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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 13/10/2026

🚨 BEEP🚨 Warning! Specs Offender 🚨 BEEP🚨 Warning! Specs Offender

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 11/10/2026

Ha! I'd already come across this and forwarded it to the teen. Cheers though! This is real public service.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 10/10/2026

The Fart Of Noise? Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Fart? Earthy Wind On Fire? …

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 07/10/2026

Nope. Not if you can’t lead your own party

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 04/10/2026

MCU movies just pass through you leaving no trace. Doing Doomsday prep rewatch of some with my teen. I KNOW I’ve seen them but… I’ve got nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 30/09/2026

I was wrong about this. Was no Starmer stan, but was very worried about legitimacy of mid-term Tory style PM swap. Early days but he’s delivering on a reset of tone and direction for sure. That’s not faint praise - Starmer made comms look impossible

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 24/09/2026

Palestine action pensioners should show up to these blagshirt protests with their signs. See what the police do

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 19/09/2026

This is a variation of Blair Enns magic email. It works Subject: Closing The Loop Hi [Name] I haven’t heard back from you on [project] so I’m going to assume you’ve gone in a different direction or your priorities have changed. Let me know if we can be of assistance in the future. Cheers,

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve pitched from a pub loo before. In my defence I was two wines in, I’d totally forgotten about the meeting and it was that or present to my transatlantic prospects in the bar. Not my finest hour.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 14/08/2026

I would never shorten your Hamish’ name either. He looks like he’d take offence. And fair enough.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 14/08/2026

Frank is good. Slightly dusty human names are great for cats. Roy is a favourite. I have a neighbour with a cat called Roy. He’s the most Roy a cat could be.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 14/08/2026

Our cleaner ignored the fact we introduced him as Hamish - his name - in favour of Mango

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 14/08/2026

Hamish. Ham. Hamoo. Mish. Mishmish. Mishymoo. Mishymoomoo. The great hamoo, Moomoo. Moo.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 31/07/2026

Shockingly shit seven years though. They really outdid themselves

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 28/07/2026

Sweden. The only country in the world where you can spend £2,500 a week on a house rental but they still expect you to bring your own bedding. From overseas. Like fly your fucking duvet over with you.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 16/07/2026

Me too - I'm one set away from local TV news doing an "and finally..." piece where I share my brick hoarding problem. My long suffering partner, supportive but thin lipped, peering stoically over boxes of lego as I enthusiastically reveal the secrets of set 928

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 12/07/2026

There aren’t enough ❤️’s on the internet for this. So happy for you

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 11/07/2026

Why are you obsessed with this ? It’s getting really weird. Really. What the hell?

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 11/07/2026

Farage is one World Cup ”Bin, bin, bin face!” chant away from packing up his dodgy millions and fucking right off.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 11/07/2026

Went to the wrong airport to catch a flight to Vegas. TWICE. A year apart attending the same work event. The second time I arrived especially early, confidently slapped my passport on the counter… Virgin: Where to? Me: Vegas Virgin: Via where? Me: Direct Virgin: You want Gatwick Me: Fuck it

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 10/07/2026

1. You read a press release 2. You read a press release 3. You read a press release 4. You read a press release 5. You read a press release 6. You read a press release 7. You read a press release Did I miss anything?

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 29/06/2026

Black-out tents. Genuinely game changing tent tech. No 6am sun - pitch black in direct sunlight. Lie in. Stay cool.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 27/06/2026

Comments in this post are wild. Does it need to be studied that giving a baby a device is in any way a good idea. It’s up there with “don’t give booze to a baby”. If you think it makes your life easy to give your device to your child. Maybe you should have thought harder about having a kid.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 26/06/2026

All other media should stop having their morning agenda set by newspaper. Their relative influence is absolutely wild given the readership

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 25/06/2026

Get yourself some Farah fit slacks and Harrington jacket and you have yourself a look.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 24/06/2026

Oh go on then. As it's walking distance.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 23/06/2026

