Peter Borg-Neal

So @MattHancock has just pointed out that hospitality has had more help than other sectors. Let me explain Matt - hospitality has suffered more damage than any other sector. If someone caused £100 of damage to your car they wouldn’t give you £20 and expect you to be grateful.

Who knew?

@TheRacingMan8 @mindmodeller I think the recent appointments to the ROA Board are likely to be a force for positive change. Let’s hope that is the case.

@mindmodeller The owners are not represented because the ROAis a joke. More interested selling tickets to festival marquees then standing up for owners. No boycott of racecourses. Members never asked opinion. Interesting no letters page in house mag.

ARC's capacity to block, dilute, or redirect policy proposals that threaten its commercial model — through RCA process, slow-walking, sympathetic working group populations, and the reliable inadequacy of BHA institutional authority — is not villainy. It is rational self-interest cuttingcomment.com/good-news-but-… @NTFnews @RacehorseOwners @RacingTV @PJAOfficial @nickluck

@BrianGa81341408 @TBJ_Racing That was definitely Cheltenham on Tuesday - I’m sad to say.

@TBJ_Racing Mark I think that’s old . Look at the racing on the television it’s flat racing

All kicking off at Williamhill at Cheltenham 🥊 😂

The scale of tax rises over the course of this Parliament is staggering The combination of the rise in employers' NI & the freezing of income tax thresholds will see taxes rise to 38% This is the culmination of huge tax rises under both the Tories and Labour The OBR now asking the big questions about what impact this will have on the economy. It is concerned it will disincentivise people from earning more money

Remembering our #Vat campaign from two years ago. We are getttting closer #VatCut #Hospitality #TaxedOut youtu.be/mAnvwdbR44w

@QudsNen @ShabirMadh @grok is this report genuine?

The deputy governor of Hormozgan province in Iran reports that 36 female students were killed in an attack carried out by Israeli warplanes on all-girls school in the city of Minab.

@mjyharris 💯%

There are moments in this sport when your heart beats far faster than it should, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, you see a horse who is clearly enjoying himself, freewheeling down a home straight and winning doing cartwheels, and you are so thankful that horses and horse racing play such a big part in your life and with it bring such uplifting memories. That was one of those moments. #constitutionhill

Activist: "Your cows are fed soy from cleared rainforests." Farmer: "My cows eat grass." Activist: "All cattle eat soy." Farmer: "Mine don't. They're ruminants. Grass is literally what they're designed to eat." Activist: "Industrial cattle are fed soy." Farmer: "I'm not industrial. I'm watching them eat grass right now." Activist: "But most beef comes from..." Farmer: "Most beef in Britain comes from grass-fed cattle. We have this thing called rain. Makes grass grow quite well." Activist: "The statistics say...." Farmer: "The statistics are global. You're standing in Cumbria." Activist: "Still, the global supply chain..." Farmer: "Doesn't include me. My supply chain is: grass to cow to butcher to customer. Four steps. No soy." Activist: "You're an exception." Farmer: "I'm the norm here."

When each Wetherspoon pub is now paying over £1m in taxes, it is clear that businesses (especially in hospitality) are ludicrously overtaxed in the UK. No wonder they are collapsing daily under the weight of tax. They are being #TaxedOut

Exactly Darran. Ultimately they don’t know if, when or where the freeze will come each year nor how long will it last far. Even if they were getting it right it would inevitably mean the season starting a little earlier or finishing a little later - with the attendant risk of the ground being too quick for safe NH racing.

Imagine having a weeks break at the start of Jan only for the weather to be perfect for racing and then the following week you get a freeze and all the racing gets called off. Its something you can't plan for

Very sad to hear of the passing of Sir Johnny Weatherby. A lovely man and a great servant to The British horse racing industry.

This seems incredibly insensitive given the events on Bondi Beach.

This should be compulsory reading for everybody who is eligible to vote at the next election.

Can you believe Rand wrote this 70 years ago??

