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. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the future will be in community enterprise. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown A street without cars is a pleasure and a privilege. 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 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. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the Guardian is at it again conflating England with Britain https://www.mygov.scot/carer-support-payment 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. 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. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown well if you use that theory, how do you explain the disconnect between salaries and House prices? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown that vehicle should not be allowed on the public road. It’s a child killer. 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/ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Nicola Sturgeon did the same but she was not praised in the press for doing so. 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. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown “We were doing business just fine before that moment in history. People may still combine their funds for larger enterprises.” 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. 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. 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 especially as doctors are not literal doctors in the sense that they don’t have a doctorate. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it is the worst kind of bullying of a tiny minority who will do him no harm whatsoever. 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?” 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 well done the BBC for telling us nothing except about England. 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. 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 I suppose you could say that depends whether the university is free or not. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown apparently the police have examined the legislation and the behaviours involved and decided that under Scots Law it falls well short of the standard necessary to be considered terrorism. I don’t know if that means there will be no prosecutions here, as they can’t very well send a report to the procurator fiscal for prosecution if they don’t believe a crime has been committed. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown we are not solitary animals, like felines. From the beginning of time we have organised ourselves in groups. We are naturally pack animals. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown if it’s going to be about human nature, remember we are pack animals. We are programmed to respond to leadership, so anarchy just lays the groundwork for dictatorship. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown sure it’s a minor point. Sure we don’t matter as we’re only 8% of the country after all. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown yes, on the webpage it makes clear it’s England and Wales but the link was to the donation page where there is no mention of it going to England and Wales except in small letters at the bottom of the page when you have actually made the donation npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown nope, sorry. I followed it through and the mention of England and Wales is only in the bottom line below all the rest of the bar. In other words in the small print. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown yes and then they demand you spend eight hours a day applying for absolutely any job you can find, utterly destroying your self-worth. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown that is highly discriminatory npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown maybe Bernie Sanders is right in referring to “the extremist government of Netanyahu” because all references to Palestine are not to Palestine but to Hamas. If there is to be equality of respect then it should be Palestine and Israel or Hamas and “Netanyahu‘s extremist government” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I still cannot comprehend how a population who suffered a genocide two generations ago are now making another population suffer their own. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown apparently the word meat used to just mean food, so to describe what we now call meat they would say butcher meat or flesh. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown thanks! Quite remarkable. I knew rhubarb was exotic, but I didn’t know Edinburgh was so important in its development and I didn’t know it was an ingredient in Gregory‘s mixture. I also didn’t know it is still used to ameliorate the menopause. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I am pretty sure this whole city bicycle path fashion is supported by the fossil fuel lobby to get bicycles off their precious roadway at whatever cost to the pedestrian. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown easy said. But membership of the EU requires the consent of the other members and that will only be achieved by a legally recognised route. Otherwise we might end up like Kosovo npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown meanwhile the Isle Of Mull is in Lochboisdale , reducing ferry capacity to Craignure by 2/3.  And apparently the Mull rally is this weekend so it will be mayhem. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown not particularly accurate in countries where university education is free. Academics are paid by the state to educate students and it doesn’t seem at all unreasonable that their knowledge should be shared since we have all contributed financially. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown cutting back might be refreshing if you’ve been living a life of excess. But for those living hand to mouth already cutting back further is not an option. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the first and as far as I’m aware the largest (7gW) pump storage scheme opened in 1965 at Loch Awe. it was commissioned by the then central electricity generating board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station
