Pubs and Music Venues Get Rates Freeze in Cost-of-Living Lifeline Pubs and music venues in England will be given a 15% discount on their business rates bills from April and will not see increases for two years, the government has announced. There’s nothing in the bank for any other hospitality businesses, and many pubsContinue reading “Government Throws Pubs a Bone With Two-Year Rates Shield”
Daily Archives: January 28, 2026
Why I will return to the Lords to close Britain’s terror glorification loophole
Last night I stood in the House of Lords to move Amendment 450 to the Crime and Policing Bill. I did so because the United Kingdom has reached a dangerous point: terrorism can be publicly praised, romanticised and sanitised, while the law struggles to respond. That is not aContinue reading “Why I will return to the Lords to close Britain’s terror glorification loophole”