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The Probation Service “has too few staff, with too little experience and training, managing too many cases” HM Inspectorate of Probation has published its 2024 Annual Report of Probation Services in England and Wales. hmiprobation.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/the-pro...

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

🚨MAJOR DEVELOPMENT Portugal has cancelled plans to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US and will look to replace their F-16s with European fighters. “We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."💥

submitted 65 days ago • 98 comments

Ed Davey: “Relieved Trump has now reversed senseless decision to suspend intelligence-sharing and security aid... no doubt it cost Ukrainian lives. The terrifying thing is... we can’t count on him not to do it again." Everything changes, but nothing does www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 66 days ago • 18 comments

Stop the world I’m getting off unwatch.org/outrage-as-s...

submitted 66 days ago • 38 comments

#BBCNews - Afghan women who fled Taliban to study abroad face imminent return after USAID cuts www.bbc.com/news/article... #Afghanistan

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Afghan women who fled Taliban to study abroad face return after USAID freeze www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

More or Less is going to be busy if it fact checks every number Donald Trump says! This week bit.ly/4hb5DGm it explains why claims tat the USA has given Ukraine $350bn and Europe about $100bn are wrong as are claims that Europe’s is a loan and USA’s is a gift. So a whole policy is based on untruths.

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

No one writes an “F- you, I quit” letter quite like a lawyer…

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Post on Christmas confusion seems appropriate …the bottle on the left is Olive oil…and on the right is Irish Whiskey…with which I have been feeding the Christmas Cake….fortunately I discovered this just as I was about to anoint 2 Jacket spuds with whiskey….

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Banana Caramel blondies…they are rather marvellous!

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Bushcraft Day with Explorers today! Firelighting, Axe and Knife Skills, firelighting and cooking on open fires. All enjoyed it and did a great job.

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Some Deep Thoughts from Deep Space.

submitted 169 days ago • 534 comments

Making pastry and watching Sparrows, Robin, Coal Tits and Great Tits on the frosty bird feeder…lovely to have the opportunity not to have to work every day.

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently according to @aiannucci.bsky.social us what have leapt from t’other place are described as Skeets…intriguingly he also says don’t google it as it will take you to specific and rather alarming locations…guess where I’m going next??…

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

We played biscuit roulette last night at Explorers…I can tell you that Shortbreads are the Christopher Walken of biscuits…

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Lancashire Day, Celebrating the first Members of Parliament returned by Lancashire in 1295.

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

If you drag yourself into work, coughing and wheezing; and you laugh (weakly and with running eyes) at lesser mortals who use their sick leave, you are not a Big Brave Soldier. You are a vector of disease.

submitted 177 days ago • 3 comments

Interesting 🧵

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Too many Mercians are being POISONED by Big Apothecary who get them hooked on unnatural potions and salves when all they really need is some NATURAL snake oil. NOT FOR HIBERNIANS THOUGH.

submitted 181 days ago • 3 comments

Legal twitter leaving for Blue Sky

submitted 187 days ago • 9 comments