Campbell Perry
@campbellperry.bsky.social
Scotsman based in Bannau Brycheiniog
Trainee Welshman
Broad experience in Education (senior management) & Mental Health (clinical lead)
Interested in creativity, wellbeing & environment.
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This battle to get these recordings released is important just for admirers of Dick Gaughan’s music, but for music fans in general. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This battle to get these recordings released is important just for admirers of Dick Gaughan’s music, but for music fans in general. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Ah you don’t have to care for football to want to watch Scotland on BBC2 right now.
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ah you don’t have to care for football to want to watch Scotland on BBC2 right now.
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My man, Saint Steve Clarke.
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My man, Saint Steve Clarke.
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A great poem about a meadowlark, in a beautiful short piece of appreciation. You’ll like both, birding and ecology pals.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A great poem about a meadowlark, in a beautiful short piece of appreciation. You’ll like both, birding and ecology pals.
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Low, bright Sunday light feels like Kodachromes of distant relatives, BBC continuity cards of sun through frosty teasels, staticky folk records.
Reminded me of this photo my dad took the day an adoption society worker arrived me with wrapped in her fur coat.
Maybe I’m reluctantly writing about it
Reminded me of this photo my dad took the day an adoption society worker arrived me with wrapped in her fur coat.
Maybe I’m reluctantly writing about it
November 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Low, bright Sunday light feels like Kodachromes of distant relatives, BBC continuity cards of sun through frosty teasels, staticky folk records.
Reminded me of this photo my dad took the day an adoption society worker arrived me with wrapped in her fur coat.
Maybe I’m reluctantly writing about it
Reminded me of this photo my dad took the day an adoption society worker arrived me with wrapped in her fur coat.
Maybe I’m reluctantly writing about it
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Post an image that will always make you laugh
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Post an image that will always make you laugh
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"Thank you for your attention to this matter" FTW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Thank you for your attention to this matter" FTW
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Bill Evans "Peace Piece"
YouTube video by William Repicci
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
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‘outwith’: preposition: outside; beyond. A term unique to Scotland.
Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words:
Comparable opportunities for critical study
do not exist outwith Scotland…
—Katie Ailes, “Outwith”
Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016
Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words:
Comparable opportunities for critical study
do not exist outwith Scotland…
—Katie Ailes, “Outwith”
Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
‘outwith’: preposition: outside; beyond. A term unique to Scotland.
Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words:
Comparable opportunities for critical study
do not exist outwith Scotland…
—Katie Ailes, “Outwith”
Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016
Revising my visa essay,
applying for three more years
here, I read my own scribbled words:
Comparable opportunities for critical study
do not exist outwith Scotland…
—Katie Ailes, “Outwith”
Glasgow Women Poets, Four-em Press 2016
Brilliant Bristol gig by Braebach at The Beacon... couldn't resist the merch tbh
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Brilliant Bristol gig by Braebach at The Beacon... couldn't resist the merch tbh
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We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
The Scottish History Society
scottishhistorysociety.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
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The improvised response at 2:08 is remarkable.
No one in the political life of the UK is anywhere near as impressive as this … or as threatening.
No one in the political life of the UK is anywhere near as impressive as this … or as threatening.
She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.
October 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The improvised response at 2:08 is remarkable.
No one in the political life of the UK is anywhere near as impressive as this … or as threatening.
No one in the political life of the UK is anywhere near as impressive as this … or as threatening.
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Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...
Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.
www.rte.ie
October 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...
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Who Owns ScotWind?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social reveals who owns Scotland’s offshore wind resources — and who stands to benefit
Spoiler alert: it isn’t the people of Scotland 👇
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social reveals who owns Scotland’s offshore wind resources — and who stands to benefit
Spoiler alert: it isn’t the people of Scotland 👇
🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
October 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Who Owns ScotWind?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social reveals who owns Scotland’s offshore wind resources — and who stands to benefit
Spoiler alert: it isn’t the people of Scotland 👇
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social reveals who owns Scotland’s offshore wind resources — and who stands to benefit
Spoiler alert: it isn’t the people of Scotland 👇
Bullseye... darrenmcgarvey.substack.com/p/cosplay-fo...
