Just a reminder that it’s normal to drive your car until it dies, cook dinner most nights, live in a smaller home, pack your lunch, keep your phone until it stops working, buy used before buying new, make coffee at home, and wear the same clothes for years.
@SamaHoole Whilst i fundamentally agree .. wool is itchy! But maybe that’s to do with a skin that’s only just returning to butter and dripping after a life time of ‘healthier’ seed oils ?
Britain is allowed to be proud of itself. 🇬🇧
The Italians are proud of Italy. The Jamaicans are proud of Jamaica. The Polish are proud of Poland. As they should be.
And so should we.
Proud of the miners. Whose pennies built the NHS, decades before Whitehall had the idea. The nurses who ran it.
The shipbuilders of Belfast. The engineers who threw a bridge across the Forth.
The men who wired the world from a Greenwich wharf.
The mothers who kept this country standing when the men were gone.
A small, wet island that gave the world its language, its laws and its football. 🇬🇧
That isn't against anyone. Pride isn't hate. It never was. It's just gratitude, said out loud.
Somewhere along the way, you were told to be quiet about it. We're done being quiet.
Because people who know their history stand a little taller. And once we know how this country was made great in the first place, together, we can do it again.
Everything we make is free to learn from: https://t.co/kfMKMUQrmn
If you can afford to, help us write the next chapter: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf
Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
Jeremy Clarkson made £144 farming a thousand acres in his first year.
In year six he lost five thousand.
His own words to his land agent: dispiriting enough to clear a hundred and forty-four quid at the start, and here we are six years on, down five grand. The harvest had been projected at thirty-seven thousand profit. Weather and prices took it.
Now look at what that thousand acres has behind it that yours does not.
One of the best land agents in the country. A farm manager who has worked that ground since he was a teenager. A farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, bestselling books, more than a quarter of a million in subsidy across three years, and a television production paying for the entire thing to be filmed.
It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and the farming still loses money.
That figure should end every conversation about British agriculture, and it is the one number that never makes it onto a campaign graphic. Not the glyphosate. Not the pig housing. The margin.
Because everything people object to on a farm grows straight out of it. The field pushed to the very edge. The hedge that came out because the government paid to have it removed. The shed instead of the yard. The supermarket contract signed below cost because the alternative was no contract. Nobody intensified out of malice. They were priced into it over sixty years by a policy that decided cheap groceries mattered more than a countryside, and by a retail sector that kept the difference.
Britain now grows around sixty per cent of its own food. More than a third of British farmers are past sixty-five.
The man with the Amazon cheque cannot make a thousand acres pay.
The seventy-year-old with three hundred and no film crew is doing it anyway, and being told by people who have never sold a tonne of anything that he is the problem.
@PatrickChristys@GBNEWS Back in the day, my dad stuck a plunger on his head to play with us as a dalek. About 1966.. Same result! Hard to explain to his parishioners !
The ruminant family, and the one job each member does that nothing else can:
Cattle: turn a wet hillside into milk and beef, and build the soil while they stand on it
Sheep: grow a fireproof, compostable fibre every year on grass and rain
Goats: eat the scrub, bramble and invasive weed that chokes everything else out
Water buffalo: make the milk that becomes real mozzarella, on marshland a cow would sink in
Yak: live and give milk at altitudes that would kill any lowland animal
Reindeer: feed and clothe whole peoples above the Arctic Circle, on lichen and moss
Bison: engineer an entire prairie ecosystem simply by grazing across it
Seven animals, one gift each, none of them replaceable by a machine or a crop.
Every one of them classed, this decade, as a liability.
Warning: training heavy into your sixties and beyond may cause the following side effects.
- A grip that alarms much younger relatives
- The ability to rise from any chair without using your hands
- Carrying every bag of shopping in one trip purely out of spite
- Bone that survives a fall instead of shattering on it
- Doctors quietly deleting the word frail from your notes
- Grandchildren who suspect you are slightly magic
- A total and permanent loss of patience for the phrase at your age
Consult no one. Proceed at full speed.
🚨NEWS: Aldi has confirmed it does not sell halal meat and only sources from farms that stun animals before slaughter.
The statement follows public outrage and boycott threats on social media demanding clarification.
🇬🇧 Aldi Supermarkets don’t sell Halal meat.
We don’t sell any certified Halal meat and our policy is that all animals used in the production of Aldi’s own label meat and poultry must be pre-stunned before slaughter.
🇬🇧 Well done Aldi 👍🏻 I like Aldi 👍🏻
🚨NEW: Supermarket giant Aldi has CONFIRMED that they DO NOT sell Halal meat 🇬🇧
“We ask all our farmers - whether they supply fresh meat or frozen - to stun their animals before slaughter”
Brilliant news - be like Aldi 👍
We can all learn from Hector's philosophy on fear.
Hector is a horse, which is to say he was born afraid. A flight animal, every nerve tuned to run from noise and crowds and sudden movement, the way every horse has been tuned for millions of years.
He was not born brave. He practised.
Year after year he met the thing that frightened him, the bands and the crowds and the saluting guns, and chose, on purpose, to stand. He built his courage the way anyone builds anything worth having, one difficult morning at a time, until the standing became who he was.
That is the first half of it, and most people stop there. Here is the second half.
After seventeen years of holding the line for everyone else, Hector learned the harder thing, which is that the war was over, and that he was finally allowed to lie down in the sun and sleep.
Stand when standing is the work. Rest when the work is done.
Be like Hector. Practise your courage. And know when to put the weight down.
You have used this man's inventions today. You just don't know his name. 🏴🇬🇧
The flush toilet. The beer pump in every British pub. The hydraulic press that forges the modern world. ⚙️
His name was Joseph Bramah. A Yorkshire farmer's son, born in 1748, taken off the land by an injury and into a workshop, where he rebuilt ordinary life.
His workshop became a cradle of British engineering.
He even built a lock. He put it in a London window in 1790, with a dare: 200 guineas to anyone who could open it. 🔒
For more than 60 years, no one could.
In 1851, at the Great Exhibition, an American named Alfred Hobbs worked at it for 51 hours across 16 days. At last it opened. It had held for over 60 years, and it changed every lock that came after.
You have used Bramah's inventions today, and never once knew his name.
That is a debt. A name worth handing back.
That is what we do here. We are the people writing Britain back up, one forgotten name at a time.
There is a place for you in it. 👇
👉https://t.co/wN9S2gRmFj👈
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