Richard T Kelly
@RichTKelly
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Novelist @FaberBooks, teacher @FaberAcademy, Associate Professor leading the MA Publishing @NorthumbriaUni. Latest novel THE BLACK EDEN in paperback now.
Mostly London
Joined October 2010
My novel The Black Eden returns in paperback from @FaberBooks next Thursday! Nothing else on that day, right? 😉But please bear it in mind for your summer reading. And thanks again to kind reviewers first time out: @chrisdeerin, @jennycolgan, @judecook_ , @KiberdRory inter alia.
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Jade's breaking the mould and getting into welding - a great option with a great future. To find out more on opportunities visit Post-18 options at North East Ambition 👉 https://t.co/9fj2oew1n5
#thisisanewdeal Get involved 👉 https://t.co/8hub2CljI8
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This would be fantastic. The first bit of kite flying that makes me feel really positive about growth. It's about shrinking the power of central government, giving local places more freedom and accountability, and freeing up places to thrive. Brilliant if true.
Exclusive from @MaxKendix Rachel Reeves is expected to announce plans for a new nightly levy for British holidaymakers and foreign tourists on hotel stays and Airbnb-style rentals The chancellor is set to give mayors sweeping powers to raise taxes by charging tourists on the
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What counts as breaking Labour's manifesto pledge to not 'increase taxes on working people'? @HelenMiller_IFS and @DanNeidle discuss whether 2p on income tax and 2p off Employee National Insurance would count, from our live podcast. 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/0SWMcKdGMU
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About 9months ago I had a really frustrating call with people in the UK government following years of frustrating meetings with people in the UK government. An archive of the UK's bus open data, the location of every bus in real time, was going to be too hard to release,...
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Scott Alexander @slatestarcodex, taking off from a fictional story, writes, "My own view is that we have many problems - some even rising to the level of crisis - but none are yet so completely unsolvable that we should hate society and our own lives and spiral into permanent
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Sullenberger-level decision-making here, showing the intuitive human ability to make good snap decisions in response to freak events.
Excl: The driver of the train who made the emergency stop in Huntingdon, Andrew Johnson, told ITV News tonight that he was “just doing my job”. But he surely saved lives. He says the member of LNER staff still in hospital with life-threatening injuries “was the brave one”.
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Another shot from last weekend's early morning trip to #Newcastle. St. Mary's Cathedral and Central Station in the foreground, with St. Nicholas' Cathedral, All Saints, Newcastle Castle and The Tyne Bridge lurking behind in the mist.
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I appreciate the sentiment here, but if govt changed the design the same people opposing the one on the left would still oppose the one on the right. It’s easy to pretend to like a hypothetical viaduct but as soon as it becomes real they reveal their true preference for neither
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Cathedral of Learning (1926) Pittsburgh, PA America’s tallest academic building, the Gothic Revival-Art Deco skyscraper was designed by architect Charles Klauder to serve as the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh campus.
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Chagos bill in Parliament today. Here’s a reminder of some its flaws… 🧵
The closest thing to a ‘steel man’ case for the Chagos deal was that India - a Mauritian ally - would refuse to cooperate with the UK until BIOT was handed over. But now India’s done a trade deal with the UK anyway, because it was in their own interest. So, that rationale’s gone.
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Literary undergrads would certainly get their 15 credits' worth out of this module.
I took the surviving syllabus of W. H. Auden's 1941 "Hardest Class in the Humanities" (6,000 pages of reading, memorization of poems, etc.) & turned it into an annotated site with all the readings. (Would have taken hours, instead it was 4 prompts) Here: https://t.co/y94UkexBRs
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🚨EXCLUSIVE The firm at the heart of Britain's critical minerals strategy has ditched plans for a rare earths refinery in the UK, and will build it in the US instead. It's a serious blow to the Chancellor and her plans for "securonomics" ahead of next month's Budget👇
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A good time to remind the world that Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado has been in hiding in Venezuela since Edmundo Gonzalez won the presidential election in 2024 and Maduro rigged the votes. Machado's main allies have been imprisoned or exiled, but still she stands.
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Imagine writing "mine is the only generation with disposable income" and thinking that this justified fiscal transfers to you.
Yesterday I went to Felixstowe. All the cafes, restaurants and pubs were full. Of pensioners. Like me. Last week, we went to Bressingham gardens. All the visitors were pensioners. Like me. Afterwards we went for a pub lunch. All the customers were pensioners. Like me.
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Good thought experiment here from Tom Forth: if you believe London's economy is being harmed by tube strikes this week, then you should also believe that other UK cities' economies are held back *every day* by not having metro systems.
London Underground strikes are a great chance for economists in that city to think about whether the wider discipline typically over-values skills vs. effective city size mediated by good infrastructure as factors leading to city agglomeration benefits. 👍
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