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

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

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 5h

The Nobel Peace Prize committee's decision to honour someone who has tirelessly campaigned against dictatorship is both worthwhile and welcome, and objectively very funny.

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

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

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

Thank God for that! #NobelPeacePrize

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Tony Hancock @tonyhancock.bsky.social · 6h

Sid: I’ve never known anyone so finicky over their car as you are. I haven’t cleaned my car for three years

Tony: That’s only so that any witnesses won’t be able to tell what colour it is. It’s a disgrace your car is. You have to feel along the door to find where the handle is!

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Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 @rossaverde.bsky.social · 11h

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

Venice opera house staff to strike over hiring of Meloni-linked conductor

La Fenice’s musicians and staff claim Beatrice Venezi lacks experience and was picked because of government ties

www.theguardian.com

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

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘A fatal blow’: Italian producers fear effects of Trump’s ‘war against pasta’

US president’s threat to impose 92% tariffs targeting major manufacturers puts family-run firms in the line of fire as well

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

The National Union of Journalists condemns the Conservative Party's decision to ban myself and David Hencke from their conference as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"

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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

From "reassuringly dull" to the "man of the moment", Robert Jenrick is causing quite a stir in the Conservative Party...

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

Hoping to find time after the podcasts to watch #CelebrityTraitors. Anything to avoid Trump …

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

#LUFC

Paris 75 review – passionate fans-eye view reanimates tales of the 70s Leeds United golden years

Revisiting forgotten storms over Leeds’ European cup final defeat 50 years on, this unashamedly partisan take unearths a lost era of team loyalty

www.theguardian.com

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

John Crace always reassures me that I haven’t quite lost my sense of reality despite the best efforts of the media

Badenoch enjoys her first, and probably last, Tory conference leader’s speech | John Crace

The audience cheered and clapped to convince themselves the whole thing hadn’t been a waste of time

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

🚨Spoiler alert!

The Celebrity Traitors review – this star-packed bonanza is all you’ll be able to care about

It’s everything you want from the gameshow, but with loads of famous faces. And at one point, it feels like you’re witnessing like the last pure moment in history. Beautiful

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Hancock @tonyhancock.bsky.social · 1d

You're never alone with a pilchard!

#TheBowmans

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

£12 billion when you factor in stamp duty.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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

I always feel reassured that I haven’t lost all faith in Labour when I find myself getting angry at Tory attacks #KemiBadenochSpeech

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

Oh she’s got four flags … 🙄 #KemiBadenoch

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Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 2d

Whoops! Seems the ONS has overestimated govt borrowing by £3bn. Rare bit of good news for Rachel Reeves.

Story by @guardianheather.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Rachel Reeves given extra £3bn for budget after VAT error fixed

ONS says public borrowing estimates have been out by £200m-£500m a month since January

www.theguardian.com

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

The new intro music and graphics for #PoliticsLive are like something off Alan Partridge. North Norfolk Digital?

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

Yes I do! Another Goalhanger pod with presenters who really work well together. Keep meaning to try the Rest is History

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

Podcasts finished for the day, so now got to try and get a few jobs out of the way before Kemi speech at 11 (Rory Stewart and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social very good on the future of the Tories in @therestpolitics.bsky.social btw)

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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 2d

📊 Ref lead of 7pts
Westminster voting intention

REF: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDEM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)

via @YouGov, 05 - 06 Oct
Chgs. w/ 29 Sep
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