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Ed Larrissy

@edlarrissy.bsky.social
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Retired Literature Professor. Worked at Queen's Belfast, Leeds, Warwick. Living in southern France. Opinions my own.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Using phone calls, travel movements and location data, Der Spiegel has traced the recent drone attack on a German airport back to the elite SSD unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. When are the authorities going to start saying we’re at war and have been for a long time?
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(S+) Leipziger Flughafen: Das sollen die Männer hinter der Drohnen-Attacke sein
Ermittler meinen zu wissen, wer den Leipziger Flughafen mit Drohnen angegriffen hat. Ihren Auftrag erhielten die Verdächtigen nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen wohl von einer Spezialeinheit des russischen Gehei...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We’ve opened the call for our Senior Research Fellowships giving a scholar in the humanities and social sciences a year to complete a significant piece of research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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The British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a significant piece of research, through sustained period of leave for one year.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 08/10/2026
CFP: GOTHIC: Traditions, Transmissions, Translations 1730-1850. St Mary's University & Strawberrry Hill House, Twickenham. (Oh! Glamorous!) www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/gothic-confe...
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Gothic Conference 2027 - Strawberry Hill House & Garden
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Jett Black @jett-black.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reports of another Russian who’s fallen ill.
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WHO demands answers from Russia about ‘second plague victim’ — The Telegraph
Pressure increases on Moscow to disclose information about lab worker’s death following reports of another employee contracting the disease
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Ed Larrissy @edlarrissy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I.e Putin.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Two top Trump advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita travelled to Bosnia’s Republika Srpska to provide election advice to its Putin-friendly government, the NYT reports. They were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Badenoch says her air defence plan "is not going to be exactly like the Irone Dome. We haven’t called it an Iron Dome." Except this is what it said in the press release. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Ed Larrissy @edlarrissy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
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Queen's AHRC Landscape Doctoral Awards in the Arts and Humanities 2026-2030
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social @ghostoftomjoad78.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Cemented her image" really? If this was Labour/the Lib Dems or the Greens you know there would be a negative headline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Laura Kuenssberg: Kemi Badenoch has cemented her image. Now she wants to take her party back to its roots
The Conservative leader is expected to set out a return to core conservative principles at the party’s annual conference.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Senior Labour figures are uneasy about Healey’s ‘underpowered’ approach to budget Apart from Burnham's speech, this was the talk of conference... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour figures uneasy about Healey’s ‘underpowered’ approach to budget
Chancellor faces global volatility and soaring energy costs as some insiders worry lack of clarity could trigger fresh market shock
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2026
The 0.1% own 15% of all the wealth while 50% are basically broke. That is how societies die. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brazilian intelligence officials have briefed French and German officials on US and Russian interference ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, Reuters reports.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's the full story that the Tony Blair Institute doesn't want to answer questions about, on Democracy for Sale
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Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions
We asked TBI about allegations of £500,000 corporate memberships and a logo that vanished at Labour conference. They said they’re not talking to us anymore
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
🚨 We’re calling on Ofcom to open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows and whether his programme on 15 September 2026 was within the rules on impartiality ⚠️ Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
US government debt rout triggers ‘vicious loop’ of selling ft.trib.al/x3d9T5w
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US government debt rout triggers ‘vicious loop’ of selling
Yields on 10-year Treasuries soar half a percentage point in worst month in four years
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All this 'well you've forgotten to ask the EU, you won't get your previous deal you know' commentary is so boring and theatrically dispassionate. Everyone knows that.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026
This is…very much not in line with Donald Trump's comments last night. Which could get interesting later. The investigation is still ongoing, of course. But the fact police have given bail does seriously change things.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They're such self important clowns. It's increasingly clear their weird stop-me-before-I-kill-again message is some kind of weird hype strategy.
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Ed Larrissy @edlarrissy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond [WMD] ... on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals,” wrote Joy [in 2000]. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine
Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXC - We *also* have an MRP out today - which has some very striking findings. Progressives who vote tactically to stop Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could push his party into FOURTH place. The poll also shows Burnham’s Labour is winning back left-leaning voters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 25/09/2026
William Cohan, the author and veteran Wall Street watcher, has seen these bubbles before and thinks the ‘worst president ever’ will oversee a disaster
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‘The AI boom will end badly — and it’ll be on lunatic Trump’s watch’
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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 24/09/2026
The president stumbled as he attempted to deboard Marine One following the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
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Trump stumbles deboarding Marine One as viewers notice suspicious 'nervous tick'
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Worth remembering that MRPs don't pick up tactical voting decisions that happen during a campaign. So I'd guess this slightly underplays Lab/Lib and slightly overplays Con/Reform.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
100% dingbat.
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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Ukraine's capital Kyiv has been under a major and deadly attack throughout today as the entire country came under an onslaught of nearly 200 bombs.
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Putin orders major attack on Kyiv after Zelensky-Trump meeting
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The first and last time Nigel Farage dared to face James O’Brien has gone viral again, and it’s still a glorious own
It’s easy to forget that Nigel Farage was once (technically) a colleague of James O’Brien at LBC, before he left the station in 2020 having made inflammatory remarks about Black Lives Matter protester...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The difference between the performance of immigrants in England and Western Europe is staggering. (20 pts equals a year of learning.) I looked at this in detail in the post - it can't be explained away by language or relative advantage of different immigrant communities. There is a policy factor.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is dream territory for Labour surely - Reform and the Tories splitting the right vote between them. For the last few months, Labour needed two things: a poll boost, and a modest Tory resurgence. Seems like it's getting them both.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't feel sorry for her exactly but I do feel a kind of sorrow for her. Not sure I've ever witnessed someone debase themself like this in the name of ideology.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They always sound so excited, too. “It’s a political earthquake! It’s a shockwave!“ Well yes, that’s the rumble of approaching jackboots. Why are you so hyped?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is so true.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against Nato Exclusive: Intelligence officers say Russian campaign could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but that panic risks playing into Kremlin psy-ops www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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European spy chiefs warn Moscow is planning more decisive action against Nato
Exclusive: Intelligence officers say Russian campaign could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but that panic risks playing into Kremlin psy-ops
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW MRP JUST DROPPED: All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
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Ed Larrissy @edlarrissy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Farage says he wants to ‘hijack’ Trump’s #ICE czar to help secure UK border. ReformUK leader also tells US event Europe should have ‘more sensible view’ of president’s administration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage says he wants to ‘hijack’ Trump’s ICE czar to help secure UK border
Reform leader also tells US event Europe should have ‘more sensible view’ of president’s administration
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 15/09/2026
The Vladimir Putin ally who secretly bankrolled much of Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding had apparently met him only once in public — at an event where they bonded over a MAGA outrage.
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Exclusive: Putin ally bonded with Trump Jr over MAGA outrage before bankrolling wedding
The Vladimir Putin ally who secretly bankrolled much of Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding had apparently met him only once in public — at an event where they bonded over a MAGA outrage.In what appears to be the only recorded meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, Trump Jr. ran...
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