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Government Hands Foreign Farmers £500m – the Same Amount the Inheritance Tax Raid is Projected to Raise
Labour is continuing to hand out more than £500 million to foreign farmers – about the same amount projected to be raised by its inheritance tax raid on British farms that threatens to "destroy" them.
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UN Shock: Risks of Trans ‘Women’ in Female Sport Highlighted in New Report
In a wholly unexpected but welcome development, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has released a report highlighting the risks to women of trans 'women' in female sport, says Ramesh Thakur.
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The Emperor’s New Ad
Once upon a time, two crafty Brand Managers approached the Jaguar board claiming they could create an ad so daring only the most discerning would understand its brilliance. Laura Dodsworth with a modern day morality tale.
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If Labour Really Wanted to Ensure People Can Afford to Heat Their Homes it Would Ramp Up the Gas
According to Labour, "all families deserve the security of a home they can afford to heat". If the party really believed that, says Ben Pile, it would drop its commitment to over-priced green energy and ramp up the gas.
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News Round-Up
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Carry On Kafka: “Imagine a Clown Shoe Stamping on a Human Face – Forever”
In the Brave New World of 2024 Britain, the Stasi meet the Keystone Cops in a kind of Carry On Kafka. But does the comic dimension of the authoritarianism detract from the moral outrage?
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The Process is the Punishment: The Case of Pearson v Essex Police
Essex police has dropped its investigation into Allison Pearson. Ex-copper Dominic Adler gives an insider's view of what has likely been going on behind the scenes, where, as he explains, the process is the punishment.
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No, a Farm Isn’t the Same as a House
Know-it-alls in the media have been saying that farmers should have to pay inheritance tax just like everyone else does on a house. They're missing just one tiny detail, says Philip Leith: a farm is nothing like a house.
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ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu Over “War Crimes”
Arrest warrants have been issued for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court in a move condemned as an "assault on the universal right of self-defence".
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BBC Verify Used Labour Activist as “Independent Tax Expert” to Back Government’s Claims on Farm Inheritance Tax
The BBC Verify unit used a Labour Party activist as an "independent tax expert" to back its analysis of Government figures on the farm tax, analysis that Keir Starmer then cited as proof he was correct.
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