Britain crosses these lines brazenly now. No debate. No shame. A government decree, a police order, and suddenly the people who feed the country – the most rooted, law-abiding citizens we have – are the ones being marched away in handcuffs. Not for rioting. Not for violence. For turning up to protest a tax raid that threatens the survival of family farms. This is what decay looks like when it turns into something darker: the state deciding who may speak and who must be silenced. The images from Westminster should chill anyone with a sense of Britain's old freedoms. Dozens of tractors draped in Union flags. Farmers who spend their lives in mud, dawn light and hard graft, standing in the capital because Rachel Reeves has reached for the most brutal tool in the Treasury drawer – inheritance tax – and pointed it straight at the land itself. One death in the family and the farm breaks into pieces, sold off to pay the bill. That is the reality behind the Budget's polite language. These men aren't in London for show. They are there because their futures have been put on the block. And what did the state do? The Met, which can't find the strength to stand up to eco-fanatics or pro-Hamas mobs, suddenly discovered iron in its spine the moment it faced peaceful rural protest. Section 14 orders. Sudden bans. Farmers singled out and cuffed like criminals. Officers who were helping them park an hour earlier switched roles and started clearing them out. This is not policing. This is obedience enforcement – selective, political, and aimed squarely at the demographic this government thinks it can steamroller without consequence. The excuse was "disruption." As if tractors circling Trafalgar Square for a morning threaten the life of the nation, while city-blocking marches and flag-waving fanatics do not. It's the same double standard we've seen for years: indulgence for the activist Left; force for the ordinary citizen who dares to object. A country that treats its farmers as a nuisance is already half-lost. A country that arrests them for standing in public is well on the way to something worse. This isn't happening by accident. It's the logical end of a government drunk on its own authority. They raid family farms for cash; then they send the police to muzzle the people affected. They ban tractors for "serious disruption" while gutting the mechanisms that once protected the public from the state. Speech tightened. Protest restricted. Juries stripped from trials. Now this. One brick at a time, the wall between the government and unchecked power is being pulled down. Farmers don't protest unless they have been pushed to breaking point. A ruling class that still understood the country it governs would know that. This one doesn't care. It sees them as an obstacle, not a backbone. And that is why the images from Westminster matter: they reveal a state no longer restrained by shame or tradition. A state that believes it can handcuff the hands that feed it and get away with it. The truth is simple: a government that fears peaceful farmers fears the country itself. And a government that turns the police on them is not preserving order; it is testing how far it can go. Britain isn't at the end of this road yet. But the direction of travel is plain to anyone with eyes open. "Farmers singled out and cuffed like criminals. Officers who were helping them park an hour earlier switched roles and started clearing them out."

Not good enough Andrew. That policy still leaves huge swathes of the hospitality industry paying extortionate levels of Business Rates. Root and branch reform is needed. Furthermore it’s disingenuous to blame Labour for Business Rates. The real damage was done by Philip Hammond refusing to review the system in 2018 despite Treasury Committee recommendations. BTW Hammond also pledged to act to ensure digital firms are taxed fairly - that never happened.

You don’t protect a worker by bankrupting their employer. You don’t revive high streets by taxing them into submission. @Conservatives know this. That’s why we will scrap business rates for 250,000 high-street businesses.

Fantastic ride by @oismurphy on Balantina. Got the filly calm before the race, took his medicine early doors as the wide draw forced him to tuck in and kept his cool before producing the horse at the perfect moment. Top class 👏👏👏

@kevinblake2011 @AtTheRaces Simply fantastic 👏👏👏

10 years ago, Jonny Madderson made a short film about a 12-year-old boy from Donegal with big dreams of being a champion jockey. Yesterday, at the age of just 22, Dylan Browne McMonagle realised that dream when crowned Champion Jockey of Ireland. He’s just getting started. 🙌

@RichFerrier Thanks Richard. Found out today that I am clinically in remission. Hope to be back in the industry come the New Year.

The truth always comes out eventually. UK's Covid lockdown rules were too strict - Chris Whitty finally admits it’s dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…