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Alex Heffron

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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war

Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.

31.10.2025 2

The Conversation

Alex Heffron

The UK farmer protests you probably haven’t heard about

Farm workers milk cows, drive machinery and pick crops – yet their grievances are seldom heard.

25.02.2025 2

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Alex Heffron

Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red

In villages across the country, irate farmers have accused the government of trying to end the tradition of the family farm by scrapping...

19.11.2024 1

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Alex Heffron