Robert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪

What politicians do. If you as a politician in the UK aren't doing similar things to right obvious wrongs - Infected Blood scandal - Grenfell Tower - Post office - Veterans Nuclear Test - Chinook Crash etc. you aren't working for the people who elected you but for the donors that bought you.

Could centuries of secrecy about who owns our land soon end? A new government consultation proposes revealing who owns up to 95% of England and Wales. To stop this being blocked by big landowners, I need your help to send in supportive evidence. Here’s how: whoownsengland.org/2026/10/27/c...

#GeorgiaProtests Day 699 🇬🇪🇪🇺 📸 levanzazadze

Wow. Democracy for Sale nominated for *two* British journalist awards, for our investigations into Slapps and into Palantir Incredible to see a newsletter that’s barely three years old getting so much recognition Huge thanks to all our supporters!! 🎉

Thames Water has gone bust So it's normal (and appropriate) for shareholders to get ZERO compensation And a huge chunk of its debt can be written off as part of the special administration process @andyburnham.bsky.social you have 2 DAYS to stop the bailout weownit.org.uk/news/5-thing...

🇪🇺 The freedom to live, work, travel, study, retire across 27 countries. Give us back that freedom.

Today is the 40th anniversary of bus deregulation. I’m considering celebrating the occasion by poring over copies of the pre deregulation Tyne and Wear timetables with that warm glow of memories of the days when buses always ran to time and there was seamless integration with the Metro……..

Hive mind, recommendations for rear dynamo bike lights please.

This beautiful cartoon by Dave Walker shows what happens when road design takes everyone into account, allowing people to cycle and walk safely and comfortably, while also giving space to those who need to drive 💌 Subscribe to Dave's newsletter: buff.ly/Cbw6mig

In case you are wondering about 80% of UK Company profits go to other countries or Tax Havens. So more than £450bn gets taxed at an average of just 13.2%. Which is the main reason taxes for Income are so high.

The 695th consecutive day of protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

From “aristocracy to assetocracy” - Prof Huw McCartney, a colleague at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, explores the make-up and wealth in the House of Lords, which so desperately needs reform: theconversation.com/from-aristoc...

2 down, 3 to go 🇷🇸 Serbia — Vucic lost 🇧🇷 Brazil — Bolsonaro lost 🇮🇱 Israel — 27 Oct 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1 Nov 🇺🇸 USA — 3 Nov

Why should a 25-year-old deserve the freedom to work across Europe, but not a 55-year-old starting a business? Or a 70-year-old wanting to spend more time with family? Freedom of Movement isn't a youth benefit. It's a freedom for people of every age.

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

So many islands so many mistakes www.maptap.gg October 26 97🔥 93🏆 67🫢 95🏅 74🤗 Final score: 831

Behold, the poor maligned men of the master race! Won't somebody think of the powerful white men who were given every advantage and still lost their lives down the toilet willblack-53220.medium.com/behold-the-m...

I mean, these two things are the same thing. These people are, quite simply, cranks and malicious weirdos.

This is not a "Community Safety Event" This is a gathering of racist haters at an asylum seeker hotel, and no amount of flagged-up AI slop can conceal that truth.

UK Govt promised to halve consultancy spending by 2025-26. How is it done? By fudging the data and by reclassifying consultancy spending as "professional services". £600m spent. Reliance on consultants means poor in-house knowledge, poor decisions. archive.ph/5Glj6

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Not horrible, I've only had one cup of coffee this morning. www.maptap.gg October 24 96🏅 91👑 80👏 88🎉 88🎉 Final score: 875

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ From time to time I like to repost this seminal exchange between Professor Stanley Unwin and Peter Hawkins, the voice of Bill and Ben. 

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

FIVE Cobra meetings Johnson skipped at a critical time at the start of the Covid epidemic. His delay in instituting the first lockdown caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. He should be in prison. Not being paid truckloads of cash as a columnist by our ridiculous right-wing media.

One woman scientist named in UK’s GCSE science syllabus. Three named in A level science. How many men? 85 and 178. Funny that. Half of my 50 PhD students have been women; four of them (and one man) are now professors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seeing a lot of people in the U.S. saying that the voting machine isn't recording their correct Democrat vote and keeps defaulting to the Republican choice. Worrying. Here is Stella Parton (Dolly's sister) describing her experience and encouraging vigilance and persistence. #Midterms #VoteBlue

Timeline disruptor, from my kitchen window.

Mmmm could do better www.maptap.gg October 21 87🎓 96🏅 79😂 95🏅 82🌟 Final score: 872

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

I was kindly invited to give the final plenary at this year's American Society of Bioethics & Humanities annual meeting—I discussed being a global health professor who engages in advocacy One thing I got asked is: should scientists or healthcare professionals remain politically neutral?

Oh my DAYS

Everyday motonormativity. This morning I drop my daughter at the train station by cargo bike. I park close to the entrance, next to a parked van, and in the “shadow” of street furniture to not bother pedestrians. I come back 5 mins later to 2 security agents worried. While I unlock the bike,

Remember what Johnson said? “Let the bodies pile high”.

This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

The violence experienced by our colleague, barriers to reaching medical care and growing restrictions imposed on Palestinian communities are not coincidental. Read our statement: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

The fietsvlonder (bike platform) has been reshaping Rotterdam streets for a decade. It swaps one car parking space for a temporary structure that accommodates a dozen bicycles. If deemed successful after a few months, the curb is permanently rebuilt, and the platform moves on to the next location.

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

This is what we are missing - the freedom to live, love, work, study, retire, travel across all EU countries freely. I miss it. I want it back. I want others to have the same opportunities I had when I moved to Spain pre Brexit. @bremaininspain.com @andrewhesselden.bsky.social

Too little, too late. The only measure that will tackle this scourge is public gungings, 1990s-CBBC-style. Any politician not prepared to say this is not serious about the problem.

That a metro system would be built in a northern UK city involving underground tunnels and stations is supposedly an impossible, unrealistic idea from an unserious mind. Meanwhile, Newcastle with 13km of bored tunnels and 9 underground stations built 13 years after first plans:

This is very interesting and pro- Europeans should read it carefully.