Steve Nicholls

Quarter of England's farmland owned by just 2,500 toffs and fatcats There are more than 100,000 farm holdings in England, covering 22 million acres in total. But the Defra data show just 2,568 very large farms own or manage 5.6 million acres

- a quarter of all England’s farmland belongs to just 2,500 owners

- 20 dukes own a million acres of Britain

"most of this country is owned by people like the Duke of Westminster, who has 129,000 acres and a £10billion fortune", says @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

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Do you know if there’s a GoFundMe page for Jeremy Clarkson? Surely he can’t be left to suffer so.

0.08% expected growth by 2038 a CPTPP 0.08% by 2035 - Australia deal 0.07% by 2035 - Japan deal 0.03% by 2035 - NZ deal MINUS 4% - long term loss of growth caused by the Brexit that enabled these ‘wins’

Just a reminder of what trade deals “with the rest of the world” have done for us compared with what we have lost and continue to lose…

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What are the farmers planning?!?!!

Just had a very productive meeting with China's Xi Jinping, in which I suggested he address concerns over civil liberties and human rights and he suggested that I fuck off and mind my own business.

Keir's Starmer's spokesperson asked if the PM is "concerned" about being at the G20 rather than being in Downing St for the farmers protest tomorrow

Meet for key discussions with world leaders, or hang around to hear Jeremy Clarkson outside your house abusing you through a megaphone. A real dilemma

It’s almost as if Musk is a little bit weird 🙄

Greetings from the People’s Republic of Stockport

Sceptic is misapplied as suffix on vaccine-, climate- euro- etc. Scepticism is healthy practice of withholding confidence pending evidence. If you recoil from evidence and demand your own alternative pretend evidence it's denial.

I’m starting to understand what it must have been like when Caligula made his horse a senator.

So the brain-wormed anti-vax conspiracy theorist is now in charge of US health policy

My word

Welcome to this Musk free oasis. I met you on the train once, when you were returning from the Blue Dot festival at Jodrell Bank. You were charming and engaging company. Luckily we talked about everything except science as I am a complete dunce in that regard.

I’ve been a great admirer of your self-control and good humour in the face of Carole Malone’s shrieking right wing ranting on Sky News press preview

If only it were parody. I take some comfort from the fact that they’re all ultimately consumed by self-loathing.