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”
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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”
The Glorification of Terror Must Be a Crime
For two decades the United Kingdom has nominally outlawed the glorification of terrorism. In practice, the law has failed. I am putting forward an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill because Parliament must confront an uncomfortable truth: we have allowed the public celebration of terrorist violence to becomeContinue reading “The Glorification of Terror Must Be a Crime”
Tell Me Your Story — and I’ll Remember Your Business
Once upon a time…. It was a dark and stormy night but I was thrilled to be judging again for the Elite 100 Business Awards so I hunkered down and snuggled up. I spent a large part of the weekend reading about a group of wonderful businesses: how they were set up, what they do,Continue reading “Tell Me Your Story — and I’ll Remember Your Business”
Trump Takes Back Insults To Britain’s War Dead
By now the world has become used to US President Trump’s outlandish, bombastic, and usually unfounded outbursts on all sorts of topics as he plies his transactional politics on us all. Anyone with any sense ignores them and shrugs them off. However a new nadir was reached with his comments on the AfghanistanContinue reading “Trump Takes Back Insults To Britain’s War Dead”