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[Farlam 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇮🇮🇴🇧🇲🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦 @DB7_2]

@nicholadrummond Is the black missile system by the screen a Ukrainian ballistic missile?

[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!

[Farlam 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇮🇮🇴🇧🇲🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦 @DB7_2]

@markgsx_r @thinkdefence That would mean having some money to buy more boxers

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

Few people can describe battle like those who were there.

Major Charles Farrar-Hockley shares his experiences of Goose Green during the Falklands War.

Recorded in 1984. 🇬🇧

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

"We had come about 8,000 miles to do battle with the enemy."

Major Chris Keeble reflects on the harsh conditions faced by 2 PARA during the Falklands War and the planning behind the Battle of Goose Green.

A story worth hearing. 🇬🇧

[Farlam 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇮🇮🇴🇧🇲🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦 @DB7_2]

@HelloBenWhite The window has just opened, clubs sell players, selling our most profitable players isn’t a bad thing if we buy younger players who’s value can increase and do the same job!
I’d be very disappointed if we lost hall though
And willock does need to be sold

[Stephen Bedson @snabsn123]

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Swing Bridge. The Swing Bridge opened to traffic on the 15th June 1876

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Only idiots and Britain haters blame Churchill for the Bengal Famine

This myth only became popular in 2010 after a ridiculous book was published by a far-left journalist with no historical training

This is what REALLY happened:

1. A cyclone hit Bengal in 1942, destroying crops

2. They were already suffering from the worst rice brown spot epidemic on record

3. Normally in a famine grain would be imported from Burma, Malaya, Phillipines, Thailand etc. But WW2 ws raging and our Japanese enemy now controlled those areas

4. The Japanese had bombed Indian ports, which also destroyed grain

5. Shipping grain in was hugely dangerous because Japanese fleet was blockading the Bay of Bengal and sinking ships
Remember, the Axis powers were sinking one ship every day and had sunk around a million tons of shipping in 1942.

6. On top of that local Indian speculative traders were unforgivably HOARDING grain. With inflation rife, this was classic wartime speculation as they could make (and expected to make) much more money by hoarding rather than selling immediately.

7. Local government and administrators were slow to act and initially told the UK government there was enough grain in Bengal.
One can blame the democratically elected Government of Bengal, people like Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (Minister of Civil Supplies for the newly formed Muslim League) and Sir John Herbert (the Governor of Bengal) for exacerbating conditions in the Bengal Famine. But not Churchill.

What did Churchill do? Everything he could.

Remember also, he was thousands of miles away in a different continent fighting the Second World War and preparing for D-Day.

Yet despite all his other commitments he worked hard to save the people of Bengal.

1. When the British government found out about the famine’s severity in August 1943, they authorised around 1 million tons of grain to be shipped to India between then and December 1944.

2. Churchill pushed Australia to send wheat

3. Churchill personally requested shipping assistance from U.S. President Roosevelt in April 1944 to transport it from Australia. Roosevelt declined, stating US ships were needed for the Pacific campaign and the upcoming D-Day operations.

4. Thanks to Churchill grain arrived from Iraq (barley), and Canada as well as Australia.

5. Crucially, Churchill was responsible for appointing the man who played such a pivotal role in stopping the Bengal Famine: Field Marshal Wavell. Wavell knew India and its people extremely well and was a magician of logistics. He drafted in the army to move food supplies and halted the famine.

Why are tax payers funding Helen Cammock's ignorant, anti-British propaganda at the @NPGLondon?

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

"If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field, that is forever England"

The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915)

[Farlam 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇮🇮🇴🇧🇲🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦 @DB7_2]

@CalvinBailey @DefenceHQ @DanJarvisMBE Now demand that mad milibands net zero budget be reallocated to defence asap

[Farlam 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇮🇮🇴🇧🇲🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦 @DB7_2]

@AlistairCarns The problem is dealing with Starmer and Rachel from accounts who should be stripping mad Miliband’s budget for net zero economic destruction and giving it all to the military!

[Farlam 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇮🇮🇴🇧🇲🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦 @DB7_2]

@nicholadrummond We should have a mixture of these in wheels and tracks

[Lee Nallalingham @LNallalingham]

💰 The Government has signed off £800,000 to support Vietnam’s net zero targets.

Seriously, what are we doing?

Energy bills have now gone up six times under this government.

Millions of British households are struggling with the cost of living.

Yet somehow we have nearly £800,000 available to help another country pursue its Net Zero ambitions.

I like Vietnam. It’s a fantastic country.

But if Vietnam wants to invest in its energy transition, surely Vietnam should pay for it.

British taxpayers have enough bills of their own.

[Badger Bites UK @BadgerBitesUK]

@RealJamesWoods 🤔

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘Taxpayers would be horrified to know how many charities they are funding that perpetuate the open borders we have effectively got in the UK.’

Founder of ‘Woke Waste’, Charlotte Gill, says she’s calculated that £660 million of taxpayers’ money is going to migration charities.

[joe lincs @lincslincs]

The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years.

Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped.

Why?

State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers.

The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage.

If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes.

Leave pensioners alone.

They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.

[Farlam 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇮🇮🇴🇧🇲🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦 @DB7_2]

@Gabriel64869839 It’s infuriating, they don’t need to cut benefits, pensions, NHS, or anything important but like you said there is money wasted on cycle lanes that barely get a cyclist every hour, net zero carbon capture as just the tip of the iceberg! We could add tens of billions each year

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Now Miliband comes for your underfloor heating, your towel rails, after targeting your tumble dryer, in his net stupid zero drive

This miserable little man can do one

Reform will scrap all his potty plans
https://t.co/G77zt6uR7i