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The message came ona Monday morning. 🐷He was already inthe shed, doingthe first round.Email from the buyer.Price down ag...
30/09/2026

The message came on
a Monday morning. 🐷

He was already in
the shed, doing
the first round.

Email from the buyer.

Price down again.

He read it standing up,
finished the round, and
read it again.

Here's what the whole
industry was looking at
by the end of June.

The standard pig price
averaged 179p a kilo
across the second quarter.

The full cost of producing
that kilo: 201p. 📉

Feed alone, 119p.

So on average, British
pig farmers lost £20.44
on every pig they sent.

Some were being paid
130p to 140p a kilo.

And these are pigs raised
under rules Britain brought
in years before most of
the world —
sow stalls banned in 1999,
growth-promoting
antibiotics in 2006. 🚫

None of that shows up
at the checkout.

He'll be back in the shed
tomorrow. Same time.
Same round. 🇬🇧

Is that a fair price for British pork?

My aunt is 81. 🚗Still drives. Stillcareful. Still does herown shopping and won'thear a word otherwise.She had a system.C...
30/09/2026

My aunt is 81. 🚗

Still drives. Still
careful. Still does her
own shopping and won't
hear a word otherwise.

She had a system.
Coins in the little purse
in the door pocket.
Pay and display.
Ticket on the dash.

Then the machine went.

In its place, a sign.

Download the app. 📱

She hasn't got the app.
She's got a phone
for phoning people.

When the BBC checked
in 2023, eight English
councils had taken out
every pay-and-display
machine. Fourteen had
taken out some. Half
of London's councils had
gone part or all of the way.

The reason given was the
3G switch-off making the
old machines obsolete.

An RAC survey found 73%
of drivers over 65 were
angry about it. 38% said
they'd struggle to park
anywhere else. 🅿️

2.3 million people over
65 don't use the internet
at all.

Age UK put it plainly —
some older drivers will
feel there's little point
going into town.

So she doesn't.

And the town wonders
where its customers
went. 🇬🇧

Is "download the app" fair on her?

What is it? 🏗️A shed. A very largeshed full of computers.How many want tobe built?Requests to connectdata centres to the...
30/09/2026

What is it? 🏗️

A shed. A very large
shed full of computers.

How many want to
be built?

Requests to connect
data centres to the grid
now top 70 gigawatts.
The system operator
expects around 5.2 to
actually be connected
by 2030.

How much power does
one need?

Each of the five AI
Growth Zones needs at
least 500 megawatts
by 2030. ⚡

How much water?

A single hyperscale site
can need what 10,000
people use in a day.

Where are they going?

84% of the data centres
proposed in the UK are
planned for water-stressed
areas. 💧

This, in a summer when
ten areas of England
went into drought.

Who decides?

The biggest can now be
treated as nationally
significant infrastructure.
Whitehall decides, not
your local council.

Did anybody ask for
a pause?

Yes.

On 28 August the
government said no. 🇬🇧

Should we pause them until we know more?

30/09/2026

Energy bills go up again tomorrow, to £1,723 a year for a typical household. Same meter, same house, same family, and not one of us got a say in it. 🇬🇧

My dad ploughed thatfield as a boy, standingbeside his father. 🌾His father's fatherworked it with horses.Two hundred yea...
29/09/2026

My dad ploughed that
field as a boy, standing
beside his father. 🌾

His father's father
worked it with horses.

Two hundred years of
wheat, barley, grass,
and back to wheat.

It's still a field.
For now.

On 8 July, one solar
scheme on the Lincolnshire
and Nottinghamshire border
was approved.

1,600 hectares. Nearly
4,000 acres, mostly
farmland. ☀️

Up to 740 megawatts.
Enough, they say, for
around 200,000 homes.

Nobody sensible is
against clean power.

The question is where
it goes.

CPRE looked at England's
biggest working solar
farms. 59% of them sit
on productive farmland.

31% of the ground they
cover is the best and
most versatile land in
the country. 🚜

There are warehouse
roofs, car parks and
factory sheds from here
to Carlisle.

A field that has fed
people for two hundred
years shouldn't be the
first place we look. 🇬🇧

Should farmland grow food first?

29/09/2026

When exactly did Britain decide that the man who's been up since five feeding cattle is the one who has to justify what he's worth? 🇬🇧

Her careers teachertold her universitywas the smarter choice. 🎓She smiled politely.Then she signed up foran electricalap...
29/09/2026

Her careers teacher
told her university
was the smarter choice. 🎓

She smiled politely.

Then she signed up for
an electrical
apprenticeship at
sixteen.

Paid from the first
week. Learning on
the job. Qualified
by twenty. ⚡

Her friends went off
to university, and good
luck to them. Plenty of
them will do brilliantly.

But look at the number
they start working
life with.

The average loan balance
for graduates in England
entering repayment this
year is £47,730.

To be fair, not everyone
pays all of it back.

It still sits there,
on a payslip, for
decades. 💷

She came out owing
nothing.

And she walked into a
trade where 227 jobs
compete for every single
apprenticeship place.

Nobody at school called
her the clever one.

They call her now,
when the fuse board
trips. 🇬🇧

Was the trade the smarter choice?

They called it fleece.They said it was warm.Light. Easy to wash.Cheaper than wool. 🧥All true, as it goes.What they didn'...
29/09/2026

They called it fleece.

They said it was warm.
Light. Easy to wash.
Cheaper than wool. 🧥

All true, as it goes.

What they didn't put
on the label is what
it's made of.

Polyester. Plastic.

In 2016, researchers at
the University of Plymouth
washed synthetic fabric
in an ordinary machine
and counted what came
out in the water. 🔬

One 6kg wash of
polyester released
496,030 fibres.

Acrylic: 728,789.

Every wash. Down the
drain, into the river,
out to sea. 🌊

Meanwhile, up on the
hill, there's an animal
that grows the original
warm, light, hard-wearing
fibre by itself every
year, on grass.

This year British Wool
expects farmers to get
about £1 a kilo for it.

Roughly £2.50 a fleece.
Shearing costs £1.93. 🐑

We swapped the real thing
for a plastic copy and
called it progress. 🇬🇧

Should we be wearing British wool again?

29/09/2026

Around 850,000 pensioners are entitled to Pension Credit and aren't getting a penny of it. Funny how the letters asking us for money never seem to go missing. 📄🇬🇧

Today is Michaelmas.The old end of thefarming year. 🍂And this week, in churchporches and school hallsacross the country,...
28/09/2026

Today is Michaelmas.
The old end of the
farming year. 🍂

And this week, in church
porches and school halls
across the country, the
tins and the marrows
start arriving.

Harvest festival.

It's younger than most
people think.

In 1843 the vicar of
Morwenstow in Cornwall,
Robert Hawker, invited
his parish to a service
to give thanks for
the harvest.

Bread made from the
first cut of corn was
taken at communion. 🍞

That's where it began.

The point was simple.
Somebody grew this.
Say thank you.

This year it matters
more than usual.

The wheat came in 12%
below the five-year
average. Spring barley
19% down. Oats 17%.

The people who got it
in anyway won't be at
the front of the church.

They'll be out drilling
next year's. 🚜

The least we can do is
sing about them. 🇬🇧

Should schools still celebrate harvest festival?

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