My break from Twitter unfortunately didn't have the required effect on the general out of hand high jinks here. So join me in my blue period at for wildly inconsistent activity with a laphroaig & musings on Arsenal, GAD novels, the UK, EU & Thailand.

100% support for Palace in this year's Conference league from this Arsenal supporter. Hope Forest fall at the 1st hurdle.

Never really liked the word "Knobhead". But it sounds rather lovely with Miriam's accent.

If you watch/read Israeli press/media as I do you will understand things are about to get worse. Much worse than even the last 18 months.

Great News!. Get behind the team. Get behind the players. Get behind the new season.

"I have in my hand a coin. "

Given the Glastonbury experience. I fully expect no future events by the organisers of this to be allowed and the participants to be banned.

RT @nicktolhurst: Gregg Wallace "discovers Jesus, plans to start a podcast".

When they stopped believing that in a hundred years time they would be people who admired & loved what they built. And that that has a worth in itself.

If you'd have told me in May that our Summer transfer business would be. Gyokeres.Zubimendi.Kepa.Norgaard.Madueke.Mosquera. Id have rated as the best since the french influx of early Wenger days. Put in Eze and it might even top those aswell.

We're about 2 news cycles away from MAGA Republicans claiming that they very idea that there ever was an "Epstein List" was a conspiracy devised by Democrats to discredit Dinal Trump.

Gregg Wallace "discovers Jesus, plans to start a podcast".

RT @nicktolhurst: @ArseCannonPics Hard to disagree with this although im trying to justify by comforting myself with the idea that its only….

What Nat said. 👇👇👇.

RT @nicktolhurst: Imagine for a minute we actually want more births & less immigration. Heres what a govt would do:. Make multi bedroom hom….

Once again:. My grandad had a deadend park job for local council. Got a 3 bed council house after war lived his life in it on a low council rent. Granny was a house wife with 5 kids. When he died it was sold off. Its now worth circa 400K. Unaffordable to most graduate couples.

Im not saying immigration is good or bad. Simply that all govts need home owners to be elected. But also workers to fill jobs & fund state pensions.We have made our choice as a country. No need to blame foreigners. Its what we voted for ourselves.

Imagine for a minute we actually want more births & less immigration. Heres what a govt would do:. Make multi bedroom homes affordable for young families. Huge council house builds &/or strict rent controls would lower House prices. Over 50s home owners would never accept it.

RT @nicktolhurst: @minustwentys Partey is an injury prone 32 year old who, had we extended his contract this summer, would be unable to pla….

"Estimates for number of Arsenal fans worldwide vary, with Businessday NG stating over 104 million fans, while reports from 2005 & 2011 placed number at 112 million & 100 million". In this context I spose I can live with the fact that we also have 2 200 morons out of 100m+.

Arsenal getting roughly same fee for Trossard that they paid for him 2 years ago in the year that he turns 31 is good business. The purchase of Madueke - a 23 year old England/PL regular - is thus 50% financed by sale of Trossard. Arsenal seem to have upped their transfer game.