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Nικος Ξυδιας

@greekbluenose.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, Bluenose, Cypriot and barrister.

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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I will raise a glass for my Bappou (grandad) tonight. He volunteered to join the Cypriot regiment during WW2 to help the British forces. Was captured by the Nazis but survived to tell the tale. Kept his medals in an old shoe box and would shun talk of heroism.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Lamb kleftico! To be continued…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Just in case you were wondering how things are going over at The Spectator, in the opening months of the Paul Marshall/ Michael Gove golden era... These were all published on Monday.
Screengrab of Spectator piece: "Steerpike: 
Labour’s hypocrisy over Jess Phillips attacks
6 January 2025, 2:17pm"Screengrab of Spectator piece: "Ed West: 
Why Elon Musk cares about Britain’s sinking reputation 
6 January 2025, 12:19pm"Screengrab of Spectator piece: "Rod Liddle: 
What has the BBC got against Tommy Robinson?
6 January 2025, 4:12pm"Screengrab of Spectator piece: "Michael Taube: 
Justin Trudeau was Canada’s worst ever prime minister
6 January 2025, 4:48pm"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Trump is a kind of cancer broadcast. The closer we get to the inauguration, the more deafening it becomes. Racist bilge in the UK, infecting even mainstream news sources. Facebook dismantling accuracy standards.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
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Gregg @greggc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Lewis Goodall absolutely nails it here.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Me, checking in on LinkedIn
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas, all. Enjoy X
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Out of Office : On
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Copper Fox remains elite. 🙌
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
When is this country going to see sense and introduce a fast lane on pavements for faster walkers?
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“After the Party” on Channel 4 is excellent tv. Highly recommended.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Bailey Peacock Farrell’s agent should win BBC Sports Personality of the Year for getting him a 4 year deal at Blues.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Good evening from Dads Lane 👀
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Lunch at the beautiful La Bellezza in Chamberlain Square
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barbararogan.bsky.social @barbararogan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
DO NOT give your money to Jeff Bezos. He has plenty. Make a list of the books you want to buy as gifts and buy or order from a local bookstore...if you want those stores to continue to exist.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Stew, mash, Guinness 😍 Who’s in?
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Kellen Becoats @kellenbecoats.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
City without Rodri is like when they unmask the scary creature in a Scooby Doo episode and it's just the town's mayor with a gambling addiction
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A great first day as Gregg Wallace’s PR guy.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Game day! Up for the Cup 🙌
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
It’s starting to look a lot like….
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
In Britain they’d be about a quarter of the way through planning permission by now, confronting a gaggle of local retirees with too much time on their hands who never wanted a cathedral there anyway.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Light lunch 👀
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The new asylum stats show the impact of the Labour government unblocking the asylum system. More initial interviews took place in both August & September than during the last government's backlog clearance. In June there were 1,157 interviews - August there were 10,327 and September 11,540.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 26/11/2024
Spot on. Comprehensive pedestrianisation should be far higher up the agenda in our cities than it is. Nearly wherever cars go, cities get worse. Nearly wherever they’re removed, those urban spaces flourish.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Brumrise 😎
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
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Verity Milligan @veritymilligan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Something new for day 48 of my futile one-woman crusade to keep real images popping up on your feed rather than AI (in The Bad Place) Late autumn in Clent. A little bit of atmosphere and the beech trees absolutely putting on a show! Woodland is tricky but the only way to improve is to keep at it.
Clent is full of different diversities of trees and foliages but here we stand in front of the famous Beech trees. Deep into the middle of November they should be all but bare for the coming winter but a warm and sunless start to the month has kept them in stasis, waiting for the weather to turn. Fog was in the forecast and it seemed to be everywhere but where I was standing. 

The light was weak till long past 10am until finally it broke through and illuminated the orange and brown colours of the trees standing in front of me! With a big dose of healthy excitement I ran around the woodland but kept coming back to this beech in particular. There’s just about enough fog left to separate it out form the background, but the way the branches spiral down, full of colour, pulled me in. There is something inviting about the warm colours and the carpet of leaves, beckoning you deeper into the copse. 

Woodland doesn’t come easy, but the only way to improve at something is to keep trying, keep adjusting, ignore the doubt and keep at your own journey.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The most expensively assembled third tier team ever has been outmanoeuvred by a coach who looks like a band manager from Spinal Tap going through a messy divorce.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Doctor Who day, and I’m thinking about my friend Keith Carter who once saw Tom Baker emerging from a phone box in Edinburgh and shouted “Been anywhere nice, Tom?” and got a resounding “fuck off!”
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New manager bounce, poor weather, inevitable low block today.. Let’s see if our lot fancy it and more importantly whether we can be sufficiently ruthless. #UTFB
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Game day! #UTFB
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Stephen Kasiewicz @skasiewicz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Francis, Vialli, Souness. Wonderful photo from the Sampdoria glory days. Pic from Sampdoria Anni 80.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
They sold almost *NINE THOUSAND* bottles of Captain Tom branded gin? I'm in the wrong game, man: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Limited edition gin and the agreement with Otterbeck Distillery:
In May 2022, prior to the opening of the inquiry the Commission became aware that a ‘Captain Tom limited edition barrel aged gin’ by Otterbeck Distillery (‘the Distillery’) was being advertised on the Distillery’s website for £100 a bottle with ‘all profits’ of the sale going to the charity. In addition to the limited edition gin, a regular ‘Captain Tom Gin’ for £35.95 a bottle was also available.

As stated in the Code of Fundraising Practice (‘the Code’) and required by section 60 of the Charities Act 1992, charities must have a written agreement in place with any commercial participator they work with to fundraise. A commercial participator is a company that, as a regular part of its everyday business, engages in a promotional venture a charity will benefit from. Any statement which implies that money will be paid to a charity from the sale of a product must also specify the exact amount of money that will be donated (this is called a solicitation statement). Trustees must make sure any fundraising activity their charity undertakes complies with the law.

Following engagement with the trustees during the earlier regulatory compliance case on the issue, on 20 May 2022 they confirmed that there was no written agreement in place detailing the arrangement between the charity and the Distillery for the limited edition gin. However, the inquiry did find that a written agreement was in place for the regular gin and that as per the agreement, the charity received a £1 donation per bottle sold which raised £8,960 for the charity.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Rate my mug ?
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If only there was a small sign that my Dad’s uncle was a Nazi sympathiser.
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Not a classic. Tony Adams’ coat the highlight so far.
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Midnight Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I warned you there'd be dad jokes.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
the Guardian is now officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’m liking it on here. Going to enjoy this time before Matt Le Tiss arrives. 😂
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Ladies, we are going to make you happy and healthy again.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Analysis of why Trump won which ignores the fact that the far right have been pumping algorithm-fuelled hate through Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube for years is deeply unserious. We have QAnon politicians in office, for goodness‘ sake. Many people’s connection with reality has been shattered.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Stating the obvious here but if this report cleared Gaetz’s name, they’d eagerly release it in the name of “transparency”
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
There have been so many arrivals over the past few days, and so many first rate football writers among them, that I don't think it unnecessary to re-post a link to this updated starter pack which has now well over 100 entries (compared to 40 a week ago). go.bsky.app/LkYr5cE
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Daniel Ivery @almajir.net · 15/11/2024
I’m sleeping out at St Andrews next month to raise money for underprivileged children. I know how expensive this time of year is for people, but if you can donate please do. gofund.me/918672cc
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Donate to Blue Nose Day Sleepout 2024, organized by Birmingham City Foundation
Birmingham City Foundation is proud to be supporting some of the most vulnerabl… Birmingham City Foundation needs your support for Blue Nose Day Sleepout 2024
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Nικος Ξυδιας @greekbluenose.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The master at work.
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