Jonathan Tapp

Farmer

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@billat_foxhill @SamaHoole @julian_voelcker And that it was owned outright, mortgage-free!

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@billat_foxhill @MelJD46 Plenty on the Wantsum marshes…

[ben moores @benmoores2]

A thread on the 50 best fortifications to go and visit in the world according to me. They are all fun for at least one in the family. They are listed in reverse rank order as determined by how much fun, unique and awesome they are.

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@billat_foxhill @MelJD46 I’ve been using Starlink since its launch in the UK and haven’t looked back. I find 4G & 5G hopeless in the summer when Margate is busy.

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@NitnelavGS @FinancialTimes I think you are perhaps down as a subscriber to FT Edit, which includes a number of curated articles but not the whole show.

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@billat_foxhill @MelJD46 When will it end?

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@horton_official Dieter Helm’s vision for British farming is pure Treasury - no subsidies, full carbon pricing, faith in markets(!) but others still subsidise, so we export both food and emissions. And “polluter pays” isn’t the same as “public goods” - taxing harm isn’t the same as funding nature

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@DanNeidle @herrvonari76181 Plenty to go at.

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We said goodbye to Max today, nearly 12. A gentle, loyal companion - much loved, deeply missed. 🐾❤️

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@Frencheconomics Simon, you’re right about the inflationary bite of fiscal choices. But Reeves can’t square the circle: a wealth tax would be damaging (as Dan Neidle has shown), yet by also ruling out the big three she leaves a £30bn hole with nothing but damaging and corrosive drift to fill it.

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@billat_foxhill I think they’re all here in Thanet…

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@Rambaudian @DanNeidle Have you ever been to Tesco HQ? It’s not a Zoomy kind of place.

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@StuartMaggs Sighs of relief in the Home Office so don’t hold your breath…

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@FlindtTowers and he’s back…

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@richardpayne94 @RamblersGB @openspacessoc @RighttoRoam Try growing sunflowers (not a right of way)

[Jonathan Tapp @JonathanTapp]

@WilliamJHague Your article makes a strong case for confronting uncomfortable demographic truths. Sadly, the public response it received on your own newspaper’s platform was dominated not by debate, but by distraction - possibly not even human. We may not just be ageing. We may be being lulled.

[Jonathan Tapp @JonathanTapp]

If the NFU agrees, and even Dan Neidle agrees, and DEFRA polling agrees, and food security experts agree — yet government does nothing — then the issue isn’t economics. It’s that no one in power is listening. Or worse, they are — and they don’t care.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

@JonathanTapp Wish I knew.

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@DanNeidle I’d be intrigued to know why you, we, are apparently failing to get this across to HMG - why allow this to bleed, why not say hey, great, let’s do it better?

[Mo Metcalf-Fisher @mometfisher]

Rachel Reeves’s family farm tax ‘will put food security at risk and force farmers to drop nature-friendly practices’ the government’s own survey has found.

Has the penny dropped yet?⬇️ https://t.co/cwwkJV6VPh

[Jonathan Tapp @JonathanTapp]

@thegraingeek @JRDSills Here in Kent, our wheat yields are down by 15%, and our irrigated potatoes have fallen by around 20%. RF has prevented us from harvesting both spring oats and winter beans. The combination of poor yields and poor prices is - let’s say - unfortunate, if not downright perverse.