Cosplay for Elite Rejects: Reform’s Make-Believe Revolt
Trigger Warning: Contains Class Analysis
darrenmcgarvey.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Bullseye... darrenmcgarvey.substack.com/p/cosplay-fo...
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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
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As for many poets uneasy in their class consciousness, Tony Harrison’s brilliant controversial long poem V. (1985) blew me away when I first read it. But his short lyrics were sharp, wise, and deeply moving, too, cut from lived life. Saddened to hear the great man has passed. RIP.
September 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
As for many poets uneasy in their class consciousness, Tony Harrison’s brilliant controversial long poem V. (1985) blew me away when I first read it. But his short lyrics were sharp, wise, and deeply moving, too, cut from lived life. Saddened to hear the great man has passed. RIP.
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If you want to dress well this fall, imagine yourself as Big Jim Collie, a Scottish crofter in the 1970s who lived alone in a bothy and rode a rickety old bicycle through the Lairig Ghru, the highest mountain pass in the highest mountain range in Britain, while sustaining himself on a bit of dram.
September 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you want to dress well this fall, imagine yourself as Big Jim Collie, a Scottish crofter in the 1970s who lived alone in a bothy and rode a rickety old bicycle through the Lairig Ghru, the highest mountain pass in the highest mountain range in Britain, while sustaining himself on a bit of dram.
"...when the world is reduced to guiltless criminals, freaks, narks, nuts & placemen, a loud laugh is more crushing than a howl of agony" Nigel Dennis (Sunday Telegraph - a long time ago)
September 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"...when the world is reduced to guiltless criminals, freaks, narks, nuts & placemen, a loud laugh is more crushing than a howl of agony" Nigel Dennis (Sunday Telegraph - a long time ago)
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NEWYDD - gan @ailsahenderson.bsky.social a minnau.
NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
Nigel Farage and the political power of English grievance
The Conservatives and Labour have allowed resentment to fester in the biggest part of the UK – and the only region not to have its own parliament.
theconversation.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
NEWYDD - gan @ailsahenderson.bsky.social a minnau.
NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
We could all do with a healing song right now. That low note at the end...Wow
I've just stumbled on this video of the great Hugh Masekela performing a traditional healing song at a university graduation ceremony, and I commend it to anyone working in a university (or elsewhere) who could do with a healing song right now.
youtu.be/xGO0lcOa160?...
youtu.be/xGO0lcOa160?...
Honorary graduate, Hugh Masekela performs at Graduation (2014)
YouTube video by University of York
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September 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We could all do with a healing song right now. That low note at the end...Wow
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I am getting sick of certain politicians telling the people of Wales that they don't deserve their own democracy.
Let’s stop discussing whether Welsh democracy is allowed to exist, and focus on how to make it work.
My latest Guardian column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s stop discussing whether Welsh democracy is allowed to exist, and focus on how to make it work.
My latest Guardian column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So politicians want rid of the Senedd: would they abolish any other country’s democracy? | Will Hayward
The Welsh parliament has its faults – but talk of axing it is for charlatans, not leaders who are serious about the nation’s future, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I am getting sick of certain politicians telling the people of Wales that they don't deserve their own democracy.
Let’s stop discussing whether Welsh democracy is allowed to exist, and focus on how to make it work.
My latest Guardian column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s stop discussing whether Welsh democracy is allowed to exist, and focus on how to make it work.
My latest Guardian column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I sowed a chunk of my back garden with Emorsgate Seeds Meadow Mixture only yesterday. Gardening for the conservation of nature and habitat is important to me and my family. Donald MacIntyre was a source of inspiration along the way. What a legacy he leaves. floodplainmeadows.org.uk/keep-updated...
Donald MacIntyre 1949 - 2025 | Floodplain Meadows Partnership
floodplainmeadows.org.uk
September 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I sowed a chunk of my back garden with Emorsgate Seeds Meadow Mixture only yesterday. Gardening for the conservation of nature and habitat is important to me and my family. Donald MacIntyre was a source of inspiration along the way. What a legacy he leaves. floodplainmeadows.org.uk/keep-updated...