Locally rooted businesses are the drivers of development in the Hebrides.
Director of community wind company and our new community distillery, Heaval.. También soy guía turístico por todas partes de Escocia desde hace muchos años.
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Last Notes npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown we have always called them hills in Scotland. The word Mountain was something we used only for other countries. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Andrew Carnegie, the wealthiest man on Earth ever, said that the man who dies rich dies disgraced. In other words if you don’t dispose of your wealth before you die, you are condemned. The fund into which he deposited his vast wealth is still distributing large sums of money worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie_Foundation npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown there are various studies pointing to the role of solar panels in improving agriculture as well as improving the productivity of the panels in hot areas. Agrivoltaics looks like being the future for many semi-desert countries. https://news.arizona.edu/news/agrivoltaics-proves-mutually-beneficial-across-food-water-energy-nexus npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown experience in more civilised countries would suggest that the environmental impact and social acceptability of high-speed rail is exponentially better than for highways. People and animals are more than happy to live beside a high speed railway, but nobody wants to live beside a highway due to noise and pollution. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116714618138269240 Why you can’t have nice things #note1xk8…h5n5 npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167631 “Gaza remains suspended in a nightmare that is difficult to reconcile with the existence of a ceasefire,” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it is not coincidence that the UK exit from the EU was exactly a week before before the implementation of new EU financial regulations that would have shut down tax havens and money laundering in the London financial sector. And that is why they don’t want us to rejoin. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown for access to potential investment Ethex are very useful https://www.ethex.org.uk npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the future will be in community enterprise. It is much easier for ordinary people to invest and the business can’t become victim to a hostile takeover. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown A street without cars is a pleasure and a privilege. https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/116/630/672/322/787/505/original/3f2d6eceafb162b1.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://dorseteye.com/uk-police-we-have-received-a-text-that-you-mentioned-the-holocaust/ “Across history, societies that encouraged citizens to report one another for perceived ideological deviance often drifted into climates of fear and self-censorship.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown tell that to the media who are giving them their amount of exposure you would’ve expected for a party attracting 50% of the vote npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown one of the better consequences of the fiasco in Iran and the surrounding area is it has exploded the myth that the USA is “protecting Europe” with its bases. It never was. Europe defends Europe and the USA only has bases here to extend its influence further East. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown RE: https://mastodon.social/@villebooks/116469971791985651 Israel continues to pick off random civilians with the abandon of those who place no value on human life. It would appear that the Israelis and especially the IDF are completely desensitised to suffering and death. It’s like a game to them. But played with real people’s lives. #note1scr…j02z npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown there is a fundamental issue with financial regulation. Almost in the same week that brexit took place there was new financial regulation in the EU that would have shut down the U.K.’s money landing centres and colonial tax havens. Anybody with half a brain could see that brexit was economic suicide, but the millionaire money movers couldn’t afford to lose their loopholes. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown when the replacement Forth Bridge was opened in 2012 the 1964 bridge was kept open for pedestrians bicycles and public transport only. It wasn’t built for that purpose, but it certainly is being maintained for that purpose. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://reneweconomy.com.au/stunning-growth-of-battery-storage-puts-it-at-centre-of-global-energy-security-needs-for-cars-and-for-grids/ “Norway is a market where your only choice really is to buy an EV, but you have people who’ve been holding on to their petrol cars and suddenly they go ‘OK, well I guess it’s the time now and we’ll switch over’, which is fascinating.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown well I think I might as well. I have also heard metal detectorist but metal detector has a pleasanter ring to it. Nope, I’ve decided. I prefer metal detector! npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown yes, I meant simply that the picture is not the same and the Scottish government has done what they can within very restricted funding limits to improve the situation slightly. It is unfortunately the case that almost nothing the Scottish Government does sees the light of day unless it backfires in which case it’s all over the front page! https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/116/385/532/750/904/266/original/151b029dfe510ed8.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the Guardian is at it again conflating England with Britain https://www.mygov.scot/carer-support-payment npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives This is a fascinating account not only of the electric car manufacturer BYD, but the ethos behind the company and the reason they have overtaken Tesla. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown by extension Dundee cake is made with orange peel. The area surrounding Dundee produces huge amounts of raspberries and strawberries and Dundee has always been famous for jam production so adding marmalade was a small incremental step. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the name marmalade originates from the arrival of a cargo of oranges arriving in Dundee which had frankly passed their best and the ship owner despairing of offloading his oranges showed the buyer how to make orange jam whereupon the buyer inquired what it was called. He responded “mermelada” which of course is the Spanish word for jam. And that is why we use the word jam unless it’s made from oranges when we call it marmalade. Sometimes it is even called Dundee marmalade. