Rob Campbell
@robcampbell15959.bsky.social
Writer of fact & fiction. Journalist, editor, lecturer, mentor, historian, PhD. Won short story prizes; finished first novel. Based West of England. For hire as coach/editor with an accent on developing self-editing skills.
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punching up is so hard that it seldom happens, punching down is a really bad look, and punching sideways is a bit pointless.
Maybe the UK’s political parties should just stop promising to punch people.
Maybe the UK’s political parties should just stop promising to punch people.
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
punching up is so hard that it seldom happens, punching down is a really bad look, and punching sideways is a bit pointless.
Maybe the UK’s political parties should just stop promising to punch people.
Maybe the UK’s political parties should just stop promising to punch people.
it’s a pity there isn’t a way to more widely share this kind of good news. Perhaps someone could invent the Newspaper, or the Radio, or Television, and use it to let us know that amongst all the gloom good things also happen .
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
it’s a pity there isn’t a way to more widely share this kind of good news. Perhaps someone could invent the Newspaper, or the Radio, or Television, and use it to let us know that amongst all the gloom good things also happen .
a lesson in how to be rich
More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process.
More than 80 nonprofits receive $250M for global women's health from Melinda French Gates
More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
a lesson in how to be rich
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
I’m in the high street and just heard a mum tell her daughter ‘you can’t say that sort of thing in a shop’
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I’m in the high street and just heard a mum tell her daughter ‘you can’t say that sort of thing in a shop’
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
hey BBC you don’t have to all tabloidy regarding where someone’s from when it’s of no particular reference. Your story even says his immigration status has not been confirmed. And as a description, ‘Algerian’ with no other details does not help the public identify him.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
hey BBC you don’t have to all tabloidy regarding where someone’s from when it’s of no particular reference. Your story even says his immigration status has not been confirmed. And as a description, ‘Algerian’ with no other details does not help the public identify him.
superb talk on A Gun Through Time at the Beacon in Bristol last night by @davidolusoga.bsky.social
David Olusoga (@davidolusoga.bsky.social)
British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
davidolusoga.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
superb talk on A Gun Through Time at the Beacon in Bristol last night by @davidolusoga.bsky.social
pure alchemy. How to create a fact from nothing at all.
I was kind of hoping this might happen. Am I a bad person?
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
pure alchemy. How to create a fact from nothing at all.
this is a very mischeivous little book
FICTION: “This small monograph was compiled by members of the St Philips Folklore and History Society in order to record that which would otherwise be lost...”
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/10/30/f...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/10/30/f...
FICTION: Local Legends
I’ve extracted the text from the booklet The Boiled Egg Lady and Other Local Legends of East Bristol which I found on an online auction site earlier this year. It doesn’t seem to have been reprinte…
precastreinforced.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
this is a very mischeivous little book
just had to be done
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
just had to be done
A rare plug for my other half, who’s just had her paintings accepted by three different institutions at the same time: Penwith, Truro and Forfar. Here’s my favourite (called Fleeting Glimpse of Goldfinches) but of course I’m biased. Follow her at bevcampbellart.co.uk/gallery/7536...
October 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A rare plug for my other half, who’s just had her paintings accepted by three different institutions at the same time: Penwith, Truro and Forfar. Here’s my favourite (called Fleeting Glimpse of Goldfinches) but of course I’m biased. Follow her at bevcampbellart.co.uk/gallery/7536...
I’m in Cornwall and a local has told me if I’m going swimming to watch out for a seal who is, for obvious reasons, called Nibbles
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I’m in Cornwall and a local has told me if I’m going swimming to watch out for a seal who is, for obvious reasons, called Nibbles
on my BBC news app the second biggest story is one migrant criminal bending deported. This one guy has been on the top three stories on the app for a few days. It’s one guy and it’s disproportionate coverage. I’d expect this of the Daily Mail but the BBC doesn’t have to do this
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
on my BBC news app the second biggest story is one migrant criminal bending deported. This one guy has been on the top three stories on the app for a few days. It’s one guy and it’s disproportionate coverage. I’d expect this of the Daily Mail but the BBC doesn’t have to do this
my wife noticed I liked this @mirandakeeling book and bought it for me for a special occasion. I’ve noticed that I’m enjoying it
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
my wife noticed I liked this @mirandakeeling book and bought it for me for a special occasion. I’ve noticed that I’m enjoying it
this was fascinating. Loved her definition of ‘folk’. Made by human hand, by the people and for the people (if I remember rightly). It’s a serious business but discussed with much charm and humour.
