Getting major DDOS issues since this new story Enjoy while you can Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief – Byline Times

Refresher and update on changes to APR/BPR for inheritance tax The changes proposed to APR & BPR will raise around £200m a year from farming by 2028/29, suggested Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates on Saturday, with another £300m or so from other family businesses, and from IHT

If the Treasury wished to consult on the proposed IHT changes, it would hear ideas such as: - transitional relief for the elderly, infirm and unfortunate, to smooth out the current cliff edge at 6th April 2026; - increase the 100% cap to £5m or £10m per person to protect smaller

Hurray! Some good news for bees at last. Our new government has followed the science, and refused the application by sugar beet farmers to use banned neonicotinoid pesticides.

Everything you have to do at this point is a hassle. Where do you stay? How do you rent a car and if I really want a pickup truck why are there only electric cars available to rent? It's difficult to even know where to begin. But you find that every neighbor has some bit of

Go back to the drawing board @SteveReedMP @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer Your “plans” are utterly flawed. If you want growth, stop the APR and BPR changes, otherwise you are condemning rural communities to a doom loop of economic and social decline! 6/6

Vivid example of the vertical integration in our food chain. Yet another reason to shop with small companies that are truly independent. The more small indie farms, the better. The more small indie producers, the better. The more small indie shops, the better. The more

This is absolutely a sub-text in this disastrously ill-conceived IHT/BPR change.

The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza | Naomi Klein

.@yanisvaroufakis told red. media “those who try very hard to extract a condemnation of the attack by Hamas” from him or his movement @DiEM_25 will “never get it”. Varoufakis said, “the criminals here are not Hamas…the criminals are Europeans” for remaining silent “as long as

Once again, I appeal to other commentators to join me in calling for Julian Assange's extradition to be refused by the British government, and for Mr Assange to be freed from his severe an unjustied imprisonment. If this political prosecution is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

There has been much discussion about the likely failure of Thames Water in the last day or so. I’ve been looking at the accounts of England’s water companies for the last twenty years. My conclusion is that they are all environmentally insolvent. So, a thread…..

Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, the Inspector General of Bangladesh Police has been sanctioned under the Global Magnistsky Act for serious human rights abuse, @USTreasury announced the sanction on 10th Dec 2021.  Al Mamun was the Director General of RAB during a period when

Anne Salmond: Greenwashing and the forestry industry in NZ

I wish people would get as agitated about the collapse in biodiversity as they do about gender politics.

Read Dame Anne Salmond, people. She's wise and she's all over it. We have so little time to save what is left of our damaged land. Has #NZ learned nothing from the repeated, decades-long devastation caused by pine forestry?

Time to call it out: Greed. Selfish, planet-destroying. It is neither smart nor economically worthwhile to plant industrial scale exotic pines in #NZ's fragile soils. It is not 'carbon capture', or 'carbon trading'. You are robbing our children of their future. Grow natives only.

This is the flood report you won't see on the news. We have to admit to the problem so we can change. Our farmers are stuck in the deeply flawed systems set up by settlers & our government is beholden to those who profit from them. We need radical change. #CycloneGabrielle

Perhaps journalists of Aotearoa should read this before writing any articles where they like to say Ardern didn't achieve anything. Nicely written article with real facts.

The British political class is a farce and it’s astonishing that people tolerate it.