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Ahead of our Remembrance Fixture on Saturday, serving personnel and veterans are encouraged to wear their medals with pride inside the stadium, creating a visible symbol of service and sacrifice.
#LEISTE
ALT A photograph of a veteran's medals during the Remembrance Fixture in 25/26.
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ONE LOGIN:
"This will be worse than the Horizon scandal" @DavidDavisMP
The more personal data that is concentrated in one place, the greater the consequences if something goes wrong
We are calling for an immediate freeze on One Login pending proper independent review - no further rollout or expansion without strict safeguards, no expansion without parliamentary oversight, and a firm guarantee that digital identity is never mandatory and non-digital routes to government interactions are always protected
#OneLogin
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DESTRUCTION OF AN HONEST DOCTOR: The Story Of Dr. David Cartland
He spoke out. He lost his career. His reputation was destroyed. But they couldn’t silence him.
Dr. David Cartland was a respected GP with an exemplary clinical record. A father of four, highly qualified and dedicated to his patients, he believed passionately in his Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm.
When he began questioning the safety of Covid-19 vaccines after witnessing what he believed were serious adverse reactions, he refused to stay silent.
What happened next was devastating.
He lost his medical licence. He was barred from working with children and vulnerable adults. He was prevented from refereeing football matches - a hobby he loved. His reputation was shattered, his family suffered and his legal battles cost him tens of thousands of pounds.
Yet no finding of patient harm was made in the disciplinary proceedings.
Was this justice? Or was Dr. Cartland being punished for challenging the official narrative?
Now, an explosive new documentary, Destruction Of An Honest Doctor, will investigate his extraordinary story - the allegations, the institutions, the personal devastation and the unanswered questions.
It’s a story about medical freedom, informed consent, institutional power and the enormous personal price of speaking out.
One doctor. One conscience. Everything to lose.
David Cartland has lost almost everything. But he hasn’t lost his voice.
Now we need YOUR help to make sure his story is heard.
🎬 THIS FILM MUST BE MADE.
Please donate whatever you can and share this appeal.
Link in comments below.
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#LCFC sadly one of our own lifelong City fan Glynn Benstead passed away recently after spending time on life support aged 52. We would like to remember him with a round of applause on the 52nd minute vs Stevenage this Saturday at the KP. RIP Glynn.
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Be very clear, the Labour government did not give @Ukraine £10 Billion of their money. They gave Ukraine £10 Billion of YOUR money.
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🚨 Angela Rayner is expected to appoint an “Islamophobia tsar” by the end of this week, to help enforce the Government’s “anti-Muslim hostility” definition — Islamophobia by another name.
As the Free Speech Union warned from the outset, the definition has been used to silence people who criticise, debate or mock Islam. Those targeted include politicians such as Shadow Justice Secretary @NJ_Timothy, @RupertLowe10 and Reform UK’s @RobertJenrick, as well as private citizens.
It is a state-approved Islamic blasphemy code.
Earlier this year, FSU Policy and Research Director @DavidRoseUK exposed troubling connections between Islamist organisations and all five individuals the Government hand-picked to sit on the working group that drafted the definition.
Now the Government is refusing to say which organisations took part in the consultation that shaped it. @NJ_Timothy submitted a Freedom of Information request and was initially told that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government had deleted every submission — in apparent breach of the Government’s own data policy.
The Department later admitted that it does hold the responses, but it still refuses to say which organisations or individuals took part and influenced the definition.
What is the Government covering up? Did Islamists help to create a state-approved blasphemy code? @AngelaRayner has serious questions to answer.
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister met Muslim community leaders in Downing Street and told them: “We want to counter any form of hatred, discrimination, Islamophobia, wherever we find it.”
Sitting next to him was Akeela Ahmed, one of the five members of the working group. In 2018, she called for the Islamophobia definition published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims to have “legal power” so that it could be “implemented by the government and the police”.
