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Keep the likes of Churchill on the £5 note, and other British legends on the other notes...... put animals in the UV Watermark: - Lion of England / White Lion of Mortimer - Unicorn of Scotland - Red Dragon of Wales - Griffin

It's the Grand National next Saturday.... cross your fingers that this year I remember to get me bets in when I still can racingpost.com/grand-national…

How unlucky is the UK right now to have the worst King and the worst Prime Minister in all of its illustrious history, at the same time? What are the odds of that happening... 🧐🇬🇧

If Le Pen wins, the EU’s days are numbered. 👇 No wonder they want the friendly idiot Starmer to use British taxpayer money to fill the gap.

In 1975, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited Japan. At that time, the Japanese side had one problem: what shoes should the Queen wear in the Japanese-style room (a tatami-floored room) in the Japanese-style annex of the State Guest House? After much deliberation, the Japanese side prepared "special slippers." It must be said here that wearing slippers in a Japanese-style room is considered a breach of etiquette. It was a compromise for the Japanese side. On the day of the visit, Her Majesty noticed that no one else was wearing slippers while viewing the ikebana (flower arrangement). Her Majesty then removed her shoes and continued to admire the ikebana. When I learned of this later, I thought, "That's truly befitting of the Queen of the UK Commonwealth!"This may seem like a trivial matter. However, there is at least one Japanese person who holds Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in high esteem because of this. I want the British people to know this.

The UK is increasing the Pension age to 68. Poland has lowered theirs to 60. Their pension is higher as well.

100 % @JohnCleese

Starmer is reconsidering rejoining the European Single Market as part of a £3 billion a year EU re-set. He’ll soon lose that promised £150 billion US high tech investment at this rate. They don’t want any EU interference.

The Green Party are letting you know what you will be voting for if you vote Green - a war on motorists. I am sure any driver has noticed the under Labour lots of stretches of our motorways are restricted to 50 miles per hour or less already . The uniparty in action.

It is now illegal for most American farmers to do what farmers have done for 10,000 years. Save seeds from their harvest to plant next season. Four corporations control over 60% of global seed sales. Bayer-Monsanto. Corteva. Syngenta-ChemChina. BASF. Over 80% of all corn and more than 90% of all soybeans planted in the United States use patented biotech seeds. Farmers sign licensing agreements that prohibit saving, replanting, or sharing seeds. Every season requires a new purchase. Seed prices have increased over 300% since 1995. In the 1990s, most farmers saved a portion of their harvest to plant the following year. Seed companies genetically engineered crops to be resistant to specific herbicides, most notably Monsanto's Roundup Ready system. The seeds worked. Yields improved. Farmers adopted them rapidly. Then the patents locked in. Monsanto deployed a team of private investigators to audit farms suspected of replanting patented seeds. They filed over 150 lawsuits against American farmers. Settlements and judgments totaled over $23 million. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Bowman v. Monsanto (2013) that patent protections extend to self-replicating technologies including seeds. Farmers who had planted one crop with patented seeds could not legally replant the offspring of those seeds. The biology of reproduction itself was patented. Today, the four largest seed companies spend more on intellectual property enforcement and patent filings than many of them spend on R&D for new crop varieties. The consolidation of the seed industry is one of the least discussed monopoly structures in the global economy. Corteva (CTVA) was spun off from DowDuPont in 2019 as a pure-play agricultural sciences company. They control roughly 20% of the global corn seed market and are the largest seed company in the Western hemisphere. Revenue exceeded $17 billion. Operating margins are expanding as they shift toward higher-value biotech seeds and crop protection products. The pricing power comes from the fact that once a farmer is in the Corteva seed ecosystem, switching costs are significant because crop protection products are designed to work with specific seed genetics. Deere & Company (DE) sits at the intersection of the seed monopoly and the equipment monopoly. Modern precision agriculture requires Deere's GPS-guided tractors and automated planters to work in concert with biotech seed prescriptions. The software layer that connects equipment to seed to data is becoming the most valuable part of the farm. Revenue exceeded $51 billion. The precision agriculture division is growing faster than the equipment division. For broader agricultural exposure, the Invesco DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) tracks a basket of agricultural commodity futures. When seed costs rise, crop production costs rise, which supports higher commodity prices. The farmers absorb the input cost increase. The commodity market passes it to consumers. The companies selling the seeds and the equipment capture margins on both sides. The seed monopoly is a toll booth on the global food supply. 8 billion people eat every day. Four companies control the genetics. I'm hosting a once in a lifetime webinar where I go over the exact things I know as a former banker and world class investor. 100% free to join. Sign up with the link in my comments.

Latest footage from Nasa's Artemis II mission

If @CarlsbergUK did Easter..

How could four retards like this get elected as leader in four great countries

The important bit the pro-EU lobby in London keeps very quiet about.

@danishnuclear Idiot seems to know as much about energy as next door's cat knows about rocket science.

This retard has spent his whole political career first in Denmark and now in the EU, to advocate against nuclear power. And now he is warning against a problem he himself have created. 🤷‍♂️🤡

I queued up for over an hour tonight to get the last ever £3 fish supper from the cheapest chippy in the UK before the prices go up Stan and his family have been feeding the local community for over 20 years, they charge £3 for haddock and chips, and a sauce, under a third of the UK average price of £10. The shop is in one of the most deprived areas of the town, where many struggle to put food on the table His prices mean people eat a meal at a price they can afford The price of fish has risen dramatically over the last few weeks going from around £1.50 per kilo to £3.70 Mathews chippy prides itself on serving the community they supply me for FREE all my meals I provide to the homeless in my town they are a credit to the community and a jewel in our crown they put the great into Grimsby but they're too struggling with the costs of everything rising Tonight saw me served the last ever £3 fish supper before prices rise on Tuesday to £3.50, please show me a meal that can match this in the UK for £3.50 right on your doorstep in the heart of your community

🚨HOLY CRAP. Billy Bush reveals that ABC News created a 75-person team in 2016 whose only job was to destroy Donald Trump’s career. “I know the guy who ran the division…[It] was dedicated to basically getting him!” This is criminal.

CUBA COLLAPSING: The Cuban Communist Regime just started releasing prisoners HOURS after their amnesty announcement…completely folding under President Trump’s brutal pressure campaign and oil blockade. Obama kissed their asses for years and got ZERO.

This piece underlines the huge potential of the North Sea. OK, it’s finite. But it’s also huge. A Reform government will unlock this treasure trove, & we’ll all be better off. share.google/7Jis93RqG0MHx6…

🚨 WOW. California governor candidate Steve Hilton (R) exposes that Gavin Newsom and Democrats shoved a $1,350 PER MONTH CHARGE for 20 years on every new single family home into a bill "They snuck it into the bill that was supposed to SOLVE their housing crisis!" "Vehicle Miles Travelled, and it's yet another sneaky, stealthy way that the Democrats in charge of California want to gouge you for the crime of driving your car." "They're trying to punish single-family homes. They want to stop single-family homes from being built, and so they're going to put this charge on it, VMT, because if you build a new home, people are going to drive to their new home. That's vehicle miles travelled." "They are trying to sneak in a charge, wait for it, of $1,350 per month for 20 years on every new single-family home. And this is in the bill, AB130, that Gavin Newsom said would solve the housing crisis. They don't want to solve the housing crisis." California needs to wake up and vote red for once!