Philip Brown
In Glasgow...Film | Art & Design | Mental Health | European politics | EFTA-EEA & Single Market.
Supervising art director for film/TV #Shetland
- Reposted by Philip BrownBBC seems obsessed with covering the murder of US citizens on its streets by a extra-ordinary police force as ‘conflicting narratives’ Did the same with Renee Good Feels like a general editorial decision
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- Reposted by Philip BrownAnother proud day for America.
- Reposted by Philip BrownAsylum seeker interviewed on #r4today explains in excellent English that he has grown up his entire life believing that the UK is a safe place that respects & protects people. He's even an Arsenal fan. He knows our culture. Not French culture, Greek, or Bulgarian culture. Ours.
- Reposted by Philip BrownReeves is comprehensively out of her depth Stuck repeating recycled Brexiter ritual incantations about “bringing down barriers to trade” when the main barriers to trade are ones the country imposed on itself and that she and Starmer refuse to address www.ft.com/content/221a...
- Reposted by Philip BrownCarney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
- Reposted by Philip Brown🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
- Reposted by Philip Brown“Trump’s first year back in office has been a tragedy for so many reasons. But his failure in Ukraine is a disgrace that shames not only his administration, but also the allies who have allowed him to trample all over the values we used to hold.” open.substack.com/pub/lukemcge...
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- Reposted by Philip Brown“World leaders try to pretend the USA is the same mostly reliable ally it always has been because it is crucial to Europe’s defence and security, and to our economies. Acknowledging this is no longer the case means we need to respond to the changed world. Denial is comforting, and much easier.”
- Reposted by Philip Brown“With a single letter to Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre, though, Trump has thrown out all pretence of caring about anything other than himself – or that he understands the very basics of how the Nobel is awarded, what it’s awarded for, or even how international relations are supposed to work.”
- Reposted by Philip BrownThe Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
- Reposted by Philip Brown"Overall, financial services is a rare area where the UK appears happy to position itself as a competitor to the EU, focused on its own priorities within its wider growth agenda" ✍️ @drsarahhall.bsky.social on why financial services are not part of the UK's EU reset ukandeu.ac.uk/the-city-has...
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- Reposted by Philip BrownI occasionally think of the completely unhinged response to David Cameron's comments during the EU referendum about how the prevailing European security architecture shouldn't be taken for granted.
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- Reposted by Philip BrownNo idea if this has any influence on Trump, who is an ignoramus, but this isn't the first time that the US has complained that it needs to buy a Danish island because of its strategic location and potential threat from US adversaries. arthursnell.substack.com/p/when-denma...
- Reposted by Philip BrownI spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni. Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.
- Reposted by Philip BrownCeding all forms of autonomy to Trump is now a well-established position within Britain's media and among British media owners.
- Reposted by Philip BrownI’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.
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- Reposted by Philip BrownWhat makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin. “No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.” EVERYTHING has changed.
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- Reposted by Philip BrownExplain to me how this would happen. The fucking mechanics of it. Explain them to me. Russia or China, storming the beaches of an EU and NATO member state terrotiry which includes a fucking US military base on it in a take and hold maneuver a bazillion miles from their nearest supply lines?
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- Reposted by Philip BrownThe actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
- Reposted by Philip BrownThis person, my son, earned a Pulitzer Prize. If he gave it to me, it would still be his. I am a rational person who fully realizes that i did not earn a Pulitzer Prize. ( of course i wouldn’t accept it)
- Reposted by Philip BrownDesperate, misguided, insulting to the Nobel Peace Prize committee, and unlikely to have any impact on Trump, who can smell weakness and disdains it, and doesn’t care a fig for democracy in Venezuela.
- Reposted by Philip BrownAs the UK university finance implodes there is a non-trivial risk that a flailing Labour government that has made no plans for worst case scenarios ends up nationalising the higher education system by mistake
- Reposted by Philip Brown“Join me in demanding to know where Orbin Mauricio Henríquez Serrano is. He may have taken his last breath at the hands of ICE on Jan 11 at the Speedway at the corner of Snelling & Portland in St Paul. Watch him carried away lifeless” Did they just kill this guy? #ICEMurders #FuckICE #OrbinSerrano
- Reposted by Philip BrownIt’s always fun hearing defecting MPs explain why they won’t be holding a by-election to check their constituents are happy with their new party. Jenrick claims he was elected at the last general election based on his personal profile and politics.
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- Reposted by Philip BrownRSPB asks for evidence of burning on peatlands across the UK – Raptor Persecution UK raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/15/r...
- Reposted by Philip BrownThis is simply a lie. Labour knew precisely the scale of the crisis in the criminal courts. Everybody did. The backlog was a matter of public record. But Labour’s manifesto did not contain a *single* idea to address the problems. And then their cuts to sitting days made the backlog even worse.
- Reposted by Philip BrownThe "experiment in open borders" claim also featured in Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech, which was equally dishonest. We will never get a sane immigration debate until leaders talk truthfully to the public about why immigration happens. We're light years from that. bsky.app/profile/robe...
- Reposted by Philip BrownBBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
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- Reposted by Philip BrownWe can't rely on Trump's America. Now is time for closer ties with Europe. theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/…
- Reposted by Philip BrownA US early-warning radar of one sort or another has been on Greenland for nearly 70 years—without the need for US sovereignty. Greenland is also covered by Article Five & US could protect it v Russia or China. Conflating Greenland's military importance with the issue of US ownership is dishonest.
- Reposted by Philip BrownIt's been five years since I got the phone call in the early hours of the morning telling me my sister had died. I last saw her on her 40th birthday and then less than a year later she was dead. Some of us will never get to forget the pandemic because for some of us the reunions never happened.
- Reposted by Philip BrownNadhim Zahawi and family fled to the UK from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a child refugee in 1978. Unable to speak English when he arrived, he became a hugely successful businessman and an MP before serving as Chancellor of the Exchequor. His origin story is the very antithesis of the Reform narrative.
- Reposted by Philip BrownHere's the other side of the story you won't read in today's headlines about the cost of meeting net zero targets. The reality is the IEA report is deeply flawed and based on some pretty blatant cherry-picking of clean tech costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524063...
- Reposted by Philip BrownTrump has also revoked TPS status for immigrants from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria, and others. That means thousands of immigrants here legally, who cannot return to their home countries due to unsafe conditions there, now have no protection. Shameful.
- The Trump administration is ending temporary protected status for Somali immigrants, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed. Somali immigrants in the U.S. with TPS must leave the country by March 17, she said. nbcnews.to/3LscuRW
- Reposted by Philip Brown🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10
- Reposted by Philip BrownGreenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
- Reposted by Philip BrownFormer chancellor Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform after begging Tories for peerage. Backed Liz Truss and involved in numerous scandals - claimed cost of heating stables on private estate as MP expense, later repaid; tax shenanigans, breaches of ministerial codes, Must feel at home with Reform.
- Reposted by Philip Brown🚨🚨To be clear; it is very difficult to misinterpret what #UKIP's new symbol alludes to. This cross stands historically for unrivalled evil and hatred. Absolutely disgusting and an insane political move.
