Ruby Tuesday

“The Establishment is also shielded by the deflection of popular anger directed at those at the bottom of society, rather than those at the top. Low-paid workers are encouraged by the media and politicians to envy the supposedly luxurious conditions of benefit-claiming unemployed people, rather than resent their employers for paying them insufficient wages. Private-sector workers with no pensions are encouraged to envy public-sector workers whose pensions are still intact. Those who cannot get council housing – because governments have refused to build it – or get secure jobs – because politicians of all stripes have allowed them to be stripped from the economy – are encouraged to envy immigrants supposedly getting what is rightfully theirs.”
― Owen Jones, The Establishment: And how they get away with it

“He recalls sympathetically the words of The Observer after Britain’s disastrous military intervention over the Suez Canal in 1956: ‘We had not realized that our government was capable of such folly and such crookedness.”
― Owen Jones, The Establishment: And how they get away with it

“Much of what we’ve been taught about metabolism is incorrect. The ‘eat less and exercise more’ versions of diets are dinosaurs that ignore the current known facts about how our bodies actually function.”
― Sara Givens, Leptin Resistance: The Leptin Reset: Discover How To Fix Your Fat Hormones And Reboot Your Fat Burning Engine Into First Gear Again

“Many people don’t realize just how lousy they actually feel until they start feeling better: and then they reap the benefits when they start to feel better.”
― Kara Aimer, Oregano Oil: A Better Health Guide to Essential Oregano Oil Benefits, Uses, and Recipes