Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭
@nickcraw.bsky.social
Single malt drinker
Agatha Christie head
Arsenal fan
Purveyor of general Englishness
King Rama VI reader
European federalism proponent
Displaced Inselaffe
(In that order)
Agatha Christie head
Arsenal fan
Purveyor of general Englishness
King Rama VI reader
European federalism proponent
Displaced Inselaffe
(In that order)
Due to UK's electoral system now quite plausible scenarios where:
1. Tories get most votes - but only get 3rd highest nr. of seats
2. 2 of the 3 biggest parties by seats are Reform & Tories - but they cant get a majority
3. Labour to get a majority would need LibDems, Greens, SNP, PC
Fun times.
1. Tories get most votes - but only get 3rd highest nr. of seats
2. 2 of the 3 biggest parties by seats are Reform & Tories - but they cant get a majority
3. Labour to get a majority would need LibDems, Greens, SNP, PC
Fun times.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Due to UK's electoral system now quite plausible scenarios where:
1. Tories get most votes - but only get 3rd highest nr. of seats
2. 2 of the 3 biggest parties by seats are Reform & Tories - but they cant get a majority
3. Labour to get a majority would need LibDems, Greens, SNP, PC
Fun times.
1. Tories get most votes - but only get 3rd highest nr. of seats
2. 2 of the 3 biggest parties by seats are Reform & Tories - but they cant get a majority
3. Labour to get a majority would need LibDems, Greens, SNP, PC
Fun times.
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Throw money at an action film and any film student could make a half decent action film.
...but if the jokes are flat it doesnt matter if the premise, stars or budget are great a RomCom will tank.
Thats why few RomCom films are made today but hundreds of mid budget forgettable action films are.
...but if the jokes are flat it doesnt matter if the premise, stars or budget are great a RomCom will tank.
Thats why few RomCom films are made today but hundreds of mid budget forgettable action films are.
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Throw money at an action film and any film student could make a half decent action film.
...but if the jokes are flat it doesnt matter if the premise, stars or budget are great a RomCom will tank.
Thats why few RomCom films are made today but hundreds of mid budget forgettable action films are.
...but if the jokes are flat it doesnt matter if the premise, stars or budget are great a RomCom will tank.
Thats why few RomCom films are made today but hundreds of mid budget forgettable action films are.
What the racists forget to mention...
A significant part of the "white exodus" of Britain is east Europeans returning home & taking their British born partners & children with them.
Another of the many ironies of Brexit:
Brexit has led to reduced white immigration & increased white emigration.
A significant part of the "white exodus" of Britain is east Europeans returning home & taking their British born partners & children with them.
Another of the many ironies of Brexit:
Brexit has led to reduced white immigration & increased white emigration.
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
What the racists forget to mention...
A significant part of the "white exodus" of Britain is east Europeans returning home & taking their British born partners & children with them.
Another of the many ironies of Brexit:
Brexit has led to reduced white immigration & increased white emigration.
A significant part of the "white exodus" of Britain is east Europeans returning home & taking their British born partners & children with them.
Another of the many ironies of Brexit:
Brexit has led to reduced white immigration & increased white emigration.
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Ross I totally get why Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead isnt everyone's cup of tea, but I still remember evening almost a decade ago I saw Travesties with Tom Hollander.
A fun, totally accessible joy from start to finish.
Stoppard is worth giving a chance..
www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/o...
A fun, totally accessible joy from start to finish.
Stoppard is worth giving a chance..
www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/o...
Travesties review – a tonic from start to finish
Tom Hollander is sensational in this exuberant Stoppard revival
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ross I totally get why Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead isnt everyone's cup of tea, but I still remember evening almost a decade ago I saw Travesties with Tom Hollander.
A fun, totally accessible joy from start to finish.
Stoppard is worth giving a chance..
www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/o...
A fun, totally accessible joy from start to finish.
Stoppard is worth giving a chance..
www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/o...
The new feminism:
Marry a man 1-2 decades older who is rich.
