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@drewdgray.bsky.social

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

11.10.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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!

11.10.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.10.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.10.2025 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ignore the London haters and racists

10.10.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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 Β£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 Β£2

11.10.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

11.10.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What’s your problem?

11.10.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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 β€” but mostly, I was lucky.

More of us in academia need to admit that.

10.10.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed

10.10.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

Asking for me

10.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Scots wha hae! So pleased for Tierney

09.10.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so sorry, I know how that feels

09.10.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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EU threatens Britain with β€˜devastating’ tariffs Blow to Starmer’s Brexit reset promise as UK steel producers face taxes of up to 50pc

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.
share.google/8g4Orwxa8OJQ...

07.10.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
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08.10.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1260    πŸ” 319    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 45

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

08.10.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Putin a β€˜communist’? πŸ˜‚

08.10.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was β€˜Dick_Head’ not available?

07.10.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

07.10.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3386    πŸ” 1843    πŸ’¬ 121    πŸ“Œ 78

πŸ˜‚

07.10.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

07.10.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

07.10.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

She’d be a perfect inept villain in Ankh Morpork

07.10.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

We see you British sports media.

06.10.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish he would

06.10.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good to note the @M_Star_Online newspaper’s Monday sportspages carry Premier League reports from colleagues @JDNalton @RogerDom1 and myself from the north-west, the north-east and north London

06.10.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

05.10.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1079    πŸ” 829    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 74

He always wins a match in his second season…

05.10.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of seagulls are standing on a rock in the ocean with the phrase m8 written on the bottom ALT: a group of seagulls are standing on a rock in the ocean with the phrase m8 written on the bottom

Forest proving a tricky assignment for Australia’s finest

05.10.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We don’t actually know intent in most cases, especially when the murderer is killed before they can explain their motives.

05.10.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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