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://edinburghmagazine.com/edinburgh-overtakes-london-in-gdp-per-capita-for-the-first-time/ Edinburgh has overtaken London in GDP per capita, and London has overtaken Edinburgh in money laundering and increasing rates of child poverty. #inequalty #billionnaires #moneylaundering #epsteinclass https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/116/351/193/767/945/347/original/17bea2f4a4dc8ff5.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown English law is English law. English solicitors are English solicitors. English regulation is English regulation. Need I say more? ;)) npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://www.salon.com/2026/03/29/iran-is-right-trump-has-already-lost-this-war/ “An Iranian military spokesman taunted Trump last week, rejecting an American 15-point peace plan by asking: “Has the level of your inner struggle reached the stage of you negotiating with yourself?” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it’s not complicated. There are expenses which are allowable and there are expenses which are not. Just add anything that you can drive on a car licence to the list of expenses which are not allowable Simples! npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown clearly SNP very bad indeed! https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/116/303/192/610/949/851/original/1b5142b2488f38de.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I hate to disagree, but UK productivity has increased. What has not increased is wages. https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/116/302/999/029/105/934/original/bf14d4badb3b3456.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I have often suggested disallowing cars, small vans, petrol and diesel against tax, and allowing all public transport fares against tax. It could cause a surprising amount of modal shift, especially amongst higher-rate taxpayers. And it would remove the incentive to buy these monsters. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown well if you use that theory, how do you explain the disconnect between salaries and House prices? They should rise at approximate at the same rate, but they don’t npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Germany is also one of the few countries that has almost zero house price inflation (other than RPI) A house is to live in, it’s not an investment for your retirement. Interest rates are strictly controlled and getting a mortgage is much more difficult than in this country. Interesting how your correspondent complains about the lack of house price increase. That’s exactly the opposite of our complaints! People should be able to live decently npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown that vehicle should not be allowed on the public road. It’s a child killer. Thankfully it would not be allowed to be sold I n the EU npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown and there are relatively accessible solutions if people are prepared to implement them https://mastodon.scot/@alanferrier/116290377049516687 npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I feel I need to more know more about these illegal instals ;) npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown what this demonstrate very clearly is that the whole project was designed to be a commuter line from Birmingham to London. If it had been a real high speed line project it would have been started from the north and potentially the Midlands at the same time. But by the time it is finished, it will just be another commuter line to London. However, because it’s classed as national infrastructure and not local infrastructure, every single taxpayer in the UK is paying for it. https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/116/274/591/896/991/123/original/c5dced57f197b40d.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/ “He described how every child in this school is entitled under the UN Charter of Human Rights to access information appropriate for their age, as long as it’s not illegal, and that what has happened in Emily’s case sets a worrying precedent.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown can you not send all your invoices out in the same month? So you are self-employed for a month and then go back to the dole npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it’s not whether people get poorer or not. It’s whether the tabloid press will believe it. Because if they don’t believe it, they will crucify the party that promotes it npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Nicola Sturgeon did the same but she was not praised in the press for doing so. Very few people want to vote for somebody who might make them poorer. Even if they do make them feel better about being poor! npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Some fairly dubious organisations seem to have achieved Bcorp status. Personally I am a fan of community enterprise. There are various trading models available from cooperatives to community benefit societies But what they all have in common is that they are free of the stock market. They can’t be bought or sold by millionaires to other millionaires. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown limited liability is not just a feature of commerce. Most charities have limited liability, because it doesn’t seem fair to expose trustees to bankruptcy just to operate a charity. I suppose it would be feasible to remove the limited liability and cover it with insurance? Would that address your worries? Of course by doing that, you are creating increased dependency on private insurance companies! npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown “We were doing business just fine before that moment in history. People may still combine their funds for larger enterprises.” That is actually capitalism. But it needs to be controlled and regulated to work. Think Scandinavia. A strong capitalist economy with an equally strong social countries and comprehensive welfare state. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown they have also handed a major gift to Putin by buying his oil as well, which will reinforce his efforts against Ukraine. So it’s heads they win tails we lose in both Iran and Ukraine thanks to Donald Trump. With friends like him who needs enemies ? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the bottom line is that the future does not lie in gas but in solar and wind. