Richard Trafford @Heroflight

@Tom_Rowsell On Ancestry they are always coming with some American who is my 7 cousin 7 time removed ?

Two images on (another) article espuosing the virtues of rewilding. Clearly I'm keen on ambitious nature restoration, but on good land like below, I think there needs to be strong logic informing the decision. Otherwise Europe is simply outsourcing it's food production.

Has anyone ever published a more useless document than this? It basically says we want nature and food, but won’t pay more for either, and expect nature to magically appear from farmers chasing profit more ruthlessly Total bollocks It is the emptiest document I’ve ever read

Natural England @NaturalEngland

2 weeks ago

Profitable farming and a healthy natural environment go hand in hand. Today's publication of @DefraGovUK 's Farming Roadmap sets a clear direction to deliver both - through better soils, water, nature and more resilient farm businesses.

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The Economist really has lost the plot: this is exactly the de haut en bas contempt for plain folk that fuels the rise of the Right it affects to be so concerned about.

The Economist @TheEconomist

4 weeks ago

Fundamentally, the British right has bet that the British public are, for want of a better word, bastards econ.st/4uwTfqx Illustration: Nate Kitch

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When your entire worldview is based not on knowledge, but on what others think - the only possible rebuttal is a performance.

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The government says our energy prices are dictated by a world market oil and gas price. So why is our energy around 4 times the price of US and 3 times China?

I am a Zionist. Many people out there don’t seem to understand what a Zionist is - and what it isn’t - so here you go. I believe in the existence of a Jewish home land, Israel, in the land of Judea, where it currently is. As a Zionist, I do not automatically agree with or support everything the country does, nor do I automatically agree with every government, every politician, every decision. As a Zionist, I am free to criticize policies and governments of Israel, just the same as I am to criticize the Canadian government or the American government or any other government. I can believe that the Israelis who spit on Christians should be charged, and I do. I can believe that the violence in Judea and Samaria needs to be stopped, and I do. I can believe that every single Israeli, regardless of religion, who commits rape, should be tried and should face the harshest punishments, and I do. I can believe that every single war crime committed by an Israeli should be prosecuted, and I do. I can believe that Israel should be held to the same standards of every other nation, and I do. The only things I don’t do, because I’m a Zionist? Call for the destruction of the only Jewish nation in the world. Hold them to a far higher standard than everyone else, just because they’re Jewish. Spread false propaganda about them, just because they’re Jewish. Because even though you pretend that’s “antizionism”, it’s just masking your true motives. Jew hatred.

Hi Zack, I'm a British-born Israeli who was stabbed 18 times by a Palestinian terrorist. Another chopped up my friend in front of my eyes. One got out in the hostage deal. They were paid a salary for years by the UK gov. Could you tweet: "all of this is a horrific crime. He should be held to account." Thanks

Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski

a month ago

The IDF has been accused of horrific war crimes in Gaza by the UN Human Rights Council & Amnesty International. It is just common sense that those involved in war crimes should be held to account.

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The corpse count speaks louder than any theory — Josef Stalin murdered between 6 and 20 million of his own people through deliberate famines, mass executions, and gulags that made Hitler look like an amateur. Yet somehow we still have economics professors teaching that central planning can work if we just find the right technocrats. Stalin's Holodomor in Ukraine stands as the perfect case study in socialist arithmetic. When Ukrainian peasants resisted collectivization, Stalin simply starved them into submission — confiscating grain, banning travel, and posting guards to prevent anyone from escaping the famine zones. Millions died eating grass and bark while Soviet grain exports continued flowing to Western markets. The kulaks — prosperous farmers guilty of the crime of success — were liquidated entirely as a class. And this wasn't some accident or deviation from true socialism. This was central planning working exactly as designed. When the state owns all property and controls all production, human beings become mere inputs in the grand equation. Stalin understood what modern progressives refuse to admit: you cannot remake human nature without breaking a few million eggs. The same academic establishment that clutches pearls over free market "inequality" continues treating Marx as serious economic theory rather than a blueprint for mass murder. They'll spend hours debating whether Keynes got the multiplier effect right while treating Stalin's body count as an unfortunate implementation detail rather than the inevitable result of abolishing private property.

Last week I was sent an image of a pro-Palestine stall at Cambridge Market Square. Not angry students. Not masked radicals. Rather elderly white women encouraging strangers to boycott Israel. So yesterday I went to Cambridge to hear what they were selling. Thread ⬇️⬇️

@pangadelica Both he and you are wrong. Most English people have more Germanic ancestry than Brythonic ancestry and the vector is both male and female germanics

@TerryMac999 @DanielJHannan Without fossil fuels billions will starve to death!! '....the synthesis of ammonia (using fossil fuels), ensure the very survival of billions of people alive today and yet to be born....'

Loved Blackadder but this portrayal was more lazy cliche than genius. Serious historians have long since debunked the “lions led by donkeys” myth; stupid, heartless generals sending helpless fodder over the top. Classic promotion of a self-loathing lie by British cultural elites

Just Dave now @justdavenow89

a month ago

The saddest ending to a sitcom ever? but genius writing and the reality of war. I still fill up watching this, thinking about what these brave actual patriots sacrificed for us today during both of these wars

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Net zero advocates say we are running short of water because of changing weather. The main reason is of course the failure to put in new reservoirs to cater for the large increase in population through migration this century. We had plenty of rain last winter.

Left-wingers in actual reality:

British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election: Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister. Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour. We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run. We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.

@earthFgardener Makes a change from the vegan propaganda of big business😊That cow btw has just dumped a single ‘pat’ which will support 100s invertebrates (restoring nature) & fertilise the land. Naturally. Vegan farming? Hocked to polluting nitrogen fertilisers. Wishing u a good evening

Himalayan Balsam 'can block waterways, increasing the risk of floods' Beavers do the same thing but apparently to the opposite effect magical bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Elizabeth_eno2 Ambrosius Aurelianus mentioned by Gildas Arthur but not a King?