Jane Walker

So Keir Starmer says we have choose between NHS funding or inheritance tax relief for farmers but yet there is a gigantic pipeline of funds for Ukraine and carbon capture machines. Disingenuous and shameful hypocrisy.

A post for my farming friends to see, especially @1GarethWynJones . In paperwork that my mother is sorting through this evening..... the catalogue for a sheep sale dated 15th September 1973 at #ysbyty #ifan. The auctioneers were #bobparry&Co.ltd

Happy Valentines Day and thank you to my family for possibly the best present ever….meet Mungo. 💝

🥳😎🎂Really fun night celebrating Rod’s 80th!

Council's U-turn on plans to shrink size of bins bbc.in/4g4Z0EE

All at Huddersfield Town are profoundly saddened to learn of the passing of Denis Law. A legend of not only our great Club, but an immortal of the sport as a whole, he will be deeply missed and his memory cherished by us all. Our collective thoughts are with Denis’ family and loved ones at this time. Once a Terrier, always a Terrier 💙 #htafc

We’re deeply saddened by the news that our supporter, Denis Law, has died with dementia. We’ll be forever grateful that Denis and his family raised not only money for Alzheimer’s Society, but a great deal of awareness too. Our thoughts are with all his friends and family 💙

Every Friday, 5.30-6pm, on @TimesRadio @JonAshworth and I join @cathynewman to assess the political week.

If Keir Starmer had said before the general election that he would remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners, add inheritance to family farms and family businesses, council tax & energy price increases, raise university tuition fees, plaster mass-scale solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland despite huge local community objections, spaff £22bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines, give £3bn a year of taxpayers’ money to Ukraine, betray WASPI women, hang out with BlackRock, pledge a 20% cut in meat & dairy and get exposed for receiving over £100,000 worth of freebies - he almost certainly wouldn’t have won. He duped the electorate. An utterly shameless display of snake oil political salesmanship. And still he lectures all of us in that gratingly sanctimonious manner of his like we are all somehow the problem here.

Martin Clunes: “Now we’ve got this assisted dying bill where, I’ve got to say, they’re just slagging off palliative care. Let’s save money by having everybody just f--- off and die. And at your own expense. Oh, and by the way, you can’t pass your farm on.” telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/martin-cl…

'Apparently Miliband is literally ignoring advice from security services on this because he's too ideologically driven' Patrick Christys discusses the multiple crises facing this Labour Cabinet.

Life's a gong-fest for Keir Starmer's new investment minister Poppy Gustafsson, who was ennobled in October as she took the job and has now had her 2019 OBE upgraded to a CBE for "services to cybersecurity.” Given Baroness Gustafsson OBE CBE's role at the heart of one of the UK's largest corporate frauds, one may wonder if she is less an entrepreneur who knows about growing business and more a practitioner of the less economically productive dark arts of creative accounting. Full story online and in the latest issue: private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce

The pressure point has got to breaking. If we don’t do anything farmers won’t be here. We need to do it now Justin @The_f_in_Farmer speaks to @MartinDaubney about organising UK wide @FarmersToAction protest Friday & why much more is coming @RachelReevesMP #FarmersProtest

This is vacuous — and factually incorrect. One of the Tories’ few decent legacies was to position the UK as Europe’s leader in AI, behind only US and China globally. Of course when K Starmer takes Britain back into the EU’s regulatory regime, which has stifled AI on the continent with many AI companies leaving, that lead will be lost.

Three more survivors speak out here to @BBCNews about their abuse in Oldham, one of whom is being supported by @TMOFCharity What isn’t made clear here is that in the 2022 local enquiry set up by @MayorofGM Andy Burnham, only ONE survivor’s voice was permitted to be heard by the review team. And it wasn’t any of these three survivors. As I’ve said previously, unlike in The Augusta (Manchester) review 2020, and The Rochdale Review, 2024, I had not worked on any child abuse cases in Oldham whilst in @gmpolice and therefore back then, had no way of contacting them, unlike in the other cases. I was finally allowed to take the only only Oldham survivor I knew to speak to them and her account was consequently included. But that was the ONLY one. And even more shocking was that @OldhamCouncil had told the review team that under no circumstances must this survivor be approached for fear she may commit suicide if they did, which was a total lie. Power in the hands of the wrong people is very dangerous, and I think this story shows how the voices of those who have a right to be heard have been silenced for many years. And they are,finally, finding their voices, being heard, and fighting back….. And all credit to them all! Xx bbc.com/news/articles/…

Today is Plough Monday, the first Monday after Epiphany. This was traditionally the first day back at work after the Christmas holiday, and it was celebrated by blessing tools of work - a way of starting off the new year well, but also an excuse for some last Christmas festivity!

Great news! A petition to award Lt. Col. Blair 'Paddy' Mayne the Victoria Cross retrospectively/posthumously has already been started by John McGall. Share widely, spread the word and please SIGN. Let's get this done! 🙏🙏🙏 change.org/p/posthumous-v…

Motorists want tougher sentences and instant roadside bans for drink-driving, says RAC news.sky.com/story/amp/moto…

Rachel Reeves REFUSES to comment on Britain's economic turmoil as Chancellor seeks to defend China trip amid fury at going 'missing' gbnews.com/politics/rache…