Brian Mcleish
@bmcleish.bsky.social
Public sector public affairs bod, charity trustee and minirugby coach. I post about economic development, social mobility, rugby, TTRPGs and anything else that comes to mind.
Make a Bond film casual.
From Ruislip with Love
Dine another Day
Zirconia are Forever
From Ruislip with Love
Dine another Day
Zirconia are Forever
Make a bond film casual
Ladbrokes Royale
Ladbrokes Royale
Make a bond film casual
Physician Associate No
Physician Associate No
December 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Make a Bond film casual.
From Ruislip with Love
Dine another Day
Zirconia are Forever
From Ruislip with Love
Dine another Day
Zirconia are Forever
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Poem of the day … it made me smile!
December 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Poem of the day … it made me smile!
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If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
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—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
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They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
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I am Jewish, and I believe with all my heart that there are more Muslims like Ahemed el Ahmed, who not only don't their Jewish brothers and sisters, but care enough to risk their lives to stop hate. Hero is almost too subtle a word.
Hero. ❤️
'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
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'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
archive.today/2025.12.14-1...
December 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I am Jewish, and I believe with all my heart that there are more Muslims like Ahemed el Ahmed, who not only don't their Jewish brothers and sisters, but care enough to risk their lives to stop hate. Hero is almost too subtle a word.
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🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
December 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
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Glasgow 🏴
a football player with the word patriots on his shirt
ALT: a football player with the word patriots on his shirt
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Glasgow 🏴
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FULL-TIME | One of Scotstoun's greatest nights - what a comeback from the Warriors!!
Analysis and reaction to follow...
Analysis and reaction to follow...
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
FULL-TIME | One of Scotstoun's greatest nights - what a comeback from the Warriors!!
Analysis and reaction to follow...
Analysis and reaction to follow...
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it bears repeating over and over again that dr. upton did literally nothing except get changed in the changing room and assiduously mind her own business. what happened to her could happen to any trans woman who leaves her house
It is horrific what Dr Upton endured. My fear is that with their almost infinite funds they will continue to drag entirely innocent trans women through the courts and media until either we have another huge tragedy or until they get what they want.
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
it bears repeating over and over again that dr. upton did literally nothing except get changed in the changing room and assiduously mind her own business. what happened to her could happen to any trans woman who leaves her house
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The right will come for Bari Weiss eventually. She's queer and Jewish, and they will not tolerate her once she's served their purposes.
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The right will come for Bari Weiss eventually. She's queer and Jewish, and they will not tolerate her once she's served their purposes.
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dreher and his friends would save us all a lot of time if they just said “jews”
Ok great. Guess we will have to take the personal reassurance of a guy responsible for a 250 page forum argument about whether or not his jacket fitted that Trump does not seek to subvert Western democracy
December 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
dreher and his friends would save us all a lot of time if they just said “jews”
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Donald Trump is set on regime change - in Europe. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump is pursuing regime change – in Europe | Jonathan Freedland
The US made it clear this week that it plans to help the parties of the European far right gain power. Keir Starmer and his fellow leaders have to face this new reality, writes Guardian columnist Jona...
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Donald Trump is set on regime change - in Europe. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ice rink at EK blaring Kelly Clarkson "My life would suck without you". A reminder, if one were needed, that it is a banger.
December 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Ice rink at EK blaring Kelly Clarkson "My life would suck without you". A reminder, if one were needed, that it is a banger.
Anyone who thinks the anti-trans movement is an organic grassroots bottom up campaign responding to 'genuine concerns' should read this www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah
The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.
www.nybooks.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Anyone who thinks the anti-trans movement is an organic grassroots bottom up campaign responding to 'genuine concerns' should read this www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My daughter's nativity made me think of a short story published in the LRB years ago from the perspective of the shepherds that conveyed just how bloody terrifying the experience of being addressed by an Angel of the Lord would actually be. 'Sore afraid' is an understatement!
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
My daughter's nativity made me think of a short story published in the LRB years ago from the perspective of the shepherds that conveyed just how bloody terrifying the experience of being addressed by an Angel of the Lord would actually be. 'Sore afraid' is an understatement!
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Szalay - and I say this with the utmost collegial respect and admiration - often has the look of someone who decided to be a highly esteemed author as a prank, but it's gone too far, everyone is taking it very seriously and it's too late to back out.
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Szalay - and I say this with the utmost collegial respect and admiration - often has the look of someone who decided to be a highly esteemed author as a prank, but it's gone too far, everyone is taking it very seriously and it's too late to back out.
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Apparently opposing genocide "contravenes the work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust." Beyond belief.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...
Holocaust Memorial Day organiser dismissed over link to grassroots Israeli group accusing state of genocide
EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Goldberg departs as Scottish support worker over link to Standing Together organisation
www.jewishnews.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Apparently opposing genocide "contravenes the work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust." Beyond belief.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...
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SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)
The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly!
#litstudies
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415
The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly!
#litstudies
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415
![Joanna Martin: ‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour
Ian Cameron Robertson: Green Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel?
Angus Sutherland: Hogg and the Ettrick Clearances
Annalisa Nicholson: Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World, by Esther Inglis; an essay, by Jamie Reid Baxter (review)
Trish Reid: Plays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Michel Tremblay (review)
Honor Rieley: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees (review)
Désha Osborne: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies, by Katey Castellano (review)
Adam Kozaczka: Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions, edited by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review)
Zsuzsanna Varga: A modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day], by Attila Dósa (review)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vmd2oqboco524fhpqdu7pnbn/bafkreic6jkewat3o6orxceacfngef5kw7q2iyduhtmotbhakcz65m2e4ci@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)
The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly!
#litstudies
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415
The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly!
#litstudies
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415
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The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
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My free advice to this couple? Instead of paying £47k a year in school fees and scraping by, stick 15k a year in each kid's bank account so that they each have around £100k at age 18 to spend on a house, business or uni. You then have £17k/year leftover to spend on luxuries. Better life all round
One couple — she works for the NHS and he for the RAF — are doing everything they can to give their children an independent education ⬇️
We’re almost broke and still paying for private school
One couple — she works for the NHS and he for the RAF — are doing everything they can to give their children an independent education
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
My free advice to this couple? Instead of paying £47k a year in school fees and scraping by, stick 15k a year in each kid's bank account so that they each have around £100k at age 18 to spend on a house, business or uni. You then have £17k/year leftover to spend on luxuries. Better life all round
A new album at 340? Guy really ought to think about retiring......
December 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
A new album at 340? Guy really ought to think about retiring......
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I’m sure this sleeping will transfix the marquee media just as Biden’s infirmities did.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m sure this sleeping will transfix the marquee media just as Biden’s infirmities did.
And I guarantee you that none of those predicting a mass exodus will now come back to the rostrum to admit they were wrong.
Some policy analysis about VAT on private school fees, why it is set to raise more than originally forecast, and why this matters.
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Policy Analysis: Why VAT on private school fees will raise more than planned, and why it matters
Policy analysis of a debate I was privileged enough to be involved in last year
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
And I guarantee you that none of those predicting a mass exodus will now come back to the rostrum to admit they were wrong.
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From today, Gaelic and Scots are recognised as official languages.
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From today, Gaelic and Scots are recognised as official languages.
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴
www.bbc.com/news/article...