Hugh Brechin
@hughrbrechin.bsky.social
Scotland's answer to some question nobody was in much of a hurry to ask. Canal photography enthusiast.
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The Yookay meme is something British Journalists keep using as if it doesn’t obviously mark them out as overly online freaks.
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Yookay meme is something British Journalists keep using as if it doesn’t obviously mark them out as overly online freaks.
probably time to accept that we all owe Charlie Brooker an apology and that 'phones, but bad' was basically spelling out how things would go
I'm worried about both equally TBH: Facebook is radicalising older, normal people en masse.
Twitter radicalising elites who are hyper engaged.
Both feeding each other in poisioning the discourse and media ecosystem. It's brutal and a pretty nasty feedback loop.
Algorithm social media is a curse
Twitter radicalising elites who are hyper engaged.
Both feeding each other in poisioning the discourse and media ecosystem. It's brutal and a pretty nasty feedback loop.
Algorithm social media is a curse
Fell down a facebook rabbit hole thanks to something a family member shared. Labour should be really concerned, the tone and circulation of posts now has a simialr feel to Conservatives in 2023 but with an added side of far right memes. Facebook worries me far more than X
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
probably time to accept that we all owe Charlie Brooker an apology and that 'phones, but bad' was basically spelling out how things would go
reminder that Donald Trump will be out of office before any possible Reform government comes in, unless Labour, their 400 MPs and their awful polling position call a vote for a laugh (or, admittedly, the US constitution collapses, in which case we've all got bigger problems)
Mail Online reports Nigel Farage says that the BBC may have no future.
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
reminder that Donald Trump will be out of office before any possible Reform government comes in, unless Labour, their 400 MPs and their awful polling position call a vote for a laugh (or, admittedly, the US constitution collapses, in which case we've all got bigger problems)
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A remarkable choice of booking...
BBC slammed for asking Kelvin Mackenzie about journalism standards
Liverpool fans and others staggered by choice to invite former S*n editor on to discuss ongoing issues at the BBC
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A remarkable choice of booking...
'we have created a youth wing and put Matt Goodwin in charge' is an idea so mesmerisingly bad that it approaches the level of art
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
'we have created a youth wing and put Matt Goodwin in charge' is an idea so mesmerisingly bad that it approaches the level of art
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Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
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And they say there are no new sitcom ideas
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
And they say there are no new sitcom ideas
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It's obviously absurd to blame David Lammy for the mess the system is in when he's been there a few months and the last government drove it into a wall.
But it's this government who need to figure out some solutions.
But it's this government who need to figure out some solutions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It's obviously absurd to blame David Lammy for the mess the system is in when he's been there a few months and the last government drove it into a wall.
But it's this government who need to figure out some solutions.
But it's this government who need to figure out some solutions.
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Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
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I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.
*Again* the top story on BBC 6 music is about immigration
How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!?
The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre
How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!?
The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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![[Scene is a GUY on the top of an unlit bonfire. A CROW is sitting on his outstreched arm.]
GUY:
This is so messed up.
GUY:
I was really looking forward to this party.
GUY:
I mean, you don't expect it, do you?
CROW:
Expect what
GUY:
Well like, you spend all day with your friends getting dressed up for a nice party,
GUY:
And when you get there you find out they've only invited you as an effigy of a 17th century terrorist!
CROW:
That is rude.
GUY:
It's *weird*.
CROW:
Yeah
CROW:
It's almost like... *Wicker Man-ish*.
GUY:
It's very Wicker Man!
GUY:
It really is a lot like that film.
CROW:
Don't worry.
CROW:
It's probably just like a folk-horror themed soirée or something
[Silent panels as the crow looks down at the guy's feet, off-scene].
CROW:
Oop.
[Silent pause. We se a flicker of light begin to grow at the base of the guy's feet].
CROW:
Nope
CROW:
Yeah they really are going to burn you.
GUY:
YOU WEIRD PAGAN SHITS
[Crow flies off]
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'We Spoke To Some Reform Voters and Jesus Christ, Look At Them'
Support for bringing back corporal punishment, by 2024 vote
The stocks
Reform: 43%
Con: 28%
Labour: 12%
Lib Dem: 12%
Green: 13%
Flogging
Reform: 39%
Con: 22%
Labour: 10%
Lib Dem: 8%
Green: 5%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
The stocks
Reform: 43%
Con: 28%
Labour: 12%
Lib Dem: 12%
Green: 13%
Flogging
Reform: 39%
Con: 22%
Labour: 10%
Lib Dem: 8%
Green: 5%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
'We Spoke To Some Reform Voters and Jesus Christ, Look At Them'
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Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Posted to Twitter eight minutes before it was copied and pasted onto bluesky
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INVIGORATED by the appearance, in Brooklyn, on my phone, of someone's wifi being called "Routers of Rohan"
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
INVIGORATED by the appearance, in Brooklyn, on my phone, of someone's wifi being called "Routers of Rohan"
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Sensational that the Mayor of New York City is someone who probably has strong opinions about Kieran Tierney
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Sensational that the Mayor of New York City is someone who probably has strong opinions about Kieran Tierney
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Suella Braverman has every right to make her own choice for herself about her own identity
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Suella Braverman has every right to make her own choice for herself about her own identity
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
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Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one
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𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I think they should, and that I should be given the job of designing it
The Scottish Parliament will consider creating a memorial to Alex Salmond, it has emerged 👇
Scottish Parliament bosses to consider Alex Salmond memorial
www.thenational.scot
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I think they should, and that I should be given the job of designing it
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This just isn't true. It's factually wrong. But who cares about facts?
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This just isn't true. It's factually wrong. But who cares about facts?
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only the New York City mayoral election
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only the New York City mayoral election
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Many Brits are in denial over this but that’s just because the modern United Kingdom has no idea what it would look like to have a low level civil war within its borders
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Many Brits are in denial over this but that’s just because the modern United Kingdom has no idea what it would look like to have a low level civil war within its borders