Lewis Call
@lewiscall.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus of History - Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Past President - California Faculty Association San Luis Obispo
Historian - Association for the Study of Buffy+
Trail Monitor - Bureau of Land Management
Spouse and Hemodialysis Tech - Michelle Call
Past President - California Faculty Association San Luis Obispo
Historian - Association for the Study of Buffy+
Trail Monitor - Bureau of Land Management
Spouse and Hemodialysis Tech - Michelle Call
The Western Sky reviews the BBC's new Doctor Who spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea. Spoiler alert: it is not merely awful, but actually offensive! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
The War Between Morality and Cowardice
We could be heroes. But we really aren't.
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December 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Western Sky reviews the BBC's new Doctor Who spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea. Spoiler alert: it is not merely awful, but actually offensive! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Congratulations Keira Walsh, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire! Rochdale loves you!! www.rochdaletimes.co.uk/rochdale-lio...
Rochdale Lioness Keira Walsh recognised in New Year’s Honours - Rochdale Times
Rochdale footballer Keira Walsh has received an MBE in the King's New Year's Honours. The 28-year-old joins fellow Lionesses Alex Greenwood, Georgia Stanway and Ella Toone to receive the Most Excellen...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Congratulations Keira Walsh, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire! Rochdale loves you!! www.rochdaletimes.co.uk/rochdale-lio...
Now, THIS is what an American patriot looks like: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How an ex-US marine became vital in the fight against Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement
When Trump began deploying troops to US cities, Janessa Goldbeck’s Vet Voice Foundation was ready – now they’re preparing for what may be next
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December 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Now, THIS is what an American patriot looks like: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Constitutional monarchy: Head of state learns his brother raped children, immediately defenestrates him. "Republic": Nation learns head of state raped children, wishes there was some way to remove him from power.
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Constitutional monarchy: Head of state learns his brother raped children, immediately defenestrates him. "Republic": Nation learns head of state raped children, wishes there was some way to remove him from power.
A nation that permits itself to be ruled by a man who rapes children has no moral authority in the world.
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A nation that permits itself to be ruled by a man who rapes children has no moral authority in the world.
Dear US Congress: On the remote chance that you decide that raping children is enough to disqualify someone from serving as President, here are some more crimes you can add to the Articles of Impeachment. Hope this helps! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Encore, J'Accuse!
The superseding indictment lists even more high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Dear US Congress: On the remote chance that you decide that raping children is enough to disqualify someone from serving as President, here are some more crimes you can add to the Articles of Impeachment. Hope this helps! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Yesterday in America, my child's friend was murdered with a gun. The Republican Party says that nothing can be done to prevent such tragedies, and also that it's fine if the President rapes children.
December 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Yesterday in America, my child's friend was murdered with a gun. The Republican Party says that nothing can be done to prevent such tragedies, and also that it's fine if the President rapes children.
Looking forward to a majority opinion by Chief "Justice" John Roberts, explaining why Trump is absolutely immune from prosecution for statutory rape because having sex with 14 year-olds is clearly within the scope of his duties as President.
December 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Looking forward to a majority opinion by Chief "Justice" John Roberts, explaining why Trump is absolutely immune from prosecution for statutory rape because having sex with 14 year-olds is clearly within the scope of his duties as President.
Very transparent US gov't complies with law, releasing 0.83% of Epstein files, heavily redacted, showing that Trump— by the Grace of God King of USA, Defender of the Faith, &c—never met Epstein, while Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson were running a child sex ring out of a DC Pizza Hut! </sarcasm>
December 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Very transparent US gov't complies with law, releasing 0.83% of Epstein files, heavily redacted, showing that Trump— by the Grace of God King of USA, Defender of the Faith, &c—never met Epstein, while Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson were running a child sex ring out of a DC Pizza Hut! </sarcasm>
I am shocked, shocked! that when required by law to release ALL of the Epstein files, the Trump regime instead releases a pile of highly redacted bullshit that makes it look like the pedophile rapist who is somehow still allowed to be President never even met Epstein!
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I am shocked, shocked! that when required by law to release ALL of the Epstein files, the Trump regime instead releases a pile of highly redacted bullshit that makes it look like the pedophile rapist who is somehow still allowed to be President never even met Epstein!
Dear BBC: I read with interest that Ellie Kildunne, the greatest rugby player in the world, took second place in your Sports Personality of the Year contest, so that you could give the award to...a man who plays golf? Is golf even a sport?!?
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Dear BBC: I read with interest that Ellie Kildunne, the greatest rugby player in the world, took second place in your Sports Personality of the Year contest, so that you could give the award to...a man who plays golf? Is golf even a sport?!?
Dear Russell T Davies: According to the Doctor Who Wiki, UNIT science advisor Shirley Bingham has "a distinguished background in neurosurgery." She almost certainly holds a doctorate: MD, PhD, maybe both. The correct form of formal address for her is therefore "Dr Bingham," not "Mrs Bingham."
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Dear Russell T Davies: According to the Doctor Who Wiki, UNIT science advisor Shirley Bingham has "a distinguished background in neurosurgery." She almost certainly holds a doctorate: MD, PhD, maybe both. The correct form of formal address for her is therefore "Dr Bingham," not "Mrs Bingham."
My favourite meal is a combination of foods called BREAKFAST, which I eat at a time of day which is called LUNCH in most of the Anglophone world, but which is called DINNER here in the North. So I get to have all three at once!
