lily 🍓 @summercore79

The economic illiteracy of so many current Labour backbenchers knows no bounds.

Jack Davey @jacques_davey

4 weeks ago

How do you run a state when people like this are elected representatives in the governing party?

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I'll never understand this obsession people have with reversing into spaces in empty car parks, holding up others in the process.

Two hundred of the thousand acres at Diddly Squat grew nothing at all this year. That was a decision taken in advance, on a spreadsheet. Wheat or barley on that ground was a guaranteed loss before the drill left the shed, so Jeremy Clarkson left it bare and explained why in his Sun column this week. One line from it went everywhere. Farmers have reached the point where it is quite simply impossible to make money from growing food. Every paper carried that sentence, and every paper stopped there. The list underneath it did not get printed anywhere. Because he went on to set out what two hundred acres of good English ground could do instead of feeding anyone, and there were four items on it. - Rent it to a global agri-company growing crops for anaerobic digesters. - Cover it in solar panels. - Put a data centre on it. - Sell the farm to a Chinese company for a multistorey high-intensity piggery. Every one of those pays. The only use of that land which reliably loses money is the one that puts food on a British plate. He added that he was not being ridiculous, and that anybody in 1926 would have laughed you out of the room for suggesting the factories would be gone by 2026. Now the bit with a date on it. From 1 January 2027 the UK's carbon border tax applies to imported fertiliser. The Treasury's own costings put the take at £140 million in 2027-28, rising to £180 million the year after. Estimates of the hit run from around £33 a tonne to £75, which is a fifth to a quarter added to the largest input bill an arable farm carries. The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers has warned that a typical 500 acre cereals farm could be down as much as £70,000 once fertiliser and fuel costs land. So the fertiliser that grows the wheat gets taxed on a known date, in writing, by a government that says out loud it wants food security. Nobody in Whitehall has ever signed a policy to stop Britain growing food. They have signed a great many that make every alternative pay better, which arrives at the same field. And understand whose field this is. Diddly Squat has a television crew, a farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, a lager brand, a bestselling book every autumn and one of the best land agents in the country. It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and two hundred of them were left bare this year because putting seed in them was the losing move. Every arable farmer in England is doing that same sum this autumn. Almost none of them have a production company to cover the difference. Those two hundred acres have not gone out of production. They are waiting to hear which industry wants them more than you do.

@Dannythefink So disgusting!

@Madz_Grant @LoisMcLatch 🥳

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@Oliviacoder1 Ai

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@ElonMusk_LordX Yes

Erfan Soltani is scheduled to be executed by hanging in Iran in 48 hours. He was arrested in Karaj on January 9 for taking part in the protests. His family was given just 10 minutes to say goodbye. No lawyer. No fair trial. Days later, the Islamic regime sentenced him to death. Reports now warn the regime is preparing public hangings to terrorize the population. More than 10,000 protesters have been arrested since the start of the 2026 uprising. Many could face the same fate. The only thing this regime fears is global scrutiny. Be their voice. Share their names. Expose these crimes. Silence is a death sentence.

@otokyo__ Keir

The Leo project was about equality of information. Students asked to take on £50k of debt to “invest” in a degree deserve max info on earnings potential of a) that exact degree and a) and b) alternatives. The data was built, at great expense. But it’s not shared. Why? #FreeLeo

Tim Leunig @timleunig

9 months ago

@FraserNelson is spot on. When we created the database I always assumed and intended that it would be available to sixth form students, along with equiv data for other routes. Free Leo!

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@FraserNelson Why is that data not automatically available to the public?

Mad Ed Miliband will soon be a busted flush. A new report by the Scottish TUC concludes that for every £1m spent on wind power in Scotland just ONE job is created. That’s right. ONE job. Hot air indeed.

@Miss_Snuffy Amazing! ❤️

@ClarksonsFarm1 Yes!

I wish Starmer could say , as with the Ariana Grande concert the targets of this 'new" kind of terrorism are women and girls. Not simply children. This is part of the ideology, part of the radicalisation and there is nearly always a history of abuse toward women. Face it.

@Miss_Snuffy Fantastic achievement! Congratulations!

🧵 The Taliban’s latest rule forbids women from speaking to one another, adding to a long list of restrictions. Afghan women face numerous restrictions on education, employment, travel, public spaces, and sports, further erasing them from public life. Here are some key bans:

@KateMaltby We shouldn’t hold our breath for one from the BBC…… They seem to struggle to even acknowledge that a victim is a woman. x.com/boudicasarmy/s…

Boudica’s Daughters @boudicasarmy

2 years ago

Are you serious? @BBCNews He was not charged with the murder of a “dog walker”. He is charged with the murder of a WOMAN. You could have simply said that he is charged with the murder of Anita Rose, because as a PERSON with an actual life that mattered, she also had a name.

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