In just over 3 weeks I have lost 8lbs so far. They say on average you loose anything from 1/2 to 1 kg per week so on the higher end which is on the lowest dose. Next month I will start on a higher dose and if that carries on the weight loss I will stick at that rate of loss.

An utterly damning indictment on the irresponsible and reckless ruling elite that has been mismanaging our country for the last few decades.

Yesterday I wrote about the impact of what happened at work on my mental health. It felt like work didn't believe me, or understand how seriously unwell I was. Perhaps they didn't want to understand. The way they handed me my final redundancy notice sums it up. In August 2025, HR called asking me to come into the office the next day to be given my notice in person. I explained that I wasn't strong enough to walk down the street, let alone travel on the Tube, just to face the humiliation of being handed a notice letter. When I said my consultant had advised I go into hospital, I was asked: "So you want to be in hospital?" After the call, I remembered the reasonable adjustment we had agreed, that I would be given seven days' notice of any meeting, and emailed HR to politely remind them. A while later, I had an email saying we could meet in person the following week. As agreed, seven days later I went in, by cab, at my own expense. I can't have been looking my best. I was severely underweight, and I can only guess that someone higher up the food chain could see that. I was told they wouldn't hand me my notice that day, and that I would need an occupational health assessment first. When it came, I learned the only question the clinical psychologist had been asked was whether I was physically fit enough to be handed my notice in person. That was a light-bulb moment. For months I had been desperately trying to prove I was good enough to do my job, only to be told I wasn't. Now it was clear that all HR wanted to know was whether they could justify making me come in and open the envelope in front of them, so they could see the whites of my eyes as I read my notice letter. Naively, I had thought someone might give a damn about my health, that there might be some acknowledgement of a duty of care. There wasn't. HR didn't seem to care whether I lived or died. They just wanted to make sure it wasn't on the BBC's time. Getting me out of the job was what this whole process had been about. I had become a difficult Jew, a problem, and redundancy was a way to solve it. The psychologist advised that I wasn't fit for a face-to-face meeting and that the notice should be given to someone on my behalf. I suggested my lawyer, but HR told me they didn't deal with lawyers. My consultant said she would write to them to say that, on health grounds, it had to go to my lawyer. Then, on 3 October 2025, a phone call to say the notice would be sent that afternoon. I explained my consultant's advice that, on health grounds, it must go to my lawyer. It was brushed aside. I was told the whole thing had gone on too long. The notice landed in my inbox within the hour. I couldn't face opening it, and sent it straight to my lawyer. Eleven days later I was admitted to hospital for the third time that year. I'm not saying this to be told I'm brave. I'm not. Anyone who has lived with mental illness will know it can feel shameful and embarrassing. With anorexia in particular, it can feel like something someone my age shouldn't have. But it isn't a choice. It's an illness. In the past week I have heard from former BBC colleagues about the toll their own experiences at work are taking, and from people in other organisations who are trying to live, and work, with mental health problems that are the result of the way they have been treated by colleagues. I'm too old and too ugly to hide from the truth, and I'm done with pretending. The BBC can, and must, do better. So must the other organisations those people work for. If speaking out makes even the smallest contribution to change, then the pain won't have been for nothing. If you are struggling, @beatED's helpline is free on 0808 801 0677. #MentalHealthAtWork #DutyOfCare #Anorexia #BBC #Antisemitism

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will tomorrow announce £40m in infrastructure and green energy projects for Caribbean countries

Just in case the government try to say later that social care workers make a net contribution, here’s their own analysis showing that the cost of letting social care workers settle is £10 billion: gov.uk/government/publicatio…

Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail bbc.in/3W9CI0z

So Labour let foreigners draw up their new immigration policy?

This should shock people. The UK immigration policy consultation should only allow UK citizens.

What a depressing Labour u-turn on the extension of ILR for Boriswave care workers. It’s not just the huge cost heading our way, it’s the way that care workers are singled out for the sentimental treatment we usually reserve for NHS nurses. For our own benefit as a country we need the average carer to be better paid, better trained, and higher status (I recently wrote a book partly about this The Care Dilemma). But we don’t have to pretend they are all angels: there are some who are v good, most who are average and too many who are useless, as in any walk of life. The immigrant carers are coming here for a better life from poorer often failing societies not because they love looking after British people. In my own last hospital stay most the care assistants were Boriswave women, mostly from Africa - some decent some indifferent - but ALL spoke quite poor and v heavily accented English that was sometimes hard to understand and unless I spoke slowly and deliberately they struggled to understand me. This is obviously a sensitive issue that many people experience but don’t feel able to talk about (though it must be reflected in those low satisfaction surveys), partly because a carer has helped you when you are vulnerable and there is a kind of reflex gratitude even if the care has actually been a bit sloppy or incompetent (and you also feel you’re getting it free so shouldn’t moan, even if you’re paying more and more in tax). Yet it’s crazy that we are spending billions subsidising this when we could be using the money to incentivise British ppl, who speak the language fluently and understand the culture, to do these jobs.

🚨 NEW: 73% of responses to the consultation used by Shabana Mahmood to decide her settlement reforms were current visa holders compared with 18% who were British citizens

I have written about the decline in hedgehogs. There's a huge amount of evidence that badgers are the cause. This thread spells out that evidence.🧵 Something is plainly going wrong for hedgehogs in farms, woods, gardens and parks despite a general improvement in the management of these habitats. Farmers leave more uncut grass and shrubs; gardeners leave more leaf piles, foresters are planting more native trees. Yet still the prickly beasts get rarer and rarer...

