Ian Moore🇺🇦

Husband, Dad, Grandad! History.
Nature. The Baggies. Lyme Regis & Falmouth . Freya our Old English Sheepdog. Remembering 🌈 Klaus OES 🌈 Ex-Police Detective.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

It is with immense sadness that I tell you Klaus has today crossed the 🌈 bridge. Very sudden. He was only 4 on 2/9/21. He was our beautiful boy. We loved him as he loved us. Heartbroken. Sleep well you gorgeous boy XXX

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@DonnaDlm71 @Alexarmstrong @MoriartyJones6 The one thing he's good at. 🙄

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@BlackRetirement @England @SuperbFootyPics @FootballArchive @jslovechild @retrofootballnw @robertmdaws @FootballInT80s @1980sHeaven @1968Tv @Theleaguemag @footballmemorys You're not alone🤣🤣🤣

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@SueGwasRanson Hope it goes as well ad it can. 🙏

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@AndyfromNewHamp And bever will again. At least, not in our lifetime Andy. We're fortunate to have sern them. Shame the only thing they won were plaudits.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@Sofia50020Sofia All of them.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@LeilaniDowding Very misleading. Bog standard with a post mortem. Toxicilogy. No drama here.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@AWilsonmhealth I'm glad I'm out. Did my 30, DC on Homicide. West Mids. Loads of stories. Only really appreciated the level of stress when I left. I would NOT encourage anyone to join. Politicians use us as a political football, they don't care. Senior management, I believe, care little also.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@Avabelly__ Looks ok to me. The gap appears considerably more than 3 inches to me? I could be wrong.

[James Holland @James1940]

New 4-parter on the @WeHaveWaysPod - the British Band of Brothers, in which @almurray & I follow the incredible story of the Sherwood Rangers, the single British unit with more battle honours than any other in the war. We’ll get through their entire story in time but we’re starting with D-Day and the fighting of June 1940. Amazing men. I’m in awe.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@TheGriftReport Farmer did the right thing. I won't countenance any other opinion.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@SueGwasRanson I remember looking out of my Dad's widow after my Mom passed. The postie making deliveries, folks driving their cars to work, kids walking to school. Normal life carrying on. But behind our window, the World was anything but normal. We were all over the place emotinally.🙏

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@SueGwasRanson So sorry to read this. Please accept our deepest condolonces🙏

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@brit_cop The longer you stay, the harder to leave. The pension - which you pay for and still good despite reduction - become "golden handcuffs". Time to leave.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@SarahWoods66 We go to the Malvern Spring Show every year. Also every year, we have the "shall we go to Chelsea" convo. Your post reinforces our hunch. We'll stick to leisurely, sedate, fantastic, Malvern.

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@CWGC Sleep well Lieutenant O'Neill, and thank you 🙏

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@DazHaleWM John Wile

[Ian Moore🇺🇦 @IanMoore333]

@protodanielle He'll do what, about 8 months? Less any time spent on remand. Not near enough.