Banned Aid!

It raised £17 million for famine relief and kick-started a global charity machine that created tens, if not hundreds, of millions of pounds more, but the hit single ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ might not have been recorded today because of its colonist overtones, said one of the stars involved.

Actor Nigel Planner was at the recording of the 1984 Band-Aid No 1 in character as Neil, the depressed hippie he played on the BBC comedy The Young Ones, but he said that even though the song was made with really good intentions, he believes the concept wouldn’t stand up to today’s more woke standards.

He said that now it would be investigated and that the tone, the colonist tone of the event, would now come under some scrutiny.

The comedian, who began a degree in African and Asian studies at Sussex University before dropping out to pursue an acting career, said that on the day of the recording he chickened out at the last minute and declined to appear on the single or its video.

He told Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast that his comedy alter ego would have jarred with the serious message of the day, giving a feeling of: ‘That was fun, wasn’t it? Now let’s look at some poor children with flies on their eyes.’

But he did record a separate sketch that was used in the fundraising effort.

Highlighting stars such as George Michael, Banarama, Bono and Boy George, Do They Know It’s Christmas became the biggest selling UK single of all time, and it’s been re-released three times and the subsequent Live Aid concert raised an extraordinary £40 million.

Bob Geldof, who was later knighted for his charity work, and teamed up with Midge Ure to create the track after seeing disturbing BBC broadcasts of the escalating crisis in Ethiopia.

But this isn’t the first time it’s been criticised for its Western viewpoint, especially the line, ‘Well tonight thank God it’s them instead of you,’ which was dropped from the 2014 remake.

At that time, Robtel Neajai Pailey, a Liberian born academic at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, described the lyrics condescending and said the track reeked of the white saviour complex.

Midge Ure admitted the song’s shortcomings but said it was all about creating money, but in his more direct way, Bob Geldof said that anyone criticising the lyrics could, well, get stuffed.

The song raised millions instantly and made some difference, but now there would be three years of meetings, focus groups, allergy testing, mental health assessments, inclusivity questionnaires, gender inclusion support groups, and then at the last minute it would all be called off due to the environmental impact.

And now there’s always someone that will take offence, no matter what the topic, you really can’t win anymore, and forty years on, and all that effort, all that money, what exactly has it all achieved?

All it really did was give publicity to some virtue signalling celebrities, and as for people saying that it was offensive, if you choose to be offended then that’s that person’s problem because one man’s pleasure is another man’s poison.

And Bob Geldof was aware of the problem at the time and tried to stop the white saviour photos from happening, but he couldn’t control people swarming him wherever he went, and he couldn’t control every picture taken, and he just couldn’t watch children perish and do nothing about it, and Bob Geldof is a long way off from being a bourgeois English colonial – he’s just a spitting, snarling Irish guy saying it to your face.

Boris Johnson Says Anybody Sensible Would Keep An Open Mind

Boris Johnson said anybody sensible would keep an open mind about the source of the coronavirus outbreak but the United Kingdom doesn’t currently believe the so-called laboratory leak theory.

Boris Johnson told a press conference at the end of the G7 summit in Cornwall that at the moment, the advice they have had is that it doesn’t look as though this particular disease of zoonotic origin came from a laboratory and that anybody sensible would want to keep an open mind about that.

His comments came after Dominic Raab mimicked a comparable opinion over the suggestion that COVID 19 may have emerged from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The Foreign Secretary said on the balance of probabilities Britain is of the view that the virus didn’t start in a laboratory.

He said the Government believes it’s much more likely that coronavirus shifted from animals to humans, but he said officials at the G7 summit have been comparing notes on the subject and the world doesn’t yet have all of the answers about how the pandemic started.

The head of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the possibility that the pandemic was triggered by a laboratory leak was established at the G7 and they talked about the origins.

A WHO inquiry into the source of the pandemic hasn’t ruled out any theory behind the outbreak, and a team of experts from the WHO and China said in February that the virus was extremely unlikely to have entered the human population as a consequence of a laboratory related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

But the WHO has said all hypotheses remain on the table and want to carry out the second stage of its work, while US President Joe Biden has requested an inquiry into the origins, including the leak theory.

Asked if he’d been involved in G7 discussions about the laboratory leak theory, Dominic Raab told Sky News that he hadn’t personally but of course it’s created part of the backdrop and officials have been comparing notes on this and that if they were questioning him whether they believed on the balance of probabilities, that it started in a laboratory, their best information, for now, was that it didn’t.

