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Public policy stuff at Teesside University https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray
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Cycled past a middle aged bloke who was wearing very large and very bright orange trainers and suddenly and weirdly imagined myself shouting "ORANGE TRAINERS! at him. Must have been a flashback to my teens...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Unused-cycle-lane-cam incoming,

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yorkshire 100 for 9... before I do any premature pan northern gloating, is there something up with the pitch at Clifton Park?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm in town tonight. Honestly, it's almost enough to make you support Sunderland.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I'm never going to hear the end of Sam Fender at St James Park.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I've just seen a photo from the 1990s and thought "Christ that looks like the 1970s" before reflecting that the two time periods are quite close together, it's been a long time since peak 90s, and I'm getting old. Is that just me?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I think I remember Steven Horwitz writing something about how too many self styled libertarians hate the left more than they love liberty.

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In balance... really? I'm with the bookies - Australia clear favourites. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Kings Cross, the place where completed regeneration projects actually look like the pictures on the construction hoardings.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I've just received this WhatsApp but I don't understand it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I'm in that London and I'm having a five pound pint of ale in a nice place in zone one that isn't a chain pub. I was led to believe this was no longer possible.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Simply reopen the pits.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Worth remembering when we hear Whitehall politicians banging on about devolution (as they've been doing for years). England's only formally devolved regional government - the one with a mandate via a referendum - *isn't allowed* to raise a few quid with a tourist levy.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

You have to love local politics. #infrastructure

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