Paddy O'Connell
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R4 R2. views? schmews.
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Joined January 2010
The online world now divides between those who’ve watched Charlie Kirk’s murder on screen and those who have not - it crops up with no warning and seems to me to be a new age - anyone else finding this ?
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"Good, Occasionally Rhyming: A History of the Shipping Forecast" at St Michael & All Angels Church, Chiswick on Saturday 13th September 2025 at 11:30AM. Tickets! I'm hosting this!
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Tickets are now available for Good, Occasionally Rhyming: A History of the Shipping Forecast at St Michael & All Angels Church, Chiswick on Saturday 13th September 2025. Click the link for further...
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EXCLUSIVE: Newsnight filmed a drone dropping a large package into HMP Wandsworth prison. This was filmed at 3.30am on 21 June behind the category B men's prison, which houses sex offenders and terrorists. #Newsnight
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What the world needs is another pod. Newscast - Labour v The Unions - BBC Sounds
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Angela Rayner has been accused of not defending working people by a trade union boss.
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Labour MP tells me after PMQs: There is a lot of movement outside the PM’s office [in the commons]. Something is going on
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💥 #Newsnight’s audience share broke new records last night 💥 It’s the highest it’s been since the new format was launched May 2024 💥Thank you so much for watching - on YouTube, on social media & on TV
“I think it’s a really good result...” “A lot of MPs in the Chamber were saying what on Earth is happening here…” “I think the markets will be worried going forward." @vicderbyshire hears reaction from MPs following the Government's welfare reform bill vote. #Newsnight
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NEW Noises off? Well the noises are of a deal/ compromise. Nick Watt has heard of the outline of a deal… Minister tells @BBCNewsnight about conversations with backbenchers who are very concerned about PIP cuts… More on nuclear test scandal too Tune in, in 15 mins
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Assisted dying passes by 314 votes to 291 Or, if you prefer, British politics’s favourite ratio: 52-48
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Pod ? - Israel-Iran: The World Reacts - BBC Sounds
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And Iran warns the UK, US and France not to help Israel.
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Hello adopted Twitter a friend of mine in her 70s has just met her birth mother who is aged 94. Unusual ?
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Hello ! I'm fundraising for RMA - The Royal Marines Charity. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving
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Help Paddy O'Connell raise money to support RMA - The Royal Marines Charity
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Newscast - Ex MI6 Chief On The Future of UK Defence - BBC Sounds
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We speak the man who was ‘C’ as the UK commits to increasing defence spending.
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Celebrating 15 years since the publication of Slow Horses, the first novel in his brilliant Slough House series, Mick Herron will be in conversation with @bbcpaddy on 17 June and we'd love you to join us. Hear more about Jackson Lamb and his motley crew: https://t.co/FyOcq5bX5X
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I am hosting this tonight @BBCNewsnight
“I think he’s running a cult.” Ex-Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe, who claims he was the victim of a “brutal” smear campaign by Reform, tells #Newsnight that Nigel Farage is “not fit to be wielding” the “power of the British state.”
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When I grow up I want to be @cerysmatthews her @BBCRadio2 programme ends right now and she’s amazing
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Newscast - India and Pakistan Agree Ceasefire / Pod ?
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And European leaders push for another for Ukraine.
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