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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A man who spent thirty years reviewing sports cars has taught this country more about its own food than every minister, union and campaign of the last fifty years combined.

Here is what five series of Clarkson's Farm put in front of the public, and not one line of it is opinion.

- A thousand acres, worked flat out for a year, made a profit of £144. Under forty pence a day.
- By year six the same farm was losing money, weather and prices turning a projected £37,000 into a five grand loss.
- A crop can drown in the field after months of work and take everything with it, and nobody is coming to help.
- The farmer is the only man in the food chain who sells at a price he does not set. The supermarket sets it. He takes it or he takes nothing.
- The council can shut his restaurant, refuse his car park and stop him selling his own food off his own land.
- The subsidy he was told to lean on can be closed overnight, the big estates first through the door, the small farms locked out.
- One outbreak of bovine TB can lock a farm down for months, banned from buying or selling a single cow, through no fault of its own.
- Rear pigs with real care and the butcher's maths can still make them a loss, so the animals go and the loss stays.
- The margins are so thin that a rich man buys farmland not to earn from it but to shelter money that earns elsewhere. The shelter exists precisely because the farming does not.

Now hold that against the story you were sold. Greedy farmers. Subsidised for doing nothing. Wrecking a countryside they are somehow also the custodians of.

There is no profit. That was the reveal. A show that set out to be funny accidentally filmed the slow strangling of the people who feed us, and the country watched it happen and finally understood what its cheap food actually costs.

Clarkson has now admitted the plainest part out loud: it is the television money keeping Diddly Squat alive, and most farms do not have a television show. Britain grows about sixty per cent of its own food and the average farmer is past sixty. That is why both numbers are heading the wrong way.

It took a Lamborghini tractor and a man doing it for a laugh. Fifty years of earnest campaigning could not manage it.

[TitusWelliver @welliver_titus]

My son Eamonn’s new album just released on ITunes and Spotify,get yours today!!

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

There's nothing wrong with our elections, but there is something wrong with Donald Trump.

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

The advice for the housing crisis is get roommates.

The advice for grocery costs is cook at home.

The advice for the commute is move closer to work.

The advice for debt is cut spending.

The advice for burnout is find balance.

None of these are solutions.

They are instructions for how to be poor more quietly.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

The greatest piece of political propaganda in our time was convincing millions of people that caring for others and the planet was somehow a threat to America.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

Mamdani: I want to open up 5 test markets to lower food prices in New York.

Fox News: That's communism!!

Trump: I want to open 25 gas stations to lower gas prices for some people.

Fox News: That's genius!!🤦‍♂️

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Wednesday — Democrats force a candidate out for being a sexual predator

Thursday — Republicans name an airport in honor of a sexual predator

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

I’LL SAY IT AGAIN:

If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

“Socialism is the Republican word for anything that helps the people.”

~Harry Truman

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

FIFA 2026 will be remembered for 1 thing

America cheated.

The Trump stain is all over it now.

[Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost @RepMaxwellFrost]

Everything is too expensive, and working families are paying the price. One year after Congressional Republicans passed Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, millions have lost healthcare and food assistance while billionaires got another tax break.

Lower costs — not taxes for the rich.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The sitting president of the United States had to pay $5 million to a woman he raped and defamed, and not one person in his entire cult of a party is calling for his resignation.

Not one.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Health insurance is cool because you get to pay a bunch of money each month for nothing and then if something happens to you, you pay a bunch more.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Inflation rose to 4.1%, the first time in three years.

What are trump and Republicans focused on?

-Covering up the Kennedy Center

-Covering up the Reflecting Pool

-Health care plan. Just kidding, GOP has no plan, not even concepts of a plan.

November is coming.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Wow. Donald Trump is holding affordable housing hostage until Congress passes his voter suppression bill.

He is literally delaying help for families struggling to afford a home in order to make it harder for married women and Black Americans to vote.

He is a sick man!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

In the richest country on earth, millions of people can't afford healthcare, housing, childcare or other basic necessities.

We don't need tax breaks for billionaires, more military spending, endless wars and a White House ballroom.

We need to improve life for the working class.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

In the year 2026 we should be focusing on how we improve life for working families, reverse climate change and strengthen international law.

Instead, led by Putin, Netanyahu & Trump we see more wars & human suffering and increased spending on weapons of destruction.

Pathetic!

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Photos courtesy of the California State Library

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl