Bob Gardiner

Enjoys travel, photography, astronomy, cricket, rugby union and Formula One.

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@SamLovesEngland @KemiBadenoch ... and your point is?

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@SamanthaSirius @GlamBecks21 Well said

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@elonmusk @TheAliceSmith It's interesting to remember that the independence was win by British settlers against a German king, George III who used German mercenaries.

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@KemiBadenoch Excellent.

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Is there something fishy going on at Mercedes? No driver goes from superb to struggling in one season. @GeorgeRussell63 Naughty spanners at Brackley? @SkySportsF1 @amgmotorsport
@F1

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I hope it is not too long before someone invents a filter to remove the grunts and screams in tennis. It is torture to listen to. @Wimbledon @BBCSport #tennis #screams

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@doncricket_ Kallis. There is no other person who comes close.

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@Jvm_Manoj Brian Close, a very tough Yorkshireman.
the legendary English cricketer, was renowned for his extreme physical toughness and his ability to absorb brutal blows without showing pain. Note: no helmet. Google him - fascinating.

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Michael Atherton" "Scorchio. Baking hot day"

Kumar Sangakara "Archer is only bowling at 82mph. While this temperature is mild in India and Bangladesh, it is excruciating here."

We are being programmed 😅
@SkyCricket
@TheBarmyArmy
@dailytelegraph
#EngvNZ #trentbridge #summer

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

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@MarkHeath45 Kemi

[laura edwards @CEdwards132]

I'm voting for her , I've always been labour my family are very labour and will hate me for it , but Kemi all the way !!

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@Aestheticsn1 The Grand Canyon

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There are a lot of empty seats at the Challenge Cup Final. What is the cause of that? @BBCSport @rlworld #rugby #ChallengeCup

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

Fantastic visit to @Twisted_Auto in #Thirsk 🚗⚓

A brilliant local business creating skilled local jobs and exporting handcrafted vehicles around the world 🌍

Really positive discussions with Charlie, Rob & Matt about supporting growth, engineering talent and global exports right here in North Yorkshire 👏

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@kevinhollinrake @Twisted_Auto Small business, dealing in excellence. Good news.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Britain is suffering from a collapse of consequences.

If we’re going to fix it, we need to get tough.

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@Jvm_Manoj The great bowling actions Larwood, Trueman, Holding and this chap.

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@DanielJHannan It's along the same wavelength of the holier than thou Left and Greens pontificating how wonderful they are for fighting for the environment but then would rather import from the Middle East than allow our resources to be used.

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@ClarksonsFarm1 28C was my favourite cricket weather when I was a young fast bowler. Now, there are warnings. People in places loke New Delhi must be particularly curious of these silly weather warnings. It is 28 minimum there at the moment!