Scott Brown
@scottawbrown.bsky.social
Dad, lecturer, cyclist, karateka - sometimes simultaneously. I work on EU/rope-US-China relations. IR + FPA. Usual disclaimers.
PhD - Glasgow
Postdoc - Nunn School @ GA Tech
Now - Dundee
PhD - Glasgow
Postdoc - Nunn School @ GA Tech
Now - Dundee
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Scott Brown
@scottawbrown.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I'm (slowly) putting together one of these for the Scottish IR scene. PhD students, ECRs and non-academics very welcome!
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Oh, wow.
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Oh, wow.
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RT if you would sooner dig your brain out with a fork than open a ChatGPT tab.
RT if you have zero interest in knowing how to open a ChatGPT tab 🙄
RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab
January 22, 2026 at 9:47 AM
RT if you would sooner dig your brain out with a fork than open a ChatGPT tab.
Best band on the planet, and it’s not even close.
January 22, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Best band on the planet, and it’s not even close.
"Hello, Mark"
Rutte, probably: "Hello, daddy"
Rutte, probably: "Hello, daddy"
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 PM
"Hello, Mark"
Rutte, probably: "Hello, daddy"
Rutte, probably: "Hello, daddy"
Trump playing all his 'greatest' hits: lies about his record, racism, climate scam, etc. Sounds tired and low energy. Sad!
January 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Trump playing all his 'greatest' hits: lies about his record, racism, climate scam, etc. Sounds tired and low energy. Sad!
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
Tenner says they call the kid Charlie (Charles or Charlotte)
JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, are expecting their fourth child this summer.
JD And Usha Vance Announce Pregnancy
JD And Usha Vance Announce Pregnancy
www.huffpost.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Tenner says they call the kid Charlie (Charles or Charlotte)
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Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University!
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
Details 👇👇👇
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
Details 👇👇👇
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Space Security
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
January 20, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University!
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
Details 👇👇👇
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
Details 👇👇👇
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Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States
January 20, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States
I think we can solve Greenland fairly easily.
Sample 100 Trump voters.
If 50 of them can identify Greenland on a map, the US can have it.
Sample 100 Trump voters.
If 50 of them can identify Greenland on a map, the US can have it.
January 20, 2026 at 8:11 AM
I think we can solve Greenland fairly easily.
Sample 100 Trump voters.
If 50 of them can identify Greenland on a map, the US can have it.
Sample 100 Trump voters.
If 50 of them can identify Greenland on a map, the US can have it.
Trump will hear that as “I double-dare ya!”
Starmer says he does not think Trump would use military force to seize Greenland ft.trib.al/qA4nUzP
Starmer says he does not think Trump would use military force to seize Greenland
Trade war with US risks ‘huge damage’ to UK, warns British prime minister
ft.trib.al
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Trump will hear that as “I double-dare ya!”
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awww Nigel got scared
Farage is apparently 'under the weather' today and unable to talk about the US threats to the UK and Europe over Greenland.
Which is unfortunate.
Which is unfortunate.
January 18, 2026 at 9:17 AM
awww Nigel got scared
I’m pleasantly surprised that the BBC has (so far) refrained from calling him ‘Nobel peace prize laureate President Trump’.
Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting
Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she "presented" her Nobel medal to Trump, but did not say whether he accepted it.
www.bbc.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:46 AM
I’m pleasantly surprised that the BBC has (so far) refrained from calling him ‘Nobel peace prize laureate President Trump’.
This is from YouGov’s ‘daily chat’ poll, on the Iran protests and Western intervention. There are two options in favour of intervention and a ‘not sure’. There are no further options (I have tried scrolling down).
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 AM
This is from YouGov’s ‘daily chat’ poll, on the Iran protests and Western intervention. There are two options in favour of intervention and a ‘not sure’. There are no further options (I have tried scrolling down).
PLA Daily, but make it about liberating oil reserves and threatening allies.
BREAKING | The Pentagon has suggested it would take over editorial content decision making for Stars and Stripes in a statement from the Defense Department’s top spokesman.
Pentagon says it will ‘refocus’ Stars and Stripes content
The Pentagon suggested it would take over editorial decision making for Stars and Stripes, which has long retained independence under a congressional mandate.
www.stripes.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:25 AM
PLA Daily, but make it about liberating oil reserves and threatening allies.
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Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.
January 15, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.
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Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
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Kemi Badenoch calling Greenland a "second order issue" while Labour leaders hide from it is another datapoint for how UK political elites are intellectually and psychologically able to cope with an imploding global order that no longer matches the world they grew up in during the 90s and 00s
January 11, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Kemi Badenoch calling Greenland a "second order issue" while Labour leaders hide from it is another datapoint for how UK political elites are intellectually and psychologically able to cope with an imploding global order that no longer matches the world they grew up in during the 90s and 00s
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*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it
Just saw someone on Instagram refer to Tommy Robinson as ‘Ewok Powell’.
Absolute perfection 👌
Absolute perfection 👌
January 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Just saw someone on Instagram refer to Tommy Robinson as ‘Ewok Powell’.
Absolute perfection 👌
Absolute perfection 👌
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Tonight, Tehran, around 22:00. One of the few videos coming out of Iran by people who use satellite internet.
January 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Tonight, Tehran, around 22:00. One of the few videos coming out of Iran by people who use satellite internet.
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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Starmer is so transparently not the man for this moment.
Hard to believe that the government, led by a former DPP, doesn’t know this. Which would mean, if James is right, that the UK government is turning a blind eye to the production of child porn rather than risk upsetting Musk and the US government. And that would be an extraordinary scandal.
January 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Starmer is so transparently not the man for this moment.
The BBC needs to stop inviting Trump sycophants on to its shows justify the attempt to grab territory from a NATO ally.
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 AM
The BBC needs to stop inviting Trump sycophants on to its shows justify the attempt to grab territory from a NATO ally.
Wes Streeting refuses to give any hint of criticism of the US while being questioned on Radio 4. Total cowardice.
January 6, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Wes Streeting refuses to give any hint of criticism of the US while being questioned on Radio 4. Total cowardice.