Dont worry about career.
Give up your job.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/n...
Marry a man 1-2 decades older who is rich.
Dont worry about career.
Give up your job.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/n...
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The new feminism:
Marry a man 1-2 decades older who is rich.
Dont worry about career.
Give up your job.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/n...
Marry a man 1-2 decades older who is rich.
Dont worry about career.
Give up your job.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/n...
One thing worth noting:
The 3 title contenders are clearly Arsenal, City & Chelsea.
Arsenal have played both teams already.
While City & Chelsea are yet to play each other.
We are 5-6 points ahead having had the tougher first third of the season.
The 3 title contenders are clearly Arsenal, City & Chelsea.
Arsenal have played both teams already.
While City & Chelsea are yet to play each other.
We are 5-6 points ahead having had the tougher first third of the season.
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
One thing worth noting:
The 3 title contenders are clearly Arsenal, City & Chelsea.
Arsenal have played both teams already.
While City & Chelsea are yet to play each other.
We are 5-6 points ahead having had the tougher first third of the season.
The 3 title contenders are clearly Arsenal, City & Chelsea.
Arsenal have played both teams already.
While City & Chelsea are yet to play each other.
We are 5-6 points ahead having had the tougher first third of the season.
Hardest game yet for Arsenal.
Easily more difficult than the Bayern, Liverpool or city games.
The benefit in depriving Chelsea of 2 points could be huge considering how good they were.
Happy with a point.
Easily more difficult than the Bayern, Liverpool or city games.
The benefit in depriving Chelsea of 2 points could be huge considering how good they were.
Happy with a point.
November 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hardest game yet for Arsenal.
Easily more difficult than the Bayern, Liverpool or city games.
The benefit in depriving Chelsea of 2 points could be huge considering how good they were.
Happy with a point.
Easily more difficult than the Bayern, Liverpool or city games.
The benefit in depriving Chelsea of 2 points could be huge considering how good they were.
Happy with a point.
Called this at 16:45
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PREDICTION
After the 1st 14 minutes of this referee its clear there will be at least 1 red card today in the Arsenal v Chelsea game.
After the 1st 14 minutes of this referee its clear there will be at least 1 red card today in the Arsenal v Chelsea game.
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Called this at 16:45
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Caicedo commits a red card challenge.
Waiting...
Waiting...
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Caicedo commits a red card challenge.
Waiting...
Waiting...
SKY commentator:
"No teenager has ever scored a premier league goal against Arsenal"
Literally one of the most famous teenager scored goals in Premier League history:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8RI...
"No teenager has ever scored a premier league goal against Arsenal"
Literally one of the most famous teenager scored goals in Premier League history:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8RI...
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
SKY commentator:
"No teenager has ever scored a premier league goal against Arsenal"
Literally one of the most famous teenager scored goals in Premier League history:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8RI...
"No teenager has ever scored a premier league goal against Arsenal"
Literally one of the most famous teenager scored goals in Premier League history:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8RI...
PREDICTION
After the 1st 14 minutes of this referee its clear there will be at least 1 red card today in the Arsenal v Chelsea game.
After the 1st 14 minutes of this referee its clear there will be at least 1 red card today in the Arsenal v Chelsea game.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
PREDICTION
After the 1st 14 minutes of this referee its clear there will be at least 1 red card today in the Arsenal v Chelsea game.
After the 1st 14 minutes of this referee its clear there will be at least 1 red card today in the Arsenal v Chelsea game.
Got a bad feeling about the game against Chelsea today.
The idea our defence would be
Calafiori
Hincapié
Mosquera
Timber
going into our most difficult game of the season seemed absurd just 3 months ago.
Last year our 1st choice back 4 was:
White
Saliba
Gabriel
Lewis-Skelly.
A draw would suit me.
The idea our defence would be
Calafiori
Hincapié
Mosquera
Timber
going into our most difficult game of the season seemed absurd just 3 months ago.
