The recently planted longest single run of new #hedging on the farm; over 850 metres! Many thanks to UK taxpayers for their contribution without which it wouldn’t be here. Will try to get it to establish well.

Russia have plagued themselves.

Best to not mix dope with enriched uranium!

🚜 This is what a tax against growth looks like. A @CLAtweets survey of 700 rural family businesses found: 🚜 89% have paused investment 🚜 64% of those cancelling projects have abandoned plans worth more than £50,000 🚜 More than a third have withheld over £150,000 🚜 85% say the £2.5 million allowance does not cover their business 🚜 Almost half expect to sell at least a quarter of their land 🚜 70% fear their business will not survive another decade These are not passive assets sitting in a bank account. They are working farms: asset rich but often desperately cash poor. Farmers are cancelling machinery purchases, holiday accommodation, solar panels, crop production and reservoirs desperately needed to withstand drought. Some are even allowing buildings and land to deteriorate because the Government has created a financial incentive to prevent their businesses increasing in value. Hannah Darby’s family has shelved a £200,000 holiday let conversion and a 16kW solar installation. An inheritance tax bill approaching £500,000 could force them to sell land and leave their farm unviable. The entire APR/BPR reform is forecast to raise only about £295 million a year by 2030–31. Yet it is already freezing private investment, weakening food production, obstructing renewable energy and destroying confidence throughout the rural economy. The Government’s impact assessment claimed the policy would have no significant macroeconomic effect. The real economy is now delivering its verdict. If @andyburnham and @JohnHealey_MP genuinely want growth in every postcode, they must reverse this self defeating tax in the autumn Budget. You cannot tax working family farms into shrinking and call it economic growth.

At a point in time when Government have advised its citizens to stockpile two weeks of food, there was no policy discussion of food production, security, or related issues in Burnham’s speech! Farming, agriculture, rural policy, or food production/security did not feature. 🤷🏻

‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Donald Trump lashes out as his power wanes - our Guardian Saturday read by @SmithInAmerica theguardian.com/news/ng-inte…

Remarkable statistic. Those 8% of farms doing all the heavy lifting in terms of output also the ones potentially most clobbered by the new business IHT tax.

Stop presenting it as a farmer tax. It’s a family business tax. You aide the conversation that farming is treated preferentially as a result.

Muggiest day ever.

“AI now makes up somewhere between 30-40% of the US stock exchange value, says Stephanie Hare. A fall in stocks - as seen this morning - "hurts the US economy", she says, adding that because of this the US government doesn't want the market to stop”. Get us all killed for money?

Elon Musk says Jacob Coxon’s warning about the existential threat of AI is a “setup.” Really? In 2014, Musk said, “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.” In 2018, Musk said, “Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes. Far. So why do we have no regulatory oversight? This is insane.” In 2025, Musk said, earth faces a 10-20% chance of “killer robots annihilating humanity.” Elon, what’s changed? Does it have anything to do with the fact that you have invested many billions of dollars in AI and plan to build ten million robots a year?

Father talks to his own son shocker! Is this really headline worthy stuff @Daily_Express ?

Autumn is the new Summer! Green grass. Pleasant temperatures. Chilled out #cows.

“We are not ready to give our freedom to this fucking terrorist, Putin” 🙌🇺🇦

“Stock up on food” recommends a government Minister!

In April 2022, a 12-year-old Russian girl named Masha Moskalyova was told in art class to draw a picture supporting russian troops in Ukraine. Instead, she drew a Ukrainian mother protecting her child as russian missiles flew toward them. On the Ukrainian flag she wrote, “Glory to Ukraine.” On the russian flag: “No to war. No to Putin.” Her school reported her to the authorities. Police began investigating her father, Alexei Moskalyov, a single father who had raised Masha largely on his own. They searched his social media and discovered posts criticizing russia’s invasion and documenting russian atrocities in Bucha. In December 2022, around a dozen russian security officers raided their home. They ransacked it, seized their computers, phones, and savings. Alexei later said that during interrogations, officers beat him and slammed his head against the wall and floor. They blasted the russian national anthem at full volume while questioning him. Eventually, the regime charged him with repeatedly “discrediting” the russian military because of his anti-war social-media posts. Masha was taken away from him and placed in a state “social rehabilitation” center. Alexei was sentenced to two years in a penal colony. He later described horrific conditions there: a tiny punishment cell roughly two meters long, freezing temperatures, rats crawling out of the sewer, and days when he was forced to stand for as long as 16 hours because the bunk was locked against the wall. Meanwhile, his daughter wrote to him. “Dad, don’t give up.” “You are my hero.” They were separated for more than a year and a half. On October 15, 2024, Alexei finally walked out of prison. Masha was waiting for him. Five days later, they fled russia. They first escaped to Armenia and applied for a German humanitarian visa. After waiting for more than a year, their case stalled when Germany suspended the relevant humanitarian admission program. Then France stepped in. In March 2026, Masha and Alexei received French humanitarian visas and flew to Paris. And on July 17, 2026, France granted them political asylum. Today, Masha is drawing again and hopes to pursue art. She also writes and has spoken out in support of russian political prisoners. When asked whether, knowing everything that happened afterward, she would still have made that drawing, Masha said she would. “One only lives once.” One drawing. A child saying no to war. And for that, the russian state destroyed their home, separated a father from his daughter, imprisoned him, and drove them both into exile. This is what dictatorship looks like. Sources: Le Monde, Reuters, Euronews, Meduza, DW

Did a double take at the local recycle centre! Fortunately plastic, confirmed by a poke!

A really wet morning today which was completely unexpected! Yesterday app forecasts showed a dry day! Difficult to make good farming decisions if forecasts can’t be accurate only 24 hours ahead! @bbcweather

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants data centers in space. Nobody wants humanoid robots or flying cars. We want clean water. We want a stable climate. We want a habitable planet. We want wildlife to survive. We want to live.

🔴 Catastrophe sur l’A36 près de #Besançon (25) où plusieurs milliers d’automobilistes sont restés coincés sous l’#orage supercellulaire ce jeudi soir ! De nombreux véhicules ont été immobilisés, en raison de pare-brises criblés de grêlons géants ! Images par cal_yunus_ 📸