Peter Brown

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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2026-03-19 06:15:24 UTC

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Nicola Sturgeon did the same but she was not praised in the press for doing so.
Very few people want to vote for somebody who might make them poorer. Even if they do make them feel better about being poor!

2026-03-18 21:56:19 UTC

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Some fairly dubious organisations seem to have achieved Bcorp status.
Personally I am a fan of community enterprise. There are various trading models available from cooperatives to community benefit societies
But what they all have in common is that they are free of the stock market. They can’t be bought or sold by millionaires to other millionaires.

2026-03-18 05:54:03 UTC

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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!

2026-03-17 22:34:31 UTC

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“We were doing business just fine before that moment in history. People may still combine their funds for larger enterprises.”
That is actually capitalism. But it needs to be controlled and regulated to work.
Think Scandinavia. A strong capitalist economy with an equally strong social countries and comprehensive welfare state.

2026-03-16 18:29:10 UTC

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they have also handed a major gift to Putin by buying his oil as well, which will reinforce his efforts against Ukraine.
So it’s heads they win tails we lose in both Iran and Ukraine thanks to Donald Trump.
With friends like him who needs enemies ?

2026-03-16 07:29:06 UTC

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the bottom line is that the future does not lie in gas but in solar and wind.

2026-03-14 12:06:30 UTC

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there are many oppressive regimes in the world and each country’s form of repression is different from the other. But Iran is a mature well educated nation. Perhaps not as well-off as the US but definitely not in grinding poverty. And they will find as they have done in the past a response to a repressive regime.
But it is not the job of the USA or any other nation to stick their nose into their domestic politics.

2026-03-14 10:03:35 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnKZg-bFz8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnKZg-bFz8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnKZg-bFz8
The BBC doesn’t seem to be very keen on interviewing this particular Israeli professor.

2026-03-11 21:23:20 UTC

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sounds very unpleasant

2026-03-11 12:27:37 UTC

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nettle tea helps against pollen

2025-09-21 09:59:57 UTC

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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

2025-09-04 17:08:51 UTC

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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 🥴

2025-08-25 15:18:33 UTC

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military targets….

2025-08-20 05:39:13 UTC

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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/

2025-08-12 17:03:08 UTC

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I understand the German system is considerably better and would benefit from further examination.

2025-08-01 06:29:37 UTC

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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.

2025-06-27 19:40:14 UTC

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twisted face, twisted mind

2025-06-19 07:19:32 UTC

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it also demonstrates complete economic illiteracy

2025-05-26 20:49:28 UTC

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They say they want to kill the children so they don’t grow up to have more children. The Israeli government is criminally inhumane.

2025-05-09 20:19:07 UTC

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“There are desperate attempts underway, ahead of President Trump's visit, to force a partial agreement through tactics of starvation, continued genocide, and threats to escalate military operations,”
Having pressed for so long for a full ceasefire and full withdrawal of Israeli troops it seems unlikely that Hamas will settle for anything less whether President Trump is coming or not.

2025-02-02 10:01:21 UTC

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in other words they had done nothing wrong but if they hadn’t been such high profile important people they’d still be in the jail now.

2024-12-03 10:33:57 UTC

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by the way, thank you for saying Galloway and not Dumfries & Galloway. It can’t be both Dumfries AND Galloway - it has to be one or the other!

2024-11-26 22:47:56 UTC

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apparently the word meat used to just mean food, so to describe what we now call meat they would say butcher meat or flesh.
Sounds a bit gory now though

2024-10-25 12:24:25 UTC

[@christia_allard](https://respublicae.eu/@christia_allard ) random thoughts:
Westminster is not going to give us another referendum because they know it will be Yes.
The EU have no locus to organise a referendum - council of Europe?
France has an ancient treaty with Scotland; worth exploring?
Commonwealth heads of government are taking a lead independent of London. Could they host a referendum?
The union was precipitated by the head of state, Queen Anne. Therefore the union could be terminated by the head of state, King Charles.

2024-08-29 20:39:06 UTC

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cutting back might be refreshing if you’ve been living a life of excess. But for those living hand to mouth already cutting back further is not an option.

2024-06-19 19:13:20 UTC

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well good luck buying your potters wheel and kiln. Or would you propose to build one yourself out of mud bricks like they did in the Stone Age?

2024-05-16 07:40:11 UTC

“Remarkably, food production doubled under the agrivoltaic system. And because water evaporation from the plants cooled the panels, the solar system itself generated 3% more electricity during the summer, showing how both food and solar production can perform better when done in collaboration”.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/solar-and-crop-production-research-shows-multi-solving-climate-benefits/