Robert The Logman

supplying dry logs that do burn

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Britain has cleared its uplands twice before. We are most of the way through the third, and almost nobody has said the word out loud.

The first was enclosure. Across the 1700s and 1800s, act by act, the common land that ordinary families had grazed for generations was fenced off and signed over to private owners. Millions of acres. A cottager with a pig and a cow on the common went to bed a commoner and woke up a trespasser, his animals grazing land that now belonged to the big house.

The second was the Highland Clearances. Families were burned out of their glens and put on ships, because a hillside of sheep paid the landlord better than a hillside of people. Whole valleys went silent. Walk far enough today and you can still find the rooftrees lying in the heather.

The third is happening now, and it arrives in a green coat. The hill farmer is squeezed out by carbon money, by tree-planting targets, by schemes that pay him to keep fewer animals, by land-use plans that quietly file his fields under surplus. A drinks company buys the glen to cancel out its emissions. The valley empties on schedule. Only the cover story is new.

Enclosure was sold as improvement. The Clearances were sold as progress. This one is sold as saving the planet.

Notice what does not change. The same families lose the land. The same hills fall quiet. The same large interests end up owning the ground, and the same comfortable people, a safe distance away, explain why it was all regrettably necessary.

History rarely repeats itself exactly. It just keeps clearing the uplands, and reaching for the kindest available word to do it.

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Kevin Fulton doubled his farm’s profits after transitioning away from pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.

How?

As a conventional farmer, he was barely making enough money to keep going for “one more year.”

Big Ag was squeezing him year after year.

“After a while, I was like, this is punishment.”

“I’m not getting ahead.”

“So it was actually financial incentive for me to make changes.”

Today, he no longer pays for chemicals and synthetic fertilizers every year.

Those savings are the key reason why he made the decision to switch to organic, regenerative farming.

And his farm is now doing better than ever.

But it takes time and investment to make the change.

With the 2026 Farm Bill, Congress faces a choice:

They can expand government programs to help farmers transition away from conventional practices.

Including the Environmental Quality Incentives Program Improvement Act in the Farm Bill, for example, would direct federal support to farmers using soil-building practices.

Or they can double down on the current system, where pesticide and fertilizer companies squeeze enormous profits out of independent farmers and our soil health continues to be depleted year by year.

This is a make or break moment for family farms.

Read our full blog sharing Kevin’s story and how Congress can empower millions more farmers to make the transition to organic, regenerative farming:🧵

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@1901gennelm @PaulWhitehous64 @JayMitchinson Reduce spending,?

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

The brilliant @Feargal_Sharkey sums it up

"The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception"

Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt

Are you listening @DefraGovUK ?

https://t.co/s4lIJWp8O1

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Modest warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 supports billions of people better than any previous cold era ever did.

Yet, a weird paradox dominates our modern climate discourse: we celebrate ancient warm eras as golden ages, but frame today's mild shifts as inherently catastrophic. History shows that warmth has always delivered prosperity. Look no further than Roman vineyards flourishing in Britain or Viking farms thriving in Greenland.

Conversely, cold spells almost always bring hardship - marked by the Thames freezing over, expanding Alpine glaciers and systemic crop failures during the Little Ice Age (roughly 1300–1850). When you compare the Holocene’s historical rollercoaster, the Roman Warm Period (250 BC–AD 400) and the Medieval Warm Period (900–1300 AD) stand out as eras of booming agriculture and expanding empires.

The Little Ice Age was a harsh, multi-century counterpoint that brought widespread famine and societal strain across Europe. Throughout these dramatic ups and downs, ice core data shows atmospheric CO₂ was remarkably flat, hovering steadily between 270 and 285 ppm.

These profound climate convulsions happened purely on the back of natural variability - solar output, volcanic aerosols and oceanic-atmospheric circulation flips - all without CO₂ needing to budge. On a broader scale, today's blips are superimposed over a gradual, long-term cooling trend that followed the Holocene Thermal Optimum thousands of years ago, when temperatures were frequently 0.5°C to 1°C warmer than today.

