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Lewis Call

@lewiscall.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus of History - Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Canal and River Trust - Littleborough Towpath Taskforce Historian - Association for the Study of Buffy+

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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have cancelled my membership in the Green Party of England & Wales. My wife is Jewish. We oppose genocide. We support a free Palestine. But we cannot support the GPEW "Zionism is Racism" policy. We support a two-state solution. We continue to support GPEW's environmental & social justice work.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good riddance. With the US bombers gone, Britain is a less attractive target for terrorists, and we are all safer. Starmer & Wigan Keir had allowed US to use UK bases for "defensive" operations vs Iran. There is no "defensive" application for a US B1 bomber. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Andy Burnham: bought and paid for by the United Arab Emirates. Nationalise Manchester City. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn and St Pancras MP. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack is right. Our 22 year old child lives at home with us. No prospects. Youth unemployment rate here in Rochdale is 16.9%. Local landlords want £700 for a single bedroom the size of my wardrobe. Labour's "solution?" Cut youth benefits. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn & St Pancras MP!
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes! Well said.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The stupidest people on earth are telling us that we should call this rubbish computer software "super intelligence" and honestly, I don't really think we should.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of the progressive ideas we heard at the Labour conference are really Green ideas. Even the conference slogan, "Hope Again," is a Green slogan. Greens are pushing Labour back towards its left-wing roots. Let's keep pushing. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn & St Pancras MP.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah she said the same rubbish in Gorton and Denton, right before the Greens' Hannah Spencer won with a 4000+ majority and Labour finished a distant third.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Greens are the only party who will give Britain what we need: rent controls, wealth tax, clean energy, nationalised water. They are also the only party that will stand against the far-right racists who are trying to tear our country apart. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn & St Pancras MP!
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I got it from Zack Polanski's Bluesky. The group is called Camden Muslim Women's voice and the photo was taken at Calthorpe Community Garden.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nationalise water. Stop new oil and gas drilling. Net zero. Workplace heat regulations. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn and St Pancras MP.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski with a large crowd of supporters.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good point! I hadn't thought of that.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
End the genocide in Palestine. Divest from Palantir. Welcome refugees. Stand up against far right racism. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn and St Pancras MP.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski with Muslim women in Camden.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starmer & his successor Wigan Keir chose to let the American tyrant use UK bases to wage his illegal, immoral war vs Iran. This has made Britain into a target, and we are all less safe because of it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, this will give Westminster yet another excuse to deny Scotland independence.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour think they can win Holborn & St Pancras by nominating a Muslim woman. They hope no one notices that she's a Starmerite who is silent on genocide, skipped the Muslim hustings, & got Camden Council to invest heavily in the Zionist Palantir corporation. www.declassifieduk.org/labour-counc...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
PM Wigan Keir can't talk about the mobs of fascist blackshirts terrorising English communities, attacking RNLI lifeboats, & teaching children to chant "let them drown" without saying the phrase "legitimate concerns." Still waiting for anyone in Labour to give an example of "illegitimate concerns."
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Massive Attack are so good I listen to them almost every day. Frontman Robert Del Naja was just arrested for protesting against genocide outside the conference of the Zionist "Labour" Party, and now I think I need to delete the word "almost" in the above sentence.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dear Guardian, Adding one instance of the word "agitator" to your description of Daniel Thomas is a start, but you're still calling him an "activist" and the correct word is still "terrorist." Also note he faces minimal charges for his very serious crimes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fascist terrorist Daniel Thomas filmed himself committing at least a dozen felonies whilst sabotaging a RNLI lifeboat that was trying to rescue nonwhite refugees. UK Government and media are fine with this, because they like fascism and hate nonwhite refugees.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dear Guardian, the correct term for a man who sabotages a civilian vessel at sea is not "activist." The correct term is "terrorist." Also, note that this terrorism is condoned by the UK Government that prosecutes Britons who protest peacefully against genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Congratulations Bunny Shaw--most home goals in WSL history! So glad that Man City is still your home!
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dear media, the word "deportation" only applies when a person is sent to a nation of which that person IS A CITIZEN. The correct word for what the US fascist regime is doing is "kidnapping." lewiscall.substack.com/p/western-sk... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Western Sky Style Guide, 2nd ed.
Because language matters, now more than ever
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Labour's candidate in Holborn & St Pancras, who came to Britain as a child refugee, refuses to speak out against Labour's cruel, senseless plans to make immigrants wait longer for Indefinite Leave to Remain. The Greens are the only party who welcome the immigrants who enrich Britain. Vote for Zack!
