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aiannucci.bsky.social
Armando Iannucci
@aiannucci.bsky.social
130K followers 300 following 310 posts
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 12d
Myself and Stewart Lee examining Free Speech, censorship and ‘Hurty Words.’ #StrongMessageHere
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 13d
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Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d
Dear Gods of all that is stupid...

IT'S REAL.
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 6d
OPINION TODAY featured podcast —
The Battle for the Soul of the Country: @aiannucci.bsky.social is at the Labour Party conference and is joined by Newscast’s Adam Fleming to chat all things conference.
(Strong Message Here)
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 6d
New #StrongMessageHere is here.
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 6d
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Strong Message Here - The Battle for the Soul of the Country - BBC Sounds
Armando Iannucci is up in Liverpool to decode the language of party conferences.
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 6d
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Strong Message Here - The Battle for the Soul of the Country - BBC Sounds
Armando Iannucci is up in Liverpool to decode the language of party conferences.
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TensegrityFan🍋🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 8d
#AlexdendalPartridge

#AccidentalPartridge

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8d
Overheard at Labour conference: “isn’t that Armando Iannucci? What is he doing?”
Two men stood on a step ladder facing each other. One of whom is “2004: The Stupid Version” funster Armando Iannucci
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Brandon Schorsch @bschorshy.bsky.social · 9d
Dreaming of @aiannucci.bsky.social Time Trumpet's vision of Tony Blair in 2031 to come true rather than this horrible nightmare Tony & Co have drafted
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 12d
Myself and Stewart Lee examining Free Speech, censorship and ‘Hurty Words.’ #StrongMessageHere
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 13d
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
www.bbc.co.uk
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somecandytalking2 #FBPE (Hampshire, U.K.) @somecandytalking2.bsky.social · 11d
'THIS' is a highly recommended listen!

Thank you Armando Iannuccii & Stuart Lee.
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 12d
Myself and Stewart Lee examining Free Speech, censorship and ‘Hurty Words.’ #StrongMessageHere
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 13d
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cr @ciaranryan.bsky.social · 10d
Amusing humour, under which we can hear the horror in @aiannucci.bsky.social and Lee's voices as they witness / experience the developing catastrophe... or perhaps I'm just projecting

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Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 19d
Hopefully there is now a clear understanding across govt that unless the two-child limit is scrapped, there will be more kids in poverty at the end of this parliament than when Labour took office. The policy must go in the child poverty strategy before the life chances of many more kids are damaged.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19d
Scrapping of two-child benefit cap closer as Bridget Phillipson attacks ‘spiteful’ policy
Scrapping of two-child benefit cap closer as Bridget Phillipson attacks ‘spiteful’ policy
Exclusive: Clearest sign yet No 10 is preparing to ditch policy as its preferred deputy leadership hopeful says issue is ‘profoundly personal’ * UK politics live – latest updates Ministers are a step closer to abandoning the two-child benefit cap after Downing Street’s preferred candidate to be Labour’s deputy leader said the policy was “spiteful” and had “punished and pushed children into hardship”. Bridget Phillipson said the cap’s abolition was “on the table” – the clearest sign yet that Downing Street is preparing to scrap the controversial policy. Continue reading...
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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 22d
🚨 NEW: One million children in working families are affected by the two-child limit, new analysis by @cpaguk.bsky.social
has revealed.

3 in 5 families impacted by the two-child limit are working, while a large majority who are not working have young children or are ill or disabled.

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Two-child benefit cap is 'punishing' working families, Labour warned
Families hit by the two-child limit on benefits describe how "the system is truly unfair" for those with more than three children.
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drive-in-radio.bsky.social @drive-in-radio.bsky.social · 12d
it's brightened my day, this has.

a tonic.

in this mad mad mad mad world that we have now, i feel slightly saner.

thanks fellas
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 13d
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 12d
OPINION TODAY featured podcast —
With Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, and in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, free speech is in the spotlight again. Stewart Lee and @aiannucci.bsky.social discuss ‘hurty words.’
(Strong Message Here)
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Jarvis @jarvob.bsky.social · 12d
“This” is worth 30 mins of your time, @mainewrexhamfan.bsky.social
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 13d
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Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Sameer Padania @sdp.bsky.social · 12d
On above, see @aiannucci.bsky.social & Stewart Lee on “consequence culture” (also kudos for the term “patriotic fatberg”):

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Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 12d
Myself and Stewart Lee examining Free Speech, censorship and ‘Hurty Words.’ #StrongMessageHere
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 13d
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
www.bbc.co.uk
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jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 13d
Essential listening right now ⬇️
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 13d
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Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 13d
If you like excellent craic with your etymology then hard not to recommend this @aiannucci.bsky.social podcast

(Even better if you're a fan of his ouvre)

Episode this week is on the phrase Hurty Words (of Lucy Connolly fans) & co-presented alongside Stewart Lee.

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BBC Sounds - Strong Message Here - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Strong Message Here on BBC Sounds.
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 13d
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Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds
Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.
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David Hawkins-Weeks @hawkinsweeks.bsky.social · 17d
So good to have this series back again with Armando Iannucci and guest co-host, Ria Lina & so on the money about where we are at politically in the UK: Strong Message Here, Phase 2 buff.ly/i0E3gLa #UKPolitics
Phase 2
Podcast Episode · Strong Message Here · 18/09/2025 · 29m
buff.ly
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 20d
OPINION TODAY featured podcast —
The political summer is often called 'silly season', but with global conflict and rising tensions at home, @aiannucci.bsky.social and @rialina.com look at the language that defined recent months.
(Strong Message Here)
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 20d
Yes, alas Helen is detained in America. Not for criminal reasons but because her day-job at @theatlantic is currently full-on. You will hear from her in this week’s episode, though. Listen out …
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 20d
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Strong Message Here - Phase 2 - BBC Sounds
'Phase 2' and more language from a fraught political summer.
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Neil Drysdale @neildrysdale.bsky.social · 22d
Armando Iannucci and “The Thick of It” team wrote an episode based around the phrase “the man for the moment” which led to Malcolm Tucker explaining the need for a “lockdown”. That was first broadcast in 2009 and was a lot funnier than how reality has turned out!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23d
Danny Kruger, "I was there through the Brexit battles.. And had to get Brexit through"

"I remain enormously proud of Boris Johnson, he was the man for the moment"

"Brexit was a prelude to properly grip the system of Whitehall and restore the government to the people"
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 25d
Looks like free-speech absolutism is relative.
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 25d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting
Teachers, firefighters and military personnel among those who lost jobs after posting their opinion on social media
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