Nick Brown
@elbroon42.bsky.social
Here for history, politics and the vibes. Interests in the two World Wars and lots of other stuff. Still on X @elbrun42 for now.
Also a councillor on Blaby District Council and Braunstone Town Council, but here strictly in a personal capacity.
Also a councillor on Blaby District Council and Braunstone Town Council, but here strictly in a personal capacity.
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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The "Rachel from accounts" thing is sexist, classist, misogyny, and anyone who uses it should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The "Rachel from accounts" thing is sexist, classist, misogyny, and anyone who uses it should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
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This is an excellent, depressing, analysis. Trump accuses Democrats of treason, yet he is the one colluding with Russia, selling out allies, betraying NATO, and surrendering US interests to the diktats of a foreign nation. Trump is a deeply corrupt, compromised, craven Quisling.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is an excellent, depressing, analysis. Trump accuses Democrats of treason, yet he is the one colluding with Russia, selling out allies, betraying NATO, and surrendering US interests to the diktats of a foreign nation. Trump is a deeply corrupt, compromised, craven Quisling.
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I see from a recent answer to a PQ that the UK has supplied 85,000 drones to Ukraine in the past six months. That is rather impressive - not least for it happening with little publicity. It's the right approach: do more, shout about it less.
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I see from a recent answer to a PQ that the UK has supplied 85,000 drones to Ukraine in the past six months. That is rather impressive - not least for it happening with little publicity. It's the right approach: do more, shout about it less.
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Well, we finally have an answer about what MAGA believes. It has one and only one philosophical position, and that is that Trump’s lies about having nothing to do with Epstein must be accepted unquestioningly. It’s the whole movement distilled.
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Well, we finally have an answer about what MAGA believes. It has one and only one philosophical position, and that is that Trump’s lies about having nothing to do with Epstein must be accepted unquestioningly. It’s the whole movement distilled.
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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
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This is genuinely funny coming from a guy whose entire life is an endless stream of bitching and moaning while he leads the party of divorced dads who are mad their families hate them
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is genuinely funny coming from a guy whose entire life is an endless stream of bitching and moaning while he leads the party of divorced dads who are mad their families hate them
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Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Presumably he insists it be applied this way over the quietly appalled objections of his make up team.
Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly.
Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.
Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly.
Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Presumably he insists it be applied this way over the quietly appalled objections of his make up team.
Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly.
Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.
Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly.
Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.
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Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
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A photographer at a demonstration. The US Today.
November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A photographer at a demonstration. The US Today.
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Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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Series 3 of the Northern Ireland cop show Blue Lights ends tonight - I've written about why it's so good but why the portrayal of intelligence or the military on TV struggles to match it t.co/IACsiRgTaX
https://markurban.substack.com/p/take-a-beat
t.co
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Series 3 of the Northern Ireland cop show Blue Lights ends tonight - I've written about why it's so good but why the portrayal of intelligence or the military on TV struggles to match it t.co/IACsiRgTaX
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The last 24 hours have shown us what Britain is truly up against: a small phalanx of hatemongers who despise Britain so much they want to drag it down into the same filth they live in.
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The last 24 hours have shown us what Britain is truly up against: a small phalanx of hatemongers who despise Britain so much they want to drag it down into the same filth they live in.
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One of the train crew appears to have put themselves directly in harm’s way trying to stop the attack, and the driver rapidly diverted the train - meaning rescue services could reach it; passengers tried to help the injured and each other. There will always be heroes, and we’re so lucky to have them
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
One of the train crew appears to have put themselves directly in harm’s way trying to stop the attack, and the driver rapidly diverted the train - meaning rescue services could reach it; passengers tried to help the injured and each other. There will always be heroes, and we’re so lucky to have them
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The sheer thirst for hate, violence and chaos displayed by many of the Vastly Online is terrifying.
All the ghouls who don't care about the victims but were hoping it was a terrorist attack are entirely beyond shame and redemption. They are, by far, the worst demographic in our country.
November 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The sheer thirst for hate, violence and chaos displayed by many of the Vastly Online is terrifying.
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The wind is powering 64.2% of the country 🌬️🍃
Renewables are 77.3% 😀
Fossils less than 10%
Renewables are 77.3% 😀
Fossils less than 10%
October 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The wind is powering 64.2% of the country 🌬️🍃
Renewables are 77.3% 😀
Fossils less than 10%
Renewables are 77.3% 😀
Fossils less than 10%
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The once-great Conservative Party is going to go into an election pledging to deport literally millions of people, in a revolutionary upheaval that will transform almost every aspect of national life. Yet there's a collective shrug.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Deporting legally settled people is ‘broadly in line’ with Tory policy, says Badenoch’s office
Conservative leader’s spokesperson sets out plan to strip the right of indefinite leave to remain from people claiming benefits
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The once-great Conservative Party is going to go into an election pledging to deport literally millions of people, in a revolutionary upheaval that will transform almost every aspect of national life. Yet there's a collective shrug.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament
It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR
It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR
October 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament
It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR
It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR
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Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.
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Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.”
Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”
Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”
Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”
Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”
Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.”
Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”
Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”
Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”
Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”
Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...