Latest budget leak: the taxman will be able to grab cash direct from your bank account. Healey will announce new powers for HMRC to automatically deduct money from current and savings accounts when they fail to engage with the taxman, reports the Times. There will be no need for HMRC to get a court order to begin deducting payments. The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) attacked the policy. “We have heard of debts being pursued while claims are still outstanding because of HMRC delays or errors, as well as difficulties contacting HMRC to resolve queries,” said Jon Stride, chair of the ATT’s Technical Steering Group. This is bound to be a really disastrous policy as HMRC often gets its figures wrong and fails to respond to taxpayers who point this out.

🚨 UPDATE FROM GRAHAM LINEHAN Last week, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), the police watchdog, found that the Metropolitan Police’s handling of Graham’s complaint about his arrest at Heathrow was not reasonable or proportionate. Last year, Graham was arrested by five armed police officers as he arrived at Heathrow from Arizona. His “crime”? Three gender-critical posts on X. Gender-critical beliefs are lawful. They are protected under the Equality Act 2010 and were reaffirmed by last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling. With the support of the Free Speech Union, Graham sent the Met a pre-action letter arguing that his arrest was unlawful and breached his right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Met issued a full and unreserved public apology and paid Graham £25,000 in compensation. Graham also complained to the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards about his arrest and detention in September 2025. The IOPC has now ordered the Met to reinvestigate, saying Graham may have been treated as he was because of his gender-critical views. The Met’s decision to reopen the investigation is welcome news. Graham has been relentlessly hounded by trans activists for his lawful views and advocacy for women’s rights. The police have acted on vexatious complaints from those seeking to silence him and others who hold gender-critical beliefs. This ideological capture must end. The Free Speech Union is proud to support @Glinner. Watch Graham Linehan below 👇

Thank you to @newdawn75 for her message to @andyburnham @10DowningStreet ‘Well unfortunately we are back here again, because no one is listening to us. Mr Burnham I want all floating bus stops to be halted. It is dangerous when you get off a bus with a white cane or a Guide Dog’.

What is the message here? The white kid accepts the hug and the mixed race kid rejects it. On the most basic level, the message is that white grandparents should only hug their white and not their mixed race grandkids as they do not like it. Is this true? Why? Who says? Very odd.

The best tank of the Korean War was British, and most Americans have never heard of it: the Centurion. When people think of tanks in Korea, they picture the North Korean T-34s rolling south in June 1950, or the American Shermans and Pershings that stopped them. Those tanks fought the famous battles of the war's first year. But by early 1951, the North Korean tank force had been mostly destroyed. The war turned into something else. Hills. Trenches. Bunkers. Mud and frozen ridgelines. The tank that fit that war best came from Britain. The Centurion was designed in the last years of WW2 to beat the German Panther and Tiger. The first prototypes reached Europe in May 1945, just days after Germany surrendered. It never fired a shot in that war. By 1950, the version heading to Korea carried a powerful 20-pounder gun. It also had a stabilizer that helped the gunner stay on target, rare at the time. Thick, sloped armor. Big, heavy, and built to keep going. In November 1950, the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars arrived in Korea with their Centurions. The terrain looked like the last place anyone should use a 50-ton tank. Then came April 1951. The Battle of the Imjin River. A huge Chinese offensive smashed into the British 29th Brigade. Over three days, the Gloucestershire Regiment was surrounded and nearly wiped out. The rest of the brigade had to fight its way out through a narrow valley swarming with Chinese troops. The Centurions covered the retreat. They drove back and forth along the escape route, firing into Chinese positions at close range. Infantrymen climbed onto their hulls and clung to anything they could grab as the tanks pushed through. Chinese soldiers tried to climb aboard to drop grenades inside. Tank commanders shot them off each other's tanks with machine guns. The Hussars lost several Centurions. But they helped get hundreds of men out who otherwise might never have made it. Then the war settled into stalemate, and the Centurion found its true calling. Crews drove them up steep hills that nobody believed a tank could climb. Once on top, they dug in and became armored artillery. From high ground, the long, accurate 20-pounder could pick off Chinese bunkers and firing slits from long range. Enemy shells often bounced off. Soldiers on other tanks watched in disbelief as the Centurions crawled up ridgelines like mountain goats. And the story only got bigger after Korea. In 1953, Australia parked a Centurion close to an atomic bomb test in the outback to see what would happen. The blast scorched it, blew off parts, and pushed it backward. Afterward, the crew started it up and drove it away. That same tank later served in Vietnam, took a hit from an RPG, and survived that too. Israel bought hundreds of Centurions, upgraded them, and used them in the 1967 and 1973 wars. In 1973, on the Golan Heights, a small force of Israeli Centurions held off a massive Syrian tank assault in one of the most famous armored battles in history. India used Centurions to smash Pakistani Pattons in 1965. More than 4,000 were built. Some versions stayed in service well into the 21st century. The tank designed to beat Hitler never got its chance. Instead it climbed the hills of Korea, survived an atomic bomb, and served in more wars than almost any tank ever made.

🚨 Britain has been warned by Wes Streeting to prepare for potential food shortages and supply chain disruption If ever there was a reason to back British farmers, this is it!