Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 7hAnything that uses the word 'enrobed' in its product description. 140
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 7hJoking aside, what exactly is this sign meant to *achieve*? 010
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 16hReasonable objections to infill development latest: www.theargus.co.uk/news/2663311... 000
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 13/10/2026TIL that ‘volver’ and ‘devolver’ both mean ‘return’ but in different ways that reflect the ambiguity of English. 010
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Gave it up a couple of years ago and feel much happier for it. Maybe even more inflammatory than Telegraph? 020
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's incredibly off-putting. A hotel we use when visiting family is now churning out this crap. Given the beach is so empty on a sunny day, he is presumably escaping a mass fatality event. 120
Reposted by Richard BrownNeal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Would be interesting to see a combination of the Molior numbers (private) and what’s happening with affordable delivery. Because the latter is definitely more positive in the London market (& elsewhere) at the moment. 011
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Cast some serious shade on the realism of London Plan housebuilding targets (but what's being built is being bought) 110
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m not surprised about the phone offences, but sceptical about the seatbelts. I thought that was a generational thing (ie, my dad) not current. 000
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Increasing number of menus on restaurant websites not showing prices, which is a worrying signal. 000
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I like Jonathan’s idea for mayoral work visas. Not just good for local economies, but also would create a system where people made a positive case for immigration and access to international talent, rather than perpetually performing reluctance. 0194
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Good thread on how the Home Office is now setting higher education policy. 010
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Is Andy Burnham the Bill Clinton of our time? Interesting pondering from David Runciman. us21.campaign-archive.com?u=69cd7b0c7e...us21.campaign-archive.comPast Present Future Newsletter #66 000
Reposted by Richard BrownRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849. 131249443
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026You could more or less swap images and captions. 000
Reposted by Richard BrownRay Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred. 6698911836
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026RH have a showroom in the village I grew up in. Dead-eyed beige everywhere. 000
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Source: ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk 010
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Seeing chat about rising covid cases (and a friend was kaiboshed by it last week). So decided to check data. Cases and deaths seem to rise every autumn but less every year. 110
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Worse, a form of vacuous consultancy. With trendy glasses. 110
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now also on latest Deafheaven EP. open.spotify.com/album/7tIVbL...open.spotify.comAt Work In The Fields Of The Bomb - EP by Deafheaven | SpotifyDeafheaven · EP · 2026 · 3 songs 000
Reposted by Richard BrownDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Damn AI… What? It’s not AI? Damn wonders of the world! 1525330
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Especially since houses are not counted in the care capital means test if the care recipient or their partner are living there... 010
Reposted by Richard BrownLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown. 12626274
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Deathbed races to complete transactions before completing life... 110
Reposted by Richard BrownHannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Tories need to listen hard to what high end buying agent Henry Pryor told me when I reported on downsizing trends: “If people only leave their family homes with a lift from an undertaker, the housing market shudders to a halt.” 03211
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026As someone who thinks IHT is broadly OK as a tax, this is the worst possible change one could make... 030
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Having seen the FBI Director at congressional hearings, I'm not 100% sure this is fake... 000
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Good piece. I had a similar challenge trying to calculate a capital gain (loss) on my parents’ time share apartment. 000
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I agree - except if you are a tourist getting on a train at Gatwick and being hammered for having the wrong ticket (despite all the trains being run by the same company). 010
Reposted by Richard BrownDave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My long read about the by-election and its various battlegrounds: www.onlondon.co.uk/holborn-st-p... Mentions @profjanegreen.bsky.social, @lewisbaston.bsky.social a bunch of politicians and one of my sons. Might also interest @robfordmancs.bsky.socialonlondon.co.ukHolborn & St Pancras: Something for everyone, not much for someLabour expects to win, the Greens are hoping for the best and the right-wing parties have a ruck all of their own 0168
Reposted by Richard BrownJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Homer's Odysseus spends his entire story trying to come home to Ithaca. Thign is - nobody knows where Ithaca actually is. Fascinating guest post from Honor Cargill-Martinallancienthistory.substack.comHas Homer's Ithaca been found at last?Two scholars believe they have identified Odysseus' elusive homeland – shattering a longstanding Homeric myth in the process. 85217
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Interesting, not least on the light of this piece by Tim Donovan on whether Sadie Khan will run again. www.onlondon.co.uk/tim-donovan-...onlondon.co.ukSadiq Khan surely knows he shouldn't seek a fourth term as MayorPublicly, the three-time winner is saying he won't decide until next year, but the indications are that he won't run again in 2028 000
Reposted by Richard BrownBarbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Lost Explorer - Sir Ranulph Fiennes and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 I have written about lasting powers of attorney, deprivation of liberty, and the powers of the Court of Protection in connection with the “disappearance” of Sir Ranulph Fiennes bleakhouserevisited.substack.com/p/the-lost-e...bleakhouserevisited.substack.comThe Lost ExplorerThe ‘disappearance’ of Sir Ranulph Fiennes and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 114716
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One last bump for this, which @davehillonlondon.bsky.social kindly published. OnLondon is going into hibernation from February, sad for me personally and for London. But glad that Dave, most generous of editors, will continue to write and advocate for the city. www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-th...onlondon.co.ukDave Hill: The future of On London.co.ukAfter almost ten years running this website, it's time to make more time for all the others things I want to do 002
Reposted by Richard BrownEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026✍️ How diesel found itself at the heart of geopolitics. And why Donald Trump is taking a leaf out of Putin and Xi's playbook. A simple explainer edconway.substack.com/p/the-diesel...edconway.substack.comThe Diesel WeaponWhy a rather unglamorous fuel is suddenly at the centre of a transatlantic power struggle, and why this matters for all of us 75018
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’ve been in flights to and from Israel (in more peaceful times). I remember the third degree from security when checking in. Letting a known radical *pilot* a plane to the country seems like an astonishing lapse. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comFlydubai co-pilot attacked captain with axe, UAE official saysThe man accused of trying to take over the Israel-bound jet is named as Hamam al-Hammami by several media outlets. 251
