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Freezing business rates would be a great way for politicians to let firms grow, prosper and create new jobs. With so many empty stores on our high streets already, the last thing the Government should be planning is another increase in 2013. You can help us fight for a freeze in business rates by writing to your MP at FreezeBusinessRates.org and urging your friends and colleagues to do the same. The hypocrisy of bureaucrats at the Department of Energy and Climate Change taking luxury flights all over the world, while making it more expensive for the rest of us to travel, shows what the public sector too often does with the money. - Matt Sinclair, Chief Executive FreezeBusinessRates.org Please help us stop yet another increase in business rates, which will close shops and destroy jobs. Go to FreezeBusinessRates.org and join thousands of other TPA supporters who have urged their MPs to back a freeze. Jet set DECC This week we revealed how the Department of Energy and Climate Change has been spending a fortune on flying around the world, including hundreds of luxury business class flights, at a total cost of £1.5 million. Denis MacShane resigns after expenses revelations Denis MacShane resigned this week after a Parliamentary report found he had repeatedly misled the authorities andseverely breached the expenses rules. Nadine Dorries on I'm a celebrity While Nadine Dorries is playing at being a Z-list celebrity in the jungle, her constituents will be left without an MP to represent them in Parliament. Yet more evidence that people should have the power to sack MPs who let them down