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Nick Gray

@path-dependent.bsky.social

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Poltical economy at Teesside University. Fellow of things. That's not Teesside in the banner photo. https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 15h

It’s good from a regional advocacy perspective – in the simplest sense, it’s easy and true to say Newcastle can’t be like London but harder to argue that Newcastle can’t hope to compete with Gdansk.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 1d

That must be an old photo; no plain packaging and what looks like a large stock of Regal King Size.

(I haven't bought a packet of tabs for many years now)

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 1d

Regularly, gently amusing, but probably only if you’re from north east England

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 1d

I agree - something like the one vision video with the jack boots, martial rhythm etc was entering Springtime for Hitler territory

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick's is about as ambiguous as Laibach, but at least they're performance artists.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve read a few dog whistle comments but talk about a new order or not seeing any white faces in town is clearly audible to anyone.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 1d

This appears to apply to Truss, who's gone from down the line free market libertarianism to parroting any old crank shit for coins.

Unless she used to keep it hidden/is a true convert.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 3d

I shall look for it, or something out of it.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking of new ideas (or not) I've been looking at the pride in place fund and the closer you look, the more it looks like New Deal for Communities.

That's ok in a way - we know NDC had some success, but it was alongside a lot of other stuff and everything now is so capital-heavy.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 5d

I never felt like I was making sacrifices tbh - I'm generation x who wanted to go to polyversity because it turned out it was a thing you could do and it was free.

In retrospect, my parents weren’t minted but wanted me to do A levels and stuff.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a strain of thinking in which the real enemy of the working class is the kid from top set who went to university – the middle-class arriviste.

It’s there in Spiked-world and bubbles under in Blue Labour

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 5d

Is there a blue labour memo suggesting that Local government DOGE is a good idea actually?

Matter of time, surely.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 7d

Simply cutting out waste and corruption: latest.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 5d

What's the purple hair stuff? I googled it with no luck.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 5d

I will admire it later on, while listening to Alabaster DePlume on vinyl and drinking a £4.50 can of beer.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 5d

I expect so. I recently spent money on a scale model of Gateshead Trinity Square Car Park cast on concrete - perhaps this is our golden twenties.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 5d

The starting question has to be what are these people doing?

I'm sure we could find inefficient stuff going on, but I'm confident there aren't half a million people digging holes them filling them in again.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 6d

I bloke in a concrete pub asked me "Do you want to buy some meat?" and held open a Tesco carrier bag for me to look.

TBF, it was there to buy hooky cigarettes so had limited room to complain.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 7d

Simply cutting out waste and corruption: latest.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 8d

It is a middle aged thing but even so, I think I'd find the huge change in the way popular music is produced and consumed interesting even if I was in my 20s.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 8d

It's alright.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 8d

A tangential story about dissolving pop culture.

As a youth I really wanted a recording of Halo of Flies covering the Cramps’ Human Fly, but it was only available on a 7” flexi-disc with a copy of Forced Exposure magazine (from Chicago)

I never got it, but now click and there it is on Spotify.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 9d

One of them is wearing *a cowboy hat*

Is it definitely real?

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 9d

In itself it's funny, but I'm imagining a UK where the government hires random unfit blokes in army surplus and masks to grab people off the streets.

What is happening over there?

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 10d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 9d

Have you played it with the sound on?

Probably shouldn't laugh but I did.

Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 9d

I remain bewildered by the widespread Facebooker belief that every single new housing development in the country is "for the illegals".

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