But he said that they didn’t have all of the answers, that was why internationally they wanted the review to be able to go into to get all of the answers, to have all the cooperation, so they have a complete understanding rather than those potential, possible, plausible possibilities.

But laboratory leak or not, China is guilty of playing with nature and hasn’t even the courage to apologise to the rest of the world and to add insult to injury, we even import some masks produced in China.

At the end of the day, we don’t need to prove it came from a laboratory, China needs to prove it didn’t because their secrecy and behaviour during the initial stages of the outbreak seem to be the most incriminating evidence.

And if China had evidence that COVID 19 jumped from animals to humans they would be yelling it from the rooftops. The fact that there’s not one piece of proof of this speaks volumes, and let’s face it, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, flies like a duck, swims like a duck, looks like a duck, it’s a duck.

Pregnant Nursery Worker Gets £40,000

A pregnant nursery worker has won almost £40,000 after her boss repeatedly declined to let her attend hospital appointments and fired her over a series of trumped-up allegations.

Simone Cousins, 29, was accused of falsifying wages by Maria Noble at Dovecote Nursery, Northampton, without a shred of evidence in what a judge said was an oppressive and high handed campaign against her.

The employment tribunal, held virtually in Norwich, Norfolk, ruled Simone Cousins was made redundant because she was pregnant and awarded her £39,535 in damages for discrimination, harassment, and unfair dismissal.

Maria Noble unreasonably denied Simone Cousins request for days off for hospital appointments and forced her to change them to accommodate the nursery’s schedule.

A tribunal heard that Simone Cousins was pressured into working her normal hours despite suffering exhaustion and nausea and was summoned out of the blue to a disciplinary hearing on baseless allegations.

In one case Maria Noble even emailed Simone Cousins 90 questions at 5 pm and demanded a written explanation for them by 10 am the next morning.

The employment tribunal heard Simone Cousins, who worked at the nursery for two years, had a good rapport with Maria Noble before she was pregnant, but when pregnant, Simone Cousins asked for time off for five appointments. One was given, but others were refused or Maria Noble forced her to reschedule them up to three times, causing problems.

The tribunal found that no attempt was made by Maria Noble to provide cover, and without warning, Simone Cousins was called to a formal meeting where she was accused of claiming wages she didn’t work though no proof was offered.

She later got a letter referring to large differences which claimed there was a difference of 58.5 hours.

Weeks later, out of the blue, she was summoned to another meeting in which she was told she could be dismissed for gross misconduct, this time it was alleged that she claimed 95 hours she didn’t work.

The hours were subtracted from her salary and Simone Cousins answered 90 questions despite struggling to sit at a computer for a prolonged time.

The 95 hours were repaid but, bizarrely, she was fired for gross misconduct because she falsified those hours and failed to use the sign-in book.

A tribunal ruled that Maria Noble failed to listen to Simone Cousins answers and could have seen that she wasn’t lying about the hours worked if she bothered to review the work log.

Judge Robin Postle said Maria Noble had made entirely baseless allegations, and that Maria Noble simply didn’t look at the evidence that was staring her in the face.

The employment judge said the allegations were patently false and that Simone Cousins was being questioned about stuff that could quickly have been answered by the nursery from their records.

Judge Postle added that Maria Noble had maintained Simone Cousins was a trustworthy and honest worker, one of the best, and meticulous with her paperwork.

He said that however, following the announcement of Simone Cousins pregnancy she was accused of falsifying earnings without any proof to substantiate this claim and was then deducted 95 hours without notification or reason.

Then, when she complained about it, the hours and money were consequently returned without any reason, and that this was harsh and high handed.

The judge continued that the tribunal did acknowledge that Simone Cousins was failing to sign in on occasions but this was mostly following her pregnancy when she forgot or was distracted by parents when entering the building.

And he said that other workers had failed to do so and yet no disciplinary penalties had been imposed.

Lifetime’s Megxit Film Recreates Princess Diana’s Deadly Paris Car Crash

One of Prince Harry’s most disturbing memories is set to be dredged up and replayed in a new Lifetime movie about his and Meghan’s departure from the palace after the cast and crew were seen executing a recreation of the fatal Paris car crash that claimed the life of his mother Princess Diana.

Photographs taken on set in Vancouver show staff from the film, Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace, setting up the horrifying moment that Diana’s chauffeur lost control of his Mercedes-Benz and crashed it into the wall of a tunnel in France, before paparazzi shutterbugs started snapping pictures of the devastating scene on August 31, 1997.

