated by the toxic algae in recent years. Polluting agro-business has been a key contributor following huge expansion since 2010. This includes a 72% increase in pig and poultry production in the decade that followed that year.
Lough Neagh — Plans for vast new factory farm
Politicians had for years been relaxed about the resulting vast torrent of shit these factory farms pump into local rivers and lakes. This has ultimately ended up in the lough, with the subsequent wreckage done to an area of considerable beauty which is home to a large variety of wildlife.
The spotting of the algae comes as architects have submitted to Mid Ulster District Council proposals for a vast new mass murder facility near the lough. The proposal calls for a torture and death camp that will house 49,000 chickens in likely atrocious conditions.
People Before Profit (PBP) have launched a campaign aimed at blocking the abomination. They say:
Lough Neagh is already in a state of crisis, poisoned by effluent from existing factory farms which have been proven time and time again to bring pollution and other ecological harm.
Another major factory farm with capacity for nearly 50,000 chickens is now being planned beside the Lough. Out of around 25,000 active farms in the north, this new development would be in the top 1% of largest farms.
A giant factory farm like this, holding 49,000 chickens (9,000 over the factory farm threshold) would likely bring stink, pain and pollution to the shores of Lough Neagh.
They go on to quote a resident near another planned factory farm, who said:
This isn’t an extension or someone looking to build a garage, this is a major industrial complex on my back door.
Council also approved expansion of genocidal warplane production
PBP conclude by citing another recent planning scandal in the area, the go-ahead to expand manufacture of F-35 warplanes:
In 2025, Mid Ulster Council approved an extension to Moyola PE, manufacturer of F-35 parts, the same planes bombing Iran and Palestine. Those in charge in Stormont and local councils must take responsibility for the harm that happens on our doorstep due to their decision-making.
The council appear to like the idea of having on their doorstep facilities that enable mass death and destruction. Any supposed economic benefits of such factories do not justify the harms done to animals, the environment and people both here and in West Asia.
The Irish Times reports that:
…the developer, a local farmer, has included in the plans promises litter from the birds wilvvvl be collected and then delivered to Moy Park’s anaerobic digester plants and used to produce energy.
It’s common for plans to be watered down in favour of developers as construction on large projects proceeds, so local residents would be wise to take little notice of this. It also fails to address concerns over animal welfare and the stench such vile facilities produce.
People Before Profit have launched a petition and email campaign for those opposed to the plans. Given Lough Neagh is one of Ireland’s most cherished natural features, it is in everyone’s interest that this literal shitshow is shut down before it begins.
Featured image via Rics
Kensington and Chelsea council in London has said it “just can’t find an address” to issue disgraced former minister and senior Starmer adviser Peter Mandelson with a fine for public urination.
Right.
Mandelson was photographed peeing in the street after a “late night visit to the home of former Conservative chancellor George Osborne”. There’s no surprise Mandelson was with a blue version of a fellow Tory — he has been leaking information to Osborne since at least 2008. Now he’s leaking something else, but similar.
It’s rather more surprising that the council’s excuse for not issuing the £300 fine is that it “can’t find” where to send it, since Mandelson has at least two homes — and they were both raided only months ago as part of the state-hampered criminal probe into his leaking of insider-trading information to serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein.
Even more surprising when ‘msm’ hacks were able to find at least one of them with no trouble at all to snap photos of Mandelson’s lawyer leaving after the police raid.
Mandelson’s impunity from real consequences continues, just a couple of weeks after the Starmer government decided it wouldn’t demand WhatsApp messages between Mandelson and his disgraced protégé Morgan McSweeney and other fellow horrors.
Go figure.
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