Niall Huggan
@hugan.bsky.social
Photographer: Canon M6ii/Fuji x10; Street; New Topographics. Artist. Wanderer. Leòdhasach. Indie/Electronica. Politics. Memorial Device ANT. AuDHD/Aphantasia/SDAM. niallhugganphoto.scot
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Delon in Venice, 1962
📷 Jack Garofalo, Paris Match
📷 Jack Garofalo, Paris Match
September 19, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Delon in Venice, 1962
📷 Jack Garofalo, Paris Match
📷 Jack Garofalo, Paris Match
"You ain't seen me, roight!
September 19, 2026 at 7:51 PM
"You ain't seen me, roight!
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(Extra) Miniature birds 64 - Anna's Hummingbirds
September 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM
(Extra) Miniature birds 64 - Anna's Hummingbirds
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#music
#musicsky
19 A song with through, around, over or under in the title.
'Over The Wall - Echo & The Bunnymen
This video is a new edit of rare footage of Echo & The Bunnymen, appearing on Dutch TV show Götterdämmerung 2000, back in 1981.
And that bass-line 🔥
#music
#musicsky
19 A song with through, around, over or under in the title.
'Over The Wall - Echo & The Bunnymen
This video is a new edit of rare footage of Echo & The Bunnymen, appearing on Dutch TV show Götterdämmerung 2000, back in 1981.
And that bass-line 🔥
Echo And The Bunnymen | Over The Wall | Dutch TV | 1981
YouTube video by Nacho Video
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#music
#musicsky
19 A song with through, around, over or under in the title.
'Over The Wall - Echo & The Bunnymen
This video is a new edit of rare footage of Echo & The Bunnymen, appearing on Dutch TV show Götterdämmerung 2000, back in 1981.
And that bass-line 🔥
#music
#musicsky
19 A song with through, around, over or under in the title.
'Over The Wall - Echo & The Bunnymen
This video is a new edit of rare footage of Echo & The Bunnymen, appearing on Dutch TV show Götterdämmerung 2000, back in 1981.
And that bass-line 🔥
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My ideal situation would be, essentially, we get to a place where a kid from a South London council estate could, if they so wished, go to the local youth centre and learn to play the violin.
But, then, we come back to this, the reason it will never happen:
But, then, we come back to this, the reason it will never happen:
September 19, 2026 at 10:42 AM
My ideal situation would be, essentially, we get to a place where a kid from a South London council estate could, if they so wished, go to the local youth centre and learn to play the violin.
But, then, we come back to this, the reason it will never happen:
But, then, we come back to this, the reason it will never happen:
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Swathes of UK economy are owned by foreign investors.
No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends.
USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors.
UK could do the same, generate billions.
Why are super-rich privileged?
No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends.
USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors.
UK could do the same, generate billions.
Why are super-rich privileged?
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
leftfootforward.org
September 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Swathes of UK economy are owned by foreign investors.
No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends.
USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors.
UK could do the same, generate billions.
Why are super-rich privileged?
No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends.
USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors.
UK could do the same, generate billions.
Why are super-rich privileged?
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Countries like France and Sweden are using the profits from their publicly-owned wind turbines stationed up on our hills to fund their health services and schools.
Why aren't we doing the same? 🏴⚡️
Why aren't we doing the same? 🏴⚡️
September 19, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Countries like France and Sweden are using the profits from their publicly-owned wind turbines stationed up on our hills to fund their health services and schools.
Why aren't we doing the same? 🏴⚡️
Why aren't we doing the same? 🏴⚡️
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Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
September 19, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
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Miniature birds 63 - Venezuelan Troupial
September 18, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Miniature birds 63 - Venezuelan Troupial
Here we go again?
Private equity turns to financial engineering to lure insurance billions.
Using collateralised fund obligations (CFOs), slicing and dicing debts, loans, to create dodgy instruments.
Back to the practices that brought the 2008 crash.
Who will bail them out this time?
archive.ph/vrBQn
Using collateralised fund obligations (CFOs), slicing and dicing debts, loans, to create dodgy instruments.
Back to the practices that brought the 2008 crash.
Who will bail them out this time?
archive.ph/vrBQn
Private equity turns to financial engineering to lure insurance billions
Structured financing helps fuel growth of secondaries funds by making investments more attractive to risk-averse investors
www.ft.com
September 19, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Here we go again?
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Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.
September 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.
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Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK.
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK.
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
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Glad NessBookFest is still going.
Twa weeks the nicht, Scots leid, Burns sangs an stories fae ma memoir Born in Kyle. Ma frien @RobynStapleton has ane o the brawest singin vyces ye’ll ever hear, sae dae yersel a treat an jyne us in Inverness.
