It’s Britain’s most hated tax. A vicious, vindictive levy that hits families at the worst possible time. I’m talking of course about inheritance tax. The death tax. 

Having worked hard, saved responsibly, and paid tax all their lives, those passing something on to their loved ones find the taxman all-too-eager to take a cut. This week we learnt how 3,700 more estates have been captured by inheritance tax while the number of deaths hit by it has increased by 13 per cent. Once a tax designed for the super rich, more and more grieving families are being handed hefty bills by HMRC.

In a 60 second explainer video, our team takes you through five things you need to know about inheritance tax. Give it a watch here. And our head of campaigns Elliot Keck made the case to Conservative MPs, policy wonks and activists that it should be part of the Conservative policy platform going forward in an op-ed for Conservative Home.

With the death tax hitting more and more people, John O’Connell explained to Express readers: “In the ultimate sign that the government views wealth and affluence with contempt and envy, the only changes they have made have been to hammer family businesses and farms. Whoever makes up the next government should scrap inheritance tax in its entirety.” Be sure to download your copy of everything you need to know about the death tax here and maybe send a copy to your friends and family.

As the only group fighting the taxpayers’ corner, we’ll always do everything we can to put a stop to ineffective and immoral taxes like the death tax. It’s time inheritance tax was laid to rest once and for all!

But of course this is all at a cost to taxpayers. The average cost of a prisoner is £53,801 so the total cost for foreign inmates could be a whopping £600 million. You can read our full analysis and breakdown here.

Our media campaign manager William Yarwood jumped into the Talk studios to chat about our analysis with Mike Graham saying: “£600 million isn’t a small bit of change. If a foreign national has committed a crime they’ve lost their right to be in Britain and should be deported effective immediately!”

If you’re as annoyed as we are about the rising cost of migration, join the 10,000 people who’ve already signed our petition to stop the boats.

The NHS is in a downright sorry state. Doctors are striking over their demands for a 29 per cent pay rise, on top of the 22 per cent pay rise they received last year. Alarmingly, nurses are looking likely to follow. That decision to bend over backwards over pay last year is looking increasingly costly…

With perfect timing, we had NHS-expert Kristian Niemietz from the Institute of Economic Affairs into the podcast studio to ask the provocative, but important question: is it time to privatise the NHS?

To hammer it home, our very own Elliot Keck reminded us via a thread on X that this isn’t Ofcom’s first time overstepping. The same regulator enforcing censorship online under the Online Safety Act is now trying to manipulate what you see on your feed - not just what you can’t see but what you must. From state sanctioned speech to state sponsored programming, Ofcom is looking more like a Ministry of Information rather than an independent regulator.

And while one quango meddles with our algorithms, another is failing to manage our rivers. A blog this week, by political commentator Benjamin, Byung Hoon, Ko, highlighted the dire state of England’s chalk streams, some of the most unique ecosystems on Earth, and the Environment Agency’s complete failure to protect them. Despite a £2.27 billion budget, pollution is up, sewage is rampant, and locals trying to help are blocked by bureaucracy. Community-led restoration projects cost a fraction of what the EA burns through, and actually deliver results. It’s a textbook case for localism over statism: scrap the EA, back local groups, and stop pouring taxpayer cash down the drain.

From digital speech to environmental stewardship, the story is the same, but doesn’t end there. The Valuation Office Agency was also racking up complaints, longer waiting times and missing targets. It all just proves that too many quangos are wasting taxpayer time and money while dodging accountability and undermining our choices.