Robert Rea
@robertrea.bsky.social
Ex-BBC News, now freelance journalist/sub-ed/media trainer/whatever. Reluctant runner, Chelsea fan, lover of shouty music. Went viral once about standing in a queue
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My wife and I had a horse-drawn wedding.
It was a disaster. We should have just hired a photographer.
It was a disaster. We should have just hired a photographer.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My wife and I had a horse-drawn wedding.
It was a disaster. We should have just hired a photographer.
It was a disaster. We should have just hired a photographer.
Russell T Davies is really ramping up the scandal in this new series
September 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Russell T Davies is really ramping up the scandal in this new series
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Why are multicultural cities (from NYC and London to Singapore and Sydney) so remarkably safe? And why are populists from Trump down to David Goodhart and Matthew Goodwin so determined to think otherwise? Me @FT on.ft.com/3GbCcHL with murder stats on.ft.com/3GbCcHL
Myth of the big, bad megacity
[FREE TO READ] What the right feels about metropoles isn’t physical fear. It’s discomfort
on.ft.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Why are multicultural cities (from NYC and London to Singapore and Sydney) so remarkably safe? And why are populists from Trump down to David Goodhart and Matthew Goodwin so determined to think otherwise? Me @FT on.ft.com/3GbCcHL with murder stats on.ft.com/3GbCcHL
Since everyone’s doing their Live Aid memories, I feel that I should share this from the pages of Just Seventeen - my wife’s experiences, umm, backstage, as it were…
July 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Since everyone’s doing their Live Aid memories, I feel that I should share this from the pages of Just Seventeen - my wife’s experiences, umm, backstage, as it were…
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As the Israelification of America blunders on like a fat, masked, armed racist buffoon so the Americanification of Britain hurries to catch up like a wheezy minimum wage arsehole yearning to take it out on someone, ideally a foreign teenager. Fuck this shit, we're better than this.
My friend was expecting the 17-year-daughter of her friend to arrive from France last Thursday. The plan was for her to practise her English, go to a few West End shows and soak up British culture. But at British border control at Lille she was asked what she planned to do in the UK... 1/3
July 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
As the Israelification of America blunders on like a fat, masked, armed racist buffoon so the Americanification of Britain hurries to catch up like a wheezy minimum wage arsehole yearning to take it out on someone, ideally a foreign teenager. Fuck this shit, we're better than this.
Just done the #saucony10k through central London. Love a 10k, love London. Don’t care what the haters say, it’s the best city in the world!
Added bonus - my wonderful stepdaughter Anna ran it too
Added bonus - my wonderful stepdaughter Anna ran it too
July 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Just done the #saucony10k through central London. Love a 10k, love London. Don’t care what the haters say, it’s the best city in the world!
Added bonus - my wonderful stepdaughter Anna ran it too
Added bonus - my wonderful stepdaughter Anna ran it too
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"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
Happy 13th birthday to this stripy terrorist. Many happy returns, Frodo
July 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Happy 13th birthday to this stripy terrorist. Many happy returns, Frodo
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🚨This is 💯 worth your time
“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country”
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country”
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🚨This is 💯 worth your time
“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country”
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country”
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Pulp. Tonight in London. Still different class
June 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Pulp. Tonight in London. Still different class
I guess I’m not doing the crossword then..
May 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I guess I’m not doing the crossword then..
This is great
I wrote about deception for social media clout — and why people do it now more than ever before.
The Status Cheats
Why do ordinary people engage in deceptive behavior to earn social clout?
open.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is great
Absolutely hilarious self-own. “The average American has 3 friends…” Oh, Mark. All that money and yet..
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Absolutely hilarious self-own. “The average American has 3 friends…” Oh, Mark. All that money and yet..
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Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.
April 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.
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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody
April 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody
We bought our house 18 years ago, and a lot of the garden was overgrown with ivy. Last summer I cleared a whole load of it away, and found a very mature clematis underneath. This spring it’s flowered for what must be the first time in over 20 years, maybe 25. And it’s amazing!
April 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We bought our house 18 years ago, and a lot of the garden was overgrown with ivy. Last summer I cleared a whole load of it away, and found a very mature clematis underneath. This spring it’s flowered for what must be the first time in over 20 years, maybe 25. And it’s amazing!
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Wrote about the latest ultra-processed food headlines. Will these foods really kill us?? open.substack.com/pub/suzigage...
Do ultra-processed foods really shorten our lifespan? Maybe...some of them...
As we see yet more headlines about the latest edible bogeyman (sorry about that mental image), what did the study actually show? And what does ultra-processed even mean?
open.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Wrote about the latest ultra-processed food headlines. Will these foods really kill us?? open.substack.com/pub/suzigage...
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One of those when you’re quite glad there’s a paywall
At a party thrown by a conservative lifestyle publication, an “objectively beautiful lifestyle” and an “objectively superior worldview” go hand in hand.
In Trump’s Washington, MAGA fashionistas lay claim to American hotness
At a party thrown by a conservative lifestyle publication, an “objectively beautiful lifestyle” and an “objectively superior worldview” go hand in hand.
wapo.st
April 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
One of those when you’re quite glad there’s a paywall
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"The US cumulative trade deficits in goods from 1976 to 2024 have transferred over $20tn of American wealth into foreign hands."
Mate, that's just not how this works. www.ft.com/content/f313...
Mate, that's just not how this works. www.ft.com/content/f313...
Donald Trump’s tariffs will fix a broken system
Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports
www.ft.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"The US cumulative trade deficits in goods from 1976 to 2024 have transferred over $20tn of American wealth into foreign hands."
Mate, that's just not how this works. www.ft.com/content/f313...
Mate, that's just not how this works. www.ft.com/content/f313...
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I'm not saying the April Fool didn't exist - I'm sure there was a very foolish person who lived in or around the month of April. But he probably wasn't the son of God.
April 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I'm not saying the April Fool didn't exist - I'm sure there was a very foolish person who lived in or around the month of April. But he probably wasn't the son of God.
I have 2 tickets to see From The Jam (with Bruce Foxton and the brilliant Russell Hastings) at Guildford on April 4th, which I now can’t use. Happy to pass them on at face value - £40 each. It’s set to be one of the last shows Bruce Foxton ever plays, so it’ll be emotional!
March 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I have 2 tickets to see From The Jam (with Bruce Foxton and the brilliant Russell Hastings) at Guildford on April 4th, which I now can’t use. Happy to pass them on at face value - £40 each. It’s set to be one of the last shows Bruce Foxton ever plays, so it’ll be emotional!
The 700th Grovelands Parkrun. Loads of Enfield Chasers today. And the fastest time of the year so far for me
March 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The 700th Grovelands Parkrun. Loads of Enfield Chasers today. And the fastest time of the year so far for me
Complete turnaround at half-time by Chelsea. Lucky not to be 2-0 down, but then absolutely bossed the 2nd half. Man City must be wondering what happened. JRK immense, Erin fantastic. Whole team stepped up. A great 45 minutes. And I’d say that’s now probably the WSL won
March 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Complete turnaround at half-time by Chelsea. Lucky not to be 2-0 down, but then absolutely bossed the 2nd half. Man City must be wondering what happened. JRK immense, Erin fantastic. Whole team stepped up. A great 45 minutes. And I’d say that’s now probably the WSL won
Erin Cuthbert you absolute fucking beauty
March 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Erin Cuthbert you absolute fucking beauty