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Sharon O'Dea

@sharonodea.com

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Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder Lithos Partners, DWXS and 300 Seconds. Gym bore. Takes too many photos of Amsterdam.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · May 23

🎉 Big news: I’m writing a book!

Digital Communications at Work is a practical guide for folks managing intranets, apps & comms channels. It’s packed with case studies, tips & lessons from the coalface. Co-authored with @digitaljonathan.bsky.social, published by Kogan Page, it’ll be out in 2026.

A woman with brown hair (me) sits behind a laptop covered with stickers

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 6h

On the one hand, it’s reassuring to know she’s unlikely to make it to Christmas, let alone as far as the GE. On the other, all the replacement candidates are at least as bad. And one of them is Jenrick.

Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 7h

Any detail on how they're going to find £15bn a year that currently comes from stamp duty? (that's 1.5% of total tax receipts)

a bunch of crickets chirping in the sand

ALT: a bunch of crickets chirping in the sand

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 7h

Yup. A whole thing about how benefits will only go to people with serious mental illness, "not anxiety". And yes, motability cars "won't go to people with ADHD".

Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 7h

"There's a big barrier that stops people buying their own home... and that's stamp duty"

No it isn't. It's that houses are too expensive relative to incomes.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 7h

Her much-trailed golden rule is... saving money and growing the economy.

Wow, how has no one thought of THAT before?

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 7h

This is seriously weak sauce stuff. Desperately blaming public spending on motability cars being given out like Smarties to people with ADHD.

This will be news to anyone who's had to jump through hoops to get a ECHP for a special needs child.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 7h

Kemi complains about Labour's magic money tree on spending then less than a minute later makes three pledges to cut taxes without explaining how it'll be paid for.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 8h

It's absolutely nuts. How do they not understand our economy? The creative industry adds £124bn to the economy. Universities contribute £265bn. Sea fishing is variable but hovers around £500mn, ie £0.5bn. Steel is £1.8bn direct, £2.4 indirect (via supply chains).

These people simply cannot count.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 9h

I didn't write the clickbait headline. And your point is the critical one here; judging the usefulness or otherwise of a degree purely by the earnings of its graduates is nonsense. Society needs teachers, social workers and artists as well as bankers.

Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 10h

Exactly. University is about learning how to learn. The half-life of a hard skill is now about two years, so having the capacity to research and re-learn is more important than ever. Which you get from any good degree, whether engineering or anthropology.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 11h

This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable.

Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 1d

Failing to support proportional representation might go down as the second-biggest error of the Cameron government (after holding a referendum to put the EU issue to bed for good).

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Psephologist Sir John Curtice told a Demos-sponsored event at the Conservative Party conference fringe that the Lib Dems “will almost undoubtedly win more seats” than the Tories at the next GE.

“The LD vote is now more geographically concentrated than your vote.”

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 2d

Weeknote (for the Monday morning shift): Storm Amy, stalled projects, sideways rain, Little Simz, Swifties, transition as a hopeful form of collapse, and the sense everything’s shifting again. Autumn in Amsterdam, Japan on the horizon.

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Weeknote 2025/40

Autumnal Amsterdam. Photo: Sharon O’Dea Some weeks feel like a hinge — the quiet click between what was and what comes next. This was one of them. Projects paused, others reignited, the to-do…

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 2d

Weeknote 40: Storm Amy, stalled projects, sideways rain, Little Simz, Swifties, and the sense everything’s shifting again. Autumn in Amsterdam, Japan on the horizon.

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Weeknote 2025/40

Autumnal Amsterdam. Photo: Sharon O’Dea Some weeks feel like a hinge — the quiet click between what was and what comes next. This was one of them. Projects paused, others reignited, the to-do…

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 4d

Oh I’d forgotten that daft twat existed since I left the Bad Place. He can tweet out his list till the end of time - and even put it in book form - but the nunber of people who believe it’s anything other than a shitshow is tiny and dwindling.

Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 4d

When I was in-house agencies used to pay thousands for tables at award dinners for us because winning an award meant the subsequent leadership vanity would mean they’d get sign-off to use us as a public case study.

Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 4d

Well yes but I’m not the one who had my mortgage paid off by 40.

Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 4d

My sister and I are like that (still, even in our 40s). She’s tracks every penny. I… do not.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 5d

It’s not really the point but as a working Peer Glassman is obliged to wear a lanyard on the Parliamentary estate.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 5d

Happy Mean Girls Day to all who celebrate

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 5d

I watched that at the cinema witjiut reading up and got 15 mins in before realising it was a horror. That was a mistake.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 5d

I have this one. The loops slide over my suitcase handle.

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Kånken Laptop 15"

Classic Kånken backpack with a separate, padded 15” laptop compartment. Produced without PFAS.

www.fjallraven.com

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 8d

Exactly this. You can get a latte in Greggs for £2, and every cafe has had a half decent coffee machine for maybe 20 years now?

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 8d

My pet peeve is digs at “latte drinkers” by people who seem to think The Poors consume only tea and Nescafé.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 8d

Over half of Brits do not meet these conditions, and the tax paid by immigrants pays for it.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d

Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering

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