Pete Cochrane

Chief Hammer Hurler, Wizard and Test Pilot at Area61. Has been known to visit Kalon 5 in a Galaxy far, far away.

[Pete Cochrane @petecochrane1]

For anyone who didn’t get the results they hoped for. Don’t give up on your dream. It’s not the end of the world and if you show passion and commitment in your chosen field, however lowly the position, you will get opportunities with the right employer. Your success will come.

[Queen Natalie 👑 @TheNorfolkLion]

Norfolk Fishermen Being Bullied Off Their Own Waters for Failing Wind Turbines

This is John, an eighth-generation fisherman. He and his family have been hauling crabs and lobsters out of Cromer for generations. Now a big wind farm company has arrived, forcing them to move all their gear for surveys and pushing them aside as if they don’t matter.

John represents 21 boats and there are many more like them. These are proper family boats, run the traditional way. Not massive corporate operations. Just honest Norfolk fishermen trying to protect the fishing grounds their grandfathers worked.

This is completely wrong. All of this is being sacrificed for unreliable wind turbines with questionable efficiency, massive subsidies, and serious damage to bird populations and our coastline. We’re throwing away real jobs and a proud heritage for green targets that fail to deliver steady, reliable energy.

If we don’t stand up for our fishermen, who will?

While the nation focuses on politics, issues like this are being left behind.

I’m just highlighting what’s happening so more people see it. Follow Marcuspearcey on ⏰ for more.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

This has to change!

[Pete Cochrane @petecochrane1]

@FarmingUK Surely it would make sense to put them over car parks with the current push to EV’s. It would reduce cable length and reduce the cost of electric for EV charging. Using common sense is too much to ask for from mad Ed and the net zero zealots.

[George Freeman FRSA MP @MPGeorgeFreeman]

36 degrees in the supermarket car park while the air conditioned aisles are full of imported salad crops and RedEd knocking Norfolk farms out of business & waving through massively subsidised solar power stations on farmland.

Madness. We need food security and energy security.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Absolute nonsense.

[Pete Cochrane @petecochrane1]

@NoFarmsNoFoods And some of us say 90% of scientists need to go and look at real causes in depth. Windmills and solar farms are not as net zero friendly as they think. Try looking from ground to disposal of said net zero items. Not so eco friendly now compared to farming and food production.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

No shit, Sherlock. 🐄🌍

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

A country that can feed itself is a stronger country. Should Britain do more to protect its farmers? 🚜🇬🇧

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Support your local butchers!🥩

[British Intel @TheBritishIntel]

🇬🇧 WATCH: Jeremy Clarkson’s new Hawkstone advert is now airing during World Cup coverage.

It’s a brilliant advert that shines a spotlight on Britain’s hard-working farmers.

Get well soon, @JeremyClarkson

Credit @RealHawkstone

[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!

[Richy Reay Bsc Ssc BNd Abc Xyz @Richy_GITC]

I have to say that Clarkson's Farm is one of the finest pieces of television ever created. I started watching it for Jeremy doing stupid Clarksonesque shit, but then it became something deeper and more important to an entire community of Farmers across the UK, and subsequently to us, those who forgot how important farmers are to our country.

Clarkson himself, never afraid of being made to look like a knob, opened our eyes and his to the warts and all reality of farming. The show laughs and cries at and with him. Crafted drama could never carry the same pathos as watching a Journalist becoming a farmer.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

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

[Pete Cochrane @petecochrane1]

@bluebirdk7 Deadly shopping used to be when I whinged about going in to ten shoe shops with my wife only to go back to the first one to buy the first pair she saw. If looks could kill, that would be the one! 😂😂

[Benonwine @benonwine]

“You do have to fight to keep freedom, because there are always people who say, ‘Oh, give a little bit more power to government,’ and then a little bit more, and then a little bit more.”

Margaret Thatcher was right then and what she said is even more RIGHT today. 👏🙏🇬🇧✊

[Pete Cochrane @petecochrane1]

@bluebirdk7 @UKChange Done.

[Pete Cochrane @petecochrane1]

Please sign the following petition to help get Bluebird K7 back to full working order by BBP, the people who recovered and restored it before handing it back to the Ruskin Museum. https://t.co/vj3qSNtmUl