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Information minister, Blueprint editor, others grace wedding Fatia for NOA DG’s daughterPedro escaped punishment after swinging an arm at Bees substitute substitute Yehor Yarmoliuk. Brentford boss Thomas Frank claimed Brighton forward Joao Pedro should have been sent off during his side’s goalless Premier League draw at the Amex Stadium. Pedro escaped punishment after swinging an arm at Bees substitute substitute Yehor Yarmoliuk without making contact. VAR reviewed the second-half incident but deemed there was no violent conduct. Frank and Brighton head coach Fabian Hurzeler disagreed about the decision. “As I understand the rules, you can’t swing your arm to try to hit someone,” said Frank. “If you hit them or not, it’s a red, that’s the way I understand the rules.” Frank spoke to the match officials, including referee Andy Madley, about the flashpoint at full-time. “They haven’t seen the situation yet, not on TV afterwards,” said Frank. “To be fair to him, I think the angle can be tricky so that’s why you’ve got VAR.” Asked about Frank’s assessment, Hurzeler replied: “Interesting opinion. I see it completely different. “For me, it’s not a red card. He tried to get free from a person.” Brighton were booed off after their winless run was stretched to six top-flight games. Albion dominated for large periods and hit the woodwork inside four minutes through Julio Enciso. Bees goalkeeper Mark Flekken made some important saves before being forced off injured in the 36th minute, albeit his replacement Hakon Valdimarsson was rarely tested on his Premier League debut. The Seagulls remain 10th ahead of Monday’s trip to Aston Villa, with Brentford a position and two points below moving towards their New Year’s Day showdown with Arsenal. Hurzeler thought the jeers at full-time were unfair. “The team doesn’t deserve that because in all the games we had in the last weeks they were all good, they were all intense, they were all where we thought we deserved more” said the German, whose team have lost to Fulham and Crystal Palace and drawn with Southampton, Leicester and West Ham in recent matches. “We try to work hard to satisfy our supporters, we try to give them what they deserve, we try to make them proud. “But the Premier League is tough. We know there will be (tough) periods we have to go through, especially with this young squad. “We try to stick together, find the positive and keep on going.” Brentford, who remain without a top-flight away win this term, had an early Yoane Wissa finish ruled out for offside following VAR intervention but barely threatened, despite an improved second-half showing. Frank, who is awaiting news on Flekken and defender Ben Mee, who also left the field injured, said: “I thought it was a fair point. “Brighton were better in the first half, no big, clearcut chances, and I thought we were better second half. “Overall, I’m happy with the performance, especially the way we defended. “We haven’t had too many clean sheets this season, so in that context I thought it was very impressive against a good Brighton team. “We know we have a lot of players out – we get two more injuries during the game. “The way the players showed their mentality and character and dug in was hugely impressive.”
Alyssa Nakken, first full-time female coach in MLB history, leaving Giants to join GuardiansThe Reform UK leader pushed back against reports suggesting that legal action would be the next step, saying he would make a decision in the next couple of days about his response if there is no apology for the “crazy conspiracy theory”. Mr Farage also said the party has “opened up our systems” to media outlets, including The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times, in the interests of “full transparency to verify that our numbers are correct”. His remarks came after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch accused Mr Farage of “fakery” in response to Reform claiming they had surpassed the Tories in signed-up members. Mrs Badenoch said Reform’s counter was “coded to tick up automatically”. A digital counter on the Reform website showed a membership tally before lunchtime on Boxing Day ticking past the 131,680 figure declared by the Conservative Party during its leadership election earlier this year. Mr Farage, on whether he was threatening legal action or not, told the PA news agency: “I haven’t threatened anything. I’ve just said that unless I get an apology, I will take some action. “I haven’t said whether it’s legal or anything.” He added: “All I’ve said is I want an apology. If I don’t get an apology, I will take action. “I will decide in the next couple of days what that is. So I’ve not specified what it is.” Mr Farage, on the move to make membership data available to media organisations, said: “We feel our arguments are fully validated. “She (Mrs Badenoch) has put out this crazy conspiracy theory and she needs to apologise.” The accusations of fraud and dishonesty made against me yesterday were disgraceful. Today we opened up our systems to The Telegraph, Spectator, Sky News & FT in the interests of full transparency to verify that our data is correct. I am now demanding @KemiBadenoch apologises. — Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) December 27, 2024 On why Mrs Badenoch had reacted as she did, Mr Farage said: “I would imagine she was at home without anybody advising her and was just angry.” Mr Farage, in a statement issued on social media site X, also said: “The accusations of fraud and dishonesty made against me yesterday were