Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

IT - i merely passed on the info for you guys to toss around

V - personally, i think this radicalisation is far more orchestrated and dangerous than just the whim of a bunch of disaffected students

I know that just the way he or they conned the student types , will they wake up to it . Railways and Utility Companies re Nationalised , will people see that as a way for better services .

land bought under cpo .... don't you just love it

collectivisation and the nationalisation of everything is a proven disaster ..... fred can tell you all about it, as that was the russian and subsequently the chinese model

Fed1 - Questions might arise that could show that it was all Labours supports fault for causing the over-run in spending by demanding too high a standard of services, which of course every Conservative Council aims to supply.

I see the BBC weather page is a lot better now since yesterday , is there a new Company providing the info .

Lost a few quid in the recent drop?

Well, here's how much the U.S. stock plunge costs the world's richest people, like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos
by Sarah Berger, writer for CNBC

On Monday, Feb. 5, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted, and at one moment, fell nearly 1,600 points, making it the biggest single-day point drop in history. And as U.S. stocks slipped and slid, so did the wealth of the world's richest.

The fortunes of the super-rich, like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, were hit hard on Monday. Bloomberg crunched the numbers and found that Buffett, nicknamed the "Oracle of Omaha" for his investing prowess, lost the most at $5.1 billion. Currently, Buffett boasts a net worth of $85 billion.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced the second biggest loss with a $3.6 billion decline in his fortune on Monday. The world's richest man — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — also faced the wrath of the sinking stock market and lost $3.3 billion, leaving him with a net worth of $116 billion.

Other wealthy individuals who saw billion-dollar losses on Monday include Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who lost $2.2 billion, and Zara founder Amancio Ortega (who was at one point the world's richest person), who lost $1.2 billion, according to the index. The figures in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index are updated at the close of every trading day in New York.

Had a rough day?
Mark Zuckerberg lost $3.6 billion today.
Jeff Bezos lost $3.2 billion.
Google's founders lost $2.3 billion, each.
Bill Gates lost $2.2 billion.
(Source: Bloomberg)

11:36 PM - Feb 5, 2018
Overall, 18 billionaires in the ranking lost more than $1 billion on Monday, according to Bloomberg.

Many gave away more than that in 2017

However, some of the super-rich who suffered billion-dollar losses Monday likely aren't reeling from the stock market's suffering — many of them gave away almost as much or more in 2017.

A new report compiled by the Chronicle of Philanthropy reveals that charitable giving by the top 50 donors in the U.S. more than doubled in 2017, skyrocketing to $14.7 billion from 2016's $5.6 billion. This indicates a strong U.S. economy and that the wealthy are "flush with cash," CNBC reports.

Topping the list is Bill and Melinda Gates, with a $4.8 billion donation to their namesake foundation — that's over double what Gates lost on Feb. 5. Michael Dell and his wife Susan gave $1 billion to their own foundation, according to the list, scoring them the third spot in the ranking. In comparison, Dell lost $345 million during Monday's stock market slip.

Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan ranked second on the Philanthropy 50 list, with their donation of $2 billion, a little more than half as much as the tech entrepreneur's Monday loss.

In July, Buffett made headlines when he reportedly donated 18.6 million Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway, then worth $3.17 billion, to five different foundations. That's also more than half of what Buffett lost on Feb. 5, according to Bloomberg's index.

But Buffett has always had a "buy-and-hold" attitude when it comes to times of uncertainty.

"Don't watch the market closely," Buffett previously told CNBC in response to those worried about their retirement savings during wild market fluctuations in 2016. "If they're trying to buy and sell stocks, and worry when they go down a little bit … and think they should maybe sell them when they go up, they're not going to have very good results."

Here's another bizarre reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhl6h4AfEdg

Putin is likely the richest person with an estimated wealth of more than $200 billion

no company mentioned, but you guys may find this interesting - from a national agency newsboard ....

‘New type’ of agency botches sale of home after giving sellers wrong advice
February 7, 2018 | Rosalind Renshaw

A property professional from an unidentified “new type” of agency is alleged to have caused the sale of a couple’s home to be delayed by months.
The agent apparently advised that the sellers go straight to market – as they did.
For the next six months, they had just two viewings, while it turned out that the agent had less than a year’s experience, was based over 100 miles away and had already been paid the commission upfront.
The brochure of the couple’s house contained poor photography and was misleading about the square footage of the property, as a whole floor had been left out of the calculations.
**********, who took over the instruction after the couple’s own business circumstances worsened, said: “The client was unaware that his home was being undersold.
“The ineptitude meant that the client had missed valuable marketing time and had exposed the property to the online search portals – which meant that a digital footprint of the sale had been created and could not be deleted.
“New enquiries would see this and as a result could be put off, as they would query why the property hadn’t sold.”
*******, writing in the *************, says he sent the agent packing, and secured a refund of the couple’s up-front fee. Outline planning permission was then achieved for a value-adding extension, and the property has now sold.

Any idea who it is?

of course but it would not be right to name as it is not in the article either

I'm sure a few of us on here enjoy watching a good TV programme of an evening. If so, one or two of you might like this.

Inside last night's £25m "Silent Witness" house:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5366529/Inside-25-million-Silent-Witness-mansion.html

Here are just a couple of 'taster photos':

is it Purple Bricks. It must be as their stock got ravaged the other day. That was of course until CI and IG compulsory closed all the shorts as someone wanted their borrowed stock back

excellent programme last night Millionaire Immigrant Employer or somesuch

From today's DT.

Britain has effectively washed its hands of Isil executioners Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh and will not stand in the way of any moves to extradite them to the US, The Daily Telegraph understands.
The two Londoners have been stripped of their British citizenship, rendering them stateless, and sources say it is "very unlikely" any attempt will be made to bring them to the UK to stand trial for their alleged part in the deaths of British hostages.
The two men, who were captured by Kurdish forces in Syria last month, were part of a quartet of British jihadis nicknamed The Beatles by hostages because of their English accents.
The notorious death squad is believed to have tortured and beheaded more than 27 victims including British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines and American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

Hardly Londoners, just ragbags that happened to have lived in London. Lets hope the Americans string them up for the murders of Foley et al. If they happened to be tried here they would be out on the street again after 10 years.

excellent ..... bring them to uk and we'ld be hamstrung by the bleeding hearts and ehcr and similar

i'm sure fred will bleat about how unfair it all is

USA is the best place for them ,they dish out 150 year sentences there not like here where we worry about their human rights and they end up being able to sue us.

I was just wondering if you were a pair of ratbags?

in my case, just a hard-working wandering jew:-)

You must have tears in your eyes.