Dr Una McIlvenna
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
I think it’s one of the most beautiful things Ive ever seen. The scene where she and the brother are leaving and she’s in this green dress which picks up on the moss covering the tower - I just gasped at the beauty. The colours everywhere! 😍
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I think it’s one of the most beautiful things Ive ever seen. The scene where she and the brother are leaving and she’s in this green dress which picks up on the moss covering the tower - I just gasped at the beauty. The colours everywhere! 😍
LOL American gas is so cheap!! We could only dream of gas that price...
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
LOL American gas is so cheap!! We could only dream of gas that price...
Ooh!! I'll have to add that one to my (extremely long) list of contrafacts to La Marseillaise!! Here's the 'Southern Marseillaise', sung by a *very* different group of people:
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Ooh!! I'll have to add that one to my (extremely long) list of contrafacts to La Marseillaise!! Here's the 'Southern Marseillaise', sung by a *very* different group of people:
Well, Mountbatten is certainly an appropriate name for the Pedophile Prince. Andrew was just keeping up a long family tradition:
![In 2019, files became public showing that the FBI knew in the 1940s of allegations that Mountbatten was homosexual and a paedophile.[140][141] The FBI file on Mountbatten, begun after he took on the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia in 1944, describes Mountbatten and his wife Edwina as "persons of extremely low morals", and contains a claim by American author Elizabeth, Baroness Decies, that Mountbatten was known to be a homosexual and had "a perversion for young boys".[138][142] Norman Nield, Mountbatten's driver from 1942 to 1943, told the tabloid New Zealand Truth that he transported young boys aged 8 to 12 who had been procured for the Admiral to Mountbatten's official residence and was paid to keep quiet.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:na7xdrvbodv3k22m5jxm37qv/bafkreievhktohivr7vwav7cowfycupmgnrck4xvr56r5zmha5l4smzzxwy@jpeg)
![. Robin Bryans had also claimed to the Irish magazine Now that Mountbatten and Anthony Blunt, along with others, were part of a ring that engaged in homosexual orgies and procured boys in their first year at public schools such as the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. Former residents of the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast have asserted that they were trafficked to Mountbatten at Classiebawn Castle, his residence in Mullaghmore, County Sligo.[143][144][145] These claims were dismissed by the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA).[146][123][147] The HIA stated that the article making the original allegations "did not give any basis for the assertions that any of these people [Mountbatten and others] were connected with Kincora".[146]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:na7xdrvbodv3k22m5jxm37qv/bafkreifuofmmcfgvq5qsk7sfjzehhoowaygjvjpqlulm3a5navs4lhustu@jpeg)
![In October 2022 Arthur Smyth, a former resident of Kincora, waived his anonymity to make allegations of child abuse against Mountbatten.[148] The allegations are part of a civil case against state authorities responsible for the care of children in Kincora.[148] Smyth claims that he was raped twice by Mountbatten in encounters facilitated by the house father of Kincora.[149] In 2025, a book reported allegations by five men that Mountbatten had raped them when they were children in Kincora.[150]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:na7xdrvbodv3k22m5jxm37qv/bafkreiep6stxtkkl54osjfexblqwopmnb7ybwtcsb4bxzxs53vv3yfxpb4@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Well, Mountbatten is certainly an appropriate name for the Pedophile Prince. Andrew was just keeping up a long family tradition:
I had never heard of Lindsey Halligan until reading this, but funnily enough, this is exactly what I thought she would look like
October 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I had never heard of Lindsey Halligan until reading this, but funnily enough, this is exactly what I thought she would look like
The Helen Lewis article in the Atlantic about the Riyadh comedy festival is superb. The section on Jimmy Carr alone should win awards.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
October 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Helen Lewis article in the Atlantic about the Riyadh comedy festival is superb. The section on Jimmy Carr alone should win awards.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Pretty standard for most Commonwealth countries, with some recent changes. UK Circuit judges in Crown court wear wig, violet robe w/ lilac facings & tippet (lilac 4 civil, red 4 crime). On ceremonial occasions, circuit judges also wear a matching hood, wig, black breeches, stockings + buckled shoes.
October 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Pretty standard for most Commonwealth countries, with some recent changes. UK Circuit judges in Crown court wear wig, violet robe w/ lilac facings & tippet (lilac 4 civil, red 4 crime). On ceremonial occasions, circuit judges also wear a matching hood, wig, black breeches, stockings + buckled shoes.