disgraceful. “Today we opened up our systems to The Telegraph, Spectator, Sky News and FT in the interests of full transparency to verify that our data is correct. “I am now demanding Kemi Badenoch apologises.” A Conservative Party source claimed Mr Farage was “rattled” that his Boxing Day “publicity stunt is facing serious questions”. They added: “Like most normal people around the UK, Kemi is enjoying Christmas with her family and looking forward to taking on the challenges of renewing the Conservative Party in the New Year.” Mrs Badenoch, in a series of messages posted on X on Thursday, said: “Farage doesn’t understand the digital age. This kind of fakery gets found out pretty quickly, although not before many are fooled.” There were 131,680 Conservative members eligible to vote during the party’s leadership election to replace Rishi Sunak in the autumn. Mrs Badenoch claimed in her thread that “the Conservative Party has gained thousands of new members since the leadership election”. Elsewhere, Mr Farage described Elon Musk as a “bloody hero” and said he believes the US billionaire can help attract younger voters to Reform. Tech entrepreneur Mr Musk met Mr Farage earlier this month at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, amid rumours of a possible donation to either Mr Farage or Reform. Mr Farage told The Daily Telegraph newspaper: “The shades, the bomber jacket, the whole vibe. Elon makes us cool – Elon is a huge help to us with the young generation, and that will be the case going on and, frankly, that’s only just starting. “Reform only wins the next election if it gets the youth vote. The youth vote is the key. Of course, you need voters of all ages, but if you get a wave of youth enthusiasm you can change everything. “And I think we’re beginning to get into that zone – we were anyway, but Elon makes the whole task much, much easier. And the idea that politics can be cool, politics can be fun, politics can be real – Elon helps us with that mission enormously.”Business News | Speaker of Lok Sabha & Law Minister Inaugurate India's First Constitution Museum to Commemorate 75th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Indian Constitution
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday reiterated his party's determination to foil all the foreign conspiracies against the country, including its nuclear and missiles programme, and urged the government to desist from unilateral decisions to create rifts with allies. Addressing a massive public gathering in Garhi Khuda Bux in Larkana district to commemorate the 17th death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal warned that it was becoming difficult for him to convince his party's lawmakers to support every government legislation. Bilawal highlighted the achievements of the former PPP prime ministers, his grandfather late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his mother late Benazir Bhutto, including the country's nuclear programme and the missile technology programme. "The PPP will fail all conspiracies targeting the nuclear and missile programmes," the PPP chairman said while commenting on the recent US sanctions against companies involved in Pakistan's missile programme. He said both the projects were the gifts from late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto. "Imran Khan [Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) founder] is just an excuse, the real target is Pakistan's atomic programme and the missile technology," he added, while referring to the statements of support for the PTI founder by some officials of the incoming US administration of Donald Trump. He asked the PTI founder to clarify that the people who give statements in his favour "every other day are not the ones who are against Pakistan's atomic and missile technologies programme". He added that those who supported Imran happened to be staunch supporters of the Zionist Israeli regime. "This party [PTI] and Imran himself should condemn these people," Bilawal told the crowds. He contended that such support gave the impression that a lobby wanted to install a government in Pakistan which could compromise on everything for the sake of power. The PPP chairman said the powers that be had no concern whatsoever for democracy, human rights or prisoners in Pakistan, rather they wanted to target Pakistan's nuclear programme. He said that Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's "biggest crime before the global powers was the Islamic atomic bomb". He also highlighted the three-decade-long political struggle of his mother, saying that those who plotted her assassination wanted to install puppets in Pakistan who could comprise on the manifesto, ideology and even rights of the people as well as on the country's national security and its atomic programme. Coalition ties Bilawal reminded the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) that the ruling party's electoral mandate restricted it from taking unilateral decisions. "The only mandate which the government has is one of taking collective decisions through parliament," he emphasised. Bilawal said the PPP neither asked for power nor the ministries when supporting the PML-N to form a government at the Centre. He added that its singular demand was an equitable Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for all provinces, particularly the less developed ones. He said that the PML-N had failed to implement the agreement with the PPP for supporting the Shehbaz Sharif-led government. "It's becoming difficult for me to compel my MNAs again and again to