September 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Glad NessBookFest is still going.
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From earlier this year - Mandelson + Watson working for Palantir (Watson joined Palantir in 2024) are part of a general move from the Labour Right to Corporate Lobbying which has run since the Blair years morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
September 18, 2026 at 8:35 AM
From earlier this year - Mandelson + Watson working for Palantir (Watson joined Palantir in 2024) are part of a general move from the Labour Right to Corporate Lobbying which has run since the Blair years morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
September 18, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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The head of MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, must quit. The service has admitted it lied in court in a case involving a neo-Nazi agent who coercively controlled his partner and attacked her with a machete. MI5 is tasked with defending the UK, it cannot undermine the rule of law
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
There is only one option for Sir Ken McCallum after this appalling MI5 scandal
Our writer-at-large Neil Mackay says the head of MI5 must resign after revelations that agents gave evidence based on lies
www.heraldscotland.com
September 18, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The head of MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, must quit. The service has admitted it lied in court in a case involving a neo-Nazi agent who coercively controlled his partner and attacked her with a machete. MI5 is tasked with defending the UK, it cannot undermine the rule of law
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#music
#musicsky
18 A song with All or Nothing in the title
'All of This and Nothing' - Psychedelic Furs
From their 1981 studio album 'Talk Talk Talk'.
Produced by the same producer as yesterday's post, Steve Lillywhite, who was my favourite producer of this era.
#music
#musicsky
18 A song with All or Nothing in the title
'All of This and Nothing' - Psychedelic Furs
From their 1981 studio album 'Talk Talk Talk'.
Produced by the same producer as yesterday's post, Steve Lillywhite, who was my favourite producer of this era.
The Psychedelic Furs - All of This and Nothing
YouTube video by Daniel Spaulding
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2026 at 5:07 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#music
#musicsky
18 A song with All or Nothing in the title
'All of This and Nothing' - Psychedelic Furs
From their 1981 studio album 'Talk Talk Talk'.
Produced by the same producer as yesterday's post, Steve Lillywhite, who was my favourite producer of this era.
#music
#musicsky
18 A song with All or Nothing in the title
'All of This and Nothing' - Psychedelic Furs
From their 1981 studio album 'Talk Talk Talk'.
Produced by the same producer as yesterday's post, Steve Lillywhite, who was my favourite producer of this era.
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You would have to be blind not to see that this is aimed at the RNLI.
September 18, 2026 at 12:59 PM
You would have to be blind not to see that this is aimed at the RNLI.
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Labour’s savage disability benefit cuts could hit older people hardest, despite their reduced chances of finding work - a third of those potentially affected are aged 50+, according to FOI data
Older disabled people face both labour market ableism and ageism
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
Older disabled people face both labour market ableism and ageism
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
Exclusive: Over a third of disabled people at risk from Labour’s benefit cuts are 50+
New figures obtained by The Lead show more than one third of people at risk from cuts to universal credit disability payments are over 50 – a group facing some of the highest barriers to finding work
national.thelead.uk
September 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Labour’s savage disability benefit cuts could hit older people hardest, despite their reduced chances of finding work - a third of those potentially affected are aged 50+, according to FOI data
Older disabled people face both labour market ableism and ageism
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
Older disabled people face both labour market ableism and ageism
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
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The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
www.cnn.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
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Remember when all the centrist dads insisted this guy was a decent man of principle?
Well, he's working for Palantir now.
Will they reflect on this? No, they will not.
Well, he's working for Palantir now.
Will they reflect on this? No, they will not.
September 18, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Remember when all the centrist dads insisted this guy was a decent man of principle?
Well, he's working for Palantir now.
Will they reflect on this? No, they will not.
Well, he's working for Palantir now.
Will they reflect on this? No, they will not.
This is a bloody shame. They've managed to get over 1000 truly affordable homes built.
🚨 A key social enterprise that has spent nearly three decades building affordable homes across the Highlands and Islands has announced it will wind down operations due to severe funding pressures and inflation
Major Highland affordable housing trust to close down after nearly 30 years
www.thenational.scot
September 18, 2026 at 1:42 PM
This is a bloody shame. They've managed to get over 1000 truly affordable homes built.
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Morning all.
“Mill Girls" (aka “Curlers and Chips") taken in Elland, West Yorkshire, Photographer John Bulmer.
“Mill Girls" (aka “Curlers and Chips") taken in Elland, West Yorkshire, Photographer John Bulmer.
September 18, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Morning all.
“Mill Girls" (aka “Curlers and Chips") taken in Elland, West Yorkshire, Photographer John Bulmer.
“Mill Girls" (aka “Curlers and Chips") taken in Elland, West Yorkshire, Photographer John Bulmer.
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Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
September 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde