And kudos to @riveractionuk.bsky.social for bringing the complaint.

This’d be a canny move: raise the threshold at which inheritance tax applies to farmland from £1m to £5m (£10m for couples), ensuring it applies only to huge estates - but then remove the proposed discount (so IHT at 40%, not 20%) Would call the big landowners’ bluff news.sky.com/story/damage...

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!

#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...

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... 1/3

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.'

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.

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!

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

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 !

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/...

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-...

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. Our shows will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/

Last few tickets going soon for our biggest ever show to 950 people in Sheffield on 9th October. www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/three...

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-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.

“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

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Back in court for day 2 of our Dartmoor legal challenge today....and a timely, excellent piece from @phoebeweston.bsky.social on overgrazing. Expert local opinion from the brilliant @tonydartmoor.bsky.social & @guyshrubsole.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Who owns the River Dart? 108 separate landowners, it turns out - with 11 miles of it owned by offshore companies! Great research by @lewis-winks.bsky.social which shows why the Government's 9 river walks policy won't work without a right of responsible access 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

LWA response to the 'Good Food Cycle' National Food Strategy 🍅 tinyurl.com/48m325w3

Tax wealth. I don't care if you do so via a new 'wealth tax' or by reforming existing taxes like Capital Gains Tax & Inheritance Tax (both are full of inconsistencies and loopholes.) It isn't just about the amount of money raised; it's also about fairness. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

When world-leading economists argue that the UK needs a wealth tax our Govt should listen. History tells us ambition is possible and preferable; that the UK can be world leading. Prime Minister be ambitious for our country - tax us, the super rich www.theguardian.com/business/202...

British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans. www.instagram.com/reel/DMm03Kp...

Two major Israeli human rights organizations, B’Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights, officially declared Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, citing bombs targeting civilians, displacement, and deliberate starvation. The first time the Gaza genocide is called out from within Israeli society. #3E🧵

A really thorough piece about Starmer. As someone who regularly deals with MPs, I personally think Starmer the human rights lawyer is long gone in favour of Starmer the careerist politician. Under his watch Labour is abandoning human rights and international law. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We’re told that the wealthy are society’s great entrepreneurs. Without them, we’re told, there would be no jobs, no business, no innovation, but that’s a myth. The rich aren’t entrepreneurs. They preserve, protect and hoard instead. It’s time to stop believing their PR. youtu.be/q_YTAPez4-c?...

HOME OFFICE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN OVER PALESTINE ACTION BAN EXPOSED @declassifiedUK has revealed that Home Office insinuations that Palestine Action supports violence and receives funding from Iran were refuted by its own internal assessments. In full: www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...

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Devon and Cornwall tour is go! threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/

1954: the fossil fuel industry knows it’s obliterating our futures. 1970 onward: the industry makes $3,000,000,000 in profits EVERY DAY. 2022: world governments gift the same industry $7,000,000,000,000 in subsidies. The people you think are in charge are not really in charge.

“Farmers are being deceived by the water companies. They're being misled" - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 22 tonnes of microplastics are dumped on farmland PER DAY via sludge - read this snapshot of my investigation outside the paywall (for a limited time!) www.endsreport.com/article/1924...

I think a lot about how a historian specializing in the Civil War told me if we had hung all the generals and most of the Confederate officers for treason post war we'd be a completely different country today. I wonder if we'll learn.

Hi @georgemonbiot.bsky.social It isn’t natural forests that are tinder-dry and burning in Scotland. The Scottish Gamekeepers Association, NatureScot and the Scottish Greens all fail to suggest closing the shooting estates and returning the land to forest. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

2. As I show in my book, slavery profits are the missing piece in our so-called domestic story of enclosure and the loss of the commons.

Looking forward to our first time performing at @landworkersuk.bsky.social Land Skills Fair, which we've heard so many good things about. Find out more via landworkersalliance.org.uk/events/land-...

“The real conflict is not town v country, but money & power v people.” Profound piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the forthcoming eviction of an entire village by a faceless plutocrat, the enclosure of access, & @righttoroam.bsky.social’s next mass trespass: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📣Hot off the press! Taking Stock: A foundation for future housing strategy. We challenge persistent myths about the housing crisis and highlight ways to meet housing need within environmental limits. First output for 🏠Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth🌍. Read a 10 min summary: tinyurl.com/mu59kb29

There are serious problems with Chenoweth’s 2011 research, which they partially conceded in 2023. Yet their work is imagined to be relevant to anti-Trump, anti-ICE, or anti-genocide protests, and is generally wielded by centrist Boomers to tell GenZ protestors to be better behaved. /2

🧵 Erica Chenoweth is getting a new wave of attention with a recent appearance on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com and acolytes scoring legacy op-eds. This has spurred a rash of over-confident popular commentary: “We all know that non-violence is empirically successful.” This is false, and here’s why: /1

Devon and Cornwall tour coming up soon - who wants to see our show? It is a moo-sing 🐮 threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/

Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/ www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...