Samuel Harrison
@samharrison1812.bsky.social
Historian of political thought, Junior Fellow of the Turin Humanities Programme. Formerly Cambridge PhD. Looking at ideas about slavery and citizenship in C18 France. All views are those of my employer. he/him.
Enjoying the suggestion in this piece that Larry is now fulfilling the traditional function of the constitutional monarch www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Enjoying the suggestion in this piece that Larry is now fulfilling the traditional function of the constitutional monarch www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You mean to say San Marino's been sitting on this thing all this time and it's just never used it? What the fuck. How many lives could have been saved
August 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You mean to say San Marino's been sitting on this thing all this time and it's just never used it? What the fuck. How many lives could have been saved
Plus ça change
August 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Plus ça change
Read the article to get a sense of why imposing starvation is genocidal: it not only kills individuals but rips apart social bonds. People can't look at each other in the same way once they've hidden food from each other to feed their own families, fought each other for scraps
August 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Read the article to get a sense of why imposing starvation is genocidal: it not only kills individuals but rips apart social bonds. People can't look at each other in the same way once they've hidden food from each other to feed their own families, fought each other for scraps
Most moral army etc etc
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
August 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Most moral army etc etc
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Bizarre disinformation by the BBC. Obviously an interim report isn't going "prove" the genocide, because if it did, then there wouldn't be any need for the case, and then the report wouldn't be "interim". www.bbc.com/news/article...
August 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Bizarre disinformation by the BBC. Obviously an interim report isn't going "prove" the genocide, because if it did, then there wouldn't be any need for the case, and then the report wouldn't be "interim". www.bbc.com/news/article...
On my way back to Italy I stopped in Chambéry, capital of the Savoyard state before it was moved to Turin in 1562. If things had gone differently between 1500 and 1860, this could have been the capital of a small but significant bilingual European state, a sort of alpine Brussels...
August 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
On my way back to Italy I stopped in Chambéry, capital of the Savoyard state before it was moved to Turin in 1562. If things had gone differently between 1500 and 1860, this could have been the capital of a small but significant bilingual European state, a sort of alpine Brussels...
And, courtesy of @remcveigh.bsky.social, the strangest-looking one yet: Le Petit Prince in Bolognese
July 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
And, courtesy of @remcveigh.bsky.social, the strangest-looking one yet: Le Petit Prince in Bolognese
Continuing the theme: have now acquired Le Petit Prince in Napolitano
July 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Continuing the theme: have now acquired Le Petit Prince in Napolitano
The town of Ferrandina-Scalo, Basilicata, getting ahead of any prospective extraterrestrial invasion by pre-emptively surrendering
July 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The town of Ferrandina-Scalo, Basilicata, getting ahead of any prospective extraterrestrial invasion by pre-emptively surrendering
Re Katz's proposals for an internment camp in Gaza, worth noting that in 1948 thousands of Palestinians were confined in labour camps, often forced at gunpoint to help demolish their own villages -- might be important context if Anglophone media weren't largely staffed by Nakba-deniers
July 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Re Katz's proposals for an internment camp in Gaza, worth noting that in 1948 thousands of Palestinians were confined in labour camps, often forced at gunpoint to help demolish their own villages -- might be important context if Anglophone media weren't largely staffed by Nakba-deniers
Ahhhh for crying out loud Israel has never been "surrounded by well-armed enemies determined to do them harm" what would it take to break mainstream American journalists out of their ideological conditioning at this point
July 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Ahhhh for crying out loud Israel has never been "surrounded by well-armed enemies determined to do them harm" what would it take to break mainstream American journalists out of their ideological conditioning at this point
"Everybody thought he was going to be a more competent version of the Tories" is giving the game away a little bit, no?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
July 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"Everybody thought he was going to be a more competent version of the Tories" is giving the game away a little bit, no?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Stunning set of results, completely inscrutable, congratulations to all involved
April 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Stunning set of results, completely inscrutable, congratulations to all involved
It's l'Anniversario della liberazione d'Italia today so I like many others went to the Sacrario del Martinetto, where members of the Piemontese resistance were executed by fascist firing squads
April 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It's l'Anniversario della liberazione d'Italia today so I like many others went to the Sacrario del Martinetto, where members of the Piemontese resistance were executed by fascist firing squads
Hard to argue with this
March 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hard to argue with this
Me after another day of shirking my most important writing commitments
March 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Me after another day of shirking my most important writing commitments
Posting this because I found the comte de Volney saying the same thing unironically about Arabic
March 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Posting this because I found the comte de Volney saying the same thing unironically about Arabic
I'm in New York at the moment. Reckon we'll see the Empire State Building lit up for these kids? No?
March 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I'm in New York at the moment. Reckon we'll see the Empire State Building lit up for these kids? No?
Drama in the French parliamentary archives
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Drama in the French parliamentary archives
It's all very well complaining now about media capitulation to Trump's fake reality, but they've been laying the groundwork for it in their Middle Eastern coverage for years. Case in point: you can't just unilaterally set up a "security zone" in another country! That's called an occupation!
February 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It's all very well complaining now about media capitulation to Trump's fake reality, but they've been laying the groundwork for it in their Middle Eastern coverage for years. Case in point: you can't just unilaterally set up a "security zone" in another country! That's called an occupation!
This compliment might be more meaningful had it not come from a man notorious for his incapacity to string two sentences together
February 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This compliment might be more meaningful had it not come from a man notorious for his incapacity to string two sentences together
Nirvana is a place with adequate state capacity
January 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Nirvana is a place with adequate state capacity