Looking forward to reading this and seeing how SFI will work on Moorland’s and commons especially SSSIs Adam Day FRAgS Chris Short Commoning Family Hill Top Farm Expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for farmers published gov.uk/government/new…

The really telling line in the Mercer email is about spads rejecting his calls for veterans to use ID at polling stations because it would “open the floodgates” to students using their cards too. Basically a tacit admission of a voter suppression strategy thetimes.co.uk/article/025309…

PM's election statement made with Labour's 1997 anthem 'Things can only get better' belting out in the background.

The Tory party’s collapse was guaranteed when it chose to own Brexit and appoint Johnson as PM. Both decisions were always going to end in electoral failure. Corbyn’s Labour delayed the inevitable. Covid19 accelerated it. Now is the brutal reckoning. This is an existential moment

The cost of this absurd piece of electoral desperation is £2.5 billion per annum. So when Sunak insisted he couldn’t possibly afford the £2 billion per annum needed to increase junior doctors’ pay, he was - again - lying.

The Tories have taken farmers votes for granted. Then shafted them with unfavourable trade deals. Time for a reckoning…

Spain this summer? Staying with family/friends? You'll need a Carta de Invitación (takes several weeks and costs £70+). Financial resources: each UK visitor needs access to at least £862. Not “new rules”: existing requirements that we asked to apply to us. independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

Fantastic news!

Nobody talking about the awful Daniel Kawczynski being hurled out on his arse- almost as satisfying as Rees Mogg James O'Brien

Manifesto was rather bare. Hope that Steve Reed can set out a policy agenda asap. Regulatory and governance framework is critical, especially with the promises made around planning…

“Ted, would you like to spend a few days In Skegness with me”

🌧️ Substantial rainfall in the autumn and spring is being cited as a key reason for a decline in cereal and oilseed rape plantings for harvest 2024. READ MORE: fwi.co.uk/business/marke…

'We will keep banging the drum day in day out' Daisy Cooper, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, told #BBCBreakfast her party is looking for more action on health and social care after the first King's speech of the new Labour government bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Important message for new Labour gov. It’s not enough to simply bring rail services into public ownership. You have to invest at Swiss or Luxembourg levels, and definitely not German ones. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Conservationists have always sought to conserve nature as it is, to prevent destruction and change But climate change makes that an impossible goal, forcing us into strategies we would never previously have considered A thread on the future of Britain's forests 1/

Astonishingly beautiful morning. The ivy simply seething with bees, red admirals & commas 🦋

🚨 Natural Capital Roadshow 🚨 Get yourself registered for one of this winters events in a location near you! Starting in Lancashire, 22nd October 🗓️ 👉 ahdb.org.uk/natural-capita… #NaturalCapital #agribusiness AHDB AHDB Cereals AHDB Beef & Lamb AHDB Dairy AHDB Pork

I’m no expert, but I’m just not convinced that allocating £22 billion of public money to ‘carbon capture and storage’ is a good use of resources. I’d much rather they spent this money on low carbon infrastructure and the restoration of nature. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

£21.7 bn wasted on unproven and risky technology. Think what could have been achieved if that were spent on tried and tested solutions to increase C seq and reduce GHG emissions from UK ag land…

I agree. Time to follow suit. See y’all on ⁦Bluesky and Threads. This place might as well be Truth Social. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…