Gordon Farrel MBE

Likes Ukuleles, gardens and things that bring a smile. Volunteer Gardener at Mount Grace Priory, and I play old songs for local community groups,

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

How they make almond milk, step by step.

1. Acquire almonds. A few.
2. Soak them overnight, as if preparing for surgery.
3. Blend with several litres of water until the almonds are thoroughly outnumbered.
4. Strain.
5. Throw the almonds away. The almonds. The part with the food in it.
6. Bottle the leftover water.
7. Add lecithin, because the water keeps trying to separate from the other water.
8. Add gum, so it has the nerve to call itself a drink.
9. Add back the calcium you just tipped down the sink.
10. Add vitamins from a tub, so the label can lie with confidence.
11. Add salt and flavouring until it stops tasting of regret.
12. Sell as natural. Straight face throughout.

How they make raw milk, step by step.

1. Milk the cow.

That is the step.

Twelve steps to make a nut do an impression of milk. One to get milk off the animal that patented it. They put the warning label on the cow.

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

@StephT23195877 @MichaelPayneUK I don’t hate him, and I couldn’t care less what chass he is. Like millions of others, I just hate what he does, how he behaves, and that he is leading, or maybe following a movement that is ruining our country and stripping us of ambition and hope.

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

@MichaelPayneUK I don’t doubt your sincerity, but if what you say is true, why, for example, would he want to ruin lives, food security and industry, with the pointless and profligate pursuit of net zero?

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

Exactly. Let’s revert to common sense

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

In just 8 years, China pumped out more carbon emissions than Britain has produced in 250 years.

Net zero is wrecking our industry, and driving up our energy bills, but it's having zero impact on global climate.

It's time to scrap Net Zero for good.

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

The vested interests do seem to be controlling the “debate”.
I’m no climate expert, but recognise the dangers of painting ourselves into a corner.
Time to pause the CO2 hate and headlong dash for deindustrialisation for an independently led apolitical discussion?

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The mainstream media and scientific bodies chose to ignore a climate declaration, signed by over 1,100 (and later, even more) scientists.

The 'World Climate Declaration' was published in September, 2019, by CLINTEL (Climate Intelligence), a Netherlands-based group. It argued there is no climate crisis or emergency and criticised overreliance on worst-case scenarios based on computer modelling.

The declaration pointed to empirical data of biomass expansion, noting that 'CO2 is plant food'—a reality now backed by verified NASA satellite data showing significant global greening over recent decades. They emphasised the biological benefits of CO2 for global greening, and argued that climate policies must respect economic realities and national sovereignty.

However, critics of this paper were more focussed on who signed it, saying only a small percentage were publishing climate scientists or paleoclimatologists. Many were engineers, geologists, or professionals from unrelated fields.

This was a collision between an entrenched, centrally coordinated climate machine and a bloc of independent professionals, drawn from engineering, economic and industrial backgrounds, arguing the practical, physical constraints and costs of such an all-encompassing global energy transition.

The declaration said climate models had serious flaws. But the climate campaigners were on a roll, and said they alone represented mainstream science. They had built a body of evidence on the calibrated data of satellite and ocean temperatures. The 'short-term pain of transitioning to net zero was preferable to the long-term instability and economic damage from uncontrolled climate change.

This posture allowed them to freely portray the 'rate of warming' as unprecedented in modern human history. The mainstream media backed them. The declaration was labeled 'fringe' overnight by major academic journals.

The economic fallout from dismantling the global energy infrastructure has in fact been colossal, now estimated at $275 trillion and counting. The 1,100 strong declaration did not break through into this entrenched policy circle because of its institutional barriers to outsiders. These doors were permanently closed.

The UN, major central banks and Western governments were already colluding clandestinely with each other, plus global asset managers like BlackRock and Vanguard. They owned the science. They owned the carbon cash fallout. Now they owned the sovereignty as well.

The climate narrative is high-stakes rhetoric, slick propaganda that downplays the gradual collapse of western economies, once based on cheap coal, oil and gas. This mainstream narrative is what captured the public's attention with its high-stakes rhetoric, bypassing the need for a professionally structured, data-driven approach that would be much harder for independent critics to dismiss.

