David Chance
@davidchance.bsky.social
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‘Resting’ journalist. Cat is Bob and we live in Liverpool. He likes chasing things, eating and sleeping. I like LFC, The Archers and making my way round on a bike. 🚲
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George will stuff the sushi up his nose #TheArchers
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A Nobel win was always my biggest worry as a bureau chief in a small country.
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I pity my former Reuters colleagues in Budapest who have to make a trip to Pilisszentlászló to interview and photograph a famously reclusive
László Krasznahorkai.
Bless!
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Professor Angela Wright is editing Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe.

Discover how this groundbreaking Gothic novel shaped Radcliffe’s legacy and why it remains essential reading: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/editi...

#GothicFiction
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I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
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And thanks to @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social whose translations made it possible for me to read his novels.
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Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Literature Prize 😀
A novel by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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It’s a close call. You wouldn’t want to be stuck in a lift with any of them.
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Big piece in POLITICO asking about the independence of Ireland's process of appointing people to its Data Protection Commission. There is deep unease in Brussels about Ireland appointing a former Meta lobbyist as Meta's watchdog. Now questions about who was involved.

www.politico.eu/article/big-...
Big Tech lawyer played key role in picking Ireland’s new privacy regulator
Former Meta lobbyist Niamh Sweeney will co-lead the Irish Data Protection Commission from mid-October.
www.politico.eu
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Dunno that much has changed. They look very like the Tories from university days at St Andrews back in 1981 to me.
Tories tens of em
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Just too funny.. the abolition of stamp duty will be received like “the end of communism” huffs Tim Stanley.
The Telegraph praises Kemi
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The FT article rather proves Paul Taylor’s point that European countries would rather wrangle and snarl at each other than be effective.
Failure to agree a common defence strategy risks emboldening Vladimir Putin. The squabbles have to stop. EU pressure builds on Belgium to allow use of Russia’s frozen assets

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever insists other capitals should cover financial and legal risks of €140bn loan
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That’s why the village is stocking up on toilet roll!
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Pineapple rings! #TheArchers
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I can’t unhear it now after the start of Tuesday’s episode and Jazzer showering the pigs. 🐷