Paul Broughton

[Paul Broughton @broughtyfarmer1]

No fucking clue what your talking about

[Sue Francis @SueFran45528113]

ROLL UP! ROLL UP!
To see the “elite” terrify and abuse BABY HORSES! 🐎 😳 The “crème de la crème” and “epitome” of horsemanship at Royal Ascot showing how to push the terrified baby horses completely over the edge in panic with extreme force, archaic gadgetry and not a hint of trust. But don’t fret. The vets and the RSPCA are there, and just so long as you are wearing a designer outfit with a stupid hat and sporting a flute of champagne your sense of conscience is mitigated. So just relax and allow the horses to absorb their purgatory for your service and entertainment, just as they have done so for millennia 🐎😉

[Paul Broughton @broughtyfarmer1]

Great night for us Lincs @peterhook fans, after a special night in Manchester the week before meeting @oldleadfoot on the way

[Peter Hook @peterhook]

A few photos from last week’s show at @LincolnCastle - the first of our 4 shows this summer being special guests of @OfficialOMD…

The next one is coming up tomorrow night in Southampton at Guildhall Square.

https://t.co/aRq5vk7N7r

📸: Evie Smith

[Andrey Sizov @sizov_andre]

Diesel prices in Russia are rising fast. Will it impact the new #wheat crop?

Wholesale is up ~20% Y/Y and ~20% since January. The main driver: global middle-distillate prices. ICE gasoil doubled from February to April and remains ~20% above February levels.

For farmers, this probably won't derail the harvest — most hold fuel stocks ahead of the season.

But it will add pressure to crop margins already close to zero for many producers. And feed into food inflation through logistics.

#oatt #sizovreport

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

STOP KEIR STARMER'S PONY CULL

👉 https://t.co/hfEE7HC5wo

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Scene, Downing Street:
‘How can we make ourselves even more unpopular?’
‘Well, prime minister, we could allow Natural England to proceed with their plan to shoot 90% of the ponies on Dartmoor’
‘Yes, that might do it.’

[Paul Broughton @broughtyfarmer1]

1.8 billion on @DefraGovUK salaries and this is what happens, don’t want to listen to country people who actually understand the rich tapestry of land nature, this needs to be front page news, thank you for bringing it out into the open

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[A. R. Peters & Son @sussexfarming]

This really shows how farming has become less and less important to successive governments and now in less than 2 years labour have carried on giving the industry that is food security, national security absolutely no continuity of minister at all. @angelaeagle @stephenmorgabMP

[Peter Hook @peterhook]

A short but sweet set yesterday at @LincolnCastle opening up for old friends @OfficialOMD!

Happy to also be a part of their upcoming shows in Southampton, Margate & Rochdale this summer.

Dates/tickets: https://t.co/aRq5vk7N7r

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Wool grows back every year on grass and rain. It warms you better than plastic and feeds the soil when it wears out. We let the trade collapse anyway.

Here is how anyone, anywhere, can help bring it back.

- Read the label. Most "fleece" is plastic. Choose real wool.

- Buy your bed back from oil. Wool duvets breathe, resist fire, and outlast synthetics by decades.

- Put wool underfoot. A wool carpet lasts a generation. Nylon sheds microplastic with every step.

- Insulate with it. Sheep's wool beats foam, and foam is just oil.

- Buy close to the animal. Straight from farms keeps the money with the shearer.

- Compost the old stuff. A wool jumper rots back into the ground. Polyester outlives your grandchildren.

- Back it where the big orders are. Hotels, uniforms, fire rules. They could all specify wool tomorrow.

- Learn the craft. Knit, weave, felt. Every stitch is a vote.

This belongs to no one country. Merino off an Australian ewe, Rambouillet from the American west, Shetland, Harris Tweed. Half the world's wool sits unloved while we dress in oil.

None of this needs a hashtag. Just ordinary choices, made on purpose.

The sheep have done their part for ten thousand years. The rest is us, reading the label.

[Fergal O'Brien Racing @FOBRacing]

Four runners @WorcesterRaces this evening - Feet On The Ground (pictured), Lucky Diamond, Minella Blizzard and Politacus #TeamFOB

@tombroughton3 and @LiamHarrisonNH ride

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

What possible justification can there be to incentivise firms to employ foreign workers when we have an unemployment crisis among British citizens, especially the youth?

[Fergal O'Brien Racing @FOBRacing]

Sterling work from @tombroughton3 in the tractor this morning #TeamFOB

[Peter Hook @peterhook]

More photos…

📸: Lucy Elson

[An Unknown Pleasure ⚔️ @TheLedge71]

@peterhook the perfect kiss.

[Paul Broughton @broughtyfarmer1]

Fantastic night in Manchester academy, @peterhook and thanks for the pic with my wife @oldleadfoot

[Paul Kehoe ( Pablo el Diablito ) @oldleadfoot]

Top night with these two🖤🖤

[Paul Broughton @broughtyfarmer1]

@peterhook last night in Manchester, the Light are awesome, the best

[Jimusic @JVMonte2]

Live performances are the true test of how good a band or artist really is.
Who fills that bill for you?

[STEVE DIGGLE @steveediggle]

Great crowd Manchester last night !

[Ellen Eve @snookie1971]

Absolutely fantastic gig last night @peterhook Almost a 3 hour set!!! With a surprise appearance by John Barnes. Blown away!!

[Paul Broughton @broughtyfarmer1]

On our way, can’t wait

[Peter Hook @peterhook]

Ahead of my special 50th anniversary show tonight in Manchester, check out some great photos from our last show at @beardedtheory…

Tonight’s times:

Doors Open @ 18:30

@Buzzcocks @ 19:00

PH&TL @ 20:30

Finish @ 23:10

SOLD OUT

Limited edition, SIGNED merch available tonight!