Earth’s climate has always been dynamic on multiple timescales, operating independently of any single variable, such as CO₂. Natural precedent proves that warmth isn't inherently destructive. Humans are marvelously adaptive and the biosphere is inherently resilient.

The real challenges ahead aren't dictated by a climate driven panic, but by our astonishing capacity for adaptation.

Image: A recreation of a Viking-age settlement, showcasing the turf-roof architecture that allowed Norse communities to thrive in northern latitudes.

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball
And take time to read comments on your posts, your researchers may not tell you the truth,
Well done @JohnHealey_MP for replying to comments on social media.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

MPs who go on social media should not turn off replies. They are public employees.

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

Do something that matters
@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball
Or resign and be gone,

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'."

And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense.

https://t.co/ReGvCOqqOm

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

Racism
@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep.

The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements.

For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep.

A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own.

The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing.

Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin.

So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good.

A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off.

You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Andy Burnham, as Shadow Health Secretary, said consultant spending was “indefensible.”

He called private firms having “a field day” at the taxpayer’s expense a national scandal.

He built an entire political identity on that outrage.

Then he became Mayor of Greater Manchester — and proceeded to nearly triple his own authority’s consultant bill.

£8.7 million in 2019.
£26.9 million in 2025.

That is a 209% increase.

Not a rounding error.
Not a pandemic blip.

A sustained, deliberate tripling of the very spend he once called “indefensible.”

Greater Manchester Combined Authority is now burning through an estimated £27 million a year of your money on external consultants — under the man who made his name condemning exactly this.

This is not irony.
This is not hypocrisy as an accident.

This is the Labour playbook, chapter and verse: say one thing in opposition, do the opposite in power, and hope the public are too distracted to notice.

We noticed, Andy.

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Under the Labour government, UK debt has grown faster than every nation in the world, except Botswana

[@GBNEWS]

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@InTheTrenchesUK Any untruth here,?
@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball
Been warning you.
Similar to @TankersleyPC raising the precept just to pay the clerk.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

To be absolutely clear, the IMF warning is not simply that things will be “tight” or “difficult” – it is that Britain is on course for a potential sovereign credibility crisis where the country’s finances are judged so precarious that it can only borrow under the watchdog eye of the IMF. In that world, Labour would find itself signing up to a contract that hands enormous power over UK fiscal policy to unelected officials, who would insist on front‑loaded cuts and tax shocks to prove that Britain is serious.

The real scandal is this: voters are being sold warm slogans about “investment” and “stability”, while serious economists are quietly warning that, on the current path, the UK could sleepwalk into an IMF-controlled bailout that blows those promises to pieces.

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball

[Malcolm Hay @MalHay]

When you step into the spotlight...

Andy Burnham also faces questions about his failure to declare his wife’s shareholding in a company that runs Manchester’s electric vehicle charging network

(Enjoy this article for free)
https://t.co/19TUKtqlEz

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Oracle @biggle1908]

This is Sarah the Green candidate.
Sarah doesn’t think that immigration affects housing.
Sarah is a little bit silly.
Don’t be like Sarah.

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Treat drowning as public health disaster, say water safety experts. We have got to stop closing swimming pools & get all 11yr olds swimming before they leave primary. It’s where we catch everyone & include life saving water hazard training & skills

https://t.co/CRarmYJ1h1

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball
@bphillipsonMP
Stupidity.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

A nasty policy of greed & envy eventually costing tax payers money, so pointless, and heartbreaking for some young people forced to leave friends & schools.

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office scandal victims.

7 schemes. £1.5bn paid from public purse, could hit £3.5bn.

Zero contribution by Fujitsu, PO execs, other perpetrators.

No one charged for false criminal convictions.
https://t.co/1pkj4Fx051

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

I just got a new phone, almost as if there were a sophisticated back up system, all my old texts appeared by magic on my new phone….

I wonder why Labour politicians do not have this service available to them 🤔

[Robert The Logman @RoberttheLogman]

@Steph_Peacock
@DanJarvisMBE
@MarieTidball

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

The motto of socialism.