Three Acres And A Cow
@threeacresacow.bsky.social
www.threeacresandacow.co.uk
Housing is a right not a market for profiteering and exploitation
Join a tenants union:
londonrentersunion.org
www.livingrent.org
sheffieldtu.org.uk
tenantsunion.org.uk
acorntheunion.org.uk
Victorian terraced housing photo by Ruth Sharville / CC BY-SA 2.0 / www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11141
Join a tenants union:
londonrentersunion.org
www.livingrent.org
sheffieldtu.org.uk
tenantsunion.org.uk
acorntheunion.org.uk
Victorian terraced housing photo by Ruth Sharville / CC BY-SA 2.0 / www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11141
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Housing is a right not a market for profiteering and exploitation
Join a tenants union:
londonrentersunion.org
www.livingrent.org
sheffieldtu.org.uk
tenantsunion.org.uk
acorntheunion.org.uk
Victorian terraced housing photo by Ruth Sharville / CC BY-SA 2.0 / www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11141
Join a tenants union:
londonrentersunion.org
www.livingrent.org
sheffieldtu.org.uk
tenantsunion.org.uk
acorntheunion.org.uk
Victorian terraced housing photo by Ruth Sharville / CC BY-SA 2.0 / www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11141
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Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...
Land for the People (Scotland) Bill - Land Matters
Introduction This blog introduces my proposals for a comprehensive Land Reform Bill - one that goes far further than existing proposals in reforming Scotland’s land governance. I plan to publish furth...
andywightman.scot
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...
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#OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7712...
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7712...
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3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own environmental assets, read my blog here: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...
Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change
Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...
www.powertochange.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own environmental assets, read my blog here: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...
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2/ If you have a Labour MP, please write to them using this template letter created by @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social - tell Ministers to strengthen the Community Right to Buy so that communities can own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...
Write to your Labour MP – Reclaim Our Moors
www.reclaimourmoors.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
2/ If you have a Labour MP, please write to them using this template letter created by @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social - tell Ministers to strengthen the Community Right to Buy so that communities can own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...
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'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets'
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Communities must have the right to own environmental assets | Community Land Trust Network
We have written on behalf of 100s of community land trusts to urge the government to add 'environmental interests' to the definition of Assets of ...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets'
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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NEW: Whitehall bosses slammed for being trustees of a charity accused of facilitating "corporate capture" by arms companies, oil giants and privatisers:
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... - by me
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... - by me
Whitehall bosses are trustees of charity accused of aiding “corporate capture”
Members of The Whitehall & Industry Group include arms companies selling to Israel, oil firms driving climate change, big banks and major privatisers
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
NEW: Whitehall bosses slammed for being trustees of a charity accused of facilitating "corporate capture" by arms companies, oil giants and privatisers:
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... - by me
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... - by me
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As if big business didn’t have enough power in Whitehall, they need charitable help to get more.
Meet the charity that gives arms dealers & oil companies special access to government.
Great report @adamramsay.bsky.social and thks for the quote
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/whitehall-...
Meet the charity that gives arms dealers & oil companies special access to government.
Great report @adamramsay.bsky.social and thks for the quote
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/whitehall-...
Whitehall bosses are trustees of charity accused of aiding “corporate capture”
Members of The Whitehall & Industry Group include arms companies selling to Israel, oil firms driving climate change, big banks and major privatisers
abolishwestminster.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
As if big business didn’t have enough power in Whitehall, they need charitable help to get more.
Meet the charity that gives arms dealers & oil companies special access to government.
Great report @adamramsay.bsky.social and thks for the quote
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/whitehall-...
Meet the charity that gives arms dealers & oil companies special access to government.
Great report @adamramsay.bsky.social and thks for the quote
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/whitehall-...
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And kudos to @riveractionuk.bsky.social for bringing the complaint.
Red Tractor greenwashing claims banned by Advertising standards authority.
Your regular reminder that Red Tractor is wholly owned by Farming Unions and the big food retailers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Your regular reminder that Red Tractor is wholly owned by Farming Unions and the big food retailers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by environment charity River Action.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
And kudos to @riveractionuk.bsky.social for bringing the complaint.
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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...
Would call the big landowners’ bluff
news.sky.com/story/damage...
Farming community responds to rumours of an inheritance tax U-turn
Plans to introduce a 20% tax on estates worth more than £1m drew tens of thousands to protest in London earlier this year.
news.sky.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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...
Would call the big landowners’ bluff
news.sky.com/story/damage...
Thanks Sheffield, that was a super fun evening!
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Thanks Sheffield, that was a super fun evening!
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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 😁
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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 😁
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@threeacresacow.bsky.social thanks for a great evening. Fully re-energised
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@threeacresacow.bsky.social thanks for a great evening. Fully re-energised
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Just back from seeing @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible in Sheffield. Honestly a lovely, educational and empowering show. See it if you can!
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Just back from seeing @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible in Sheffield. Honestly a lovely, educational and empowering show. See it if you can!
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#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...
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
#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
Thomas More's Utopia has a few things to say about this in 1516...
1/3
October 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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
Thomas More's Utopia has a few things to say about this in 1516...
1/3
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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.'
'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.'
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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.'
'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.'
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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 👏
September 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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.
September 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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.
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Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns
September 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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!
Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing!
This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…
bsky.app/profile/wain...
This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…
bsky.app/profile/wain...
The WINNER of the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing...
The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)
#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)
#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
September 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Congratulations Guy!
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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
(1915*) Mrs Barbours’ Army by Alistair Hulett
If I could marry a song it would probably be this one. Alistair Hulett on fine form writing about Mary Barbour and the Glasgow Women’s rent strike at the start of the 1914-1918 war. Mrs Barbo…
threeacresandacow.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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
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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 !
Songs
↩ back to resources *means song written at a later date. Some dates are approximate to aid navigation. Still to add – Baa baa black sheep
threeacresandacow.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain
The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...