Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi @OreOgunb Twitter profile

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Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi

2 months

✨some personal news✨ This summer, I'm heading to Lagos to be @TheEconomist 's new Africa Correspondent. It is my absolute dreeeeeeeam role and I'm really looking forward to shaking our coverage up a little (1/3)

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1 year

Landed in Stockholm and the pilot told us all to enjoy the concert tomorrow 😭 is it THAT obvious what we’re here for?

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3 years

I’m sorry but triathlons are clearly for superhumans. After swimming, cycling, I will now start running?!

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4 years

My dad, 73, born, raised and living in Nigeria: “Ore what I witnessed at these vigils last night, I have never seen in my lifetime. Ever.”

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4 years

It’s me for Lancôme! 🌺✨

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4 years

Will and Jada said “bad marriage for life”???? I actually reject it and throw it straight back to the pit of hell. You and who?????

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1 year

Mum is watching Love Island with me tonight :“I like the guy who is making his bed” Mum focus!

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2 years

I would really like to sit down and chat with the generation of 50-60 year old Nigerians who moved to the UK young and still live here, even though they told themselves they were only coming to the UK for a few years

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4 years

still only 3% black btw but they love to use “bame” so they look like they’re making points

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4 years

BAME students make up one-fifth of new Oxford undergraduates

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3 years

someone said Orishirishi Sunak and I am still crying

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3 months

don’t lie, this cover eats.

The Economist

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3 months

The popular view about Generation Z is that smartphones have made them miserable and their lives will be grimmer than those of their elders. But in many respects, they are doing rather well

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1 year

*some personal news*: your girl got promoted! Starting from today, I will be joining @djasonpalmer as co-host of The Intelligence, @TheEconomist ’s flagship podcast. Tune in every weekday to hear us chit chat with correspondents about the stories shaping your world 🎙️

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5 years

I’m sad that amber is saying “if I had handled this better...” like Michael’s behaviour was her fault 😢

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2 years

No skips on Fireboy’s album ngl

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3 years

some exciting personal news: today is my first day at @TheEconomist ! I'll be covering a few things but I'm starting on the foreign desk. Super excited for this new chapter✨

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4 years

April Fools is cancelled this year pls read the room.

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5 years

It’s me in big meetings!!

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3 years

The producers are rinsing this night of drama though. Sunday night and we are still going to be on the night of the recoupling? 😭

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1 year

I say it every episode but Whitney is the only person with sense in this villa. And good on her for demanding that apology #LoveIsland

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4 years

We’re in @thetimes today and are very excited about it so probably won’t shut up about it for a while. Go buy a copy and enjoooooy 💛

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1 year

None of the coronation fits are hitting. Where is the drama? Where is the FASHION??

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4 years

Let’s goooooooooooo

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

4 years

Exciting news as @sidgentlefilms , producers of Killing Eve, have won the TV rights to @ChelseaKwakye and @OreOgunb 's Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change—the flagship release from @MerkyBooks . Watch this space:

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2 years

I can hear Sungba in my dreams.

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3 years

Harry living off his inheritance from Diana because his family cut him off is absolutely wild I’m sorry. Your family is the royal family?!!! #OprahMeghanHarry

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2 years

I’m glad that as a community we are finally addressing the current cost of plantain in London at the moment. 3 for £2.50 should actually require government intervention

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3 years

The second hand embarrassment i feel for Rachel is tooooo much #LoveIsland

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2 years

I don’t want to hear any chat about Dami being vindicated because Indiyah did not do anything with Deji so can he get off his high horse?! Wheel out the projector pls it’s time for movie night #LoveIsland

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4 years

TAKING UP SPACE IS GOING TO BE A TV SERIESSSSSS 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 So so so excited to be working with @sidgentlefilms , the producers of ‘Killing Eve’ 😨

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4 years

Only comparison he could make was the student protests after the killing of Kunle Adepeju in 1971. But apparently even that was nothing near what we are currently witnessing in terms of scale.

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3 years

Ah we have a date! October 27th. Six years after we first made our case but better late than never. Feeling very emotional and quite proud Cambridge college to be first in UK to return looted Benin bronze

Cambridge college to be first in UK to return looted Benin bronze

Jesus College will give sculpture of a cockerel back to Nigeria, which could spark a wave of repatriations

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5 years

Just in time for Christmas in Lagos. I know my God is able

The Daily Record

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5 years

Love Island's Ovie and India have called it quits

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2 years

At what point did you realise you were never really going back? What did it feel like on the other side of that?

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1 year

hi I turned 26 today

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2 years

I bet there are loads and I think it’s a really complex thing to feel. Is there regret? Defeat? Relief?

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5 years

WHO DO I FIGHT??!!!!!! WHO?! somebody hold my earrings.

