👏 'To the great and good people of Wales'
Llongyfarchiadau i Matthew Rhys sydd wedi creu hanes yng ngwobrau Emmy drwy ennill dwy wobr am brif rôl actio mewn un noson.
The two sons of police officer Matthew Blades, who tragically lost his life in a wrong-way crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough last Saturday, led out Manchester United as mascots against Ipswich today.
An incredibly special moment for two brave young boys ❤️
A timeline of one man's cunning inheritance tax scheme.
2008: Buy a thousand acres in Oxfordshire. Tell The Times that dodging inheritance tax is the critical thing. Scheme live.
2009 to 2018: Do absolutely nothing. A villager farms it on contract. Flawless.
2019: The villager retires. Rather than hire another one, decide to farm a thousand acres yourself, having never grown anything.
Also 2019: Invite a film crew.
2020: Rain for nine weeks. Profit on a thousand acres: £144.
2021: Broadcast the £144 to the largest streaming platform on earth, thereby informing the entire planet that farmland makes nothing.
2021: Open a farm shop. Acquire a queue down a lane and the undivided attention of West Oxfordshire District Council.
2022: Restaurant refused. Enforcement notice. Six weeks to take a barn apart.
2023: Lose the appeal. Lose it again.
May 2024: Accidentally get English planning law rewritten. Lawyers name it Clarkson's Clause.
August 2024: Open a pub selling only British food. Sell your own sausage at 74p against 18p imported, and eat the difference on every plate.
October 2024: The Chancellor caps agricultural property relief at a million. Scheme dead.
November 2024: Stand on a platform in Westminster in front of thirteen thousand farmers, drawing maximum national attention to the exact tax break you were supposedly hiding behind.
July 2025: Go down with TB. First calf ever born on the farm destroyed, pregnant with twins. Gate padlocked.
23 December 2025: Government retreats. The threshold goes from one million to two and a half. Five million for a couple.
March 2026: Farm declared clear.
July 2026: Drive four hundred miles to Scotland and buy more cows.
Eighteen years.
Planning law changed. Agricultural degree applications climbing. Cited in the Commons more times than most ministers manage. Half the estates that were going to be caught by the tax are no longer caught by it.
He was accused of buying a farm to dodge inheritance tax, and then spent eighteen months getting the relief raised for everybody else's.
Worst tax dodger in British history.
Best thing to happen to British farming in fifty years.
What a beautiful way to honour one of your own ❤️
Australian rugby league star Jai Arrow was forced to retire at just 31 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease three months ago, leaving him on 98 appearances for the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Yesterday, a special league exemption allowed him to suit up, lead out his teammates and register appearance number 99. In their next match, he will reach 100.
I know how much those milestones mean. Fans see a statistic, but a player sees every training session, injury, sacrifice and person who helped them get there.
We cannot always change what someone we care about is facing.
But we can look for one meaningful thing we can still make possible for them.
A very special moment 👏
(🎥 centralNRL_)
A Pakistan origin Muslim Taxi driver Muhamad caught r@ping a passanger in Scotland
The girl was returning from the office and felt thirsty, so she asked to stop car at some shop for water but he gave gave her a sedative mixed water bottle
These people must be boycotted globally
La la la!!!!!! Can’t Get You Out Of My Head makes the Spotify BILLIONS CLUB!!!!! Whaaaaaaat!!!????? Thank you to everyone all around the world!!! Way before streaming, here I am doing wardrobe and glam tests in preparation for the video. 🥹🙃🙋🏼♀️😘
A year ago today - Kyle Walker embarrasses himself in The Manchester Derby and Roy Keane is the only man to call out a clear act of nonsense at The Etihad (15/12/24)
Look at the smile on Ruby Evans’ face as the Welsh anthem plays after she wins Wales’ first gold medal! 🥇🏴
Just look at how much representing Wales means to her! ❤️😢👏
Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen
Just one example (bear with me):
Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.
The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows
But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered
Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle
There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).
If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.
Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).
Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed
So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef
Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers