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Oliver Savory

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Personal account tweeting mainly about life, politics, and Norwich City FC. SSEES graduate, so personal interest in Central & Eastern Europe.

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · Jan 4

Beginning of my thread of films and plays I see in 2025. First up "We live in Time". Terrible name with a pretty competent first two thirds, but loses its way by the end and completely sanitises dying of cancer. Probably not worth seeing

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I've not been watching much but it sounds pretty crap and there's only so long "we're on transition" can work. We've been in transition since Farke left!

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 1d

😬 I got there in the end
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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I know that. But then why share it at all? Other than the thrill of being virtuously disapproving, what the value of sharing terrible opinions?

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no, not Tim Westwood, the man who, at my Freshers week, shouted "whose getting laid tonight", and, "what happens in freshers week stays in freshers week" at a club full of 18-19 year olds, despite being in his 50s. Who could've known?!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood charged with four counts of rape

Metropolitan police say Westwood, 68, has been charged with sexual offences against seven women The former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 68, has been charged with sexual offences against seven women, including four counts of rape, the Metropolitan police have said. More details soon … Continue reading...

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 2d

Also, like, "people from bad places are bad" it's pretty racist regardless of whether you insist that it's "just about culture"

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 2d

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 3d

I get why what Robert Jenrick says is worth discussing, but why do so many people here feel the need to comment on everything Matthew Goodwin says and does? He's a nobody! He was a bad academic and now he's a nothing. Let him sink into obscurity

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I always hate the "look at this terrible opinion I found" posts. Worst when they've anonymised it because it's like, if it's not a noteworthy person where it might be important that people know they have terrible opinions, what's even the point?

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 3d

"Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho" @ Wilton's Music Hall. Very funny, silly, camp fun. I laughed a lot. Would thoroughly recommend, but you only have until the end of the week to see it wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/mar...

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 4d

Came here to post this

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 5d

Average. What I wouldn't give for Norwich to be average!
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Defakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 5d

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ?
Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 6d

You can't take Adrian away from us!

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah. Ben Knapper talks a good game, but you have to wonder how much he genuinely believed in the strategy last season. And now it's hard to know what the strategy is. Having players "make choices" isn't a playing style

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah it was a surprise at the time. And sure, we'll never know if JHT would've been able to build something better in the way Farke did, but all this churn at the top for what?

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 6d

Sacking JHT is looking pretty premature now! #ncfc really need to fix this problem quickly, it feels like we've gone in the wrong direction

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 7d

That's one of the saddest burgers I've ever seen. There's more lettuce than meat!

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 7d

@newyorker.com what have you done with the print options for your crossword?! Please put them back to normal

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 8d

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, it was always going to come, but feels pretty inevitable now. I don't really understand why we're quite as bad as we are. Sacking JHT isn't looking quite so smart any more!

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 9d

This isn't a dig at Bob, but the thing about the "few bad apples" thing is that the rest of the saying is "spoil the barrel". It's the original "nazi bar" allegory. You have to deal with the bad apples quickly, or your whole apple barrel goes bad

Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 9d

Horrible but deeply unsurprising news. This station and the Met in general are probably among the most racist, misogynistic and violent, but don’t imagine this is a localised “few bad apples”.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 9d

What Ofsted think about anything is incredibly low down my lousy of things I care about. It's just above what pies Ipswich Town serve in their home end food kiosk

Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 9d

Love this

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 9d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 9d

I did better than Norwich yesterday
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Oliver Savory @oliverj0.bsky.social · 10d

Landmark moment for bluesky. I found out about a piece of news here before the BBC news push notification. RIP Jane Goodall