go to the [National] Assembly to complete the quorum and support every bill they [PML-N] tabled," he warned. The PPP's leader cautioned that the government could not function in the existing way of governance because it was incumbent upon it to find consensus-based solutions through parliament to the challenges confronting the country. He fleetingly touched upon the contentious issue of the proposed construction of six new canals from the Indus river and conveyed that the lower riparian province of Sindh had been strongly criticising the Centre's canals policy. He appealed to President Asif Zardari that he should help the government realise that the decisions taken with consensus happened to be powerful decisions. Bilawal believed that no individual party had the mandate or the power to deal with all internal and external problems alone. Making a laconic speech on the occasion, President Zardari tried to allay concerns of the smaller provinces, saying that they would not be deprived of their due share of water or gas. "I want to tell my friends that they don't need to worry about it," he said. "All the provinces will get what rightly belongs to them," the president declared. "Sindhu [river] will be given what is the right of Sindhu. There can be no other decision and nothing short of it," the president told the gathering. He said the world was progressing and 'modern things' were proving to be beneficial for humans, adding that he believed things which were good for human beings and the political parties would be good for Pakistan as well. COMMENTS Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive. For more information, please see our
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Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks at the Iowa Taxpayers Association Tax Symposium hosted at the Prairie Meadows Events Center in Altoona after receiving the 2024 Linda S. Weindruch Award on Dec. 5, 2024. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Gov. Kim Reynolds told Iowans to expect more tax cuts in the future as she accepted an award Thursday from the Iowa Taxpayers Association. Reynolds spoke at the organization’s annual symposium as she accepted the Linda S. Weindruch Award, given to people who have taken actions that “have resulted in a positive impact on the business tax climate in Iowa,” according to the ITA website. In her speech, Reynolds spoke about the tax laws passed since 2017, saying that recent recognition Iowa has received as a leader on conservative tax policy came after years of work to reform a complex system. “Iowa’s journey to tax competitiveness, it wasn’t a matter of a few modest tweaks,” Reynolds said. “It was a complete, top-to-bottom transformation that couldn’t have happened without an outstanding team of legislators, advocates, business leaders and others that were behind me.” Most recently, the governor signed a law in May that sped up previous income tax cuts, decreasing the state’s individual income tax to a 3.8% flat tax rate beginning in 2025. The law built off of tax cuts made in 2022 to lower Iowa’s individual income tax rate to a 3.9% single rate by 2026. Additionally, the 2022 law will lower the state’s corporate tax rate to 5.5% gradually, bringing the rate down each year Iowa has more than $700 million in net corporate income tax receipts. She praised the state for going from a “complex, unwieldy” tax code when she took office in 2018, with a top income tax rate of 8.98%, to a system with “no more complexity and there’s no more gimmicks.” In addition to the income tax changes, Reynolds said other changes to Iowa tax law on issues like eliminating retirement income taxes and property tax cuts have also helped simplify the system. Tax cuts in the past six years will result in $24 billion less paid by Iowans in taxes over the next 10 years, she said. She also said tax laws passed during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office helped Iowa successfully implement changes on the state level. “So what was it that ultimately helped Iowa crack the code? The short answer is the 2017 tax bill signed into law by President Trump,” the governor said. “By lowering taxes for working families and doubling the standard deduction, it created a powerful argument for finally shedding federal deductibility.” Though Reynolds and Republican state lawmakers have said that tax cuts implemented in recent years have helped people across the state, Democrats and some advocates disagree. During discussions on the latest round of income tax cuts earlier in 2024, critics said a flat income tax rate will disproportionately benefit high-income Iowans to the detriment of lower- and middle-class families. Others expressed concerns about how a loss in state revenue due to the tax cuts could impact funding for state priorities like the K-12 public school system and social services during economic downturns. Though Reynolds did not share any specific tax policy goals for the 2025 session, Republican state senators have said they plan to introduce legislation on property taxes in the upcoming year, a follow-up to the 2023 property tax cuts that capped levy rates for cities and counties. As Republicans are poised to take trifecta control in both Washington, D.C., and at the Iowa Statehouse, Reynolds said to expect more tax policy proposals to come. “If our story shows anything, it’s just how much taxpayers have to gain when their leaders of fighting for them, both at the state and the national level,” Reynolds said. “So in Iowa and beyond, I’m here to tell you the best is yet to come.”