In the photos, a vintage black Mercedes, quite similar to the vehicle that was carrying the mother of two and her partner, Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed, can be seen flipped over onto its roof with its front end destroyed, while men playing the role of photographers crowd around it with large cameras aimed at the wreck.

The scene is eerily similar to the shocking photographs taken only moments after Princess Diana’s vehicle smashed in the Alma tunnel in Paris, which were immediately distributed around the globe. However, it seems that the Lifetime producers have taken steps to make the horrific crash all the more climactic, flipping the vehicle over onto its roof, which was not what occurred in reality.

Other photos from the set show men on motorbikes tearing up to the scene of the wreck, depicting the moment that paparazzi photographers appear on the scene, having been following Diana’s vehicle in pursuit of an image of her and Fayed, who also died in the crash along with the couple’s chauffeur.

The smashed Mercedes being used in the movie was also photographed on the back of a flatbed truck being driven off, similar to the moment that Diana’s wrecked car was taken away to be examined.

The onset pictures were taken just weeks after Prince Harry opened up about his anger and grief over his mother’s passing, saying that she’d been chased to death, before revealing his concerns about history repeating itself with his wife Meghan Markle during an interview with Oprah Winfrey for their Apple TV+ mental health series, The Me You Can’t See.

An inquest jury ruled the Princess of Wales and her partner died because of the grossly negligent driving of Henri Paul, who was allegedly around three times over the drink-drive limit.

They also singled out the paparazzi’s speed and the way they were driving as contributory factors but concluded the couple could have survived the accident had they been wearing seatbelts, therefore were not chased to death, but it’s just a shame Diana could not just be left in peace now, but then on the other hand, perhaps the truth of her death does need to come to light.

Summer Freedom On Hold For Four Weeks

Boris Johnson has pushed Freedom Day to July 19 as a new poll revealed that the preponderance of Britons wanted ministers to delay the lifting of all lockdown rules amid a spike in Indian variant cases.

A total of 53 per cent of UK voters wanted some lockdown rules to stay across the United Kingdom past June 21, while 25 per cent wanted all freedom limiting legislation to continue.

Just 34 per cent of people said they would like life to go back to normal on the day Boris Johnson pledged it would, a survey of 1,392 people conducted by YouGov for The Times found.

It came as Michael Tildesley, a University of Warwick epidemiologist, told BBC Radio 4 scientists needed to find the connection between cases and hospital admissions before any judgment could be made.

A separate question in the YouGov poll saw 22 per cent of people dub the rule of six, which currently limits indoor gatherings to only six people, their least favourite lockdown rule and said it should be lifted first.

The Prime Minister was planning to delay the final stage of his COVID roadmap by four weeks in a move that will likely infuriate MPs, business leaders and hospitality chiefs, but to appease Tory MPs and ministers, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who are keen to unleash the economy, the Prime Minister is expected to promise a review after a fortnight, but this could allow curbs to be ditched earlier if hospital admissions remain low.

The setback has been prompted by a sharp increase in cases of the Indian variant, and the British Medical Association calling for a stay to enable more people to receive their second jabs.

Cabinet sources had admitted that Freedom Day on June 21 was not looking great, with a four-week extension to COVID restrictions most likely to go ahead, and under the Prime Minister’s COVID roadmap, June 21 was supposed to be the day when all social distancing curbs were lifted and the work from home advice abandoned. However, Boris Johnson made his final decision and announced to the nation on Monday evening.

He said that they don’t want to be sliding into another lockdown, and to circumvent this they wanted to be careful and make sure they got enough data from the government as possible notifying them of what they might expect in a future wave as they begin to unlock further.

But many people are saying that it’s a fake poll and that they want the nation back to normal, and they’re fed up with all the propaganda, and politicians who order these draconian measures haven’t missed a paycheck since lockdown started.

Perhaps all these elected officials should have their paychecks stopped until the economy is opened up and back on its feet again because they’re not interested in a solution until it affects them!

And then we have the mainstream media that’s driving this warfare, and it appears that governments have weaponised COVID on their own people by way of psychological manipulation, and it seems that the preponderance of us are unable to see that we’re actually in a war.

Politics is a game of fear, and any society that rules understands that you have to keep class divided and that you have to create divisions within society, and if you create those divisions, you can maintain control.

And eventually, we will be punished, ordered or intimidated into having the vaccine, and those that fell for Boris Johnson’s lies and promises, well, he’s given us some freedom, but then he takes it away again, but then he doesn’t mind upsetting a few people here and there, as long as he’s getting a paycheck at the end of it – as long as I’m okay Jack, sod everyone else.

