HMRC nets Β£90m from pursuit of footballβs tax own goals
Inquiries into clubs, players and agents generate a big increase in underpaid tax being reclaimed
Football clubs, players, and agents have been evading tax, reveals @HMRCgovuk crackdown which scored record amounts of unpaid tax last year bit.ly/47eztrx I hope the people selling the dodgy schemes are also being pursued.
08.10.2025 06:17 β π 43 π 17 π¬ 2 π 0
First of all, 5mm isn't microscopic and you CAN see them.
Second of all, the fact that our Chancellor thinks she can't see these seems to mean she thinks they're not worthy of our consideration.
A hallmark of this government's terminal lack of imagination.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
07.10.2025 20:02 β π 39 π 15 π¬ 5 π 1
"If you see something that doesn't look right, report it to staff or British Transport Police".
Okay then: I'd like to report the entire rail network. That's not right at all.
07.10.2025 18:46 β π 191 π 22 π¬ 10 π 0
Does that mean Reform is in favour of Sharia law after all? I am getting confused now.
07.10.2025 18:46 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
'rescuers found jenrick clutching his mywaitrose card, sobbing into an ordnance survey map of the cotswolds, and rocking gently inside a makeshift shelter constructed from yesterdayβs telegraph'
07.10.2025 06:13 β π 128 π 30 π¬ 9 π 2
A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o
05.10.2025 15:35 β π 16051 π 7594 π¬ 991 π 923
We should do this.
02.10.2025 14:08 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
I can't believe you guys are going to have your 250th anniversary celebrations led by him.
All the glory, absolutely none of the guts.
How embarrassing.
06.10.2025 17:52 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
"Beseiged" may be overstating things a little...
06.10.2025 17:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Arrived back at Bham Airport this evening and the place was besieged by ladybirds!
06.10.2025 17:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
06.10.2025 10:38 β π 2971 π 1306 π¬ 153 π 85
For shame. π‘
06.10.2025 07:24 β π 770 π 310 π¬ 78 π 33
Spot the difference!
06.10.2025 09:30 β π 154 π 41 π¬ 4 π 5
But she has read a LOT of tweets about how the ECHR is bad.
06.10.2025 09:39 β π 219 π 18 π¬ 8 π 0
*gasp*
05.10.2025 21:03 β π 3120 π 1062 π¬ 187 π 140
π¨ π¨ π¨ #BREAKING | Scottish flotilla participant Yvonne Ridley is MISSING after being IMPRISONED π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
Yvonne Ridley had been held at Ketziot prison on hunger strike and denied her medication.
She was due to be deported to Istanbul but disappeared πβΌοΈ
05.10.2025 17:30 β π 412 π 346 π¬ 8 π 15
π΅ Russia recruits soldiers from Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq to fight against Ukraine β Ukrainian intelligence
Afghans are promised $1,500β2,500 per month and the possibility to obtain Russian citizenship or a temporary residence permit, said SBU officer Oleg Alexandrov.
05.10.2025 18:58 β π 34 π 10 π¬ 3 π 1
05.10.2025 19:01 β π 55 π 16 π¬ 1 π 0
The msm pursued the Rayner story in such detail it forced her resignation . Now thereβs a much bigger scandal concerning Farage of possible treason itβs like theyβve forgotten how to spell investigate & corruption. Itβs not only Farage who has a Russian problem, if our msm protects him we all do .
05.10.2025 12:57 β π 346 π 163 π¬ 5 π 9
Should end with Now!
05.10.2025 15:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you donβt have to go to that church anymore.
Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.
05.10.2025 14:14 β π 983 π 293 π¬ 27 π 15
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine π΅πΈ
(π₯ Ahmed Zantac)
05.10.2025 15:07 β π 11294 π 4297 π¬ 250 π 331
Massive demonstrations were held in Istanbul around the Sultan Ahmed Mosque and in all Turkish cities in support of Gaza and in rejection of Israel's blockade of the Global Sumud flotilla.
05.10.2025 15:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
And the violent Zionist Settler expansion continues uninterrupted
Israeli Settlers shoot 2 villagers, so the cops come and arrest 19 villagers for being shot at
Thankfully France, UK & others who recognized this is happening in the Palestinian State are swiftly to react.. by doing nothing
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05.10.2025 06:29 β π 18 π 19 π¬ 0 π 1
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell βinfested with bedbugsβ
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
βThe Italian legal team representing the flotilla confirmed those detained were left βfor hours without food or water β until late last nightβ, with the exception of βa packet of crisps handed to Greta and shown to the cameras.β Lawyers also reported instances of verbal and physical abuse.β
04.10.2025 14:52 β π 101 π 56 π¬ 0 π 1
History repeats.
04.10.2025 06:54 β π 11615 π 5602 π¬ 275 π 301
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
04.10.2025 22:12 β π 23691 π 7939 π¬ 449 π 231
Adelita Grijalva won her special election on September 23rd.
Speaker Mike Johnson still hasnβt sworn her in.
Sheβs being prevented from governing.
Why? Because sheβs the deciding vote to release the Epstein files.
Learn her name.
Call your reps and demand she be sworn in.
04.10.2025 03:14 β π 1101 π 431 π¬ 25 π 20
βThick as Thievesβ: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farageβs Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farageβs closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlinβ...
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Thread π§΅
@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putinβs most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farageβs closest confidantes 1/12
04.10.2025 13:56 β π 1701 π 1147 π¬ 50 π 116
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