I mean, just look at this photo. Look at these crowds. What the hell does Starmer think he's doing? Does he think the public supports a ban on people asking for peace? A ban that says 'arrest grannies as terrorists'? What a colossal f*ck up.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
October 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I mean, just look at this photo. Look at these crowds. What the hell does Starmer think he's doing? Does he think the public supports a ban on people asking for peace? A ban that says 'arrest grannies as terrorists'? What a colossal f*ck up.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Hey ABC Radio National, thrilled that you've had such a good response to your Top 100 Books of the 21st century, but given that you're about to write about this quite a bit, maybe inform your reporters that a novel is a work of fiction. If it's non-fiction, it's not a novel.
October 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hey ABC Radio National, thrilled that you've had such a good response to your Top 100 Books of the 21st century, but given that you're about to write about this quite a bit, maybe inform your reporters that a novel is a work of fiction. If it's non-fiction, it's not a novel.
It was Tempest :)
October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It was Tempest :)
This is EXACTLY what I find constantly in Australia:
September 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This is EXACTLY what I find constantly in Australia:
Reason #874,098,897,034 why AI should be banned from education:
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Reason #874,098,897,034 why AI should be banned from education:
Whoever came up with McLuggage gets a prize
September 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Whoever came up with McLuggage gets a prize
So I know I'm late to the party on this, but I've just started watching Arcane: League of Legends on Netflix, and... it's maybe the most beautiful thing I've ever watched? The use of light... it's just incredible. And the art nouveau and art deco styling... I'm in awe.
September 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
So I know I'm late to the party on this, but I've just started watching Arcane: League of Legends on Netflix, and... it's maybe the most beautiful thing I've ever watched? The use of light... it's just incredible. And the art nouveau and art deco styling... I'm in awe.
Every. Single. Time.
Listen to women. Believe women.
Listen to women. Believe women.
September 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Every. Single. Time.
Listen to women. Believe women.
Listen to women. Believe women.
So this is what happens when you’re a white person in Australia who kills a black person, even when you send text messages like this right afterwards:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
September 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
So this is what happens when you’re a white person in Australia who kills a black person, even when you send text messages like this right afterwards:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
If you haven’t seen him in The Way We Were give yourself a treat and watch it - but by yourself, so you can moan with delight every time he appears on screen
September 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you haven’t seen him in The Way We Were give yourself a treat and watch it - but by yourself, so you can moan with delight every time he appears on screen
I had literally just done a bunch of screenshots of Redford in The Way We Were - perhaps the greatest clothing of one of the most beautiful men to have ever lived. The movie opens with him in sailor dress whites for chrissakes! How were we supposed to breathe??
September 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I had literally just done a bunch of screenshots of Redford in The Way We Were - perhaps the greatest clothing of one of the most beautiful men to have ever lived. The movie opens with him in sailor dress whites for chrissakes! How were we supposed to breathe??
I went to school with Jen Robertson, who plays Jocelyn Schitt in Schitt's Creek. We acted in the school play together! She's a lot of fun.
September 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I went to school with Jen Robertson, who plays Jocelyn Schitt in Schitt's Creek. We acted in the school play together! She's a lot of fun.
Well, whaddya know? Remember when you all voted Labor and were so optimistic about change? Well, this is what you voted in. Give yourselves a pat on the back.
September 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Well, whaddya know? Remember when you all voted Labor and were so optimistic about change? Well, this is what you voted in. Give yourselves a pat on the back.
Remember kids, No. 11 on the Steps to Fascism targets academics, because we are best placed to speak truth to power
September 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Remember kids, No. 11 on the Steps to Fascism targets academics, because we are best placed to speak truth to power
For those who aren’t aware, Lord Mountbatten was the King’s uncle, his mentor, and the man he admired the most. He was ‘a notorious pedophile’, according to the FBI, and everyone covered up for him (and still does).
September 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
For those who aren’t aware, Lord Mountbatten was the King’s uncle, his mentor, and the man he admired the most. He was ‘a notorious pedophile’, according to the FBI, and everyone covered up for him (and still does).
All of these replies sort of conveniently forget to mention how the UK Establishment has led the way in covering up pedophilia, because Lord Mountbatten raped so many boys…. This is what Line of Duty was all about. The rot goes all the way to the top.
September 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
All of these replies sort of conveniently forget to mention how the UK Establishment has led the way in covering up pedophilia, because Lord Mountbatten raped so many boys…. This is what Line of Duty was all about. The rot goes all the way to the top.
It just gets better as it goes on
September 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
It just gets better as it goes on