Kim Jong-un Calls K-Pop A Vicious Cancer

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has hit out at South Korean pop culture, describing it as vicious cancer and introducing more rigid punishments for those caught listening to K-pop or watching dramas from the South.

South Korean music, television shows and movies are enjoying unprecedented popularity around the world, including in totalitarian North Korea where cultural life is rigidly dictated by the state.

Entertainment from the South has long been smuggled across the border, first as VHS cassettes and CDs and now as flash drives from China, skirting censorship of media and the internet.

But Kim is attempting to stem the tide of the latest Korean wave, which state media has warned will cause North Korea to crumble like a damp wall if left unchecked.

The New York Times reported that state media has slammed the spread of anti-socialist influence, especially through South Korean films, K-dramas and K-pop music videos, on a near-daily basis in recent months.

The paper reported that Kim has ordered his government to clamp down on the cultural invasion, which he said was corrupting the attire, hairstyles, speeches and behaviours’ of North Korea’s youth.

In December, the Communist state brought a new law that could see anyone found watching or possessing South Korean entertainment sentenced to 15 years in a labour camp.

Those smuggling the content into North Korea could suffer even harsher punishments, including the death penalty.

The legislation also calls for people who talk, write or sing in South Korean style to face up to two years of hard labour.

A news outlet said that the moves by the secretive state came to light through Seoul lawmakers briefed by intelligence officials, and internal documents smuggled out of North Korea by the Seoul based Daily NK news website.

Despite a shared ethnicity and language, patterns of speech and accents in South Korea differ considerably from the North, but expressions picked up from K-dramas have started creeping in, with women in North Korea sometimes opting to call their boyfriends ‘oppa’, a term used in the South that’s comparable to ‘honey’ in this context, rather than the approved ‘comrade’.

Citing North Korean government documents smuggled out by Asia Press International, a Japan-based website monitoring North Korea, the paper said that computers, text messages and notebooks are being searched for South Korean content and vocabulary.

And it should make us question why on earth this narcissistic madman is still in power.

He’s just a little man with little thoughts, and perhaps he should be put in the labour camps so that he knows what it’s like because he’s an evil repugnant man, and he’s an absolute mutt because children should be allowed to be children so that they can enjoy their lives.

K-pop is just another section of the music genre – it’s nothing other than the Beatles, Taylor Swift or any other kind of music, and while it’s understood the Kim Jong-un believes that anything South Korean will undermine the North Korean way of life, music has always been one of the many ways to join people together, not hurt them.

At the end of the day, it’s not really about the music, it’s about dictatorship, and let’s not pretend it’s anything else, and Kim Jong-un is just a petulant fat boy that needs a slap on the posterior, and he’s the deep cancer that there appears to be no cure for.

Fat But Fit Is A Myth

A study has warned that overweight people who exercise regularly are still at an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and respiratory disease.

University of Glasgow experts studied people who were overweight but had a normal metabolic profile, a combination dubbed metabolically health obesity (MHO).

People with MHO have a body mass index of 30 or higher but lack systemic inflammation, problematic blood fats and insulin issues often seen with obesity.

Experts have determined that MHO may happen in the general population at levels of anywhere between 3 and 22 per cent.

The team discovered that metabolically healthy obesity raises the risk of numerous health conditions in comparison with people with a regular BMI.

For example, it increases the risk of type 2 diabetes 4.3 fold and leads to a mountainous 76 per cent rise in the risk of heart failure.

Experts estimated that there are more than 300 million people worldwide who are overweight, a figure anticipated to surpass 1 billion, or 1 in 5 people, come the year 2030.

The study was undertaken by epidemiologist Frederick Ho of the University of Glasgow and his colleagues.

They wrote that people with metabolically healthy obesity are not healthy as they’re at greater risk of heart attack and stroke, heart failure, and respiratory diseases compared with people without obesity who have a normal metabolic profile.

And they said that weight management could be beneficial to all people with obesity irrespective of their metabolic profile, and they said that the term metabolically healthy obesity should be circumvented in clinical medicine as it’s misleading, and different approaches for determining risk should be investigated.

In their study, the researchers observed 381,363 individuals, all of whom were either of a healthy weight, overweight or obese.

All the participants were part of the UK Biobank project, a wide-scale study that collected detailed genetic and health information on half a million volunteers.

