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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻

@rossaverde.bsky.social

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Politics (red/green) Convinced Remainer. Enjoy reading, particularly crime fiction and C19th literature. Love Italy and Yorkshire. Can get ranty about car culture. Have Parkinson’s and Distal Peripheral Polyneuropathy #facciamorete Born 310ppm

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 5h

What a mess, eh? Grovel to the Yanks for no benefit, and Brexit means we don’t have the communal support of our fellow Europeans. And still we delude ourselves

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 5h

Special relationship, eh?

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, very much. Schiavone is an interesting character, good plots and a background story that develops over time. There’s also a TV series which has been shown on Channel 4

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 12h

Trevor Phillips on Sky about Trump and the Nobel Peace Prize: “Even long-time critics are conceding he will probably deserve it next year.”

I really don't think that's true. By any normal metric, Trump would and should be the very last person to win the prize, and many people realise that.

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 12h

Morning Deb! At the moment my Italian book (chapter a day) is one of the Rocco Schiavone series by Antonio Manzini. My English book is the latest in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 14h

That’s good! Just about to tune in

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 14h

From 7am @lbc.co.uk: China Friend or Foe? Politicians haven't made up their minds in 40 years, have you? Starmer's going to blame Brexit and Farage for UK's economic crisis to justify tax rises apparently, but will anyone believe him? With 2.5m Brits on weight loss jobs, are diets dead? 0345 6060973

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 17h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 17h

Will be getting in hard copy to add to my collection! 🤞🏻it’s coming out on Kindle too though … illness means holding physical books quite hard going now ☹️

Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 18h

Hurrah it’s Sunday - an extra hour reading in bed followed by @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk 🎉

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 18h

Good morning Bluesky. I managed to wake up around 11, hear a few minutes of @nickabbot.bsky.social and then fall asleep again! Then when I did wake up it was to James Hanson - quickly switched to #BBCWorldService.

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Tony Hancock @tonyhancock.bsky.social · 23h

I love Saturdays, best day of the week. No work, the weekend to look forward to, and Saturday night coming up! The big night! The one bright spot in a week of unrelieved gloom! The one part of life's tragic panorama that I can really put up with!

#SaturdayNight

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

I realise I slightly go on about this, but I'm not sure enough attention is paid to the fact that a fair proportion of comment articles in the modern Daily Telegraph are utterly unmoored from any sense of even tenuous reality.

Daniel Hannan

Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside

The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite

Contemplate those elderly buffoons in blue berets who hand out EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms. Do you suppose they have any real interest in rejoining the EU? Do they strike you as having looked into the budgetary, migratory and commercial implications? Of course not. They just loathe the people they imagine having voted Leave.

Listen to Sir Lenny Henry, who thinks that, as well as handing over squillions to the West Indies and Africa, we should pay black people in this country. So much for the notion of equality before the law.

I could go on. The museums rushing to give away legally purchased collections to people who have never owned them, and who will very probably sell them on to private collectors. The diplomats longing to surrender British territories in defiance of the wishes of their peoples. The universities eviscerating the Western canon in the name of decolonising the curriculum.

“Colonialism-and-slavery” is proffered as a binomial phrase, like “law-and-order” or “gin-and-tonic”. Few kids in our schools are given the slightest notion that the first, at least in Africa, was driven by the desire to extirpate the second. Even fewer are taught that African kings fought to defend the institution.

The Benin Bronzes, which our cultural leaders are so keen to give away, were seized to defray the costs of an 1897 expedition against a state that buried slaves alive. The British Museum, which owns most of them, dares not mention it. Instead it says the carvings were acquired during the “expansion of colonial power”

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Allotment Cats @allotmentcat.bsky.social · 1d

(Amanda)
I can't stop eating.
Ever since I got locked in the garage all I want to do is eat.
Colin gave me my supper and when Auntie Sammy came she gave me another one. I ate them both of course.
I know they feel sorry for me so I'm making the most of it.
Do you blame me?

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine the aim is to build a resort strip, catering for the rich, carefully screened from satellite settlements providing services for the resort. Something on those lines anyway.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 1d

stop thinking right now

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 1d

Shocker.

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Jacqui! Yes, you’re probably right!

Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to @matthew-wright.bsky.social for featuring the latest Boris story in his papers review.! Meanwhile the @lbc.co.uk news bulketin prefers to report Blair meeting Epstein …

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 1d

@lbc.co.uk from 7: are skools controlled by Marxists who teach kids to hate Britain or is Farage peddling nonsense again? As conference season closes pollsters predict a future of coalition governments. And as fans bade Ricky Hatton farewell, we’ll reflect on UK’s mental health crisis 0345 6060973

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on an AI bubble: capitalism still hasn’t evolved to protect itself | Editorial

Editorial: Warnings about inflated tech stocks suggest investors never learn and central bankers learn too late

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 1d

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I saw desperation at the Tory conference – but all traditional parties may be in this position soon | Andy Beckett

The feeling of crisis in Manchester also afflicts Labour and the Lib Dems. It leaves voters facing a dangerously unstable political order, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Imagine the media attention to this story if it concerned … well almost anybody apart from ‘Boris’

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Bluesky - did my usual thing of waking up for the first five minutes of @nickabbot.bsky.social then finding myself waking up again for the last five minutes! Grr. Still, now got a good few hours reading time before @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk 📚📰📻☕️🥐

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 2d

Watched the first two #CelebrityTraitors Wasn’t sure I would like a celebrity version but it’s very good