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Andrew Craig

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Co-editor of Head In The Clouds: The Best Stories From 50 Years of Free Flying. Get it from xcmag.com or your local bookshop. Paraglider pilot, cyclist. Krypton Factor champion 1992, twice Mastermind semifinalist, winner on The Chase. Former BBC journalist

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Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, to serve it by building and repairing trains. It's not a big interchange, though, like Crewe.

Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 5h

Swindon doesn't have a lot of passengers changing lines - it's more that it was a place for making and repairing trains.

Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 5h

Mein Lehrer war nicht so interessant!

Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 6h

What comes between fear and sex?
Funf!
(Only works when spoken, of course.)

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Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 8h

Ten years ago today!

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The Final Chase - Wednesday 28th October 2015

YouTube video by The Chase

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Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 9h

"Bathrooms"? We're not bloody Yanks.

Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 10h

The government should tell companies how big to make their products?

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 22h

"The disappearance of street football is not inevitable. It is a design problem, a policy question, and a cultural decision"

Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing

'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'

#StreetFootball

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Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 23h

It's macaroni cheese! We're not bloody Yanks!

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Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 23h

Clive Myrie is starting to stress the prepositions. "... bought FOR Nightingale." The disease is spreading. #Mastermind

Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's just that they're automatically against everything the West does or supports, and so in favour of all opponents of the West.

Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 1d

"just another angry glaswegian leftie" who doesn't think women and girls should be allowed female-only spaces.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 1d

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

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Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm. That's a bit like saying "Cycling and BASE jumping are both dangerous activities."

Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 1d

Good news, but I wish everyone would stop the mawkish habit of nicknaming laws after dead children.

Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your incisive review of a book that you haven't read.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 1d

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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

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Philip Amies @amiesphilip.bsky.social · 1d

Great Yews, Wiltshire, a place I used to enjoy visiting, I suppose we all trespassed doing so, no idea really it was a place many locals visited.

Having I suppose argued why we should be aware of business costs and the motives of people owning

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