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4 years

Netflix needs to do Nigerian matchmaking too. Many aunties already in exactly this kind of business

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5 years

Aaaaahhh. Have a read when you can!! I hope it gets you excited about #takingupspacebook 💛 What Cambridge University taught us about racism | Society books | The Guardian

What Cambridge University taught us about racism

Cambridge graduates Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi on their guide for fellow students, published by Stormzy’s #Merky Books

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Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi

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3 years

I went to Kaduna to meet Governor El-Rufai. We talked about those mass sackings, strikes and some other things. Something to add to your weekend reads. Enjoy! @TheEconomist

What the travails of a reformist governor say about Nigeria

Nasir El-Rufai is cutting the workforce to modernise, but faces a backlash from unions

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3 years

Seeing Davido brings me soooooo much joy every single time

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5 years

Cambridge ✅ Columbia ✅ up next @TakingUpSpacebk 💃🏾

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3 years

@jasebyjason But the walk …?

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1 year

Burna Boy really is who is he says he is

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5 years

@jasebyjason They need to take your phone because enough.

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5 years

Artists that don’t leave Africa out of their ‘world’ tours >>>>>>>

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3 months

*some personal news* I am writing another book! A joy to be back with the @MerkyBooks team who completely got my vision for this from the get-go. Can’t wait to share all these stories with you 🇳🇬🇬🇧❤️

The Bookseller

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. @MerkyBooks has signed journalist's Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi’s Briticó: Nigerians in Modern Britain, the Story of Migration and the Shaping of a Nation in an exclusive submission 👇

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2 years

I don’t know if it’s growing up or moving out but I’ve become so aware of how I have like no real sense of community here? Like outside of a few work friends and the friends I already made in university (which is itself a kind of created community), where are the groups?

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6 years

Looking for black (ideally UK-based) illustrators on the TL. Please reply and @ your faves if they might be interested in a fun (paid) opportunity!

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5 years

It’s chels and I for the @guardian on the books that changed our lives. Enjoy, share, and happy reading!

A black girl's reading list: 10 books to inspire and challenge

The authors of Taking Up Space, recent Cambridge graduates, list the books that have given them ‘permission to dream’

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5 years

Dear future husband, I know you’re out there, please do not propose to me in public. I will run.

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3 years

posting selfies on Twitter feels weird but I just feel like the world needs to see these eyes

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3 years

I’m back at Jesus College today for the repatriation ceremony of Benin Bronze and I knew I’d be emotional but wow.

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2 years

So you’re telling me it’s not paraventure, it’s ‘per adventure’?

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5 years

I told you man when Yewande said what goes around comes around, she invoked the spirits of all her ancestors. You see now

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1 year

Whose idea was this? I want to hug you. Genius. (I also want an invite so I can sing Lonely At The Top at the top of my lungs)

Asake & ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure’ Exhibition Announce ‘Work of Art’ Paint & Sip Event...

Asake and Jean-Michel Basquiat's estate announced they're curating a special event filled with art, music and drinks in Los Angeles, Calif. next week.

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3 years

I know everyone who has therapy says this but like, it’s amazing and you shouldn’t wait if you’re considering it 😭

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5 years

I miss studying so much. I miss university too but for the most part I just miss studying. That feeling of getting so immersed in text that piques your interest and then feeling all overwhelmed with how much there is to learn but that you haven’t learnt yet? Yeah, my drug

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1 year

@jasebyjason no but fr

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3 years

Me adding suya pepper to every recipe regardless of what Jamie Oliver tells me.

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4 years

Wizkid is showing us that real men whine their waists. Take note all.

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6 months

"My parents are Yoruba and Igbo, and I grew up in Hausa territory, so my food is informed by all three of those culinary styles.” 🩷

UK’s first black female Michelin-starred chef: ‘We’re at the forefront of west African food’

Adejoké Bakare, founder and head chef of Chishuru in London, says her achievement feels ‘quite surreal’

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3 months

@ehisilozobhie It’s that drape thing! Isn’t that what every Nigerian mummy wears over trad in any cold country lol

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2 years

My brother got married this weekend. Still not over it. Here are some cute pictures 🥺💛

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2 years

??????????

Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge

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2 years

"What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done?" - @SophyRidgeSky Leadership contender @TomTugendhat says: "I invaded a country once." #Ridge : 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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2 years

@jasebyjason Okay let’s calm down.

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5 years

I can’t believe this. Rest in paradise Jack Merritt. The good that you did in this world will never ever ever ever be forgotten. Heaven has gained an angel #LondonBridgeAttack

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4 years

I. Feel. Seen.

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4 years

man i be overthinking these

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2 years

Sending love to the babe in my inbox who has tried 5 times to recall an email she sent to ~hundreds of people announcing Liz Truss as PM 😭

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No more unprecedented times please. It’s enough. Bring back precedented times

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5 years

YES BARONESS AMOS. TAKE UP ALL THAT SPACE. WE LOVE TO SEE IT First black head of Oxford college appointed to Univ college – The Oxford Student

First black head of Oxford college appointed to Univ College – The Oxford Student

Baroness Valerie Amos has been appointed Master of University College, Oxford. She will be the first black head of an Oxford College, and the first women Master of Univ. Baroness Amos is the current...

