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The former Top Gear host has become widely known in recent years as an advocate for the country’s farming sector, showcasing life on Diddly Squat through Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm.
The 1,000-acre property is in Chipping Norton and the show set there presents the trials and triumphs of life on a farm.
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Since the Labour Government came into power over the summer of 2024, Mr Clarkson has been a vocal critic, even joining a protest march against changes to inheritance tax laws.
More recently, he has threatened to run against the secretary of state for energy security and net zero Ed Miliband in his Doncaster North seat.
Now, he has called the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) “nothing more than the airborne wing of the Labour party”.
The RSPB is nothing more than the airborne wing of the Labour Party. It’s a disgrace.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) November 5, 2025
“It’s a disgrace,” he added.
His post on X was in reply to Oxfordshire literary agent Hannah Bourne-Taylor who shared a list of the 102 Labour peers that blocked Lord Zac Goldsmith’s ‘swift brick’ amendment.
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This would have required the mandatory inclusion of ‘swift bricks’ – a hollow brick with a nesting space inside – in new-build developments and would have been part of the planning and infrastructure bill.
The amendment was blocked and one of those who voted against it was the former chief executive of the RSPB, Baroness Young of Old Scone who ran the organisation from 1991 to 1998.
According to the British Trust for Ornithology swift populations have plummeted by more than 66 per cent since 1995 with The Guardian stating this is because birds have lost traditional nesting spaces in urban roofs because of new insulation.
Ms Bourne-Taylor took part in a campaign to support declining species in the UK by marching through London unclothed and wearing dark blue, black and white body paint in 2022.
The 36-year-old, who moved from Africa to the Oxfordshire countryside, then marched with a group of protesters to Hyde Park Corner, past Buckingham Palace and through Westminster to Downing Street where she read out a letter to the Prime Minister at the time, Rishi Sunak.