Subjects were grouped into one of four categories, either metabolically healthy obese (MHO), metabolically unhealthy obese (MUO), metabolically healthy non-obese (MHN) or metabolically unhealthy non-obese (MUN).

The team discovered that the MHO people in the study were generally younger, watched less television, were more educated, consumed more red and processed meat and were less likely to be male and non-white than MUO participants.

Furthermore, MHO subjects were 4.3 times more prone to have type 2 diabetes, 18 per cent more at risk of a heart attack or stroke and 76 per cent more inclined to suffer heart failure than metabolically healthy participants without obesity.

But a person who exercises is moving their body and making an effort, and this article just knocks them down, and it’s better to move than not to move.

Being overweight is bad for you, but on the other hand, it shouldn’t be glamorised either, but being active doesn’t mean your fit either. A person can go to the gym and swim numerous times a week, frequent yoga and pilate classes, but that still doesn’t mean that you’re fit, and slender people die from heart attacks as well, and this article would just have put people off from exercising more because they’ll think, well why bother?

The problem is, England is an obesogenic environment where the default lifestyle leads to obesity, and people don’t choose to get fat, they just choose not to get healthy, and the society that they live in does the rest.

An inactive lifestyle, high-fat foods, and normalisation of obesity all make it easy to be overweight in modern Britain. Sadly, it comes at a great personal cost and an increasingly great expense to the NHS.

Do You Suffer From Maskne?

Dermatologists warn that wearing a face mask for extended periods is causing some people to have severe outbreaks of skin conditions like eczema and acne.

Experts investigated instances of the most common causes of facial conditions directly caused by wearing face masks and other PPE, a phenomenon known as maskne.

The team from King’s College Hospital, London studied all forms of facial PPE, including face shields, visors, safety glasses, surgical masks and respirators.

The article, printed in the British Medical Journal, was written to assist doctors and specialists diagnose maskne and identify skin breakouts not linked to PPE.

It highlights a variety of images presenting various kinds of facial skin conditions caused as a direct result of mask-wearing, that were used to create flow chart specialists can follow to better diagnose and in turn treat a particular condition.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a notable increase in people wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), particularly masks due to government regulations.

The term maskne has become increasingly prevalent during the pandemic, where it’s used to describe several facial skin conditions caused by mask-wearing.

Individuals frequently buy costly but potentially ineffective treatments for these conditions, so King’s College Hospital researchers set out to improve diagnosis.

The authors of the article wrote that in this practice pointer they summarised the most common causes of facial eruptions associated with wearing facial PPE.

They also highlight the key areas to cover when assessing someone with new or worsening pre-existing facial dermatoses that they attribute to the use of facial PPE.

The researchers, including Emily Rudd, dermatology senior clinical fellow and Sarah Walsh, dermatology consultant wanted to make diagnosis more consistent.

They said that facial skin defects associated with PPE have been well described in earlier research, but doctors and specialists are using graphic terms to explain outbreaks.

And based on limited available evidence, mask related acne and irritant contact dermatitis are the most common facial dermatoses associated with mask-wearing.

A cross-sectional study of 833 medical school staff in Thailand helped inform some of this research, including healthcare and non-healthcare workers.

That study revealed that 54 per cent of those in the study self-reported instances of adverse skin reactions to wearing surgical or cloth masks.

And according to the team behind the BMJ article, typically, a patient presents with new-onset facial eruption or worsening of a pre-existing dermatosis that is most noticeable in the region covered by the mask.

Of course, people were not meant to wear masks, and even though as human beings we have evolved and adapted to our surroundings, that’s taken hundreds and thousands of years, so it would take that to evolve into wearing masks.

Although, I’m sure that we weren’t designed to inhale dangerous viruses either, but a person would have to choose which would be the lesser of the two evils, and you also have to consider what all those fibres being inhaled into our lungs will do to us.

We’re not supposed to be wearing a mask on our faces, especially for long periods, and the build-up of moisture beneath the mask will of course cause skin problems.

Bacteria loves warm, moist places and will thrive under a mask, and you’re basically giving yourself nappy rash on your face, and we shouldn’t be accepting the prospect of skin infections and long term medications to manage it, just because the government tells us that we have to wear a mask.

A Wake-Up Call To The Web

Security experts have warned that yesterday’s internet crash that took major sites offline could be just the tip of the iceberg.

An outage at a little known firm that speeds up access to websites knocked several top internet destinations offline on Tuesday, disrupting business and leisure for countless millions globally.

Millions of users across the globe reported difficulties attempting to access web pages, with Netflix, Twitch and news websites including the BBC, Guardian, CNN and the New York Times hit by the problem.

