23rd October 2025
The latest Jeremy Clarkson book, Diddly Squat: The Farmer’s Dog, has just been released.
It is the fifth book in Mr Clarkson’s series of columns about life on Diddly Squat Farm.
The publisher, Penguin Books, revealed: ‘Clarkson’s Farm is the gift that keeps on giving, and now our hero has decided to bring his misunderstood entrepreneurial flair to bear on a new venture: a pub. Let the doors open on The Farmer’s Dog.
‘All British produce, Hawkstone beer on tap, a private bar for farmers and a vintage tractor hanging from the ceiling. The perfect country pub. But as the Cotswolds’ newest publican quickly discovers, there’s a lot more to landlording than pulling pints.
‘Just as well, then, that he still has Lisa, Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald to help him through.’
Season four of Clarkson’s Farm
Earlier this year, Clarkson’s Farm fans enjoyed the new season of the farming show.
But the road to becoming a landlord is not exactly straightforward, and with new faces, new livestock and new machinery arriving at the farm, life at Diddly Squat is busier than ever.
Mr Clarkson said: “It’s very stressful running a pub. It’s more stressful than running a farm. You’re on your own on the farm, which is why there’s so much unhappiness in farming, because you’re dealing with it all on your own.
“The benefit is you don’t worry about other people, whereas with the pub, you’ve probably got 80 people working there. So it requires more attention running a pub.
“I called people who’ve got pubs, like myself, who don’t come from a pub background, and they all said, ‘Don’t do it. Don’t do it. It’s too stressful, and there’s absolutely no money in it. In fact, you lose money’. I ignored all of them, and they were absolutely right!”
Mr Clarkson added that his idea for a pub was to create a place where farmers could forget their troubles and socialise with their neighbours.
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