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 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 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 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 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. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-happy-and-sad-to-see-you-the-paradox-of-surviving-the-gaza-genocide/ “When I hear international leaders speak of “Israel’s right to defend itself,” I wonder: against whom? Against mothers with their babies? Against teachers with their board markers? Against students with their books? The global silence — or worse, complicity—amplifies our grief.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown well I saw the post suggesting that Gaza verified was a scam. How do we verify the verifiers? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown and apparently Jack Straw who was the Home Secretary when the law was first formulated has publicly stated it was never intended to be used against public demonstrations. 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. As for examples? Look around the world. 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 compare and contrast: https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/326/020/558/925/154/original/5c790b8c789b82bf.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown sure it’s a minor point. Sure we don’t matter as we’re only 8% of the country after all. But it’s a drip drip drip eroding the relationship between the two countries. It doesn’t need to be like this. 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. https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/325/887/512/258/594/original/e4226f503fef29a7.png https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/325/887/721/751/126/original/b196da2cbaaff2b5.png https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/325/887/855/927/257/original/28d7c0d94400e2d8.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it would be common courtesy of the English Green Party to make it absolutely clear this funding is only for them. A more sensible funding appeal would have been to organise a UK wide funding appeal with donors given a tick box option which of the green parties should receive it. Either that or make it clear this is the English Greens - this information should not be hidden away in the small print! @npub1nzf…lckw [@HI_Greens](https://mastodon.scot/@HI_Greens ) npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown they haven’t hijacked our flag. That would require our consent and they don’t have it. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown interesting observation. Is this general across all four health services? 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. It is a highly destructive process and does not get people into employment . npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown that is highly discriminatory npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown and having removed most of the legal aid available in England and Wales it’s not only slow but for some it’s non-existent npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/09/23/drax-15/ “We were pre-emptively arrested under a law written by a right wing think tank bought and paid for by fossil fuel money.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I do think there is an unhealthy self image that this is a rainy country, but most of the areas, where the people actually live is considerably drier than many parts of Europe. And the west highlands are no wetter than the alps. https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/241/671/695/382/922/original/29d00b79a3cceda3.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown since a very high proportion of that increase in personal income would translate immediately into purchases, it would be interesting to continue the model and estimate the resulting increase in GDP. This would also lead to an increase in the tax take of the government, both in VAT and income tax. As poverty was eliminated, there would be a reduction in expenditure on social services, so probably also a reduction in expenditure. It would be a net benefit to the country npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown looks like they’ve refined their technique since the twin towers. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I suspect they know very well who they are and I suspect they knew very well who they were before they bombed the boat. There is no way it could’ve been en route to the US because apparently they were 1200 km away and a boat like that at that speed does not have the range to travel 1200 km. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown maybe looking at Wales Ireland and Scotland would be informative, eg. “This is the assumption that, with the exception of specific circumstances, children identified with additional support needs will be educated in mainstream schools. There is a broad consensus from parents, children, teachers, politicians and others that the Scottish approach to inclusive education is the correct way forward.” https://theconversation.com/scotlands-approach-to-special-needs-education-is-more-inclusive-than-the-rest-of-the-uk-but-it-doesnt-always-work-in-practice-240257 npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown so nothing to do with the media’s love affair with Nigel Farage, publicising every time he takes a breath? In these times of climate chaos, surely we need to be hearing far more from the Greens? After all, they have more MPs. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown so can we assume the Pentagon is preparing to switch sides to Russia? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown the analogy falls down when you look at the amount of money spent, and the consequences of failure. University fees are a life changing debt and if they don’t achieve a qualification, they will be doubly life changing. Ending your gym membership because you’re still a chubby chap isn’t on the same level. You can diet to lose weight, but there’s no other way to get a degree. ps. I don’t think many university teachers would see themselves as equivalent to gym trainers 🥴 npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown changing the student into a customer completely changes the dynamic of any teacher environment and not for the better. It creates an expectation of the award of a degree, regardless of the performance of the student. Cheque-book qualifications are the diametric opposite of a public good. The harm caused permeates throughout society, affecting the professions, science, engineering and the practice indeed of democracy. