Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭

OK heres the thread I didnt want to write, but well here goes. The Rejoin debate is getting very weird. We have 2 sides: 1. UK "exceptionalists" 2. "Hairshirt purity remainers" Both have often some very unrealistic ideas / blindspots about the EU & UK. First of all the "exceptionalists"... 1/

English food is very influential without us even thinking about it: Pub food ideas are popular globally as are our deserts. UK food tends not be spicy or in the top 10 but can be lovely comfort food. But the "European food has grown stale try salad cream" is just obvious guardian clickbait idiocy.

English food is very influential without us even thinking about it: Pub food ideas are popular globally as are our deserts. UK food tends not be spicy or in the top 10 but can be lovely comfort food. But the "European food has grown stale try salad cream" is just obvious guardian clickbait idiocy.

Grandad watched a cowboy film & Nicki Minaj video before going on stage this evening.

Are YOU married to your cousin? Unknowingly friends, neighbours or work colleagues with your niece, uncle, grandchild or even sibling? In London theres a good chance that quite a few people are. And its all down to a doctor born in a village in North Eastern Austria in 1901.

Grandad watched a cowboy film & Nicki Minaj video before going on stage this evening.

Alot of people getting worked up about Israeli elections - but im not really sure why. The 2 israeli leaders are not wildly different. The interesting question is what will happen if Eisenkot can form a govt only with help of Arab parties OR members of Bibi's former coalition allies.

Good article by @nialloconghaile.bsky.social on "Swiss option". Almost gave up on this a few years back - not due to UK - but rather Swiss option was time consuming for EU. However given int developments I sense both EU & UK are coming round to this again. eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

Superb from @pimlicat.bsky.social Too many people treat the rejoin debate as if we are still in 2016 (or the 1990s for that matter). Its 2026 and literally every important question related to the UK - be it economic, defence, climate change, education or crime - the answer is: rejoin the EU.

Most culture articles are just PR fluff or made up nonsense. You can tell when journalists are just inventing stuff as they use "may" alot. "What actors may face..." - they simply dont know. Also, the article list "3 or 5" actors attending. Its just made-up. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

"Daddy, why are we living under a bridge in a crime ridden, violent dystopia...?"

Theres a part of me that thinks JD Vance who (unlike Trump) earned his place at a top university having his own little joke at the expense of all the stupid people surrounding him.

Imagine explaining to someone in the 1990s that the US president is a p**dophile rapist with dementia but close friends with a female rapper due to their shared interests in bottoms.

Arsenal have had 21 permanent managers since its foundation in 1886. Nottingham Forest have had 21 permanent managers in the last 20 years since 2006.

Superb from @pimlicat.bsky.social Too many people treat the rejoin debate as if we are still in 2016 (or the 1990s for that matter). Its 2026 and literally every important question related to the UK - be it economic, defence, climate change, education or crime - the answer is: rejoin the EU.

Dear @simonusherwood.bsky.social UK doesnt need a € opt out as EU explicitly leaves it up to ALL members states when they join €. This is enshrined in: 1. EU regulations 2. Practice: leaving it up to states (POL/SWE) when they join 3. Technicality: theres no mechanism to force a state into €

Im always shocked by how close we are to another world. George Graham - who was at the Arsenal-Everton game yesterday - grew up in poverty & raised by his mother after his father died of tuberculosis on Christmas Day 1944, when George was a few days old. His sister also died of tuberculosis 1950.

Maybe im naive - but I expect better from "The Athletic"... How on earth does this make any sense? Was the title race "not on" when Arsenal were 3 points behind after 7 games in mid October? Whats the tipping point? Only 2 points behind? 1?

If Arsenal win the League by less than 6 points... ...it'll be down to the fixture computer very kindly (but completely by chance) giving us the Aston Villa away game in August when they were in total chaos with players leaving & the new signings not yet in or injured. Villa are a top 3 team now.

If someone opens a very heavy door a bit for you, you have 4 choices 1. Complain that its being done too slowly 2. Complain that guy opening is not perfect 3. Sit & watch from the sidelines till the door is fully open 4. Help them push it open a little bit more I think the 4th option is best.

Please stop this nonsense. Trump & Bibi have been elected multiple times. Bibi has been the leading politician in Israel for 2 decades now. The constant attempt to ascribe no agency to the people & culture that brought these leaders forward is why they (& people like them) will continue in power.

