Farmers

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The War on Farmers Threatens Western Values January 13, 2025

The assault on agriculture is part of a globalist agenda that sidelines national sovereignty and democratic accountability.  ...

How von der Leyen Sold Out the Farmers December 12, 2024

This is a story which exemplifies the vicious, anti-democratic cycle that underpins the EU’s political dynamics....

The Tax and Subsidy Carousel Is Killing British Farming November 19, 2024

The controversy surrounding Rachel Reeves’ decision to impose inheritance tax on farms just won’t go away. Former adviser to Tony Blair John McTernan provoked a nationwide backlash for his comments suggesting that we can do without smaller farmers, w...

The Farmers’ Revolt Makes Me Proud To Be British November 19, 2024

My first thought upon seeing today’s revolt of the farmers was just how gloriously normal it looked. For more than a year London has been besieged by wild-eyed plummy leftists and fuming Gen X’ers screaming blue murder about the Jewish State. Now, fo...

Inheritance Tax Will Bring New Life to Rural Britain November 18, 2024

Prices and rents will fall under Rachel Reeves’ plans, enabling a younger generation with new ideas to enter the field    ...

Britain’s Farmers Could Revolt November 18, 2024

Historians may already be pinching themselves in disbelief. It is looking as though Starmer’s government may be being pitched into a full-scale crisis by picking on… millionaire farmers....

Europe's Urban-Rural Divide May 23, 2024

From late 2023 until the spring of 2024, farmers across Europe flooded capitals to voice their disapproval of national and European Union policies. Tractors rolled down boulevards as protesters blocked streets and caused havoc. The anger reached the ...

How Rioting Farmers Unraveled Europe’s Climate Plan May 03, 2024

Road-clogging, manure-dumping farmers reveal the paradox at the heart of EU agriculture. ...

The Fury of Europe’s Farmers April 01, 2024

The continent-wide revolt against the green agenda has shaken the EU elites to their core....

The Brexit Revolt Is Spreading Across Europe February 23, 2024

The poor, dim-witted French. They haven’t “learnt the lessons of Brexit” according to the EU’s former negotiator Michel Barnier. If, as seems likely, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party comes out the big winner in June’s European Parliament election...

Protesting Farmers and the EU’s Climate Agenda February 23, 2024

As farmers’ protests spread across the EU, European leaders will need political courage to implement the next phase of the European Green Deal...

The Peasants Revolt: A Foretaste of What Is To Come February 22, 2024

Europe’s recent spate of protests by farmers may appear to involve a coincidental concurrence of otherwise unrelated concerns. They weren’t. ...

The Farmers’ Revolt Comes to Wales February 20, 2024

On Friday afternoon, over a hundred tractors and pickup trucks brought traffic to a near-standstill along the A48 in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The convoy crawled along at five miles an hour – even slower than Mark Drakeford’s hated 20mph speed limit. A...

The Peasants Won’t Go Quietly February 13, 2024

Farmers hurl eggs at the European Parliament. They dump manure wherever they go. In Spain, they burn tyres. In Occitania, office buildings. Their tractors have cursed the capital of Germany with terrible traffic. As in the Holy Roman Empire circa 152...