The dilemma was caused by the US firm Fastly, a content delivery network (CDN) company that helps users view website content more quickly.

The dilemma was quickly fixed, and the company blamed a configuration error in its technology.

But the incident raises questions about how exposed the global internet is to more serious disruption.

San Francisco based Fastly’s edge server computing technology is used by several of the world’s most popular websites, such as The New York Times, Shopify, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, Etsy, Wayfair and Stripe. The British government is amongst its clients.

The company provides a content delivery network, an arrangement that allows customers websites to store data such as images and videos on various mirror servers across 26 countries so that the data is closer to users, and therefore shows up faster.

David Warburton, of the cybersecurity company F5 Labs, said centralisation was somewhat new for the internet, and would presumably continue to raise concerns.

He told a news outlet that the web as a whole was designed to be decentralised and that by not relying on anyone’s central system, it meant that many different components could fail and internet traffic could still find a way to get where it needed to go.

He said that what they’ve seen over the past decade, however, is the unintentional centralisation of many core services through large cloud solution providers like infrastructure vendors and CDN’s.

Former deputy national security adviser for intelligence security between 2014 and 2018, Paddy McGuinness, said yesterday’s incident should serve as a wake-up call, and the Government should expand the current security approach.

He said that they need resilience as an explicit policy goal, particularly on the new networks they’re building to deliver services to the citizen, and that a secure by design and default mantra was welcome but it wasn’t enough in itself.

But people are sick to death of hearing this futile pointless expression, that lessons will and must be learnt because they never are, and it’s just said to make everyone feel better.

This should also be a wake-up call because ultimately, currencies will become digital, with the eradication of cash, which is absolute craziness, but it’s a great way to control the population in this new dystopian nightmare.

And this might seem like a trivial problem that knocked several websites offline for a short time, but it actually occurs frequently – maybe on a smaller scale, but this could become and probably will become a melodrama.

The actual problem is the Cloud. It’s not just that you can only access it with the internet, but ultimately the data people are storing is in a handful of global locations, all of which could be taken out at once, including the backups.

So, if they want to attack a country or a continent – attack its Cloud and it’s defenceless in seconds, and if people knew how fragile the modern internet was they’d be terrified because the Cloud is phenomenal right up to the point where it isn’t and then it’s a catastrophe.

1,000-Year-Old Chicken Egg Perfectly Preserved In Human Faeces

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Wednesday that a chicken egg envelope by human faeces inside an ancient cesspit for 1,000 years had been discovered in Israel.

The complete egg was found in an industrial complex dating back to the Byzantine period, in what is now Yavne.

The IAA’s Lee Perry Gal, a leading authority on poultry in the ancient world, said in a statement that eggshell fragments were known from earlier periods, for example in the City of David and at Caesarea and Apollonia, but due to the eggs’ delicate shells, barely any whole chicken eggs have been preserved.

Also concealed inside the ancient human waste was several Islamic period bone dolls, know as Coptic dolls, that were used as toys.

The whole egg is about six centimetres tall and had only a few cracks on the shell, but no pieces of the outside layer were missing when it was removed from the cesspit.

Alla Nagorsky, an archaeologist with IAA, also remarked that even today, eggs seldom survive for long in supermarket cartons, so it was astounding to think that this was a 1,000-year-old discovery.

Although preserved, the shell was still extremely delicate and cracked in the IAA’s laboratory when researchers brought it in for further analysis.

Perry Gal told the Forward that there wasn’t much left, and there was hardly any yolk left inside and that it was more or less empty, but the researchers hope to extract the DNA inside to learn more about the ancient object, and Perry Gal said that they were going to take the remains and remove some collagen to attempt to do DNA sequences.

Poultry farming was introduced into Israel 2,300 years ago, throughout the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods.

In the Islamic period, from the 7th century onwards, there’s a marked increase in the percentage of pig bones at sites in the region, reflecting the prohibition on consuming pork.

Perry Gal explained that families needed a ready portion replacement that didn’t need cooling and preservation, and they found it in eggs and chicken meat.

How the egg ended up in the cesspit is still a puzzle to archaeologists, who admit they will likely never know the answer.

Also lurking in the abyss of human faeces were three bone dolls that were likely toys 1,000 years ago. These Coptic dolls first appeared in Egypt and Palestine about the same time as the Arab conquest.

It was a cracking find, pardon the pun, and I wonder how different the genetics are from today’s eggs.

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