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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 16h

Fesshole nowadays reminds me of the stories that Kevin & Roger told me in 5th form in the late 80s which "were absolutely straight up 100% true".

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 16h

Fesshole nowadays reminds me of the stories that Kevin & Roger told me in 5th form in the late 80s which "were absolutely straight up 100% true".

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Its more complex.
Its a test of one of following to see if you're:

1. gay out of curiosity
2. excited by the task as she likes you
3. excited by the tast as she's michievous & wants to see you suffer false hope
4. excited, but she doesnt fancy you but wants the attention as validation or just bored

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 1d

If Lord Heseltine tried to join Conservatives today he'd be refused.

Live long enough as Hesaltine has (he's now 92), and you get to see your successors repeat the mistakes your predessors made.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 1d

The centre has 3 parties.
The right is where its at.

Theres literally no where to go for the Tories - and yet they are "the natural party of govt".

Nothing is working.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 1d

Theres a weirder thing going on here.

Many Tories are simply hoping for a post Brexit John Major govt. The normal way of politics is to tack to the centre after losing an election, at same time the current feeling is they must chase Farage voters.

They've no idea what to do as nothing is working.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a late arrival to the wonderul "slow horses".

If you can get past the "gratuitous grimy-ness" (a wierd concept in itself) then the series becomes exceptionally addictive.

If the true mark of series is how quickly you want to help characters then Slow Horses is top notch.
Wonderfully done.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Britain was the birthplace of the railways.

Now we have a rail system worse than countries that were not even states last century or were communist or are not even 1st world countries.

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 2d

Rail travel - my odyssey:
1) Booked a train to London using split tickets to make it £170 return instead of £240.
2) Train delayed. Next train is the same company and gets in later than planned train but split ticket doesn’t count. Nice staff say it is up to the train manager if he will let me on.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Its more complex.
Its a test of one of following to see if you're:

1. gay out of curiosity
2. excited by the task as she likes you
3. excited by the tast as she's michievous & wants to see you suffer false hope
4. excited, but she doesnt fancy you but wants the attention as validation or just bored

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Im very much tean Odegaard - but lets be honest.
His injury allowed Arteta to bring on our natural Dm - Zubimendi, then put Rice in his natural position as roaming CM. Then minutes later Rice scored.

Truth is Rice-Zubimendi is our best midfield.
Which means 1 of Odegaard or Eze has to step out.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

If the Tories are at 21% (charitable given recent polling) then the old non-fruitcake tendency of the remaining Conservatives is less than 7%.

This simply isn't enough to build a coalition from.
Its a Labour versus Reform election with the LibDems to peel the remaining old centre right Tories off.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Disagree.

The reasonable sane old liberal conservatives who havent already left the Tories after 8 years of this nonsense are never going to leave - and in any case their natural jump off point would be LibDems anyway.

Many working class Reform voters are never going to vote Tory.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Im very much tean Odegaard - but lets be honest.
His injury allowed Arteta to bring on our natural Dm - Zubimendi, then put Rice in his natural position as roaming CM. Then minutes later Rice scored.

Truth is Rice-Zubimendi is our best midfield.
Which means 1 of Odegaard or Eze has to step out.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Im not actually sure post 1991 Thatcher had that much to do with the Thatcher myth - sure she did the US speakers circuit, but my memory of the time is that Thatcher was largely irrelevant in UK.

The "idea of Thatcher" has long surpassed the women who politically died long before 2000.

Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Aha!

Then you should know that English always sounds better if conjugated like German! :-)

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

It is almost where i live...

Ich glühte
Du glühtest
Er/Sie/Es glühte
Wir glühten
Ihr glühtet
Sie glühten

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Disagree.

The reasonable sane old liberal conservatives who havent already left the Tories after 8 years of this nonsense are never going to leave - and in any case their natural jump off point would be LibDems anyway.

Many working class Reform voters are never going to vote Tory.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

This is so dumb.

If a man telly you he cant control himself because of your clothing he's lying.

There's now a certain branch of feminism that buys into this stuff. It wears progressive clothes but is reinforcing myths of man as some wild beast. This wont help women & infantalises men & boys.

Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

My grandad was a tory county councillor in Notts.
One time Winston Churchill visited the constituency - my grandad was caught in background of a photo of Churchill waving to someone.

That black & white photo was framed & put centre place in the main room in front of family photos for next 40 years.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 3d

More a rant than question:
2 weeks ago when Liverpool were getting late penalties against Burnley to go top the Guardian gushed about "unstoppable Liverpool".

7 games in with Arsenal now top the Guardian's "10 talking points from weekend" doesn't mention Arsenal.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Mason Mount shows his worth, Oliver Glasner makes no excuses and Chelsea find a new defensive duo

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

This where the endless categorisation of sex gets us.

Sarah is not asexual.
She simply isn't.

Someone has told her she is.
Or she has told herself that in order to conform with social pressures when she was younger.
The Guardian really shouldn't be doing this.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is how we do it: ‘Asexuality is a spectrum. I don’t experience sexual desire (but I do like having orgasms)’

Embracing Sarah’s asexuality has allowed her and Cameron to connect in many different ways

www.theguardian.com

Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

Its hard to explain to the under 30s just how important the Conservative Party was as an institution.

Millions of members, a conference packed to the streets, The "holy trinity" of the Royal family, Church of England & the Tories were the backbone of Britain.

The Tories barely even exist now.

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

The bar of the Midland Hotel, lunchtime on the Sunday of Tory conference.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 2d

The cheapest ticket for the World Cup final costs $2,030.

The atmosphere for the world cup is going to be interesting when foreigners will need in excess of $10,000 to fly over to the US & see a few games.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

World Cup tickets: 2026 USA tournament prices, visas and security explained

BBC Sport explores the issues which could make fans feel less than welcome when the World Cup takes place in the United States next year.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 3d

CNBC now reduced to operating as a clickbait site.

To save you the bother.
The magic reply from CNBC is apparently "Did you really mean that".

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 3d

More a rant than question:
2 weeks ago when Liverpool were getting late penalties against Burnley to go top the Guardian gushed about "unstoppable Liverpool".

7 games in with Arsenal now top the Guardian's "10 talking points from weekend" doesn't mention Arsenal.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Mason Mount shows his worth, Oliver Glasner makes no excuses and Chelsea find a new defensive duo

www.theguardian.com

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