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown there are many oppressive regimes in the world and each country’s form of repression is different from the other. But Iran is a mature well educated nation. Perhaps not as well-off as the US but definitely not in grinding poverty. And they will find as they have done in the past a response to a repressive regime. But it is not the job of the USA or any other nation to stick their nose into their domestic politics. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnKZg-bFz8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnKZg-bFz8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnKZg-bFz8 The BBC doesn’t seem to be very keen on interviewing this particular Israeli professor. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown sounds very unpleasant npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown nettle tea helps against pollen npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it is not similar to the scandal surrounding the sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands. She was steaming away from the conflict in international Waters. But she was a fully armed warship in active service. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown as the piece says, it is as yet unconfirmed. But I think the fact that it has not been denied by the US tells you everything you need to know. Look how long it’s taken to get the evidence from the Epstein files! npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the story is absolutely clear. India was running an exercise to which the US had been invited as well as Iran and it is a condition of participation in these exercises that any vessels participating be unarmed. The US pulled out of the exercise two days before it took place. Naturally having received an invitation the US knew that the Iranian frigate would be leaving the exercise to return to Iran unarmed. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/i-dont-think-most-americans-have “Ryan Grim wrote on X that the Iranian ship was invited, alongside the U.S., to the Indian naval exercise—and then the U.S. pulled out at the last minute and torpedoed it.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown here’s the full recording https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/116142462774025609 npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/ “When you click “verify” on LinkedIn, you’re not giving your passport to LinkedIn. You get redirected to a company called Persona. Full name: Persona Identities, Inc. Based in San Francisco, California.” A Peter Thiel company….. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown that’s probably true actually but I was referring more to the terminology than the status of the degree. It was regarding the decision to allow assistants to be called medical professionals against the wishes of the BMA. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown especially as doctors are not literal doctors in the sense that they don’t have a doctorate. In many countries they are called physicians. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown they should not be charged for tuition. Very few European countries charge a large amount of money for tuition. In most, it is free. It can be done. Scotland has been doing it for years. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it is the worst kind of bullying of a tiny minority who will do him no harm whatsoever. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown so they closed the airspace to let the drones through? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown in a country so litigious as the US how is it that employees have absolutely no protections whatsoever? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown three days ago they sat in the community turbine repowering conference in Glasgow as if nothing had changed. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown one of Raeburn’s most famous paintings is that of the skating Minister. Apparently before serving in Edinburgh he had been in the Netherlands and he brought his skating ability to Edinburgh. It must have been quite a shock to the local inhabitants to see the Minister actually enjoying himself. The Calvinist church don’t really do enjoyment. https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/116/041/038/088/494/794/original/ae7ec6b18885d850.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I think it’s mainly from the financial sector because they have lots of empty offices. This threatens their earnings model so they need to pressurise people to get back into the office. So bankers and investors pressurise the board and the board pressurise the management and the management pressurise the minions. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown infinitely preferable to be refused a visa than to spend a couple of months in a concentration camp on arrival npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the prevalence of supermarkets kills local traders because in poor areas their limited spending power is then spent 99% in the supermarket, leaving nothing for this smaller shops. Apply a more realistic non-domestic rates value to supermarkets and make it easier for the small shops to survive. In Scotland small traders are helped by a graduated discount scheme meaning the smallest traders pay no rates at all. https://www.gov.scot/publications/non-domestic-rates-relief-statistics-2024/pages/small-business-bonus-scheme-relief/ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown not for the first time it seems that China is the adult in the room. Meanwhile, idiot Starmer acts as Trump‘s puppy, supporting him in everything he does. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown i’m sure with a few fake certificates and a knowledge geophysical surveys you could just wing it! npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown yet another attempt to get Epstein out of the media. Utterly transparent. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown It’s the law of unintended consequences. If you ban zero hours of contacts most of those jobs will become self-employed. Better to be zero hours unemployment contract then to be self-employed. All would be solved by #ubi npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown there’s bound to be landlords who just sit on their hands and do nothing. They will wait until a couple of months before the deadline then sell the property npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Well worth remembering! https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/947/445/558/327/230/original/6638f3ee4f5decce.jpg npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I see the US delegation has arrived in Davos. https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/934/568/913/691/637/original/35e098ea3e88d081.jpg npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://newsthump.com/2026/01/19/native-americans-intrigued-by-trumps-claim-that-landing-boats-doesnt-grant-you-ownership-of-the-entire-country/ “If the rule is ‘you can’t own land just because you showed up with boats’,” they added, “then congratulations, Mr President. You’ve just invented the strongest argument against America since America.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-we-feel-the-way-we-feel “People across this country are depressed and fearful of what might happen next. Who will be the next target? Who will answer their door and find FBI and Secret Service agents asking them questions about their social media posts and political activities? Which reporters and writers will they be coming for next?” “Who will be the next to die at the hands of these masked bandits bent on stealing constitutional rights and people’s sanity?” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I read recently that cats are a relatively recent addition to domestic life in this country. Much more recent than dogs. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown in all my life I have only seen a wild cat once and that fleetingly. Now with motion sensitive cameras we know they are around, but they are incredibly difficult to see in the wild. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown this was only going to be a matter of time. Marco Rubio‘s people are from Cuba and they hate the regime so this is payback time. So much of Trump‘s “strategy” is actually based on personal vendetta. Just like the mafia. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown i’m not fussy about it either. It’s kind of disrespectful and apparently you can’t reply to it. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown “Israel destroyed 9 out of 10 homes” if that is not ethnic cleansing I would like to know what it is. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown this is much closer to how society operated in Scotland and Ireland before feudalism arrived. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown It takes a cartoonist to tell us the truth https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/799/231/832/700/103/original/4e676628facbbb58.jpg npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Sadly I think this could be a large part of the problem. US politicians put party first and country a very poor second. So they are quite prepared to stand by and watch the moral economic and social destruction of their country simply in the hope they will win the next election. The USA is the manifestation of all that is wrong with first past the post politics. It produces acute polarisation and binary choices which do not reflect public opinion. It produces no more than vacuous confrontation https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/792/664/211/794/421/original/30366194230d1789.jpg npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown your own post says it’s for UK but your quoted post says it’s for England & Wales. 🤔 npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown also the imminent release of the Epstein files npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it’s not just about dying Measles could leave you with permanent damage to hearing and other permanent effects. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown 2/2 “Quarterly statistics are used to inform progress against Scottish Government delivery targets; ambition is to deliver 110,000 affordable homes by 2032, of which at least 70% for social rent. 17,619 affordable homes have been completed between 23 March 2022 and 31 December 2023 towards the target of 110,000 affordable homes by 2032: 13,483 (77%) social rent, 2,126 (12%) for affordable rent & 2,010 (11%) affordable ownership. https://www.gov.scot/publications/quarterly-housing-statistics-march-2024/pages/affordable-housing-supply/ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown well done the BBC for telling us nothing except about England. 2/3 through the article they tell you it is England only, but tell you nothing about any other parts of the UK “The UK government’s target for 1.5 million homes is for England only. It does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, where housing is a devolved matter.” Actually, it’s quite easy to check 1/2 npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown The gigawatts are piling up extremely fast https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/681/109/238/327/987/original/9e1672b96e9616f7.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Just one of dozens of reasons for not allowing American monsters onto European roads https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/679/737/631/777/053/original/7bfa251624ed8953.jpg npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown oh this is so tedious. The Scottish government never implemented the two child policy, mitigating it deliberately to prevent an increase in child poverty. Will Starmer ever recognise the Scottish government achievement in reducing child poverty? Of course he won’t. All he does is cast deprecatory comments towards Scottish politicians. The media will not report it either. So the Scottish government is not perceived as doing a good job because nobody reports their wins. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown they do the same for electricity, ensuring that the areas who produce the electricity pay more for it than London npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown setting governments and countries on the correct track is not impossible as Uruguay has demonstrated https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the question is where has a the demand for the cookie originated? Can you be sure that the idea was yours? Or did the dog insert the cookie theory telepathically into your brain? In the latter case, maybe you are just the dog’s servant. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I suppose you could say that depends whether the university is free or not. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Probably safe to say that summer is definitely over when there’s a dusting of snow on the distant tops in Glencoe 🥶 https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/482/407/414/262/353/original/6310d4e45e7741d9.jpg npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown is it preferable that they be sitting on the street begging? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown how has somebody as stupid as him been given so much power? Is the Republican Party completely blind? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I have written to Waitrose suggesting they operate a scheme of paying ahead for some items as many cafes already do. They haven’t even bothered to reply. There are many families who were surviving perfectly well before their mortgage doubled, their heating costs doubled, their insurance doubled and multiple other costs increased exponentially. But they are not eligible for the food bank.