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Yorkshire Lass

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

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.

[Jacqueline @Jacquelineyorks]

Good morning Twitter friends. Have a very happy Yorkshire Day, the place I am so proud to call home😊

[CFP🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @CFP_Maybe1]

@NoFarmsNoFoods ❤️🎉❤️

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

The best news story you will see today. Jackie Brown - a 99-year-old care home resident and former farmer in south-west Scotland has fulfilled his wish to show a cow at his local agricultural show one more time. ♥️🐄
#farm24

[𝗚𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺 @galwaytourism]

Roundstone Regatta 2026 of Currach and Traditional Irish Boats this weekend ⛵️🌊🌤️🩵

#roundstone #galwayhookers
🎥 ig/emlaghmore.cottage

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

The July 2026 Fire Wave is testing England's moorlands, but our gamekeepers are on the front lines.

Overnight, multiple shooting estates, staff, and specialist equipment mobilized to tackle the 3-week-old Crowden/Arnfield wildfire. Driven by peat ignitions, there was a critical danger of this fire merging with the Dovestone blaze and engulfing a huge amount of vulnerable habitat.

Working relentlessly until dawn, our experienced gamekeepers successfully extinguished the right flank. An extraordinary effort.

Experts like Claire Belcher & FireInSight predicted this disaster using the 30/30/30 rule:

🌡️ 30°C temperatures
💨 30mph winds
💧 30% humidity

While the @NGOGamekeepers wildfire risk index accurately escalated all moorlands to 'extreme risk', the official government prediction tool failed to recognize the threat.

Huge respect to the estate staff and gamekeepers risking their safety to protect our precious moorland ecosystems today.

🎞️ Courtesy of the Peak District Moorland Group.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Loving this… onwards.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Every football club on earth exists because of this island. 🇬🇧

Kings banned it. The richest schools in England claimed it. They wrote the rules and locked the gates.

Then the working class stole it back.

In 1850, Parliament passed the Factory Act. Work stopped at two on a Saturday. Working men had free time. And they chose football.

Churches formed clubs to keep men out of pubs: Aston Villa, Bolton, Everton.

Factories formed teams from their own workers: West Ham from the Thames Ironworks, Arsenal from a munitions factory.

The FA Cup Final. Blackburn Olympic: weavers, spinners, a plumber. They beat the Old Etonians 2-1. No private school team ever reached the final again.

Then British workers carried it everywhere they went ⚽🌍

Scottish miners in Spain founded its oldest club. A Nottingham lace trader gave Juventus their black and white stripes.
A butcher's son from the same city founded AC Milan. British railway workers in Uruguay named their team after Stephenson's Rocket.
Cornish miners founded Mexico's first football club. A schoolteacher from Kent taught the game to his students in Argentina. His school produced Lionel Messi.
A boy from Southampton brought two footballs to Brazil. They call him the father of Brazilian football.
Real Madrid are said to wear white because of an English amateur team.

From Lancashire cotton mills to every continent on earth.

Three and a half billion people watch football. The most popular sport ever created. And it was created here. By the British people.

Every Saturday, three o'clock. That kickoff time exists because of the Factory Act of 1850. The moment working men were given an afternoon off.

They chose football. And the world followed.

No owners. No sponsors. Just supporters.

Be part of us. 👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 🙏

Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

A 65 year old Welshwoman lied about her age to get INTO a war. 👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚔️

She told the enrolment office she was 55. The truth meant instant rejection, and she was going to that war. 🇬🇧

Her name was Betsi Cadwaladr, a farmer preacher's daughter from Bala, 1 of 16 children. At 14 she ran away. By 31 she was a maid aboard a merchant ship, nursing the sick and delivering babies at sea, from the West Indies to Australia.

In her 60s, nursing at Guy's Hospital, she read the reports from the Alma. Wounded men, and no one to nurse them. So she wrote 55 in the register and sailed.

Britain had already sent its most famous nurse. Florence Nightingale. Betsi had never met her and already did not like the name.

Kept waiting at Scutari with nothing to do, she stood before the most famous woman in Britain and asked for Balaclava, the rough harbour hospital at the edge of the war. Nightingale warned her that beyond Scutari she could not protect her.

She went.

She dressed wounds that had waited days for a hand, then ran the kitchen for men too weak to stomach army rations. Almost alone. 5 in the morning to midnight. 7 days a week. For more than 7 months.

The men were fed. She was spent. Dysentery broke her, and Britain shipped her home. The 2 women never warmed to each other, but Nightingale acknowledged what she had done.