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Won't scrap first past the post. Won't cap political donations. Won't stop genocide. Won't stop US using UK bases to bomb Iran. Won't stop racist persecution of immigrants. Won't nationalise water. Won't stop drilling in North Sea. WILL ban disposable BBQs. This is the end of the Road to Wigan Keir.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
According to the UK government, when the state of Israel commits genocide against the Palestinian people, it is NOT terrorism, but when Britons peacefully protest the genocide by spraying graffiti on Trump's golf course, it IS terrorism. The UK will have no moral authority until this is reversed.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Canada is so lucky. How I wish the UK had a PM who would stand up to fascist bullies, had the slightest interest in doing absolutely anything to improve the lives of his people, and could use the word "hydronyms" correctly in a sentence.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reminding the 2 or 3 people out there who still care about quaint concepts like the rule of law that (1) Executive Orders only apply to employees of the US government, and (2) the President of the United States does not have the authority to rename international bodies of water.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
No help from our useless PM as British households face a 4% rise in energy prices. Here's a thought: what if the UK government stopped supporting the senseless American war against Iran that is driving energy prices up? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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No more UK energy bills support likely before price cap rise
Andy Burnham stops short of pledging further help as gas and electricity prices due to increase by 4% in October
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Burnham is absolutely bloody useless. It's taken him just one month to break every promise he's ever made. Now he won't even support capping political donations.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Greens & Reform both have single-digit MPs. Greens decisively won Gorton & Denton by-election. Reform struggled to beat a bin in Clacton by-election. Yet the BBC broadcasts Reform propaganda without challenging or even questioning it, while pretending the Green Party doesn’t exist.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If the so-called “Equalities” Minister actually cared about stopping misogyny, she would not be waging a misogynistic hate campaign against transgender women. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a great question. My theory is that Labour need to inflate the Reform threat to justify their own hard-right shift. The other part is, make sure BBC never mentions the Greens so Labour can keep pretending that their main electoral threat is from the right, not the left.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Turns out that director Craig Gillespie used AI slop to generate the look of the Supergirl movie—instead of even LOOKING at Bilquis Evely’s gorgeous artwork from the comics the film was meant to be based on. More thoughts on this deeply flawed “adaptation”: lewiscall.substack.com/p/the-staunc...
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The Staunch Will Of A Good Woman
There is no one alive stronger than Supergirl.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s bin day in Clacton! Time to take out the rubbish! Vote for Count Binface, the only candidate who is serious about representing Clacton. Or vote for a racist plonker who can’t find Clacton on a map, so the Parliamentary Standards Commission can resume investigating his crimes. It’s all good!
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Greens demand water nationalisation to address drought, £ to fight wildfires, max workplace temp, tax on fossil fuels, no new oil and gas extraction. Labour politely requests businesses stop selling disposable BBQs. At least Nero played a little song you could dance to while Rome burned.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ironically, Burnham continues to rip off Green “End Rip-Off Britain” slogan, whilst offering trivial “fixes” like banning fake discounts, & refusing to consider real fixes like water nationalisation, rent controls, or wealth tax. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Burnham vows crackdown on ‘rip-off’ business practices to ease cost of living
First of PM’s ‘everyday fixes’ to be banning fake discounts and making it easier to cancel unwanted subscriptions
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Western Sky reviews the greatest Supergirl story ever told, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (Tom King & Bilquis Evely), and the entertaining but deeply flawed Craig Gillespie film that is supposedly based on that amazing comic, but has little to do with it: lewiscall.substack.com/p/the-staunc...
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The Staunch Will Of A Good Woman
There is no one alive stronger than Supergirl.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Actually Farage is not currently in Parliament, so at present he doesn’t have the opportunity to skive off from his “job” of being an MP
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Supplemental voting works. In the Greater Manchester Mayoral election, the first ballot showed that a majority of voters do not support the “Labour” Party, and the second ballot showed that a supermajority of voters prefer “Labour” to “Reform.” Which is accurate.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Andy Burn ‘Em drills for oil in the North Sea, knowing it will do nothing to lower prices or create jobs, while Britain burns.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The easiest way Burnham could have shown he was different from Starmer in any way at all would have been to stop arresting peaceful protestors for saying genocide is wrong. Instead, 100s arrested, including Sir Jonathon, the SAME DAY High Court agreed to hear appeal of unconscionable protest ban.
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hannah and Geraldine are so funny and wholesome. I love them so much! Come on Greater Manchester—if Gorton and Denton can do it, we can too!
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
2 stories on The Guardian: (1) US soldiers rape young Britons with impunity, (2) PM says if young Britons want jobs, they’ll have to work for the military-industrial complex. No wonder young people leave Labour, love Greens. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Manchester! Polls open soon. Remember to give your first vote to the Green Party’s Geraldine Coggins: for affordable housing, free bus travel for under-22s, and a Greater Manchester that welcomes everyone, not just rich white people. Coggins for Manchester! #VoteGreen
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A year ago I fled Trump’s fascist USA for Manchester. I joined the Green Party because they are the only party that welcomes immigrants like me. Manchester is for everyone. Do the right thing tomorrow, my fellow Mancs. Give Geraldine Coggins your first vote for Greater Manchester Mayor. #VoteGreen
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Burnham says he wants to fix social care, but won’t invite Green MPs, who have worked extensively on this issue, to his so-called “cross-party talks.” Meanwhile, his Home Secretary wants to deport all the carers. Labour have no interest in fixing Britain’s problems. Greens do. Coggins for Mayor!
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Readers added context: Clacton voters don’t think anything about “their MP” because they don’t currently have one. Clacton is not “Nigel Farage’s constituency” because he resigned from Parliament. He is currently fighting a by-election against a bin, and losing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Farage’s got to come clean or clear off’: what voters on Clacton beach think about their MP – and the country
Nigel Farage’s constituency takes in genteel resorts and one of England’s poorest villages. With a snap byelection approaching, what do the residents want from the Reform UK leader – or the bin who’s ...
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Burnham: Won’t tax wealth or control rent but will slash welfare. Genocide still on, US still bombing Iran from UK bases, Mahmood still peddling performative cruelty at Home Office. Britain: Well at least he’s not Starmer. Manchester deserves better. Tomorrow, vote for GERALDINE COGGINS. #VoteGreen
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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Burnham won’t tax wealth or allow rent controls, but WILL raise a tiny pittance of £ on the backs of the most vulnerable by slashing welfare, and somehow the centre-right monstrosity that he leads is still allowed to call itself a “Labour” Party. Manchester deserves better. Vote Coggins for Mayor!
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