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5 years

one time for the book that changed my life

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5 years

Post a picture of your biggest 2019 flex

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2 years

(kind of not real) MA graduation 👩🏾‍🎓💃🏾

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3 years

hey so i know there's football on rn but if you went to Jesus (Cambridge) / know someone who did, please listen up: there's a group of alumni taking legal action against the college because college wants to take down the plaque commemorating Rustat, a slave trader. 1/3

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3 years

Monalisa is such a masterpiece? (Lojay and Sarz not da Vinci)

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5 years

Had the honour of meeting the incredible ⁦ @kikimordi ⁩ and @CNorthcott1 today, the brains behind @BBCAfrica #SexforGrades documentary for a suuuuuuper productive chat. So proud of all the work they do ✨

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10 months

wedding season!

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5 years

“My dad said he brought his culture with him. I don’t think it was his culture. He brought his trauma. And his trauma almost killed me” so um yeah. I've decided to publish my Master's Project from @columbiajourn on Medium. It's long but important. Enjoy!

When Tradition Means Trauma: Discipline and Child Abuse in West African Immigrant Families

“My dad said he brought his culture with him. I don’t think it was his culture. He brought his trauma. And his trauma almost killed me,”

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4 years

This is going to be terrible, especially for black students and I’m actually so so sorry for all the students that are going to be affected by this.

Sky News Breaking

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The Government has published more information on the cancellation of GCSEs and A-Levels which says exam boards will ask teachers to submit judgments about grades they think their students would have received if exams had gone ahead

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We have a window at @Foyles in Westfield Stratford and it’s so pretty. We’ve also left a limited number of signed copies there so go and buy them while you still can #takingupspacebook

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1 year

My mum isn’t happy that I can’t afford to fly back to Nigeria for Christmas this year, and I brought her on today’s @TheEconomist podcast to explain why. Depleted reserves + dwindling oil revenues = angry airlines and very very expensive tickets.

Gain, wait: Ukraine’s tentative push | The Intelligence from The...

Gain a fresh perspective on the events and trends shaping your world with our daily podcast.

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2 years

My dad has the fattest dictionary of Yoruba names in his house with all these super funky, unique names in it and i just can’t believe that they settled on “Ore”

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4 years

It’s really concerning how many of these heartbreak tweets I can relate to given that I’ve ... never been in a relationship lmao. It is well.

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my best friend got married. i looked cute. enjoy x

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But yes, this does mean that this is my last week co-hosting our flagship podcast, The Intelligence (unconfirmed reports that @djasonpalmer cried for 3 days straight when he heard the news). I will miss the team lots and I'm so proud of all we've achieved over the past year (2/3)

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4 years

You are charging 250 people almost £400 to come to your conference but you want us to speak for free.

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2 years

what is the best colour in the world and why is it this exact pink?

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5 years

Chels and I just got dmed asking us to send recordings pronouncing our names because she wants to quote the book at a conference and, i have to stan. Like it’s really that simple. Trust, I would rather take out a minute to send you a vn than have you butcher my God-given names

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3 years

Mary and Teddy talking to each other about their dates but what if your person is right under your nose 😭

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1 year

they’re the exact same kind of corny and it works

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1 year

Okay no sorry Elom and Catherine are cute I'm seeing it more now #LoveIsland

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@jasebyjason Ever. And so rude

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Covid it’s enough. Free us. Pls. We are sorry. PLS.

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Lagos is set to be the most populous city in the world by 2100. But at this rate, it won’t be able to support this growth. No, literally. The city is sinking. Come home with me, as we dig into how Nigeria’s smallest state is fighting against the waves

The Weekend Intelligence: Lagos is sinking

Listen to this episode from The Intelligence from The Economist on Spotify. People are pouring into Lagos. Fast. Some 3,000 people move to the city every day. By some estimates the city grows by a...

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The day before I got my Cambridge offer, LSE rejected me and I was a mess. Skipped school, locked myself in my room and cried. I didn’t think I was actually going to get into Cambridge so i had given up. But then the next day God did a madness

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3 years

Suits are terrible sha

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4 years

Hi this is your daily reminder that there is, in fact, a global pandemic outside. I know masks mess up your lipgloss but please, wear them.

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4 years

Beautiful. Portraits of UK black female professors – in pictures | Education | The Guardian

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Genuinely so happy I could be here for this. Shoutout to the amazing corpers, agents and INEC officials working hard to make this process smooth for everyone #NigeriaDecides2023

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I wanted to watch Normal People and accidentally started with the finale. I kept waiting for some extraordinary flashback to tell me the story but it never did and then I got to the end realised what I had done and I’m so angry at myself I don’t think I can actually watch it now

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4 years

Why wasn’t there a black mirror episode to prepare us for this covid stuff

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5 years

Um so we did a thing with Adidas London and it’s up and it’s fab. Head over to our instagrams for all the fun

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