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Google is a textbook case npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown once you encourage people to ban books you have removed all the guardrails. The bible is full of incest, murder and massacres. And Tom & Jerry is very violent. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown in the lead up to the 2014 independence referendum there was a lot of discussion on Scottish media about constitutional matters and I heard the Westminster system described as an elective dictatorship. Initially I baulked at the description, but in practice it is what we have got. The government in power has an absolute majority therefore has absolute power. Absolute power is not a good recipe for the preservation of democracy . npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/europe/denmark-summons-us-envoy-greenland-intl seems Trump can’t just can’t take no for an answer. If he can’t get Greenland fair and square, he’ll try and get it by subterfuge. Foreign interference in the domestic politics of a country is immoral and illegal 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 FYI “Note, in particular, the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS), which reinforces the same falling trend suggested by police reporting. That’s two sources saying the same thing.” This (SCJS) survey measures all crime directly, not via police statistics. There might be a similar survey available in England. https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/05/29/crime-confirmed-as-really-continuing-to-fall-based-on-three-sources-to-remain-at-roughly-1-in-10-experiencing-crime-directly-from-1-in-5-under-labour/ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown military targets…. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown is that because state owned media is worse than millionaire owned media? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it sounds to me like an evidence free premise. The Scottish government increased income tax by 1% to protect the health service and there has been no exodus. Other countries have done the same with similar results. It sounds to me like populist tub-thumping with no evidence whatsoever. https://taxjustice.uk/blog/debunking-the-myth-of-the-millionaire-exodus/ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown we had an ash nearby that was looking very sorry for itself last year but this year it seems to be pretty much recovered. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://gizmodo.com/mit-backs-away-from-paper-claiming-scientists-make-more-discoveries-with-ai-2000603790 “LLM's are completely reductive and derivative. While it might represent an inhuman volume of knowledge. It accepts every single datum as factual with no evaluation or understanding. Technically an LLM might connect a clutch of dis separate facts leading to a watershed discovery. But with no fact checking, such heights are lost in the slop of a million middens.” Beautifully put 👍🏼 npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown well he’s right as far as that’s concerned, but it doesn’t seem to stop him selling lethal weapons to Israel and jailing legitimate protesters? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown Trump before meeting with Putin and Trump after meeting with Putin. Pretty obvious who is in charge here, and pretty obvious who got the bollocking of their life. https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/040/112/760/751/677/original/e03e68608ef384a9.png https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/115/040/112/730/222/109/original/5daa7d53285acfd1.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I imagine the comments attributed to Omar have been translated. The translation is frankly not credible because the language used in English is not the language of a 10-year-old. Great care needs to be taken with translations , to ensure that the flavour and character of the original speech is not lost. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown to suggest that all the journalists are Hamas supporters tends to suggest that Israel believes the entire population of Gaza are Hamas supporters which gives the lie to their premise that their government is unrepresentative. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown bad enough in England, but better outcomes in Scotland are not reflected by the media. https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/14/royal-college-of-emergency-medicine-is-much-more-negative-and-indeed-alarmist-when-reporting-on-scotland/ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I understand the German system is considerably better and would benefit from further examination. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown what Netanyahu really wants is a one state solution in which the Palestinian population is reduced to a tiny fraction of its current numbers, so they no longer outnumber the Israelis in elections. In his world, the ideal solution is to annihilate the Palestinian people , leaving the Israelis as a majority in the country. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/08/05/feargal-sharkey-water-industry-nationalisation/ There’s a very good reason Scotland did not privatise water 🏴 “Since water was sold off to private hands in England and Wales in 1989, companies have racked up at least £64 billion in debt, paid at least £78 billion in dividends to shareholders, and chronically under-invested in vital infrastructure. The results are toxic—literally. Raw sewage is regularly discharged into rivers and seas.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown most informative to see the different levels across regions of England, but since England is not yet an independent country it might be informative also to look at the experiences of the other parts of the UK. https://www.scadr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Data_Insight_-Understanding_exclusions_in_Scottish_secondary_schools.pdf npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it is a completely false equivalence. Money spent within the country on services and infrastructure within the country is not lost to the economy but expands the economy. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown is it really too much to ask that they cast their eyes over the border and replicate the Scottish settlement for doctors and nurses which would appear to be satisfactory to all concerned? If England had not chosen to go their own way, they wouldn’t have got themselves into this mess. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown of course they do. As soon as the last hostages are released, it will be a complete massacre, worse than anything we have seen until now. They will kill thousands if not millions. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown under normal circumstances I might say that you can’t blame the citizens for the actions of the government but they did elect that government and people all over the world are feeling completely impotent to do anything to stop the genocide, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to respond in this way to the arrival of an Israeli ship. 🛳️ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown diversionary tactics to take Gaza out of the media headlines npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown attacks? War crimes, surely? You can’t just go around attacking unarmed civilians for their ethnicity. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown well if they manage to agree assess fire in Gaza I imagine it will only be a matter of days before they commence operations against Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and everybody else. They have nothing to fear whilst they have the financial and military support of the USA, and Netanyahu simply cannot afford not to have a war because he will be jailed the moment he leaves the presidency. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown in Scotland we didn’t abolish the nurse training grant so we have larger numbers of nurses coming through the system. England only needs to restore the grant and they will see more trainees coming through. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown twisted face, twisted mind npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown funny how everybody can afford 2% more for defence but nobody can afford 2% more to stop climate change npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown “you can’t attack and destroy a country because you have an intuition that they might be doing something illegal. You need some kind of proof.” Agree 100% npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown so basically if you look too hungry you will get shot and killed because they don’t want anybody to realise there is famine in Gaza npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I believe the capital investment record of Scottish Water which was never privatised is considerably better than that of the privatised utilities in England, as well as charging less to the customer. But of course the directors of Scottish Water are employed to give us good quality water and sewerage whereas the private companies’ directors are employed to make money. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown it also demonstrates complete economic illiteracy npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown meanwhile their leadership has run away and is holed up in Greece npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown looks like the Scottish government with almost no financial levers in their control are managing to curate the economy better than Rachel Reeves https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/06/13/edinburgh-has-overtaken-london-as-the-most-productive-city-in-the-uk-as-snp-prove-sarwar-wrong/ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown not sure how you can impute French results as representative of the rest of the world. Each country has a slightly different education system, with different results. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown I suspect “psychological trauma” is Israel-speak for refusing to fight an illegal massacre. It’s probably the only way you can get out of the call-up. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown so kidnapping and holding hostage ships crews is bad if Somalia does it but perfectly okay if Israel does it? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown so the crew of a non-threatening civilian vessel in international waters have been kidnapped by a rogue state. How many laws does Israel have to break before European countries respond? npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown “Madleen’ is #UK flagged 🇬🇧, meaning the UK also has a legal duty to protect its vessel and citizens. Contact them now: @foreignanddevelopmentoffice or on [email protected] “ npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown “Israel has a right to defend itself from baby food and medicine, and if that means killing the people delivering aid, so be it" npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown they could at least use a domestic manufacturer https://www.munro-ev.com/ https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/114/643/659/378/498/744/original/3b3eb1e4d35c8fd0.png npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown as an economic stimulus it will be clearly skewed towards England where the vast majority of the arms manufacturing is located. Quite skilful, because as defence expenditure it will not be subject to the Barnett formula so not replicated in Scotland or Wales. For skilful read devious. npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/06/03/nhs-scotland-beat-a-waiting-times-target-for-the-second-time-in-a-row-despite-increased-demand-how-will-the-media-spin-this/ “This is a major achievement which deserves so much more. The staff deserve praise but may not get it other than here and in other sympathetic social media.” npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown “But it’s not a war, it’s a genocide. You can negotiate an end to a war, but you can’t negotiate an end to a genocide. Israel has openly declared that the killing will continue until there are no more Palestinians left in Gaza” Absolutely! npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown yes but at the moment their bombs are only killing about 20 or 30 people per bomb which is very expensive. If you get them into concentration cramps one bomb can probably kill hundreds. It’s the final solution . npub1wd3gn4dtce7w7e4tvungn5cg92enwpt38qu92zcj3zp7yw5z4qmqaafe2c Peter Brown of course. Corral them together so you manage to kill more with one bomb. Fish in a barrel. It is the final solution .