The campaign was spearheaded by claims of 'global boiling' - 'code red for humanity' rhetoric filled the news pages and dominated politicised shouting matches. The UN and associated bodies shifted their position from 'advisory' scientific panels to becoming the world's global economic managers.

The conversation wasn't about atmospheric physics. It was about rusted-on, centralised, top-down control and ownership. But when policies move faster than engineering realities, like grid stability and battery storage limits, then economic hardship becomesss the inevitable price.

That is exactly how it has turned out.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Absolutely. 🥩

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

Absolutely right. The problem is, that the people around him couldn’t care less. Scrap the net zero nonsense and invest properly in security of all kinds - military, health, food, manufacturing, borders etc. Let’s put common sense first.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

🚨John Healey DESTROYS Keir Starmer's defence plan!

"The current plans fall WELL SHORT of what is required"

"A rise of 0.08% to 2030.
No date for reaching 3%
No path to 3.5%"

Brutal. Hugely embarrassing for Keir Starmer.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago.

The species is Swiss stone pine. Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold.

6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2.

Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates.

Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.

[@ChatsWithEm @chatswithem]

If you care about this country Kier

If you care about protecting our young...

STOP THE BOATS!!!!!!

710 mostly MEN breaking our border in ONE DAY

What would our forefathers who gave their lives in WW1 and WW2 think to this bombardment

How is this not a national emergency

HOW‼️🤬

We cannot afford these men , financially or in terms of safety .

Your incompetence Labour Gov.. @YvetteCooperMP @ShabanaMahmood

Is directly putting the innocent people of Britain at risk.

You're failing in your first duty to protect this nation and its people

Your refusal to do what's needed is more than incompetence .

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

The British countryside is a national treasure. Its beauty is maintained by farmers. No drama. Timeless beauty. Constantly renewed.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Norway have qualified for their first World Cup since 1998, and the first thing they did was ship in their own cheese, fish and 6,000 oranges. A touching show of faith in the American food supply.

Start with the cheese, since they hauled 116 kilograms of it across the Atlantic. Dairy in the United States can come from cows injected with a growth hormone called rBST, which has been banned across Europe for years and does not even have to appear on the label over here. Norwegian cows never go near it, so the players would sooner bring their own.

The fish follows much the same logic. A good deal of American tuna is treated with carbon monoxide, sold to the trade under the lovely name "tasteless smoke," which fixes that bright red colour and keeps it looking fresh long after it has quietly stopped being so. Europe banned the practice in 2003, while America still permits it.

Then the oranges, all 6,000 of them, because the US happily lets growers spray the skins with Citrus Red 2, a dye the World Health Organisation's cancer agency calls a possible carcinogen, all so a slightly green orange can pass for a ripe one on the shelf. Europe will not let it anywhere near food.

So when a side with one shot at a World Cup takes a long look at the local cheese, fish and fruit and flies in a tonne of their own instead, you can understand how they got there.

A ringing endorsement of American food, obviously.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

America is building rockets that can go to Mars and is taking AI to new levels.

Meanwhile, in Britain, our Government is banning underfloor heating and wants to regulate our use of towel rails.

I despair for our future under these student socialist imbeciles.

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

Let’s find some common sense before it’s too late……

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Eighty years ago this country tore up its parks and flower beds to grow food, because it had just learned, the hard way, what happens to an island that cannot feed itself. In 1917, German U-boats came within a few weeks of starving Britain into surrender.

So when war came again, the lesson was already carved deep. They called it Dig for Victory. Allotments on bomb sites, pigs kept in suburban back gardens, every spare scrap of soil turned to production. And the herd and the dairy were treated as exactly what they were, a strategic national asset. Milk came almost entirely from our own fields, protected as a lifeline for the nation's children. Cattle and sheep turned grass that could grow nothing else into meat and milk, into leather for boots and wool for uniforms, food and matériel produced at home while the convoys carrying the rest were being sent to the bottom of the Atlantic.

That homegrown capacity helped keep an island under blockade fed and fighting long enough to win the war, twice over.