She later told MPs that Islamophobia “cannot simply be reduced to or restricted to hate crime”, complaining that a columnist could write about a “Muslim problem” without it being treated as Islamophobia, “or simply being seen as free speech”. She also wanted the definition to cover “microaggressions during school runs”.
All of this considered, there is little reason to hope that whoever becomes tsar will be good news for free speech.
Among the frontrunners is Sayeeda Warsi, the former Conservative Party co-chairman and now a crossbench peer. She has refused to distance herself from extremists, claiming that doing so would be “playing by the rules set by the racists”, and has said that the term “Islamist” is “often a fig leaf used by Islamophobes to disguise their bigotry”.
The FSU has launched a legal challenge to stop this definition. Parliament abolished the blasphemy laws in 2008; we will not allow a new one to return under a new name.
Help us stop an Islamic blasphemy law in Britain 👇
The name of the government's highly-controversial 'special representative' to oversee its equally controversial definition of 'anti-Muslim hostility' will be announced this week, ministers told Muslim groups at Downing Street yesterday.
I understand that the shortlist of 12 includes, though is not limited to:
Some of these names have, to say the least, questions over them. Asim, for instance, was sacked as an adviser to the last government after calling for a film about the Prophet Mohammed's daughter to be banned. And the definition itself, as I and others have previously argued, is deeply sinister.
In the hands of some of these people, it could be weaponised to do really serious harm.
✍️ Andrew Gilligan
Article | spectator.com/article/sayeed… | @mragilligan
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Update:
In the 27 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;
• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• The freeze on Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds extended to 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18% – and now its lifetime limit halved to £500,000.
• Investors’ Relief raised to 18% and its lifetime limit cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• CGT relief on sales to Employee Ownership Trusts halved.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved into the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by four percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by four percentage points.
• VCT income tax relief cut from 30% to 20%.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural and Business Property Relief capped.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen until 2031.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a tougher residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• The Stamp Duty surcharge on second homes and buy-to-let raised from 3% to 5%.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings regime abolished.
• A new annual surcharge on homes worth £2 million or more.
• Pension salary-sacrifice NI relief capped at £2,000 a year.
• The bank surcharge doubled.
• Capital allowances for plant and machinery cut twice.
• Online gaming duty almost doubled.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended, and its investment allowance scrapped.
• Vaping Products Duty brought in and tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars, with electric vehicles brought in.
• A pay-per-mile tax on electric and plug-in hybrid cars legislated for 2028.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.
Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades – with little to show for it in public services.
Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for your family’s future...
- You keep less of what you earn.
- You keep less of what you invest.
- You leave less for your family.
Death by a thousand cuts.
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Paul Bowen of Bowen Pies powerfully sets out how Andy Burnham has betrayed small businesses like his, the backbone of the British economy.
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Hidden away on page 111 of the Budget - 'The government is providing £150 million capital investment in 2027-28 to fund additional large sites to accommodate asylum seekers'
A treasonous decision.
Every penny of that should be directed towards a programme of mass deportations.
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Forever 💙
Remembering Khun Vichai, Kaveporn, Nusara, Eric and Izabela on Filbert Way earlier today.
Powerful speech and on point in every way ,there must be accountability and those responsible jailed ,the Establishment cannot be allowed to sweep this under the carpet due to the sheeple being in denial
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The UK government has taken £870 billion in green taxes in the last 20 years. We are being fleeced on the altar of net zero. The cost of living crisis is a cost of government taxation crisis.
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People are really starting to take the piss out of Burnham’s ‘small-beer’ approach to governing.
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Reeves’s stamp duty raid backfires as Treasury LOSES £500m in receipts. Also, HMRC WRITES OFF £13bn in tax as businesses collapse under Labour. Labour increased capital gains tax and the money coming into the Treasury FELL.
How incompetent are Labour, every measure they take to try and grab more of our money fails and they end up with less money. Financially illiterate. Policies which are punitive only ending up with the Treasury being worse off. Labour never learn. Get Labour out.
telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne…
