Richard Bellamy
@rbellamy.bsky.social
Writes and researches legal and political theory & sometimes Italian history. Edits Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy. Flutes, runs, reads, cooks, swims, snaps, goes to concerts, galleries, plays & films. Lives London-Exeter-Berlin-Livorno
Great to make a flying visit to my old stomping ground
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Great to make a flying visit to my old stomping ground
Manu Chao rocking Livorno
August 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Manu Chao rocking Livorno
A poignant reminder of the horrors of even just wars from s commemoration of deaths from the allied bombing of Livorno on this day in 1943 - sadly the hope that would not be repeated in plaque there remains more fragile than ever.
May 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A poignant reminder of the horrors of even just wars from s commemoration of deaths from the allied bombing of Livorno on this day in 1943 - sadly the hope that would not be repeated in plaque there remains more fragile than ever.
This hefty tome is finally out - also available on line. With many thanks to its 60 contributors and fellow editor Jeff King
May 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This hefty tome is finally out - also available on line. With many thanks to its 60 contributors and fellow editor Jeff King
Gearing up to head to Munster to debate compromise
February 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Gearing up to head to Munster to debate compromise
An enjoyable dinner after debating compromise and the representative dilemma with @danielweinstock.bsky.social as part of the UCL Dworkin Colloquium
February 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
An enjoyable dinner after debating compromise and the representative dilemma with @danielweinstock.bsky.social as part of the UCL Dworkin Colloquium
A final New Year musical treat at the amazing Piano Salon Christophori - Schubert, Brahms, Mahler with Hagar Sharvit Mezzosoprano & Marlene Heiss piano.
January 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A final New Year musical treat at the amazing Piano Salon Christophori - Schubert, Brahms, Mahler with Hagar Sharvit Mezzosoprano & Marlene Heiss piano.
An imaginative, often amusing, and beautifully sung and produced Viaggio a Reims at the Deutsche Oper
January 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
An imaginative, often amusing, and beautifully sung and produced Viaggio a Reims at the Deutsche Oper
Great klezmer themed new year concert with the komische oper orchestra at the Schiller Theater - Mahler klezmer style worked remarkably well.
January 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Great klezmer themed new year concert with the komische oper orchestra at the Schiller Theater - Mahler klezmer style worked remarkably well.
A Happy New Year to all - against all the odds may it be a year of peace, solidarity and humanity
January 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A Happy New Year to all - against all the odds may it be a year of peace, solidarity and humanity
Nico Holonics in a bravura single handed performance of The Tin Drum at the Berliner Ensemble - he sure gets through the drums ….
December 28, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Nico Holonics in a bravura single handed performance of The Tin Drum at the Berliner Ensemble - he sure gets through the drums ….
Wonderful to have Ella K Whiteley give the last of this term’s UCL Legal and Political Theory talks.
December 10, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Wonderful to have Ella K Whiteley give the last of this term’s UCL Legal and Political Theory talks.
I don't use Spotify much, but there seems to be French feel to my top play list for 2024
December 5, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I don't use Spotify much, but there seems to be French feel to my top play list for 2024
Great to have former MA LPT student Bruno Leipold return to talk to current students on his novel idea of randomly selected Constituency Juries to hold elected representatives accountable. Great paper and discussion.
November 26, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Great to have former MA LPT student Bruno Leipold return to talk to current students on his novel idea of randomly selected Constituency Juries to hold elected representatives accountable. Great paper and discussion.
Great time in McGill and start of my Canadian tour
November 12, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Great time in McGill and start of my Canadian tour
Great to have Rebecca Buxton officially kick off the Legal and Political Theory seminar today (with apologies to Adina Preda for forgetting to photograph her unofficial kick off last week). Next up Ulas Ince on 29 October
October 22, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Great to have Rebecca Buxton officially kick off the Legal and Political Theory seminar today (with apologies to Adina Preda for forgetting to photograph her unofficial kick off last week). Next up Ulas Ince on 29 October
My daughter giving me feedback from her notes after my inaugural ....
August 18, 2024 at 11:26 AM
My daughter giving me feedback from her notes after my inaugural ....
.And then in same issue they had the genuine local story about the member of the woman’s volleyball team from Piombino - who, in a heartening link to the cover story- happens to have been born in Germany to a German father ….
August 12, 2024 at 6:32 PM
.And then in same issue they had the genuine local story about the member of the woman’s volleyball team from Piombino - who, in a heartening link to the cover story- happens to have been born in Germany to a German father ….
I don’t know if local newspapers still exist in the UK. The Tirreno had this today relating a massacre by the Nazis abetted by local fascists, from which they draw apposite contemporary comments - if only one had that given the right wing riots recently rather than the poisonous idiocies of Musk.
August 12, 2024 at 6:31 PM
I don’t know if local newspapers still exist in the UK. The Tirreno had this today relating a massacre by the Nazis abetted by local fascists, from which they draw apposite contemporary comments - if only one had that given the right wing riots recently rather than the poisonous idiocies of Musk.
Great discussion at Icon-S in Madrid on constitutionalism and democracy yesterday with Aileen Kavanagh Cristina Lafont and Carmen Pavel - now back to Livorno..
July 10, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Great discussion at Icon-S in Madrid on constitutionalism and democracy yesterday with Aileen Kavanagh Cristina Lafont and Carmen Pavel - now back to Livorno..
A disconcerting 34 years later I’ve been revived - I guess Victorian values are back in fashion …. I think the cover from 1990 was classier. Thanks again to the contributors, some alas may no longer be revivable - three at least proved impossible to contact. None on here I think.
January 30, 2024 at 12:01 PM
A disconcerting 34 years later I’ve been revived - I guess Victorian values are back in fashion …. I think the cover from 1990 was classier. Thanks again to the contributors, some alas may no longer be revivable - three at least proved impossible to contact. None on here I think.
Great to have my piece on Rights, Republicanism and Democracy included in this Turkish collection of essays on Republicanism
November 21, 2023 at 10:38 AM
Great to have my piece on Rights, Republicanism and Democracy included in this Turkish collection of essays on Republicanism
Gearing up to say goodbye to Livorno for the next 8 months - am going to miss it ...
September 19, 2023 at 7:32 PM
Gearing up to say goodbye to Livorno for the next 8 months - am going to miss it ...
Greatly enjoyed seeing Luca Bassanese and the POP in Livorno Fortezza Vecchia last night - one of the best concerts I've seen for a while - Italian folk, with a Klezmer and Balkan vibe and a huge amount of energy.
September 17, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Greatly enjoyed seeing Luca Bassanese and the POP in Livorno Fortezza Vecchia last night - one of the best concerts I've seen for a while - Italian folk, with a Klezmer and Balkan vibe and a huge amount of energy.