FlyTheNest

Morning all.

So, this seems pretty fucked

According to my sister in Israel, the media there has been talking up the possibility of Iran attacking for the last several weeks.

refitman wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 8:52 am According to my sister in Israel, the media there has been talking up the possibility of Iran attacking for the last several weeks.

At 08.18 I had a notification on this computer .

Trump and Netanyahu at it again . But I rather doubt if Iran had been planning a first strike ?

" Russia may interfere in Danish election, exploiting chaos sewn by US, spies warn "

Apart from the Grauniad speling, which gave me my first small smile of the day, yet another reminder that hybrid warfare is now increasingly acknowledged to be all around us.

Bloody hell. Just when you think Labour has taken ALL the wrong lessons from the by-election, they come up with something brand new and stupid.

Wes is at it too

refitman wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 2:15 pm Bloody hell. Just when you think Labour has taken ALL the wrong lessons from the by-election, they come up with something brand new and stupid.

Mahmood is a worthy successor to Mean Yvette and Suella Hate-Mob --

Russian dissidents who have been refused asylum were told that prison conditions in their home country had improved and that Moscow's army was not actively recruiting

“We’ve seen a wave of asylum refusals that then end up going to appeal. And honestly, some of the reasoning has been rather concerning,” said Maximova. “We’ve had men who received draft letters back in Russia being told by the Home Office that it would be safe for them to return. That just doesn’t reflect reality.”

“In some cases, the refusal decisions argue that there isn’t active mobilisation, or that prison conditions in Russia have improved significantly. That’s very hard to square with what we’re actually seeing.”

“A lot of these people had already taken part in anti-war activity while they were still in Russia. Then, after arriving here, they continued to protest – including outside the Russian embassy, where people are routinely filmed and photographed.”

Margarita Kuchusheva, legal counsel for the Russian Anti-War Committee, a network of dissidents in exile, has represented Russians in deportation cases in the UK. She has also been surprised by some of the government’s arguments.

Some asylum claims have been refused “because they think the person would be safe within Russia if they relocated, say from Moscow to St Petersburg”, she said. “The same reasoning is given for LGBT+ activists, which is that if they don’t publicly say they are LGBT+, they will be safe.”

The Kremlin has banned what it calls the “LGBT network” as an extremist organisation, leaving all gay people in Russia at risk of arrest and imprisonment.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/i-fled-p ... fe-4261724

Josh Simons is a slimeball needing more Exposure !

Captain Forensic !

Parking!

I read it on my computer, Much much more on the

Josh Simons Resignation here---



The full story continues here --

https://labourheartlands.com/cleared-but-not-clean/

including this irony --

""Gabriel Pogrund was not merely a victim of Labour Together’s dossier operations. He was, years earlier, one of their primary beneficiaries. ""

In 2018, Morgan McSweeney and his colleague Imran Ahmed spent months trawling Corbyn-supporting Facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of members, cherry-picking posts to build what was, in effect, an intelligence dossier on the Corbyn left. McSweeney ensured the most inflammatory examples reached the Sunday Times. On the 1st of April 2018, the paper’s front page splash was headlined “Exposed: Jeremy Corbyn’s Hate Factory.” Pogrund was one of the four journalists bylined on that story. His by-line appeared again and again on the coverage that hammered the antisemitism narrative against ordinary Labour members and activists across the Corbyn years. Coverage fed to him, at least in part, by the same Labour Together network whose dossier against him would be compiled half a decade later.

The public image of Starmer as a decent sort is remarkably reality-proof !

RACHEL MADDOW -- Follow the money ....



subsequent tubes, "" easy for great powers to get into wars, see Ukraine , Vietnam, Irak, et al, not too usual for them to succeed ""

Now all up to the Revolutionary Guard , and those usual suspect proxies ,

refitman wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 2:25 pm

The silliest bit in this article about protecting UK troops etc in Bahrain and other states --

""Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Sir Keir should speak to Trump and ask the president to outline a "serious plan to protect civilians and support a transition to democracy" in Iran."""
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrxkjxg1zpo

Protecting Brits is going great

refitman wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 5:39 pm Protecting Brits is going great

I had to laugh, but seriously what is your sister doing ?

No clue in what I've seen as to how many are resident there and doing a runner, and how many are stranded holidaymakers or in transit flyers ?

She spent the night in a public shelter, left about midday our time. There were people with their pets in backpacks (she sent photos) which was cute.

FIONA HILL --

He's fucking trying to pull a Blair?!

My friend and I tried to go to the little Persian restaurant we've been going to for over a decade this evening. It was set up by a guy who fled the Iranian Revolution. He died a couple of years ago and his son runs it now. He and his wife still have family in Iran. It's called Darvish if you want to look it up, and it's never closed. Even when his Dad passed away the son kept it open. Tonight though the shutters were down.

The repugnant acolytes of Trump are pointing to celebrating Iranian ex-pats and I don't doubt they exist. But having known the family for years I very much doubt they've closed the restaurant because they're partying.

Thanks for the posts on Josh Simons above Froggy.

While it's pleasing that he's been forced to resign/sacrificed, it's equally frustrating that it allows Starmer and the Labour Together lot to claim they've cleaned their house out and drawn a line under it all.

Still, toppling McSweeney and Simons in such short order is a victory that should be celebrated by anyone who wishes the Labour party well.

No matter what anyone thinks they're still going to be integral to keeping Farage out.