At Falmouth Poly to hear @lallymacbeth.bsky.social in conversation with Natalie Hart, exploring folk culture - past, present & future - in Cornwall & more widely. One of the final events at a very lively #Falmouth Book Festival.
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
this was fascinating. Loved her definition of ‘folk’. Made by human hand, by the people and for the people (if I remember rightly). It’s a serious business but discussed with much charm and humour.
he uses ‘ipso facto’ in the second paragraph of an article about being ‘culturally coherent’.
If you can’t write in proper English mate, the kind that ordinary people can understand, then bog off back to Ancient Rome.
If you can’t write in proper English mate, the kind that ordinary people can understand, then bog off back to Ancient Rome.
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
he uses ‘ipso facto’ in the second paragraph of an article about being ‘culturally coherent’.
If you can’t write in proper English mate, the kind that ordinary people can understand, then bog off back to Ancient Rome.
If you can’t write in proper English mate, the kind that ordinary people can understand, then bog off back to Ancient Rome.
just went to a show in a 1,500 seat theatre and didn’t see anyone I knew. Except for two friends, each called John, who each know me but not each other, and were sitting immediately behind me
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
just went to a show in a 1,500 seat theatre and didn’t see anyone I knew. Except for two friends, each called John, who each know me but not each other, and were sitting immediately behind me
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✨ Exeter in the 1920s Fayre and Show ✨
Exeter’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Anne Jobson, and her consort paid the event a wonderful compliment by arriving in full 1920s costume!
Exeter’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Anne Jobson, and her consort paid the event a wonderful compliment by arriving in full 1920s costume!
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
✨ Exeter in the 1920s Fayre and Show ✨
Exeter’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Anne Jobson, and her consort paid the event a wonderful compliment by arriving in full 1920s costume!
Exeter’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Anne Jobson, and her consort paid the event a wonderful compliment by arriving in full 1920s costume!
just seen pictures of damage to the #whitehouse by #trump and was reminded of the last time it was left in such a mess, and of other horrors of Britain’s lesser-known war with America #dartmoor #washington
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
just seen pictures of damage to the #whitehouse by #trump and was reminded of the last time it was left in such a mess, and of other horrors of Britain’s lesser-known war with America #dartmoor #washington
OMG etc presumably it’s Area 51 they’ve cordoned off #devon
The area was cordoned off
Body found in rural Devon village is not human, police say
The area was cordoned off
www.devonlive.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
OMG etc presumably it’s Area 51 they’ve cordoned off #devon
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Just popping out to LIDL, or 50-1-500-50 as the Romans called it.
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Just popping out to LIDL, or 50-1-500-50 as the Romans called it.
surely nobody who’s actually been in an #nhs hospital would support this nonsense? I’ve just been treated by an amazing global team at the glorious #southmead in #bristol and I wanted to hug them, not deport them.
Nigel Farage wants to:
- dismantle the NHS as it currently exists
- stop 'low skill/low wage' health workers from coming in.
- deport some existing health workers
And yet quite a lot of people now trust him on the NHS. FFS.
His ratings on this must surely be very vulnerable in a general election.
- dismantle the NHS as it currently exists
- stop 'low skill/low wage' health workers from coming in.
- deport some existing health workers
And yet quite a lot of people now trust him on the NHS. FFS.
His ratings on this must surely be very vulnerable in a general election.
Public trust in Labour as being the strongest party on the NHS is waning, with Reform only three percentage points behind, according to research shared with PolHome
It shows that the NHS is "wide open" as an issue, the Health Foundation think tank told @zoecrowther.bsky.social
It shows that the NHS is "wide open" as an issue, the Health Foundation think tank told @zoecrowther.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
surely nobody who’s actually been in an #nhs hospital would support this nonsense? I’ve just been treated by an amazing global team at the glorious #southmead in #bristol and I wanted to hug them, not deport them.
never thought I’d be increasingly looking to the FT for some of the most informed and measured analysis on just about everything.
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
October 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
never thought I’d be increasingly looking to the FT for some of the most informed and measured analysis on just about everything.