Hugh Brechin
@hughrbrechin.bsky.social
Scotland's answer to some question nobody was in much of a hurry to ask. Canal photography enthusiast.
why not, might be a laugh
Zarah Sultana: "We need a wealth tax, but we also need to nationalise the entire economy."
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
why not, might be a laugh
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When I was 15 my teacher arrived for class a few minutes late, apologised, and said she’d woken up in a bin outside the British museum. To this day I think there should be a blue plaque on this street marking that event
The crowded road outside the British Museum could be pedestrianised under updated plans shown off by Camden Council.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bri...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bri...
British Museum could gain a traffic-free entrance under new Holborn neighbourhood proposals
The crowded road outside the British Museum could be pedestrianised under updated plans shown off by Camden Council.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
When I was 15 my teacher arrived for class a few minutes late, apologised, and said she’d woken up in a bin outside the British museum. To this day I think there should be a blue plaque on this street marking that event
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It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
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Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
when you're so shocked the Senate has awarded him the proconsulship of Gaul for so long that you forget how to spell his name
SEVEN YEARS for Cease? Wow
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
when you're so shocked the Senate has awarded him the proconsulship of Gaul for so long that you forget how to spell his name
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Pharrell Williams confirmed as another world famous multi-millionaire who chose to live in a house that looks like it should be called the North Strabane Esat-Digifone Retail Hub & Business Park.
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Pharrell Williams confirmed as another world famous multi-millionaire who chose to live in a house that looks like it should be called the North Strabane Esat-Digifone Retail Hub & Business Park.
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I want the green lady to fight Hobbes and Shaw from Fast and the Furious Present: Hobbes and Shaw
Plans are already underway for the future of the Wicked franchise, following the smash-hit debut of Wicked: For Good. https://bit.ly/4rrUWpg
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I want the green lady to fight Hobbes and Shaw from Fast and the Furious Present: Hobbes and Shaw
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The abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which punishes children for their parents' circumstances, is the best part of the budget, potentially lifting almost half a million children out of poverty.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which punishes children for their parents' circumstances, is the best part of the budget, potentially lifting almost half a million children out of poverty.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
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Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
And Zack Polanski was only 30 when the breast hypnosis thing happened. Shame on all of you for judging an effective teenager.
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
And Zack Polanski was only 30 when the breast hypnosis thing happened. Shame on all of you for judging an effective teenager.
bring back trial by ordeal. nobody asks the accused to hold a red-hot horseshoe for ten seconds any more.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
bring back trial by ordeal. nobody asks the accused to hold a red-hot horseshoe for ten seconds any more.
Muppets: Fury Road
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Muppets: Fury Road
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
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I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
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I know they're losing but this seems a bit extreme
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I know they're losing but this seems a bit extreme
God he must *hate* him
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
God he must *hate* him
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I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
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We should rest assured that on Mark Zuckerberg's watch, nobody, and I mean nobody, will do sex trafficking eighteen times.
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We should rest assured that on Mark Zuckerberg's watch, nobody, and I mean nobody, will do sex trafficking eighteen times.
subject matter aside, a screenshot of her own post from Elon Musk's X with no alt text is an amusingly half-arsed way to do Bluesky
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
subject matter aside, a screenshot of her own post from Elon Musk's X with no alt text is an amusingly half-arsed way to do Bluesky
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So it is bad when people assume taxing billionaires would solve economic problems but the existence of billionaires is a huge political problem that needs to be solved lmao. We live in a era where elon musk can just decide to ruin multicultural democracy and do that
this is what i mean by "i don't want the future of politics to be slopulism vs. fascism"
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
So it is bad when people assume taxing billionaires would solve economic problems but the existence of billionaires is a huge political problem that needs to be solved lmao. We live in a era where elon musk can just decide to ruin multicultural democracy and do that
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