Last year our 1st choice back 4 was:
White
Saliba
Gabriel
Lewis-Skelly.
A draw would suit me.
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Got a bad feeling about the game against Chelsea today.
The idea our defence would be
Calafiori
Hincapié
Mosquera
Timber
going into our most difficult game of the season seemed absurd just 3 months ago.
Last year our 1st choice back 4 was:
White
Saliba
Gabriel
Lewis-Skelly.
A draw would suit me.
The idea our defence would be
Calafiori
Hincapié
Mosquera
Timber
going into our most difficult game of the season seemed absurd just 3 months ago.
Last year our 1st choice back 4 was:
White
Saliba
Gabriel
Lewis-Skelly.
A draw would suit me.
Really enjoying all the UK journalists getting all confused/angry by a chancellor apparentaly misleading the media on the exact financial/fiscal situation prior to a budget...
...when literally every chancellor has done this one budget or another my entire political life dating back to the 1980s.
...when literally every chancellor has done this one budget or another my entire political life dating back to the 1980s.
It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.
It's hardly a massive difference.
It's hardly a massive difference.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Really enjoying all the UK journalists getting all confused/angry by a chancellor apparentaly misleading the media on the exact financial/fiscal situation prior to a budget...
...when literally every chancellor has done this one budget or another my entire political life dating back to the 1980s.
...when literally every chancellor has done this one budget or another my entire political life dating back to the 1980s.
Im torn on the "Jota thing".
On one hand I want to be a modern sympathetic guy.
But GW's Max Rushden thesis its a way to explain Liverpools form seems way overblown when the worst players at Liverpool this season barely knew the guy.
Also some players are close friends at clubs, but many are not.
On one hand I want to be a modern sympathetic guy.
But GW's Max Rushden thesis its a way to explain Liverpools form seems way overblown when the worst players at Liverpool this season barely knew the guy.
Also some players are close friends at clubs, but many are not.
I’m sorry, but the passing of Jota doesn’t explain the form of guys like Isak, Wirtz, Kerkez, Ekitike and Frimpong who never played with him, nor the fact that they were 5 points clear in September. Surely the effects of grief would be felt more greatly closer to the event?
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Im torn on the "Jota thing".
On one hand I want to be a modern sympathetic guy.
But GW's Max Rushden thesis its a way to explain Liverpools form seems way overblown when the worst players at Liverpool this season barely knew the guy.
Also some players are close friends at clubs, but many are not.
On one hand I want to be a modern sympathetic guy.
But GW's Max Rushden thesis its a way to explain Liverpools form seems way overblown when the worst players at Liverpool this season barely knew the guy.
Also some players are close friends at clubs, but many are not.
I like @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social - probably my favourite Guardian OpEder.
But it really is strange to read this in the Guardian today when the very same Newspaper has spent the last few years flogging the idea of Polyamory on a daily basis...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But it really is strange to read this in the Guardian today when the very same Newspaper has spent the last few years flogging the idea of Polyamory on a daily basis...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lily Allen’s new album shows the pain behind the ‘cool girl’ myth – that’s why women are obsessed with it | Gaby Hinsliff
The singer’s lyrics about an open marriage gone sour resonate with many women her age. They’re sick of pretending to be fine with relationships that are not, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I like @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social - probably my favourite Guardian OpEder.
But it really is strange to read this in the Guardian today when the very same Newspaper has spent the last few years flogging the idea of Polyamory on a daily basis...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But it really is strange to read this in the Guardian today when the very same Newspaper has spent the last few years flogging the idea of Polyamory on a daily basis...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is literally what every Chancellor has done in my entire lifetime since I started following politics in the last 90s.
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is literally what every Chancellor has done in my entire lifetime since I started following politics in the last 90s.
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Away from the politics of this:
Taxing by income has largely reached its limits. In a country where income has barely risen that much for most people in 2 decades but property assets have quadrupled in price means that whatever your political persuasion there is no alternative but to tax wealth.
