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Campbell Stevenson

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Long in the tooth, short of attention, neither rough nor rowdy. Ex-Observer hack

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Latest posts by Campbell Stevenson @campbells

If you don’t like Holmes, you won’t like House. It’s in the title.

08.03.2026 20:58 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every few years, new landlords would come in to ‘change things round’. Never a good idea. Just don’t go up the road to see what the Mont is now…

07.03.2026 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope he asked you a bunch of observational questions in the Dream Test afterwards

07.03.2026 13:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s satire, not news.

06.03.2026 14:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ha! Never heard that. The phrasing is spot on

05.03.2026 22:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Maximum!

05.03.2026 21:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is why records are a better format than CDs …

05.03.2026 21:49 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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What Eisenhower really said about documenting Nazi atrocities to prevent Holocaust denial He did not say the words, "get it all on record now" because "down the track of history some b****rd will get up and say that this never happened."

A view he agreed with, but words he didn’t actually speak: www.snopes.com/fact-check/e...

02.03.2026 08:38 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

What was the spread and how much did he have on himself to finish before 11pm?

25.02.2026 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Superb work

24.02.2026 07:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bluesky

Lord knows we all get frustrated with our local papers but this by @tristancorkpost.bsky.social on why developers aren’t building enough homes in Bristol is exemplary. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

23.02.2026 17:36 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

‘our abuse detection and enforcement efforts, which include automated tools and human investigations’
So he was not identified as a threat by AI alone.

23.02.2026 07:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s perfect. Should be used more often.

21.02.2026 22:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This, on the rugby in the Graun, is a silly stat as it is depends on the fixture list.

‘Scotland have only won the match directly after beating England twice before in this competition’.

21.02.2026 19:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Before that she worked for… the Labour party

20.02.2026 12:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When most people watch All the President’s Men, they think the Nixon White House were the bad guys. Labour Together seem to take a different view.

20.02.2026 12:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linda came out of this very well. I’d forgotten what a hard time people gave her.

19.02.2026 23:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pub lunchtimes with Chris were an education.

17.02.2026 12:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Guardian obit confirms your hunch: quite the all-rounder.

In 1959, he received a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. The Chicago White Sox offered the young Jackson a spot on their baseball team, but he decided to focus on his education instead.

17.02.2026 11:25 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Going to try a gag on tariffs and guitar solos shortly.

17.02.2026 11:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m all heart

17.02.2026 08:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m not in favour of kicking them, Fran!

17.02.2026 08:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 👍 35958 🔁 16656 💬 1303 📌 2475

Team menace

17.02.2026 08:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A great journalist and the man who coined an excellent rule for drinking: ‘Never go somewhere without going somewhere else first.’

16.02.2026 16:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This ‘Hill I Will Die On’ series is a disaster. Mostly fluffy copy, lightly amusing, given far too much weight by the title. And, of course, BTL everyone is enraged.

16.02.2026 16:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ouch!

14.02.2026 12:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic when they opened for U2 on the Zoo tour.

13.02.2026 16:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Because you like Leyton Orient, we think you’ll like Manchester City

12.02.2026 08:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

Ex-WaPo book reviewer nails the real value of a print paper: it’s where you find things you didn’t know you were interested in.

The Death of Book World www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

12.02.2026 08:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1