Charles Fifield @charlesfifield

FRICS. Chartered Surveyor. CWC Cllr 2011-23. GE 2017 & 2024. Take X with a pinch of (Cheshire) salt. 🚜 🇬🇧🦼 charlesfifield.com Cheshire Joined March 2009

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James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly

13 hours ago

Why no mention of the Church’s role in the abolitionist movement? Speaking only of the Church’s failures but not its virtues reflects the poor communication of British history. Why are we surprised that young people don’t understand and therefore don’t like their own country?

Archbishop of Canterbury @ArchbishopSarah

2 days ago

Today I visited Cape Coast Castle. Seeing the horrific conditions that thousands of people were kept in, it is impossible not to feel the weight of the immense evil that drove the transatlantic slave trade. I pray not only in lament for the Church’s involvement in the slave

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Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

a day ago

If we rank the heroes and villains of the slave trade, the Church of England stands (alongside Quakers and Methodists) close to the top of the heroes’ table. William Wilberforce, who pushed through the legislation to extirpate the foul business, was moved by his Anglican faith. So was John Newton, the former slave trader who repented, composed Amazing Grace and ended his days as a Church of England curate. Thanks to them, and to hundreds of thousands of ordinary churchgoers who lent support to their campaigns, Britain not only abolished slavery in the parts of the world it controlled, but poured its blood and treasure into a long, gruelling and ultimately successful war against the slave trade everywhere else. Does that story smack too much of patriotism and of “white saviour complex”? Well, the hundreds of young British men who, acting on their faith, gave their lives to hunting down slave ships after 1807 were white and, in this case, were literally saviours. So were the Anglican missionaries who penetrated the African interior, often dying of tropical diseases, seeking to persuade local potentates to free their chattels. So, arguably, were the taxpayers who gladly approved the spending of 1.8 per cent of GDP annually between 1808 and 1867 on global eradication: the most expensive moral foreign policy in human history. That was meaningful restitution. Britain had been a player in the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. When, like John Newton, it saw that it had been wrong, it sought to make good that wrong by liberating as many remaining slaves as it could, diverting ships to hunt down the Guineamen even at the height of its life-and-death struggle with Napoleon. If slavery is your issue, you could help complete the Church’s abolitionist mission by taking the campaign to the countries where human bondage is most prevalent today: North Korea, Eritrea, Mauritania, Afghanistan. But that does not carry the kudos of self-reproach.

Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

a day ago

The Church of England led the world to abolition. It is arguably the single greatest practical Anglican achievement. You can’t find a single word to say about that?

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Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

a day ago

The Church of England led the world to abolition. It is arguably the single greatest practical Anglican achievement. You can’t find a single word to say about that?

Archbishop of Canterbury @ArchbishopSarah

2 days ago

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot

2 days ago

Hear me out - Keir Starmer for FIFA president. Loves the game, loves flags, loves rules, loves jetting around the world.

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

2 days ago

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has called for Gianni Infantino to resign as FIFA President

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Charles Fifield @charlesfifield

2 days ago

@FarRightSkip Apart from choice, value for money, huge reductions in living costs, improved quality of life, longer life expectancy, massive technological & medical advances, what has #capitalism ever done for us?"

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Charles Fifield @charlesfifield

4 days ago

@FarRightSkip Too many decided it’s the state’s job to teach right from wrong. Decline of religion, rise of social media & celebrity culture, lack of discipline, feelings trumping knowledge. Wholesale abandonment of the old for the new. The test of time forgotten in the name of progress.

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William Yarwood @yarwoodwilliam

5 days ago

The annual operational cost being withdrawn is £2.8 million per year. The daily cost of housing illegal migrants in hotels is £5.77 million per day One single day of these hotel costs would be enough to fund the telescope for more than two full years.

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

6 days ago

🚨 NEW: The UK’s largest telescope for studying space is now set to close after the Government pulled its funding It supported various Apollo missions and tracked Soviet rockets in the Cold War

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BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking

6 days ago

Jodrell Bank, home of UK's largest telescope, facing closure after losing government funding, BBC understands bbc.in/3RZyfeW

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derek guy @dieworkwear

6 days ago

Don't know anything about Andy Burnham, but I recognize the room in the middle photo. That's Private White VC. Let me tell you about them. 🧵

Billy Misanthrope @notesfromspain

7 days ago

This is an outrage. Everyone knows that to qualify as left wing, you have to wear patched hand-me-downs, jackets made from sackcloth, coarse woollen trousers and beechwood clogs.

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Charles Fifield @charlesfifield

6 days ago

@SGHutchence And the end result is the higher end property market will slow down, so less tax income, so less moving house refurbishments, so less tax income. When will left wing politicians realise lower taxes doesn’t mean lower tax income because it means more taxable transactions.

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GB Politics @GBPolitcs

6 days ago

🚨NEW: HMRC data shows 75,000 'Saturday jobs' for 16-18 year olds, representing 15% of the total, have disappeared since Labour came to power [@Telegraph]

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Charles Fifield @charlesfifield

6 days ago

@SGHutchence Not to mention that Labour already have an incoming Mansion Tax from 2028 for higher valued properties: hoa.org.uk/news/new-prope…

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Charles Fifield @charlesfifield

6 days ago

@klaasm67 Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes

7 days ago

Dr Art Laffer explains the Laffer Curve

Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK

a week ago

HMRC data shows that the average amount of tax paid by top earners in Scotland fell in 2024-25, the first year in which the SNP Government imposed a top 48p rate. The tax hikes, which also included imposing an “advanced rate” of 45p on earnings between £75,000 and £125,140, were

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Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

7 days ago

There is one reason, above all, that British living standards have fallen from parity with the US in 2008 to 40 per cent lower today. And it is not what most people think. Paywall down. telegraph.co.uk/gift/a107526ab…