She died in 1860 in a shared pauper's grave. No stone. No name.

Then in 2009 Wales formed its largest health organisation and gave it her name. Betsi Cadwaladr. It stands over the care of the whole north of Wales. In 2012 her grave finally got its stone: the faithfullest of Her Majesty's Nurses.

She never asked to be remembered. She only asked for the front. That is a Welshwoman worth being proud of, and putting names like hers back is the work we do.

https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Alan D Miller @alanvibe]

Farmers have to invest in huge amounts of machinery as well as buildings. Andy Burnham has said he wants more death tax. We need to stand with our family farmers & food security Together

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

The University of Nebraska has called out the misleading narrative on cow burps & methane on climate change:

“They have not accounted for the capture part, they only account for methane being released. Carbon capture in soil and grass - helped out by cow grazing and manure - can far outweigh the emissions from cattle. Grasslands can take up more CO2 and carbon in the soil and plants, that offsets the CO2 that cattle are producing but it also offsets the methane.”

[Alan D Miller @alanvibe]

As Labour try to force our farmers to shift to lentils from meat & place Solar Panels on fields…

Russell Abbot reminds the Public about how high the standards of British Family Farms are

Stand with our farmers & insist on food security together

[Peter Mawson @HighFarndale]

Grazing abundance in North Yorkshire, England.

Some of those grasses are as tall as my arms are long.

Notice how little he moves, tearing up plants with his tongue. He’ll ruminate later.

Perfect for beef cattle.

Eat real red meat and animal fat; buy the best you can.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

The police returned Fiona(an English child)to the house where the Muslim rape gang were and told them "have fun with her".

Not 1 officer has ever faced trial.

Not 1 politician.

Not 1 social worker.

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

If consumers are paying premium prices for brands like Dubliner, why aren't dairy farmers seeing the returns?

The milk costs more to produce than farmers are being paid for it. Is this fair?

Like, Comment, Save & Share if you support fair farming

@dunnesstores #FairFood

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Somewhere in Britain there is a view that belongs to you. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

An Englishwoman made sure of it, for ever.

A stretch of coast. A hillside. A wood. You can stand in it tomorrow, and nobody can turn you out.

In Victorian Britain, beauty was mostly private property. Octavia Hill, from Wisbech in the Fens, set out to change that. She began with 3 worn-out houses in Marylebone, made them decent, and collected the rent door by door. Not charity. A fair home at a fair rent.

But she saw that people needed more than walls. They needed quiet, and beauty, and space. So when the city tried to swallow its green places, she stood in the way.

In 1895, with Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley, she founded the National Trust, to hold beautiful places open, for everyone, for ever. She never owned a grand estate. She saved them for people she would never meet.

The view was a gift, left unsigned. Now you know whose hand left it.

Britain is full of unsigned gifts. We put the names back, free, for anyone who wants them.

If you can afford to, help us teach thousands their own history: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Want to learn more? https://t.co/kfMKMUQrmn

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Anna Longthorp @AnnaLongthorp]

As farmers we put a HUGE focus on the major retailers, urging them to BACK BRITISH FARMING and stop duping us with shoddy labelling with Union Jacks 🇬🇧 on product that isn’t produced in the UK 🫩

BUT

Public sector and catering sector could & SHOULD also BACK BRITISH FARMING 1/4

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

Hello, I’m Julia - today, the National Park has handed their socials over to me to talk about my experience of bags of rubbish, broken glass, and empty cans left scattered where I live. This is damaging, dangerous, and avoidable. If you're visiting, please respect the Dales 🙏

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Do please post something today on your X page, in honour of our Allied heroes.

They deserve to be remembered on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

You were told mathematics began with the Greeks or the Arabs. 🤔

Three carved chalk drums from a Yorkshire grave might prove otherwise. 🥁🇬🇧

In 1889 they were found buried with a five year old child. For 130 years nobody knew what they were for. ⏳

Then in 2018 researchers measured them. The proportions appear to encode a standard unit of length. 📏

Wind a cord ten times around the smallest drum and you get the “long foot”, about 32cm. The same unit researchers believe was used to lay out Stonehenge. 🪨

A fourth drum later turned up over 200 miles south in Sussex. Same measurements. The chalk ones were likely replicas of working tools carved in wood. 🪵

Not in a king’s grave. Not in a treasury. Buried with a small child, so the knowledge would be remembered. 🕯️

British people were measuring the world before England had a name. 🇬🇧

Long before we had a name, this island was measuring the world.

Help us make sure that our history is never forgotten again. 👇🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