Taxing by income has largely reached its limits. In a country where income has barely risen that much for most people in 2 decades but property assets have quadrupled in price means that whatever your political persuasion there is no alternative but to tax wealth.
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Away from the politics of this:
Taxing by income has largely reached its limits. In a country where income has barely risen that much for most people in 2 decades but property assets have quadrupled in price means that whatever your political persuasion there is no alternative but to tax wealth.
Taxing by income has largely reached its limits. In a country where income has barely risen that much for most people in 2 decades but property assets have quadrupled in price means that whatever your political persuasion there is no alternative but to tax wealth.
When you ready something quickly in a supposedly mainstrean normal publication....and then slowly realise its utterly insane.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
When you ready something quickly in a supposedly mainstrean normal publication....and then slowly realise its utterly insane.
When I proposed to my now wife she also started crying.
I'd chosen the garden of her favourite restaurant overlooking the sea.
She started crying so much that several people came over to offer help & assistance while giving me bad looks.
Been married 8 years now.
I'd chosen the garden of her favourite restaurant overlooking the sea.
She started crying so much that several people came over to offer help & assistance while giving me bad looks.
Been married 8 years now.
Fake proposed to my girlfriend for a joke on holiday. She started crying and was so happy. Felt so bad I couldn't tell her it was a joke. Anyway we're getting married next year.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
When I proposed to my now wife she also started crying.
I'd chosen the garden of her favourite restaurant overlooking the sea.
She started crying so much that several people came over to offer help & assistance while giving me bad looks.
Been married 8 years now.
I'd chosen the garden of her favourite restaurant overlooking the sea.
She started crying so much that several people came over to offer help & assistance while giving me bad looks.
Been married 8 years now.
Are there really still sections of the media calling out the royals for wearing clothes more than once?
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Are there really still sections of the media calling out the royals for wearing clothes more than once?
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Arsenal the only team to score 4 open play goals in a single match this season.
Are we relying too much on open play goals?
Are we relying too much on open play goals?
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Arsenal the only team to score 4 open play goals in a single match this season.
Are we relying too much on open play goals?
Are we relying too much on open play goals?
BREAKING:
Footage of 4 asylum seekers laughing in July 2024 now released.
Footage of 4 asylum seekers laughing in July 2024 now released.
There is so much messed up about this front page Express story today.
There's no suggestion or evidence ANY alcohol or drugs was consumed. This is literally just people dancing.
And buried in the piece: "The footage is believed to have been filmed just before Labour took power in July last year."
There's no suggestion or evidence ANY alcohol or drugs was consumed. This is literally just people dancing.
And buried in the piece: "The footage is believed to have been filmed just before Labour took power in July last year."
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
BREAKING:
Footage of 4 asylum seekers laughing in July 2024 now released.
Footage of 4 asylum seekers laughing in July 2024 now released.
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I listen to the Times "The Game" podcast when Arsenal have had a good week.
Alyson Rudd didnt really want to talk about the 4-1 win, but asserted the club try to "pretend that the "North London Forever" song is 100 years old".
Literally no one has ever said this.
Then complained about the Tifo.
Alyson Rudd didnt really want to talk about the 4-1 win, but asserted the club try to "pretend that the "North London Forever" song is 100 years old".
Literally no one has ever said this.
Then complained about the Tifo.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I listen to the Times "The Game" podcast when Arsenal have had a good week.
Alyson Rudd didnt really want to talk about the 4-1 win, but asserted the club try to "pretend that the "North London Forever" song is 100 years old".
Literally no one has ever said this.
Then complained about the Tifo.
Alyson Rudd didnt really want to talk about the 4-1 win, but asserted the club try to "pretend that the "North London Forever" song is 100 years old".
Literally no one has ever said this.
Then complained about the Tifo.
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I think if I gave any clues they would be spoilers. It’s a sort of new take on Body Snatchers
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I think if I gave any clues they would be spoilers. It’s a sort of new take on Body Snatchers