Gaza. Yesterday. A clip that exposes all the pro-Palestinian lies. A funeral for a Hamas member. Meaning he was killed in a targeted attack. No famine. No genocide. Thousands upon thousands of armed combatants. A culture with no desire for peace. And of course no women allowed. The real question is why are the pro-Pallys lying to you? Partly, because like this lot, they also hate Jews. But also, this is what they want for the West. This is your fight whether you know it or not. x.com/JoeTruzman/status/2116…

ISLAMOPHOBIA AWARENESS MONTH 2026 Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM) takes place every year throughout November. In order to tackle Islamophobia, we need to analyse where this phenomenon comes from. Below is a list of incidents that I maintain and update to track the global origins of Islamophobia:👇 GERMANY - Munich Olympic massacre 1972 - 12 dead. UK - Iranian Embassy siege, London 1980 - 2 dead. SCOTLAND - Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103 bombing 1988 - 270 dead. USA – World Trade Center Truck Bombing 1993 - 6 dead, over 1,000 injured. INDONESIA - Bali Bombings 2002 - 202 dead from 23+ different nationalities. SPAIN - Madrid train bombings 2004 - 200 dead. NETHERLANDS - Assassination of Theo Van Gogh 2004. UK - 7/7 bombings - London 2005 - 52 dead. INDONESIA - Second Bali Bombings 2005 - 20 dead. INDIA - Mumbai attacks 2008 - 166 dead. USA - Fort Hood Shooting 2009 – 13 dead, 32 injured. USA - Boston Marathon bombing 2013 - 3 dead, hundreds injured …including 17 who lost their limbs. UK - Murder of Lee Rigby, London 2013. CHINA - Kunming train station attack 2014 - 31 dead. BELGIUM - Brussels Jewish Museum Shooting 2014 - 4 dead. AUSTRALIA - Lindt Cafe Siege, Sydney 2014 - 2 dead. FRANCE - Charlie Hebdo shooting, Paris 2015 - 12 dead. USA - Chattanooga Military Shootings 2015 - 5 dead. USA - San Bernardino attack 2015 - 14 dead. FRANCE - Coordinated Paris attacks 2015 - 130 dead. BELGIUM - Brussels airport bombings 2016 - 32 dead. USA - Pulse nightclub shooting, Orlando 2016 - 49 dead. FRANCE - Nice truck ramming attack 2016 - 86 dead. FRANCE - Normandy Church attack 2016 - Priest dead. USA - Ohio State University Attack 2016 - 11 injured. GERMANY - Berlin Christmas market truck ramming attack 2016 - 12 dead. AUSTRALIA - Melbourne Bourke Street car ramming 2017 - 6 dead. Islamic convert. UK - Westminster Bridge and Parliament attack 2017 - 4 dead. SWEDEN - Stockholm truck attack 2017, - 5 dead. UK - Manchester Arena bombing 2017 - 22 dead. UK - London Bridge and Borough Market attack 2017 - 8 dead. SPAIN - Barcelona van ramming attack 2017 - 13 dead. USA - Truck Attack on New York City Bike Path 2017 - 8 dead. AUSTRALIA - Melbourne, Flinders Street SUV ramming 2017 - 1 dead. AUSTRALIA - Melbourne Bourke Street attack 2018 - 1 dead (Sisto Malaspina, famous cafe owner). SRI LANKA - Church and hotel bombings Easter 2019 - 269 dead. UK - Reading stabbings 2020 - 3 dead. FRANCE - Murder of Samuel Paty 2020. AUSTRIA - Vienna Shooting, 2020 - 4 dead. BELGIUM - Brussels International Shooting 2023 - 2 (Swedish soccer fans) dead. ISRAEL - Hamas attack, October 7th 2023 - 1195 dead, 251 taken hostage (of which 85 later died or confirmed dead). RUSSIA - Moscow Crocus City Hall attack 2024 - 145 dead. AUSTRALIA - Bishop Mari Emanuel stabbing 2024. GERMANY - Stabbing attack, Mannheim 2024 - Police officer dead, 5 injured. UK - Southport stabbings 2024 - 3 dead. GERMANY - Solingen Festival Stabbing 2024 – 3 dead, 8 injured. GERMANY - SUV Christmas market attack, Magdeburg 2024 - 6 dead, 299 injured. GERMANY - Car ramming attack, Munich 2025 - 30 injured. GERMANY - Car ramming attack, Mannheim 2025 - 2 dead. USA - Pickup Truck ramming attack, New Orleans 2025 - 15 dead. UK - Manchester Synagogue attack 2025 - 2 dead. AUSTRALIA - Bondi Beach shooting, 2025 - 15 dead, 41 injured. NIGERIA - Ongoing Christian genocide - Since 2000, 62,000 Christians in Nigeria have been victims of genocide perpetrated by Islamist extremist groups Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and organised Fulani jihadists. * NOTE: 9/11 (2001 - USA, 2977 dead) has been deliberately left off, because the above list is already more than enough to outweigh and silence conspiracy / false flag whack jobs 🤪

I need to show you something about The Telegraph’s new owner, Axel Springer Its LGBTQ+ network, “Axel Springer Queerseite”: