Andrew Craig
@andrewcraig.bsky.social
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
A gravedigger and his family, 1962. We think of the 1960s as basically the modern day, but millions of British people still lived like this. Gravediggers were probably paid quite well, too, compared to other manual workers. This is the reality behind the "corned beef of my childhood" nostalgia slop.
Paragliders have got much, much better over the 26 years that I've been flying them.
Tyron@tyron.bsky.social · 14h agoan unfathomable amount of stuff has got better over the last 40 years - hell, even over the *last 15* - and anyone convinced it hasn't does not remember or know what things were like 15 or 40 years ago.
It's fairly impressive that Badenoch leads a political party with 3,800 councillors but has the same understanding as to what they do as a random bloke complaining about his Council Tax down the pub.
After spending nearly her entire life inside #Yellowstone, 1090F and her pack recently established a den outside the park's protective boundary. By unknowingly stepping beyond an invisible, human-made boundary, these wolves could be legally killed when the Wyoming's hunting season opens this fall.
ℹ️ The 08:47 Sheerness to Sittingbourne & 09:23 Sittingbourne to Sheerness have been cancelled because of a bull on the line. Buses have been arranged leaving Sheerness at 09:25 & Sittingbourne at 09:30. The bull is now clear of the railway and all other trains will run normally.
@jamiemctrusty.bsky.social today on my paraglider flight from Combe Gibbet to Goodwood, I was passed (at a safe distance) by a P-51 in USAF colours. Very cool, especially the sound of the Merlin!
British singers singing in American accents.
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
Flew 74km from Combe Gibbet to Goodwood. The ITV cameras covering the racing caught my landing approach!
My first flight from Sugar Hill - 37km over Wantage and Abingdon. The Vale of White Horse looks like the Serengeti.
Everyone should read this absurdist thread and then think about how it’s not absurdist at all, it’s genuinely a perfect representation of the current system.
Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · last wk.I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
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Once again, goal celebrations spoiled by a load of subs in bibs swamping the scorer.
This is brilliant — “what has the BBC ever done for me?” youtu.be/koftLxmT6Wc?...
What has the BBC ever done for me?
YouTube video by BBC
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My World Cup awards. Best goal, best miss, worst ref, Villain of the tournament, Cinderella, Beautiful Loser, best host city, best player who isn't Leo Messi and more. Free link as.ft.com/r/3eb7c523-5...
Heroes, villains and clowns: Simon Kuper’s World Cup awards
With Fifa a bit short on credibility, the FT columnist has stepped in to create his own prizes
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Anderson for Rice, Bellingham for Rogers, Gordon for Toney, and move Watkins into the middle, and we'll win this.
At half time I put a quid on France or the draw at 20/1. Feeling quite clever.
Clearly what I was trying to say earlier is that I would like to shake that man by the hand and congratulate him on his fine and necessary innovation. Apologies for any confusion
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3w agoTrying to find out who invented the third-place playoff in 1934 and why
What are the odds against Rice winning the golden boot?
Got to 7000 feet on the way to the Brecon Beacons. Didn't fancy crossing a big expanse of moor with no roads, so landed by a bus stop - and Adele's burger van!
If the keeper were really injured, he wouldn't be rolling about like that.
Arsène Wenger taught a generation of young men to fear amortisation — and the human body is the ultimate depreciating asset. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/the-amorti...
"Verify your age." In my first job, I had to write out unemployment benefit cheques by hand.
Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 3w ago"Verify your age" My first website was on Geocities.