I recognise that and agree. I guess where I go with this is that none of this is ideal, we need electoral reform. It wasn’t in the 24 lab manifesto but maybe a Burnham flash election gambit could

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 23/06/2026

Why do pollsters waste their time polling people on who they think would make the best prime minister? The electorate can be both fluent in the system and vote emotionally. Some will have voted ‘for’ Starmer. I feel that nixing that vote further erodes trust in the system.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 22/06/2026

People keep repeating ‘we elect parties not individuals’, I’m not sure that’s how the public feel it. I think the system is widely understood but also - many vote for the PM. Vote for vibes. Negating this contributes to the erosion of trust.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 22/06/2026

I think there should be. I know we elect a government not a PM but that’s not the only story. People DO very much have the individual in mind even it’s not written into a constitution. PM’s in office by other means don’t have the same moral mandate. I wish him well - how could you not? But it stinks

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 22/06/2026

It would certinaly be simpler if that were the only factor. This was written about Sunak but I found it just as useful for thinking about Burnham. YMMV but my own view is that he doesn’t have a mandate. www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2022-10...

bangor.ac.uk

Rishi Sunak: is it legitimate for the Conservatives to continue in government without an election? A constitutional scholar explains

It is only right to explain why I’m standing here as your new prime minister

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 22/06/2026

*sigh* pointless electoral pedantry aside, people know how the system works - they also place their vote with the person leading their party of choice very much in mind. Negating that - regardless of constitution accuracy - violates democratic legitimacy.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 22/06/2026

You’re technically perfectly correct of course. And also completely wrong. People definitely vote for a PM

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 22/06/2026

Unpopular opinion: there should be a general election if there’s a new pm. I hated it when the tories did it and I hate now it’s electorally convenient for ‘my team’. No one voted for Burnham to be PM. He wasn’t even a candidate at the last election.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 21/06/2026

Trying to explain Shaun Ryder to my 14yo son was fun

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 21/06/2026

Same with podcasts. Four years on and I’ve retained absolutely nothing about Ayn Rand. But it’s like I’ve got my very own member special to look forward to.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 21/06/2026

Me too! Positive vibes all the way through. Left grinning from ear to ear.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 21/06/2026

My sons first gig! What a banger to start him off. I totally felt the same - also a real london moment for me - i found myself thinking ‘if people could just see this’ - experience this beautiful culture clash then maybe things would be a bit less divided

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 10/06/2026

There’s a real life She-Ra alive and well and living somewhere in the West Midlands. True story, I know because my mom delivered her as a midwife and delivered her daughter years later.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 31/05/2026

What if he ruins your favourite song for you by picking it. Every time forever after you’d be listening to it thinking ‘Farage loves this’ and hating with increasing ferocity

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 31/05/2026

Alan: Show me the evidence! Martyn: <produces graph illustrating the evidence> Alan: NOT LIKE THAT!!!!??!?!!

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 23/05/2026

Worth checking back with Enterprise Car club - once like hen’s teeth in London Fields - recently have placed cars in most of Zip’s old locations.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 19/05/2026

Properly trained dogs are a delight, the problem is that most urban dog owners are absolutely useless. Being on your phone pretending you didn’t see your dog crap everywhere. Zero control. Poo bags in trees. Why!!!!? We see you urban dog owners. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

theguardian.com

‘She compared her dachshund to my newborn baby’: should you be able to take your dog everywhere?

They’re in restaurants, offices and supermarkets – there’s even a petition to let them on flights to the UK. But not everyone is happy about the growing number of dogs in public places

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 17/05/2026

ALLCAPS were invented for just such an eventuality

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 16/05/2026

Me: blar blar… democratic mandate Wes Streeting: calls to rejoin the European Union Also me: fuck Starmer

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 15/05/2026

I signed up for 1999. I’ll put up with For You and Prince to get to Dirty Mind.

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Oliver Dyer @oliverdyer.com · 15/05/2026

*sigh* I guess. I hated this with the last government. I won’t cheer it on now just because they’re progressive.

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