Please stop this nonsense. Trump & Bibi have been elected multiple times. Bibi has been the leading politician in Israel for 2 decades now. The constant attempt to ascribe no agency to the people & culture that brought these leaders forward is why they (& people like them) will continue in power.

"My name is Bond......Milibond".

MEDIA UPDATE The Daily Telegraph is cutting up to 100 jobs as part of a major restructuring plan to transform into a "global, AI-powered premium media business" under new owner Axel Springer. A large proportion of articles will simply have no human involvement within the next 3 years.

If Arsenal win the League by less than 6 points... ...it'll be down to the fixture computer very kindly (but completely by chance) giving us the Aston Villa away game in August when they were in total chaos with players leaving & the new signings not yet in or injured. Villa are a top 3 team now.

All Creatures Great & Small #ACGAS may not be the most challenging TV but it is a rare example of a series done so well in everything: production values, acting, small stories & narrative arc that you simply can enjoy it. Series 7 has been the patchiest to date - but episode 6 made it all worth it.

A word to the wise.... This is going to end badly.. www.nme.com/news/music/c...

Rookie error. A "Striper" contractor in rural Devon is someone who does soft strip demolition. This is the 1st phase of a house renovation where all internal, non-structural elements are removed to clear the space down to its bare shell while leaving the core building framework completely intact.

A word to the wise.... This is going to end badly.. www.nme.com/news/music/c...

It comes to something when some young tourist knows more about the Ancients & the Classics than italian authorities. If this goes to court, the authorities are going to be made into a laughing stock and the female tourist into a star.

Its a common trope among conservatives that modern education is "all shall have prizes" a way to make kids "feel better". Here is Trump being absolutely delighted that some random guy presents him with a made up "Man of the Century Award" as Trump was so upset he didnt get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Its a common trope among conservatives that modern education is "all shall have prizes" a way to make kids "feel better". Here is Trump being absolutely delighted that some random guy presents him with a made up "Man of the Century Award" as Trump was so upset he didnt get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rookie error. A "Striper" contractor in rural Devon is someone who does soft strip demolition. This is the 1st phase of a renovation where all internal, non-structural elements are removed to clear the space down to its bare shell while leaving the core building framework completely intact.

What connects The Trump family, the owners of Manchester City Football Club, Netanhayu & the world's biggest slush fund? www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

I'll need my 2nd cup of coffee first, if you dont mind.

Atlanta Falcons new logo.

When Donald Trump's father Fred got Alzheimer's in 1990s the Trump family created a "pretend" or "Potemkin" office for Fred to feel as if he was still in charge. Same thing needs to happen now with Trump. He can issue orders on renaming things, then announce it in front of a paid studio audience.

These things dont matter! Its a briliant picture. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

When Donald Trump's father Fred got Alzheimer's in 1990s the Trump family created a "pretend" or "Potemkin" office for Fred to feel as if he was still in charge. Same thing needs to happen now with Trump. He can issue orders on renaming things, then announce it in front of a paid studio audience.

SBC's humour has always been about punching down. A privledged private school kid making fun of the poor & foreigners. Its true Ali G was ostensibly a white person - but it was still about making fun of people he thought "beneath him". In this context it was also about making fun of black people.

Your regular reminder that when certain big city clubs with huge stadiums complained about the evil "Red Cartel" bringing in Financial Regulations 2013 in to stop smaller clubs competing.... ...Brighton were in the 2nd Division. They are now an established top 10 Premier League club & in Europe.

Responding to my niece's (19 yrs old) quation on what life was like "when you were growing up in the 90s" I eventually resort to: "it was similar today except more normal - not weird freaky stuff every day all the time" - but she just looks at me blankly as if this world is just normal. Poor souls.

I'll need my 2nd cup of coffee first, if you dont mind.

Think of the "AI threat" as this years "Millenium bug" except instead of spending billions to sort out quirky dates gone wrong on computers...we are going to be spending hundreds of billions against something we made ourselves from possibly killing us via our fridge's feeback protocols.

This shouldn't need saying but 2016 is dead. Its ancient history. For people under 22 you may as well be talking about the Suez crisis. Its a new UK, a new Europe & a new world. Its no longer REJOIN for me. Its JOIN. Time to stop talking about Brexit. Time to start talking about Joining Europe.

Somebody needs to get Harry Kane a media advisor. Lord knows he can afford it. This is just so stupid on so many different levels. www.theguardian.com/football/202...