Three Acres And A Cow

Thanks Sheffield, that was a super fun evening!

Was really happy to see @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible this evening. Some things you take for granted as being just the way things are, but seeing the history of enclosure, shows how recently we had common rights to land. Also a great crowd and some lovely communal singing 😁

@threeacresacow.bsky.social thanks for a great evening. Fully re-energised

Just back from seeing @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible in Sheffield. Honestly a lovely, educational and empowering show. See it if you can!

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#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest wool, there noble men, gentlemen, and certain Abbots too leave no ground for tillage: they inclose all into pastures, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse.

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"Your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I heard say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities."

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Sheep and the lucrative wool trade was the driving force behind people being forced from their land during medieval times in Britain.

Thomas More's Utopia has a few things to say about this in 1516...

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Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

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The cast of 'Three Acres And A Cow' starting the final song in the show, with the completed 'Washing Line of History' and the beautiful arched stained glass window of the Wesley Church, Chester behind. them

We loved 'Three Acres And A Cow' at the Wesley Church in Chester last Thursday. Thank you @threeacresacow.bsky.social and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social for a fantastic evening 👏

Lovely time in Liverpool last night! Thanks so much to Ullet Road Church, Squash Liverpool, all our volunteers, and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social for bringing powerful Welsh songs to the show.

The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester, being jacked up on stilts to the new street level during redevelopment. It definitely looks like it's about to waddle out of the picture.

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

Congratulations Guy!

(1915*) Mrs Barbours’ Army by Alistair Hulett If I could marry a song it would probably be this one. Alistair Hulett on fine form writing about Mary Barbour and the Glasgow Women’s rent strike at the start of the 1914-1918 war. Mrs Barbo…

Thank you, @threeacresacow.bsky.social ! 1 of my fav songs of the late Alistair Hulett re Mary Barbour/ #Glasgow #Women #rent strike, 1915. I was honoured to meet, trade albums w Alistair ~20 yrs ago in Glasgow when we both played at a political song workshop

Songs ↩ back to resources *means song written at a later date. Some dates are approximate to aid navigation. Still to add – Baa baa black sheep

Fascinating resource of songs about land rights, mostly in the UK, but also in Ireland and North America (note Willie Dunn's Ballad of Crowfoot included here). Thank you, @threeacresacow.bsky.social !

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

Some succint and prudent thoughts on the current state of food and farming in the UK... covers inheritance, supermarkets, NFU, Brexit, taxation, meat consumption and more

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Pylon, the Turbine and the Black Black Blade The Scottish renewables revolution feeds into a dysfunctional, even dystopian UK energy system. The crisis in the Highlands and Islands has echoes of age-old issues of power, poverty and democracy.

A superb article on community ownership of renewables and the wider land justice perspective -

"Community energy generates 100x more wealth than corporate counterparts. Energy infrastructure, like political power needs to be radically decentralised."

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Our Oswestry show is on Sunday 21st September
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Our Wrexham show is on Saturday 20th September
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Our Liverpool show is on Friday 19th September
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Our Chester show is on Thursday 18th September
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Cheeky four date tour next month along northern part of English/Welsh border with the brilliant Owen Shiers from Gafael Tir and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social.

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Last few tickets going soon for our biggest ever show to 950 people in Sheffield on 9th October.

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I’m just reading this too on holiday, 1/3 in I think it’s my favourite book of the year! A different way of seeing the world, beautiful writing as well as ideas

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

32°C as a nightly low temperature in Shanghai, city of 30 million. Climate change hitting hard now.

Spinning your wheels Sir, R.L. Vickers ("Freight of history", Letters, Eye 1654) asserts that "public transport eats taxes, private transport provides tax revenues.” In fact, the hidden costs of motoring's many downsides far outweigh the tax receipts. These socialised costs - gridlock, air and noise pollution, emergency services costs, road damage, public health impacts from sedentary lifestyles and deaths from road crashes - are met only partially by motorists. Motoring taxation raises about £40bn per year, while a recent report from the Royal College of Physicians estimates that the annual cost of air pollution alone is as much as £50bn. If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires. CARLTON REID, Motoring journalist and author of "Roads Were Not Built for Cars", Newcastle on Tyne.

“If drivers had to pay the full and true costs of motoring the only people who could afford to drive would be multi-millionaires.”

My letter about the hidden costs of motoring is in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social