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For 24 years, I have run @AmaxEstates, a small independent business in #Gravesend. I’ve always paid my dues, supported the local economy and worked hard to build something sustainable. Over the past few weeks, I have been trying to resolve a serious issue with my business rates — and despite multiple emails and attempts to engage, I have received no response from @graveshambc I have been told one rateable value (£12,750) which was also confirmed over phones calls, yet billed another (£15,000), resulting in an increase from £147 per month to £642 per month — a rise of over 340% For a small business, this is simply not sustainable. I have also been unable to access the official system to challenge this before the deadline, despite repeated attempts. I am now left in a position where: • I cannot get clear answers • I cannot challenge through the system • I am facing a bill that could put a 24-year business at risk I have also contacted my local MP, @drlsullivan, and to date have received no response. This is not how small businesses should be treated. I am now working with the press to get answers — not just for myself, but because I suspect I am not the only one facing this. If you are a local business experiencing similar issues, please get in touch. This needs addressing. @VOAgovuk @HMRCgovuk @LauraTrottMP #SmallBusiness #Gravesend #BusinessRates #SupportLocal

Rahul Rai (Trimurti) sues Aditya Dhar over the sampling of the "Oyè Oyè" song from his film Tridev for Dhurandhar 2. Which in turn was lifted from Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine's hit, "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You". Behti Ganga mèin haath... etc. #Dhurandhar2‌TheRevenge

Open it already! And make mine straight. #Hormuz

We hired a consulting firm to tell us why our profits are down. They sent three 24-year-olds wearing vests. They spent two months interviewing us about our own jobs. Then they put our answers into a PowerPoint presentation. They charged us $250K for this privilege. During the final readout, one of them used the phrase synergy optimization without blinking. I looked around the conference room. Our CEO was nodding like he just received the Ten Commandments. The grand conclusion was that we need to increase revenue and decrease costs. I could've told them that for a gift card to Panera. But nobody listens to the guy who works here. You only listen to the guy who flies in on a Tuesday. I'm updating my resume to include synergy optimization. It feels like the right move. - @it_unprofession

This right here is a PRIME example of the power trips that leftist city councils are on. If someone can help us identify this man... we'd like to buy him a drink and help amplify his voice. REPOST everywhere and help us identify who this patriot is! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

Yes.

A voice from inside Iran. “Do you think we let 40,000 people die just so things go back to normal?” To everyone in the West: these are the voices to listen to. #IranianRevolution2026 #IranMassacre

The Mullahs Are Gone from Our Grief in Iran! Yes clerics lost control of Islamic mourning! These days, across Iran, the cities and streets are overflowing with dance, music, and men and women dancing side by side. What you are witnessing is not a nationwide celebration. It is a new form of mourning. After the massacre of 40,000 people, Iranians have chosen to transform grief into defiance. They have turned mourning into a powerful protest against every imposed element of Islamic and Sharia law that has suffocated society for 47 years. For nearly five decades, we were told that mourning must look a certain way: a cleric leading the ceremony, reciting from the Quran, orchestrating grief, while people beat their chests in ritual sorrow. We were told that sorrow belonged to the mullahs. But today, the people have reclaimed it. Today cleric are disappeared from public funeral ceremonies. The message is very clear, revolutionary and symbolic: You killed our beloved ones, you don’t get to lead the funeral. This is happening in my wounded country Iran, where the regime tells us showing a woman’s hair is forbidden. Dancing is forbidden. Listening to this music is forbidden. Men and women standing together, moving together, is forbidden. This is a renaissance. A profound transformation. Revolution against Islamic regime. For the first time in our modern history, in every corner of Iran, every single day, we are witnessing a society redefining what grief, resistance, and freedom look like. #IranMassacre

I am flabbergasted. This was yesterday Feb 19th. Instead of being solemn and broken, the people are using joy as moral resistance and celebration as defiance. The #IranianRevolution2026 continues. #IranMassacre

🚨 BREAKING: Massive crowd gathered in Karaj to honor slain protester Reza Barani. Instead of mourning in silence, they are holding a special Iranian tradition held only for fallen heroes, before avenging them. The Lion and Sun Revolution is alive. DON’T STOP TALKING ABOUT IRAN.

Male rescue workers are refusing to touch women. Once, there was literally an earthquake in Afghanistan and women were left to die because the rescue team, who were men, refused to touch them. And people still say we don't need feminism? Please, tell that to all the women who are left to die in the rubbles while watching a rescue person right in front of them. It's not a gender war. It's a war on women.

@devilskitchen I disagree. Pay them well. Link their pay to strict KPIs. Just like the rest of us.