December 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My favourite meal is a combination of foods called BREAKFAST, which I eat at a time of day which is called LUNCH in most of the Anglophone world, but which is called DINNER here in the North. So I get to have all three at once!
One time on Fuckerbook, a (now former) friend accused me of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I wonder how they felt when the insane despot who has turned the US government into a farcical fascist dictatorship identified the (non-existent) "TDS" as the cause of beloved filmmaker Rob Reiner's death?
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
One time on Fuckerbook, a (now former) friend accused me of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I wonder how they felt when the insane despot who has turned the US government into a farcical fascist dictatorship identified the (non-existent) "TDS" as the cause of beloved filmmaker Rob Reiner's death?
Here in the North, Winters are cold, dark, wet and gloomy. The survival strategy for neurotypical Britons seems to be: go to noisy, crowded, brightly lit, overstimulating holiday parties, festivals, markets, pantos, &c every night in December! I wonder what the rest of us should do?
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here in the North, Winters are cold, dark, wet and gloomy. The survival strategy for neurotypical Britons seems to be: go to noisy, crowded, brightly lit, overstimulating holiday parties, festivals, markets, pantos, &c every night in December! I wonder what the rest of us should do?
Happy that C of E understands Christmas is actually about hospitality, generosity, kindness and compassion. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Tommy Robinson held a "Christmas" hate-fest; attendance was less than 10% of his Sept. rally, which I wrote about here: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Tommy Robinson held a "Christmas" hate-fest; attendance was less than 10% of his Sept. rally, which I wrote about here: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
C of E responds to Tommy Robinson’s carols event with ‘Christmas is for all’ message
Release of 43-second video comes as senior church figures speak out against dangers of Christian nationalism
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December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Happy that C of E understands Christmas is actually about hospitality, generosity, kindness and compassion. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Tommy Robinson held a "Christmas" hate-fest; attendance was less than 10% of his Sept. rally, which I wrote about here: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Tommy Robinson held a "Christmas" hate-fest; attendance was less than 10% of his Sept. rally, which I wrote about here: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Six months after immigrating to Northern England, I go to the best pub in town, as I do every week. Rather than asking me what I would like to drink, the server says "pint of Landlord?" And I am home.
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Six months after immigrating to Northern England, I go to the best pub in town, as I do every week. Rather than asking me what I would like to drink, the server says "pint of Landlord?" And I am home.
A tour of the Roman legionary base at Deva, and a critique of the reactionary historiography that dominates public history in Chester today: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Pax Romana Desolata
The Empire Strikes Back In Chester
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December 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A tour of the Roman legionary base at Deva, and a critique of the reactionary historiography that dominates public history in Chester today: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
On January 16, 2025, I predicted that drunken rapist white nationalist Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth "will condone and/or cover up any war crimes committed by American soldiers when he’s running the Pentagon." Sometimes I hate to be right.
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Against "Alleged"
That word only makes sense when there is some possibility that criminals will be held legally accountable for their crimes.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
On January 16, 2025, I predicted that drunken rapist white nationalist Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth "will condone and/or cover up any war crimes committed by American soldiers when he’s running the Pentagon." Sometimes I hate to be right.
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Also, please stop saying that Trump is "unhinged." That didn't work for Harris, and it isn't working now. To capture the depth of Trump's psychosis, you have to extend this strained metaphor well past the breaking point: he tore the door off its hinges, burned the house down, then nuked the city.
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Also, please stop saying that Trump is "unhinged." That didn't work for Harris, and it isn't working now. To capture the depth of Trump's psychosis, you have to extend this strained metaphor well past the breaking point: he tore the door off its hinges, burned the house down, then nuked the city.
Dear Democrats, please stop saying "political violence has no place in America." This is a dangerous falsehood. Political violence is one of the main tactics which fascist regimes use to seize and maintain power. As such, it has a central place in fascist America.
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Dear Democrats, please stop saying "political violence has no place in America." This is a dangerous falsehood. Political violence is one of the main tactics which fascist regimes use to seize and maintain power. As such, it has a central place in fascist America.
A history of Bonfire Night and my strange year-long journey from the worst Fifth of November (2024, US election day) to the best one (2025, partying with Islamic Rochdale) open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Forgetting Fawkes
Peace, love, and bonfire on Cronkeyshaw Common
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November 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A history of Bonfire Night and my strange year-long journey from the worst Fifth of November (2024, US election day) to the best one (2025, partying with Islamic Rochdale) open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
A psycho-geography of Castlefield in Manchester: at a great confluence of rivers and canals sit the ruins of Roman Mamucium, across the road from a museum full of power looms and computers, which turn out to be the same thing! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Weaving Warp And Weft
Walls and water and women working
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November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A psycho-geography of Castlefield in Manchester: at a great confluence of rivers and canals sit the ruins of Roman Mamucium, across the road from a museum full of power looms and computers, which turn out to be the same thing! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
How the poorest county in England became the centre of the modern global economy: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Lancashire Revolutionized
No longer "an obscure, ill-cultivated swamp!"
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October 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
How the poorest county in England became the centre of the modern global economy: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Some thoughts on the Lake District, class warfare, archaeology, historiography, Romanticism, mountain climbing, and women's rugby. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...
Ambling Up The Side
And Back Down to Red Rose County
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October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Some thoughts on the Lake District, class warfare, archaeology, historiography, Romanticism, mountain climbing, and women's rugby. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...