FlyTheNest

No solidarity from LBC colleagues --

££££££££££££££ 's !



So what do MP's spend their Lobby Income on ??

My first thought on the Makerfield Result , Nigel 21% and Rupert 9, 30% still dangerous !

Have the Probation Officers gone on strike already ?

https://bsky.app/profile/landofbritain. ... upbo7xts2b

FULL LENGTH INTERVIEW !

' Side jobs from as young as 13years old '






"Exploitation, slavery ! " (UK)

GO !

I do remember the 1956 Hungarian Uprising , but only later on was aware of the effect it had on the UK and other Communist Parties . Contortions were also the order of the day following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 .

A "tankie" is a political insult. It describes a communist or ...

Now looking up the term 'tanky'

There's plenty of money around



but it's in the wrong places !

Same here but worse tomorrow

37. !!

13.23 Rory Stewart -- first of all you had the GFC destroying faith in the system/politicians, then that disastrous war ...

There's a nice bit in this FT free read on one of the er stars of the GFC --

Last October JPMorgan Chase completed their new $3BN 60 storey HQ " some have said as a monument ...

Quote from Rory Stewart just before WATO 'news' , as the Afghan War and the Retreat from Kabul destroyed peoples' view of politicians --

" They have no idea what they're doing ! "
( Door opens for Rupert ? )

That is the lead item, playing now --

A little more info --

The levels of self-harm, violence and drugs are so out of control that a new approach is needed. It is not simply to introduce “Scandi” wings. It is to do what we used to do before the pandemic was used as an excuse to shut everything down. To focus on purposeful activity ...

Daughter confessed that she walked some of the half-marathon, being out if training, but she was only 'a bit stiff' yesterday !

Same late-surfacing again today, those spurts of exercise splitting barrowing and stacking firewood must be good for me :-)

How to make friends and influence people , and get customers --

https://bsky.app/profile/stoatwobbler.bsky.social/post/3mslllvawek26

And on the consequences of creating a ...

This is gold. How did he not realise he was still going to be in trouble even if he won?

To be fair, he has gotten away with it for years and it's only know that the Press have decided to start noticing things.

The cartoons down that thread are excellent too .

I missed the morning cool as ...

In the dock -- " But everyone else was doing it "

Good thing I drove to the garage before doing anything else ! I parked in front and then needed a jump start to get inside . VERY first time I've had a sudden death- battery, a bit slow starting yesterday, dead today .

Money and politics, the Michigan primary result in the states leads to thought ...

refitman wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 6:31 am Good luck to your daughter Frog.

She had the same air temperature, but the water was warmer
1.9km swim over, now well into the 90km cycling and the half-marathon ...

Now to check if my car battery is dead or just not charging , the cheapo Chinese clamp ammeter not used for many years !

8° just now and sporting daughter is set for a 8AM triathlon, postponed from end of June because of the heat wave ...

The reservoir which supplies parts of San Juan city is very low,
'Rationing begins tomorrow' .
Yesterday little sister was getting ready --
Went to Econo to buy drinking water and two additional buckets to store water. They say it will be 48 hours without water, then one day with water, etc
Went ...

Morning !

My memory for names is not what it was, and sometimes too there is perhaps some deliberate erasure ? So I had to look up the name of the Tory culprit for the failed 70% privatisation of the Probation Service between 2014 and 2021.
One consequence --
At March 2025, there were 5,636 ...