The generation that lived it never forgot. Food security is built over decades and lost in a single season, and there is no buying it back once the farms and the skills are gone. An island that leans on the kindness of distant suppliers can be brought to its knees without a single soldier landing.

For a while, the country remembered. It backed its farmers. It valued the man with the herd. It understood that a field full of cattle was the thin line between a nation that feeds itself and a nation that merely hopes.

Then it forgot. Slowly, comfortably, on a full stomach. The shelves were always stocked. The food always arrived from somewhere. A generation grew up that had never once felt the cold fear of an empty larder, and decided, from inside that total security, that the cattle were the problem and the farms could go.

So now we tax, buy out, cull and regulate away the very capacity that two world wars taught us to treasure. On purpose. Proudly. With the serene confidence of people who have never missed a meal and cannot imagine that they ever will.

The grandparents of the people writing these policies dug up their own gardens to keep this country fed. The least their grandchildren could manage is to not dismantle the farms while the lesson is still legible on the war memorials.

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

Good on ya! Enjoy the match 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤞

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Massive kudos to Scotland Tartan Army hero Craig Ferguson - who has arrived in Boston after an incredible 3,200 mile trek across America. The mental health campaigner has raised over £1 million for Scottish Action for Mental Health. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The world according to Ed Miliband:

Electric towel rails ❌
Massive energy guzzling AI data centres ✔️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Ireland is being made to shrink its dairy herd, with healthy in-calf cows going to slaughter early, to satisfy a nitrogen figure set in Brussels.

Start with how cruel the timing is. Barely a decade ago, when the EU scrapped its milk quotas in 2015, Ireland told its farmers to do the opposite. Expand. Grow the herd. Build the new parlour. The government's own strategy pushed dairy hard for export growth, and thousands of families borrowed heavily and did exactly as they were asked. Now the same establishment that cheered them bigger is ordering them smaller.

The instrument is a rule that sounds technical and harmless. The EU caps the nitrogen that livestock manure may spread on the land. Ireland's grass-fed dairy farms, among the most efficient and lowest-carbon on earth, held a hard-won allowance to graze a little heavier. After a water-quality review, that allowance was cut, from 250 kilos of nitrogen a hectare down to 220, across great swathes of the country from 2024, and it has stayed under threat ever since, its conditions tightening at every review.

To drop under the new line, a farmer has three doors. Find more land, ship his slurry away, or get rid of cows. Land is scarce and the squeeze itself sent rents soaring, so for many the only door left is the herd.

The Irish Farmers Association reckoned an extra sixty nine thousand acres would be needed nationally just to stand still. One senator, a farmer himself, warned that up to forty one thousand cows, a great many of them pregnant, could be sent to slaughter to comply, and called it an animal welfare catastrophe in the making.

Sit with that. Healthy, productive, in-calf cows, on some of the greenest grass in Europe, culled early because a stocking number on a form moved by thirty kilos. The very cows the nation was begging the farmer to buy ten years ago.

This is what modern environmental policy looks like at the sharp end. A good cow loaded onto a lorry she never needed to be on, on a wet Tuesday in County Cork, to shift a figure in a spreadsheet.

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

@Steven_Swinford @oliver_wright Starmer, worried that Milliband sides with Burnham, agrees that spending £30bn a year on net zero is reasonable. If UK is 100% successful, it’ll reduce world emissions by 0.7%, if China, India etc don’t increase theirs. Why is Starmer’s security more important than UK security?

[Gordon Farrel MBE @gfromboro]

Just thinking about Mr Musk and his twelve zeros, I thought about it in terms of steps and time, and Google tells me that:-

Completing one trillion steps would take roughly 27,400 years of walking every single day without stopping
#alorralorrasteps

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

First the Defence Secretary resigned saying the government is making the country and our troops less safe.

Then the Veterans Minister went, saying the government is abandoning our veterans and it’s harming our national defence.

It’s clear the armed forces have lost all faith in Keir Starmer. A Prime Minister who cannot command the respect of our military cannot continue in office.

Britain’s national security must come before Keir Starmer’s ego. The Prime Minister’s time is up.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I wonder what sort of people make a decision like this