Dr Gloom

alright, keep your hair on!

End the stream blud. End the stream fam - love that bloke

i can see him getting to the roots of our problems

proper page-turner. well easy to read, i think i finished it in under 2-3 days

competition is flaky at best

enjoy

i heard a rumour that the release clause only exists for foreign clubs in the champions league (real basically), which would soften the blow. if he really wants to go to real, it'd be hard to stop him. but there's no reason why we can't be where arsenal are at now in a season or two if we continue to invest as we have. he can be a legend here, or a much smaller fish somewhere else. time to find out whether the badge kissing and carrying the baby onto the pitch meant anything, over to paddocklad

i hope we're considering telling then both to get to fuck

i miss brown cars and green bathrooms 1980s nostalgia

as if his shampoo empire wasn't enough, paul mitchell has had a successful career as a scout/technical director Recruitment career In January 2012, Mitchell joined Championship club Southampton as Head of Recruitment. The club gained promotion to the Premier League in his first season and Mitchell began working with Mauricio Pochettino following his appointment in January 2013. He oversaw the signings of players including Nathaniel Clyne, Maya Yoshida, Paulo Gazzaniga and Steven Davis. Following Pochettino's move to Premier League rivals Tottenham Hotspur, Mitchell completed his switch in November 2014 to link up with the manager. He helped the club sign players such as Dele Alli, Son Heung-min, Kieran Trippier and Toby Alderweireld. In February 2018, Mitchell was named Head of Recruitment and Development by Bundesliga club RB Leipzig. In his first transfer window with the club, Mitchell helped sign Matheus Cunha and Nordi Mukiele, as well as Arsenal youth prospect Emile Smith Rowe on loan. Mitchell attracted interest from several Premier League clubs throughout 2019 and was heavily linked to a move to Manchester United. Reports suggested he was offered an expanded role as Technical Director to oversee Red Bull's global football – including FC Liefering, Red Bull Salzburg and the New York Red Bulls. In June 2020, Mitchell joined Monaco as sporting director

he doesn't, does he?

must be nothing in it then - like there was no antisemitism in the labour party under corbyn, i bet. just the right wing using the jewish card to play the victim and distract from the real issues.

i don't feel particularly scared myself. like i said i'm a secular jew so i can walk around and people presume i'm just a white bloke. but it's clear lots jewish people who live in central london are scared to be "visibly jewish" and don't feel safe around these rallies, which is really what falter was trying to highlight. i don't think calling for the commissioner's job reflects well on him, but the choice of language by the officer was pretty appalling, and he was right to share it, however contrived the set up might have been. my mother is worrying herself sick with this stuff. her grandparents fled to israel (mandate palestine at the time) from ukraine during the pogroms. she keeps saying she's waiting for the cossacks to come and get her. i told her not to worry - i doubt they'd make it to her quiet corner of County Durham.

just finished jarvis cocker's memoir, good pop, bad pop, which was an enjoyable enough easy read. also just read tunnel 29, a harrowing story about people in west berlin building tunnels under the wall to free people from the brutal regime in the east. it's a fascinating story, based on true events, which shone a light on a terrifying piece of history i wasn't familiar with. other books i've enjoyed this year include yellowface and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

I did too, until they tried to link what he did to the mayoral elections - like Falter is some kind of pawn for the right, to undermine Kahn, for the likes of Suella Braverman to exploit. Antisemitism isn't a right-left issue, or at least it shouldn't be. It should be treated just as racism or islamophobia is, and yet it feels to a lot of Jewish people like it isn't held to such a high standard, particularly among the progressive left. All you have to do is look at the comments on Twitter or in the YouTube videos, where I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen people call Falter out for being a typical Jew, always playing the victim. I mean, ffs! Or to look at some of the things that have been chanted in the marches, or the terrorist flags, or antisemitic signs on display - without any police intervention or threat of arrest - to see why jewish people are anxious to make this point. I would like to attend these marches to call for a ceasefire too, but I doubt many people there would appreciate it if I chanted for the release of the hostages at the same time. I'd probably get shouted down as "zionist scum". The situation Falter presented was massively contrived. It's obvious that he was out to make a point when he turned up with his camera and bodyguards. I think he still made his point, whatever you think about his intentions. Depressingly, our few allies at the moment are generally appalling people that you wouldn't want to be associated with. I can't tell you how miserable that it is, as a progressive lefty myself, that it's only right wing nutters or nationalists who seem to have our back.

sorry it didn’t work out mate

combined with about 15 active ones …on a busy day

was he? I think he was he trying to make a point. He clearly has an agenda given his work for the campaign against antisemitism so he’s turned up with his bodyguards to see if he could move freely around the march, to challenge the met’s claim that Jewish people are welcome. He could not. The policeman made that clear. Visibly Jewish people aren’t safe at the march. He published the edited version of the exchange to put the policeman’s comment in the spotlight. That’s my take having watched the full video and read the transcript. It sounds like you’ve made up your mind. You can read the bits that were audible from the sky video here https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/met-officer-antisemitism-campaigner-gideon-falter-longer-video-sky-news I appreciate the police have a difficult job, and he could have walked the longer route with the police escort. I can also understand why he was challenging the police’s position on this, given their claims. The response from the crowd? chants of “Zionist scum, shame on you” and allegedly “baby killer”

sounds like paul mitchell is their top target.

their players aren't much better

i agree. i hope that once in power they do finally stand for something. controlling the narrative early on is also key. the tories dined out on labour's handling of the economy after the global financial crisis of 08 for years, as if it were labour's fault that the world went into financial meltdown - and they were even bold enough to push through massively disruptive change, from austerity to brexit. the spin doctors have got to seize the opportunity as much as the policymakers. we have to make the tories pay for what they have done to the country so they own and the effects of brexit and the disastrous truss government. that will require courageous leadership - something we haven't seen much of from starmer to date

he looks even more ridiculous because you can't see his torso, shoulders, arms, legs - anything! all dwarfed by the lectern.

must be photoshopped - he looks like a gnome!