Christopher Lawson

Historian of modern UK, cities, and deindustrialisation.
Also passionate about evidence-based policy making, public transit, and baseball.

[Christopher Lawson @ChristopherL_TO]

Need some new reading for the new year? My PhD dissertation, Nothing Left but Smoke and Mirrors: Deindustrialisation and the Remaking of British Communities, 1957-1992, is now on Proquest Open (no institutional access required). Hope you'll take a look!

https://t.co/HPhqPa5GB1

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@TTCnotices What on earth is going on

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@TTCnotices Please revise. Information provided in this tweet is not physically possible.

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@BGatesIsaPyscho dude

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@michaelcurzi This has to be bait. Cannot be a serious post.

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@TTCnotices Still no updates, train held at Summerhill

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@TTCnotices What about the northbound delay at Davisville?

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@Sportsnet Please fix the feed

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I ask you to consider signing my brother's petition, which seeks to raise awareness and increase pressure on the Ontario government to better support adults with developmental disabilities in our communities.
https://t.co/9GaLwOO0OL

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@EScrimshaw Paul Martin had committed to calling an election within a month of the release final Gomery report (Feb 2006). Layton's decision to bring down the Government in late 2025 only brought the election forward by a few months. So this line of argument doesn't really hold water.

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@TTCnotices What is the estimated time for service restoration

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@TTCnotices Can you please provide an estimate of when service may be restored?

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Yesterday I was out on GTA transit for the first time in a while. Every train/bus was quite full. Ridership is clearly returning, so it's time to restore full pre-pandemic service levels!! Reliable public transit is essential to an equitable recovery @TTChelps @YRTViva @GOtransit

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@_John_Handel In England (not including Oxbridge) it’s fairly common for first year survey classes to be taught by a large team, with each prof giving a lecture or two on the segment closest to their expertise. Presumably that is the only model that would fit for a course like this.

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Students are crammed into decaying private apartments, while on-campus housing remains inadequate and millionaire homeowners defend their 'right' to live in extremely low density neighbourhoods, just blocks away from one of the world’s great universities. What an utter mess.

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Lots of cities have housing crises (hello Toronto), but nothing can prepare you for the insanity that is Berkeley.

https://t.co/c896N0H1q0

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North America may be more car-centric, but as a pedestrian I've had many more near-misses in the UK than in Canada or the US. It's almost always because of the totally insane British rule giving cars priority at junctions. Glad to see it’s being changed!

https://t.co/W0DyeU52Ua

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@samwetherell Congratulations Sam!

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This is a really short-sighted argument. We know that there are huge environmental, economic, and social costs to uncontrolled sprawl.
That said, if we don’t start doing a better job of building housing in our cities, sprawl may become the default option.
https://t.co/nKmaLx0WyG

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@kylejhutton Nice! It actually bears some resemblance to the pre-1999 map, before Harris cuts the size of the legislature. For example, Doug Ford Sr.'s old seat of Etobicoke-Humber has made a reappearance! Was that intentional?

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@jordanbpeterson No, your point about the private automobile is not correct. A review of the history of totalitarian leaders over the 20th century does not provide evidence to support the link you are trying to make.