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Drew Gray

@drewdgray.bsky.social

1.5K followers 1.4K following 2.3K posts

Historian of crime/anarchist/Arsenal fan and co-chair of the Arsenal Advisory Board/occasional photographer/, trying to be green Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 11h

Tonight I successfully made triple cooked chips with burgers, and tiramisu.
Somehow I count this as a higher achiest most of my academic ones

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 16h

I wonder if there are statistics out there on road traffic incidents involving pedestrians in London who were using their mobile phones and/or wearing headphones as they crossed roads.
Pay attention out there!

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 17h

So glad that my wife and I both had our jabs this month.

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 18h

My mum was going to Diss from Liverpool st. 90 minutes

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Sue @sueafc.bsky.social · 1d

Ignore the London haters and racists

Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 1d

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 18h

By contrast, need to travel to Norfolk from London and haven’t had time to buy at least 24 hours in advance? That’ll be £69 please.
For an hour and a half journey.
Hop on a 43 north London to London Bridge. About an hour’s journey, less than £2

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 18h

There are always issues, but overall it’s pretty good given just how large the capital is. Be a lot better if there were a lot fewer cars on the roads.

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 18h

What’s your problem?

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a tenured professor with an endowed chair.

Looking back, I don’t think the freshly minted PhD version of me could land a job in today’s market. I was smart, I was driven — but mostly, I was lucky.

More of us in academia need to admit that.

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 1d

Is it too early to open a bottle of wine 🍷?

Asking for me

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 2d

Scots wha hae! So pleased for Tierney

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sorry, I know how that feels

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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social · 4d

As tweeted so many times before, UK now an outsider to EU & every other country in the world...as more turn inwards & more protective ..
EU etc can afford to do without UK goods; but UK cannot even afford to reciprocate its TCA border, never mind start any trade wars.
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EU threatens Britain with ‘devastating’ tariffs

Blow to Starmer’s Brexit reset promise as UK steel producers face taxes of up to 50pc

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 3d

Badenoch actually says the Tories would ‘shut down rip off [degree] courses’ or ‘low quality courses’. She mentioned none by name.
Vile speech yes, but the spin is from the right wing media

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 3d

Putin a ‘communist’? 😂

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 4d

Was ‘Dick_Head’ not available?

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 4d

😂

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 4d

Listen to the earlier stuff. I didn’t get it at first

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 4d

Jenryck wants to ‘take our country back’.
To life under Truss and Johnson?
To ‘the war’?
To 1934?
When Robert?

Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 4d

She’d be a perfect inept villain in Ankh Morpork

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 5d

Liverpool are ‘in transition’ because of the new signings? But Arsenal ‘have to win the league’ because of the new signings?

We see you British sports media.

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Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social · 5d

I wish he would