It would be great if more hardworking, authentic, and inspiring people like Gerald were celebrated as celebrities. These real-life everyday heroes are the role models younger generations actually need.
Antifa have been turning up in balaclavas for years. Trans activist bullies have been turning up in balaclavas for years. Hamas supporters have been turning up in balaclavas for years. Funny how so few in the legacy media only noticed last weekend that balaclavas are intimidating
A woman admitting to strangling all of her children to death, being exonerated in court anyway, and then masses of women celebrating in the streets while the killer goes on to make millions in crowd funding and lawsuits, is a possibility so grim that I can’t bear to think about it. I don’t know how you move on from that with any faith in the court system or the basic sanity and moral decency of a large portion of the public. It’s a terrifying thought, truly. I don’t know what we’re supposed to do, if this is how it all turns out. Let’s pray that justice somehow still prevails. The alternative is a nightmare.
This one goes out to @JeremyClarkson and the Clarkson’s Farm team. For five seasons, this programme has been consistently brilliant. A genuine understanding and reflection of farming life - both good and bad. It’s one of the best shows on TV and deserves all the praise it gets.
Don’t worry if your A level results are a bit disappointing. I got a C and two Us. And this evening I shall sit in my agreeable garden, drinking beer from my own brewery and eating food from my own farm. Prepared by my own chef.
@ClarksonsFarm1 Can we just go for a permanent fixture on our tellys! We absolutely love this program in our house, and it's educating my kids too, as to how hardworking farmers are. Keep going!
@ClarksonsFarm1 Have loved every single one of them and have looked forward to each one. I do enjoy it more when it is focused on the farming aspects though.
A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.