A free-world country’s president berating the president of a country fighting invasion by another country many times more powerful than it.
Then publicly trying to hold them ransom for significant proportions of their minerals in return for protection against an invasion they provoke.
Wow. 🤦🏼♂️
Sorry you are right. Wrong way round!
I see in the White House, a whole load of guys who either severely bullied as kids; or they were the bullies.
They certainly are now and hardly any more grown up.
Felicity (9) just announced that in looking up “cute things” in Amazon, was surprised to learn that she’d actually typed “cute things”…..
Both! 😬
Fingers crossed!
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There are various monitors from various sources.
Environment Agency produces weekly updates but obviously not real-time which may be what you need?
These are really interesting though:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
@davethroup.bsky.social may be able to help?
So much to reflect on from Oxford Farming Conference.
The highlight had to be chairing the debate at the @ox.ac.uk Oxford Student Union with these great folk.
Thank you so much Jude Capper, Rob Havard , Colin Ferguson and henrydimbleby.bsky.social
A brilliant evening of debate and laughter.
Really looking forward to the People sessions at Oxford Farming Conference today. I think we are about to have our eyes opened wide! #OFC25
The day farmers’ protest came to Oxford. 36 tractors line the street outside the Oxford Farming Conference in protest and govt policies around UK farms. #OFC25
British food sales to Europe have plummeted by a fifth since 2018, farming minister has admitted.
Govt HAS to slash Brexit red tape with the EU.
Daniel Zeichner admitted that leaving SM and CU has “had an impact on the export of agri-food products”.
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Here's my review of 2024 in Photos.
Happy New Year All x
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Sound life advice.
I don’t know, I see a nice line…. 😬
Soil temperatures have not dropped. We may end up with a false spring. We have Primulas popping up in the garden.
If you boil the faults of our diet & food systems down to “eat animals” or “don’t eat animals”; then perhaps not.
It will though, exacerbate other failings in our diet and the food system and the end result could be a lot worse.
We need a proper root and branch overhaul of our broken food system
Extraordinary @theipaper piece: Ofwat has fined water companies a total of...£2 since 2021 for breaching regulations.
“Failure to regulate has contributed to catastrophic underinvestment in our sewage infrastructure & destruction of our rivers." (Nick Measham)
Damn right.
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The @ffc-commission.bsky.social tend to use “Food Sustainability” as a measure which I think is far more useful and balanced.
Ie can we feed ourselves enough of the right type of food without trashing the place or trashing everywhere else.
This has been done a couple of times already and many have been left in serious debt.
These half-baked schemes are rarely thought through to conclusion.
It was one of those rides. Very pleased with my Christmas changing mat.
I sort of agree but I think people sharpen up on all sides if everything is laid bare in the open.
My point really relates to allowing land to be used to avoid roads and/or connect other routes under paid, permissible access.
He’s nether of those things…..
Yum. Decent marzipan proportions….
Genuine question from a non-Londoner; for all his faults, did Boris deliver on much of this early progress? Was it in plan while he was mayor? He was certainly (apparently) a champion for cycling infra. Has it tailed off since?
But it can’t be for free.
Nobody will give up rights to land for nothing; but it shouldn’t be a ransoms cost.
A fair price for reasonable access would be a brilliant stewardship option, easy and quick to deliver.
This should be our target and we should ALL be part of the discussion.
There really is a strong case for better public access, but there are significant maintenance costs to that which should be properly costed and provided for.
Safe access to the countryside is vital for people to buy in to what goes on across farmland & presents an opportunity for land managers.2/3
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This is over simplistic but I actually agree in principle.
I think farmland should provide alternative access to, say, busy roads, but farmers/land managers should be paid a proper compensatory payment to cover loss of use costs and things like fencing costs.1/3
