Cassius

Nursemaid, Butler & Dogsbody to a bunch of spoilt primarily black & white cheese making cows. Married to @labougielucy .

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

#ThisisDairying #Moorepark19

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

4pm is hardly enough time to get into Louis Copeland and buy the backup wardrobe you are going to need if you take advantage of this caper. @PadraigBelton

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Summer travel tip ✈️

Got an early morning flight with @AerLingus (before 8am)?

Drop off your bags the evening before, between 4pm-10pm, and save yourself some early morning hassle.

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Summer travel tip ✈️

Got an early morning flight with @AerLingus (before 8am)?

Drop off your bags the evening before, between 4pm-10pm, and save yourself some early morning hassle.

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

If the hat fits…

[Pádraig Belton @PadraigBelton]

Three days In Paris and I’ve been complimented six times on my hat. Including by a rough sleeper with whom I ended up having a lovely chat; and one chap who, elegantly, just cried ‘chapeau!’ 

By comparison: Dublin. Every rare day it is sunny enough to don my Panama, some wit shouts from across the street, ‘you ride ‘em, cowboy…’

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

I just told Claude to think like @rorysutherland and it fucked off to the pub.

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

Is it me, or has Claude slightly lost the run of himself in the past few days?

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@PadraigBelton @charlottecholey They wouldn’t keep them long if they travelled through @DublinAirport

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@PadraigBelton I can offer you Tangier later in the year where one of our young sponsored sailors is competing. We feel he deserves our support.

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@LadyHaywire @patquirke Yup 100% what Pat says, and Lucy and I are grandparents now! You’ve now idea how the time goes…

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@LadyHaywire @Peterhynes15 Oh darling congratulations from us all!

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

I suspect people are actually frustrated that their Prime Minister isn't changing fast enough.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

These are tough results for Labour. There’s no sugarcoating it. We’ve lost brilliant Labour representatives who’ve stood up for their communities.

People are still frustrated. Their lives aren’t changing fast enough. We haven’t offered enough hope or optimism for the future.

I was elected to change this country - tough days like this don’t weaken my determination to do that. They strengthen it.

[Cropsandall @Thornpip]

You wanted the type of fertiliser in the picture banned.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Walk across an arable field of British wheat in summer. Count the species.

You will find: wheat. Possibly a few resistant weeds the herbicide didn't catch. A handful of crows. Some pigeons surveying for damage. Roughly nothing else.

Walk across a properly managed permanent pasture in the same county.

You will find: 30 to 60 plant species in a good sward. Wildflowers. Clover. Vetches. Plantain. Ryegrass and timothy. Foraging bumblebees. Skylarks nesting in the longer patches. Hares in the margins. Beetles, dung beetles in particular, doing the work of two ecosystems at once. Field voles, kestrels overhead waiting for them. Swallows hoovering up insects above the cattle.

The cattle are the reason the second field is biodiverse. Their grazing maintains the open structure. Their dung feeds the invertebrate web. Their hooves create the disturbance ground-nesting birds require.

Remove the cattle, the pasture turns to scrub, and the species count crashes.

The farm with the cows is the wildlife refuge.

The farm with the wheat is the empty room.

This is the inversion that nobody who writes for a Sunday supplement has worked out yet.

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@IainDale In your case I suspect you would experience a profound sense of relief!!

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@PadraigBelton @HammerToe Which is all very well until you swap your BA gold for virgin and have to go to LHR anyway…

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@BrendanPBoyle It’s a terrible card… monthly fees & charges for all cross border transactions. I’m about to ditch mine.

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@FarmingUK @koeienboerjames @London_W4 not the story you would want to read this morning

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@PadraigBelton ANU in Antigua sounds like it ought to be some form of intimate cream.

[Liam Moran @lpearsemoran]

Brilliant. And beautifully written.

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@RuaryMartin @danobrien20 North Korea, or South?

[Cassius @cassiustweets]

@PadraigBelton @Nina_Power_ Can’t have been a good dining evening at Peterhouse if they were up at dawn.