Sacha Lord slams "disgusting" comments by Chancellors adviser. "It'll make your blood boil. Government is no longer hiding it from us." A must read. The Hospitality sector need to now come together and fight back. insidermedia.com/news/nation…

What other high street businesses are contributing this level of tax? None. It highlights that hospitality is disproportionately taxed. Wetherspoons may be able to weather the storm due to volume & power purchasing, but smaller outlets can’t. We need urgent hospitality tax reform

What have our high streets ever done to upset Rachel Reeves? Because her vindictive taxes seem to be most targeted at destroying them. Labour knew what they were doing - they knew they’d force thousands to close their doors. We need a full business rates U-turn now.

Liverpool’s hospitality sector is at breaking point. With £48k+ in rate hikes over 3 years - double the national average - and a 20% VAT rate far above European neighbours, jobs and beloved venues are at risk. We urgently need targeted support, before more doors close for good.

The same people giving me hate for sticking up for hospitality & criticising Labour are the same people that literally complain about the state of our decimated high streets, towns, cities & communities. They literally wrap themselves up in knots defending @UKLabour.

Business rate changes need to be scrapped and VAT for hospitality needs to come down. Nothing will be left in four years.

Lays bare the tax cost pressures for many small independent hospitality businesses. This time it’s a pub but it equally applies to independent guesthouse, neighbourhood restaurants and cafes, coffee shops and hotels. Business rates a final straw telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01…

Heartbreaking video This is what the government is doing to our country - destroying businesses.

The unstoppable @toadmeister perfectly explains the impulse that is driving Labour to clamp down on free speech and the platforms, like this one, which facilitate it. A poisonous mixture of believing themselves always right, they're opponents always malign, and discomfort at robust intellectual exchange (I call this stupidity). A masterful summary:

POV: when a customer asks for latte art.. on an Americano.. 😱☕💓

Today’s just getting better & better ❤️ #hospitality #taxedout #TaylorSwift Enjoy our Swiftie Sunday today. Chocolate & Caramel of course ❤️ #LoveStory

We need to talk. Not about price. Not about hype. About the future. Most Bitcoin doesn’t move on Bitcoin anymore. It trades on paper. In ETFs. In proxy stocks. On platforms that never touch the chain. The financialization is accelerating. Wall Street loves it. No keys, no coins—just exposure. But there’s a problem: Miners secure Bitcoin. They get paid through the block subsidy. Every 4 years, that subsidy gets cut in half. Eventually, the only thing left will be fees. But fees come from usage. From people actually settling on-chain. From mempools that aren’t empty. If the world keeps using Bitcoin through layers that never pay miners, what happens when the subsidy runs dry? Miners starve. Hashrate drops. Security cracks. Censorship creeps in. This isn’t FUD. This is the bill coming due. So if you believe in Bitcoin—really believe— don’t just hold it. Use it. Settle on-chain. Pay the fee. Run the node. Support the thing you say you love. Bitcoin can’t be secured by paper. And it won’t survive on faith alone. The revolution doesn’t happen on Wall Street. It happens here. Don’t let Bitcoin get financialized to death. P.S. I want to do my part. I’ll send 5,000 sats on-chain to 10 people who like, retweet, and follow. Let’s support the network, together. ⚡

These dogs and their haircuts…. The 3rd one got me and a few are just wrong 🤣