I want to start a petition and need at least five people to get it started – will you sign it? Link the pay of MPs and Civil Servants to people's average disposable income. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7589…

“Erm…excuse me…could you tell me when the next train is, please? Only mine was just cancel…” “I’m going to have to ask you to mind your tone, sir. We don’t tolerate hostile attitudes. I’m going to have to ask you to calm down.” “What? I am. I just need to know the time of…” “No need for that attitude, sir.” “But I was just asking…” “Step back, sir, & lower your voice”. “But I just want…” “There’s no need to be rude, sir. I’m only doing my job.” “Yes, of course…I wasn’t being rude…but I just need…” “I won’t warn you again, sir.” “What? I’m perfectly calm… I just wanted…” (into walkie-talkie) “Security. We have a problem here… someone’s being especially prickly…” (And, NO, of course I’m not condoning rude, abusive or hostile behaviour AT ALL, but the number of times I’ve been in this exact situation with some passive-aggressive individual in a high-viz vest, is eye-watering… especially at places where there is NO such thing as ‘a service’…)

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Iran is not a talking point. It is not a “counter-narrative.” It is not a chess piece in your anti-Western worldview. A part of the left has decided that as long as a group or a regime is anti-West, its crimes and atrocities don’t count. That logic has led them to excuse Hamas and whitewash the Islamic Republic of Iran. You cannot claim to stand for liberation while defending organizations that murder civilians, suppress women, torture dissidents, and rule through fear. That isn’t solidarity, it’s moral collapse. If your compassion switches off when the victims don’t fit your narrative, then you’re not defending justice. You’re defending power, just like the right wing that you’re so much against but with different slogans. Iran is not your narrative. Iran is a nation of people who deserve freedom, dignity, justice, and truth. #FreeIran #IranProtests2026

Iraqi militias are killing women inside Iran.

This time, it's for real.

MAKE HIM FAMOUS! Erfan Soltani is scheduled to be executed by the Islamic Regime in Iran tomorrow (14th of January). We know Iran collapses under international pressure. Let's scream this out loud so Trump hears this. He will send help. Please share Erfan Soltani videos and news!

The scrapping of an Eton-backed free sixth form in Middlesbrough tells us more about Labour than any manifesto ever could. A project designed to educate the brightest children from one of the poorest parts of the country was not stopped because it failed, cost too much, or lacked need. It was stopped because it threatened to succeed. And success, when it cannot be controlled, is intolerable to this government. This was not a fee-paying outpost or a vanity scheme. It was a free school, approved under the last government, partnered with a proven academy trust, aimed squarely at deprived pupils with high academic ability. The offer was simple: take children who show promise and give them an education equal to the best in the country. That should have been uncontroversial. Instead it triggered hostility, suspicion, and finally cancellation. Not because of what it would have done, but because of what it symbolised. The real offence was a four-letter word: Eton College. That name short-circuited reason. Local Labour figures spoke of "elitism" while opposing a free school for poor children. Ministers talked about surplus places and SEND funding while quietly abandoning a project already designed to address a regional attainment gap that everyone admits exists. None of it holds up. The explanations came after the decision, not before it. Look at the facts Labour prefers not to dwell on. The North East lags badly behind London on A-level results and university entry. That gap has widened, not narrowed. This school was explicitly designed to deal with the A-level drop-off that has trapped bright pupils in the region for years. Its location was central, its funding secure, its academic model tested. Scrapping it did nothing to help SEND pupils and nothing to raise standards elsewhere. It simply removed an option that would have worked. What happened in Middlesbrough fits a pattern we have already seen. When schools succeed by insisting on discipline, knowledge, and high expectations, the response from Labour is not curiosity but suspicion. Not imitation but obstruction. Katharine Birbalsingh and Michaela showed what happens when deprived children are taken seriously. Instead of being celebrated, that success is treated as a problem to be managed. The lesson is the same here: excellence outside the approved model must be neutralised. The Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality. Identical Eton-Star colleges have been approved in other Labour-run areas. The money exists. The model is acceptable. What differed in Middlesbrough was not need, but politics. Local ideological resistance was indulged, and bright children paid the price. This is the quiet cruelty of modern Labour education policy. It speaks endlessly about disadvantage while dismantling the very ladders that allow people to climb out of it. It treats aspiration as a threat and excellence as exclusion. It would rather keep everyone inside a failing system than allow some to rise beyond it, because rising exposes the lie that background is destiny. We are told this is about fairness. It is not. Fairness would mean expanding opportunity wherever it appears. What Labour practices instead is levelling by denial. If not everyone can have something, no one should. If a school might allow working-class children to outperform expectations, it must be stopped in case it embarrasses the system. Middlesbrough did not lose a school. It lost permission to excel. A message was sent to its brightest children: know your place. That is not compassion. It is control. And until Labour grasps the difference, it will keep dressing envy up as justice and calling restraint care. Ministers will feel nothing. Children will pay the price. "Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality."