Adrian Bradley
@ade-bradley.co.uk
Broadcast Journalist, podcast producer and audiophile. Produce podcasts for the New Statesman. Love theatre, Eurovision, otters and jazz hands. He/him
Am on this ep doing my favourite thing, trying to interpret the intricacies of EBU announcements and rule changes.
🚨 Bonus episode out now as we discuss the #Eurovision voting changes announced earlier today 👇
👥 Expanded jury vote
📲 Limited number of votes per payment method
❌ New systems to combat interference
But do they go far enough? 👀
eurovision.tv/story/voting...
👥 Expanded jury vote
📲 Limited number of votes per payment method
❌ New systems to combat interference
But do they go far enough? 👀
eurovision.tv/story/voting...
Voting overhaul announced for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
The European Broadcasting Union has announced a series of changes to the rules around voting in the Eurovision Song Contest, ahead of Vienna 2026.
eurovision.tv
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Am on this ep doing my favourite thing, trying to interpret the intricacies of EBU announcements and rule changes.
The EBU has announced a number of changes to the voting procedure at Eurovision in response to criticism. The number of votes per payment method will be reduced to 10 (from 20). Juries will return to the semi finals, and juries will be increased from 5 -7. At least 2 jurors must be 18-25
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The EBU has announced a number of changes to the voting procedure at Eurovision in response to criticism. The number of votes per payment method will be reduced to 10 (from 20). Juries will return to the semi finals, and juries will be increased from 5 -7. At least 2 jurors must be 18-25
What is going on with email marketing right now. Is everyone ok?
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
What is going on with email marketing right now. Is everyone ok?
Waitrose why you being creepy?
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Waitrose why you being creepy?
Read this for the analogy and insight but DO NOT MISS the short film review at the very end. Had to explain my loud laugh to my boss
Today's newsletter, featuring a perhaps unwise and overworked 'why Keir Starmer is like an oven' analogy:
Labour unrest hardens belief Starmer has to go
Party will find it easier to push for leadership challenge now it is in power compared with opposition
www.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Read this for the analogy and insight but DO NOT MISS the short film review at the very end. Had to explain my loud laugh to my boss
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Now here’s Collaterlie Sisters with the financial news
If I had to describe the fairly modest moves in the gilt market today, I would say it is a bit like the feeling of slightly needing the toilet after half an hour in the swimming pool.
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Now here’s Collaterlie Sisters with the financial news
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We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
Repair Café
Bring your broken or damaged possessions to our UCL Repair Café event at UCL East Marshgate on Friday, 7th November.
share.google
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
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The real patient zero is “la, a note to follow so”, the first time a placeholder line became a major hit on the global stage.
Tempting, but the real patient zero in this conversation is in fact “Strictly Come Dancing”
I still blame Goalhanger for this sort of thing. The Rest is _______ when ______ makes no sense has normalised this kind of non-sequitur nonsense
November 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The real patient zero is “la, a note to follow so”, the first time a placeholder line became a major hit on the global stage.
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Times journalists urged to make ‘basic’ checks after two ‘humiliating’ hoaxes - the so-called royal cleaner revealed by Press Gazette, and last week's Bill de Blasio 'interview' pressgazette.co.uk/news/times-j...
Times journalists urged to make 'basic' checks after two 'humiliating' hoaxes
A newsroom boss at The Times has described two fake interviews it ran as "humiliating" and said "basic" questions were not asked.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Times journalists urged to make ‘basic’ checks after two ‘humiliating’ hoaxes - the so-called royal cleaner revealed by Press Gazette, and last week's Bill de Blasio 'interview' pressgazette.co.uk/news/times-j...
Anyone fancy buying a rail wagon? auctions.ramco.uk/auctions/944...
Ramco UK Limited | Direct from the MoD – a unique opportunity to purchase a 1976 Baguley Drewry railcar 9128 and SGT rail wagons
auctions.ramco.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Anyone fancy buying a rail wagon? auctions.ramco.uk/auctions/944...
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do you think the nyt puzzles people saw the only connect wall about them
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
do you think the nyt puzzles people saw the only connect wall about them
A superb read (and London Centric is the easiest substack subscription to recommend - such great stories)
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
A superb read (and London Centric is the easiest substack subscription to recommend - such great stories)
This is INCREDIBLE: My headteacher at primary school was v into trains and arranged a trip for the school and chartered a tube train for it. IT MADE THE NEWS. And i'm pretty sure my brother @olibradley.bsky.social is in the clip (at 50 seconds) .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvgNFwyOVyI
Stanburn Middle School, Train Hire | Thames News
YouTube video by Thames News
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This is INCREDIBLE: My headteacher at primary school was v into trains and arranged a trip for the school and chartered a tube train for it. IT MADE THE NEWS. And i'm pretty sure my brother @olibradley.bsky.social is in the clip (at 50 seconds) .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvgNFwyOVyI
Has anyone done a gif of the Tom Daley side eye yet?
October 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Has anyone done a gif of the Tom Daley side eye yet?
Why is it so hard to find a good email client for mac. The default mail app is slow and not the most intuitive. I really enjoyed Edison's Email app - but they are pulling support for the desktop app. Spark was good until they messed it up with a new AI first version. Any newer ones people like?
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Why is it so hard to find a good email client for mac. The default mail app is slow and not the most intuitive. I really enjoyed Edison's Email app - but they are pulling support for the desktop app. Spark was good until they messed it up with a new AI first version. Any newer ones people like?
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More detail on the consultation is here: www.gov.uk/government/c...
And you can respond here: ditresearch.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share and do respond to the consultation!
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And you can respond here: ditresearch.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share and do respond to the consultation!
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Late payments consultation
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ditresearch.eu.qualtrics.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
More detail on the consultation is here: www.gov.uk/government/c...
And you can respond here: ditresearch.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share and do respond to the consultation!
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And you can respond here: ditresearch.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share and do respond to the consultation!
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This is very good from @stephenkb.bsky.social on.ft.com/433rk6P
Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews
Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive
on.ft.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
This is very good from @stephenkb.bsky.social on.ft.com/433rk6P
Making a cake for a birthday today and it’s perfect weather for a @nigella.bsky.social chocolate Guinness cake. Kitchen smelling great already.
October 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Making a cake for a birthday today and it’s perfect weather for a @nigella.bsky.social chocolate Guinness cake. Kitchen smelling great already.
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I’d be remiss not to flag @ade-bradley.co.uk’s excellent piece on this www.newstatesman.com/culture/musi...
Why Eurovision is beloved by the LGBTQ community
The contest, developed in the 1950s as an opportunity for cheap TV, is now synonymous with camp. How did it come to celebrate queerness?
www.newstatesman.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’d be remiss not to flag @ade-bradley.co.uk’s excellent piece on this www.newstatesman.com/culture/musi...
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Monthly GDP figures are mostly a distraction.
September 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Monthly GDP figures are mostly a distraction.
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Podcast update: new episode today as part of the 2025 Eurovision Podcrawl. The theme was “a year when a country hosted for the first time” and I picked Azerbaijan 2012. Join me with special guests @ade-bradley.co.uk and @uisgebeatha.bsky.social: pod.fo/e/326b98
Douze Points: Baku 2012: The Last of the Old Style Eurovisions [PART OF PODCRAWL 2025]
In this episode, part of the 2025 Eurovision Podcrawl, Steven is joined by friends of the show Adrian Bradley and AJ Clay, to discuss the year Azerbaijan put itself in the headlines for all the wro...
pod.fo
September 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Podcast update: new episode today as part of the 2025 Eurovision Podcrawl. The theme was “a year when a country hosted for the first time” and I picked Azerbaijan 2012. Join me with special guests @ade-bradley.co.uk and @uisgebeatha.bsky.social: pod.fo/e/326b98
Trying to give Stranded on Honeymoon Island a fair go. And it's kind of cute - but really hard to feel how it sustains 12 episodes. The pacing is kind of strange, it feels so slow. Anyone else watching it?
September 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Trying to give Stranded on Honeymoon Island a fair go. And it's kind of cute - but really hard to feel how it sustains 12 episodes. The pacing is kind of strange, it feels so slow. Anyone else watching it?
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How’s this for a collaboration?
Stephen King and Maurice Sendak combine forces to retell “Hansel and Gretel”! - Michael
bertsbooks.co.uk/product/hans...
Stephen King and Maurice Sendak combine forces to retell “Hansel and Gretel”! - Michael
bertsbooks.co.uk/product/hans...
September 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
How’s this for a collaboration?
Stephen King and Maurice Sendak combine forces to retell “Hansel and Gretel”! - Michael
bertsbooks.co.uk/product/hans...
Stephen King and Maurice Sendak combine forces to retell “Hansel and Gretel”! - Michael
bertsbooks.co.uk/product/hans...
Been playing with my old 35mm SLR and i definitely need a lot more practice but the best photo i took was, annoyingly, this pointless photo of a bottle of alcohol free beer:
August 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Been playing with my old 35mm SLR and i definitely need a lot more practice but the best photo i took was, annoyingly, this pointless photo of a bottle of alcohol free beer: