George Nixon

Best of luck DJ, I’ll miss you lots. Thanks for some great memories

As one commenter puts it below the line: I presume having tried to take the credit for falls in interest rates caused by international macroeconomic conditions, Rachel Reeves will gladly take the blame for rates going back up.

Warning for homeowners as lenders raise mortgage rates HSBC and Nationwide react to rising energy prices sparked by war in the Middle East

Only a few days after Rachel Reeves stood in the Commons to talk about how much the government was saving homeowners on their mortgages, this happens...
www.thetimes.com/money/mortga...

Kai. Havertz.

Kai Havertz I’ve missed you

If ever there was a game that showed you how much we miss Martin Odegaard, it’s this one

The Rams made the NFC Championship last year, just acquired an all pro corner and *still* have a top ten pick. That Falcons trade, jeez…

God, imagine if we did this in Britain...

Can't believe I'm saying this as someone who has lived and breathed the mortgage market for the past four years but, will politicians ever get their heads round the fact that most people in the UK don't actually have mortgages?

I'd love a game at home against a Burnley or someone where we can have another go at that midfield Arteta teased earlier in the season with Odegaard and Eze ahead of Rice. Give Zubi a break and also look a bit different

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

Paul Conroy, photojournalist partner to Marie Colvin, dies aged 61 The photographer who covered wars in Afghanistan, Congo and Libya, died of a heart attack while visiting family in Devon

Really sad news about Paul Conroy. For anyone unfamiliar with his work (Particularly with Marie Colvin) the documentary Under the Wire is really worth watching.
www.thetimes.com/article/16f2...

Banging it long constantly against a team with ten men. It was ridiculous

‘Our council is paying millions to buy and bulldoze our flood-wrecked homes’ After Storm Dennis ravaged a terrace in south Wales in 2020, the clock has been ticking for its residents — and now they have a way out, with their street being turned into a park

Really fascinating story by @davidbyers26.bsky.social here about what seems to be a UK first, of a council buying up an entire street of homes to knock them down, because the risk of flooding basically makes them unlivable.
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

About to hop onto Times Radio with @harrywallop.co.uk to chat about the comeback of the door-to-door energy supply sellers

I can't understand why he hasn't been used more. He's looked rock solid whenever he's played, even accounting for some of the opposition in the games he's been used in. And the lack of use of Ben White is criminal, Timber looks absolutely exhausted.

David Raya's pass maps from the first and second half of the Wolves game last night.

Panic.

Having re-read this this morning, this piece both made me feel better and also more frustrated. Arteta's surely too smart to not know which players would appear to fit best together, but why do we seem to be consistently seeing lineups which don't seem to work?

It's weird, after the 2-2 draw with Sunderland when we did the same thing, we got a bit better at being more on the front foot to see out games. But in the past few games we've gone to pieces again.

British Gas resumes door-to-door sales 17 years after crackdown More people are switching deals — and the energy company is prepared to pay a visit to get your money

A brief break from the Arsenal doomer-ing to report that, for the first time since the early 2010s, door-to-door cold calling by energy suppliers seems to have made a comeback.
www.thetimes.com/money/family...

Post-whistle analysis from last night's deeply concerning Arsenal display.

We're a great team with great players but until we get over the line; we're going to have to eat the narratives, the bottling, second again and WE are responsible for proving people wrong.

Nothing about us over the past two months has been about proving people wrong. We're adding fuel to the fire.

That is a disastrous performance from Arsenal.

And frankly the scenes at the end smack of team who are losing their rag and feeling the fear.

He looks exhausted and he’s been rubbish. I can’t understand why Ben White isn’t getting a look in.

Sounds about right for Philly

Like @arseblog.com am feeling a bit bleak over the past few days’ proceedings

I enjoyed that a hell of a lot more than the last one he hit like that…

I’m amazed the economist editors let you use the phrase “cozzie livs”

This is my thought too looking at this. I remember there was so much talk about real wage growth (or lack thereof) in the 2010s, but it’s far more abstract than “Look at the price of a tub of lurpak now”, regardless of whether relative to your income it’s more or less expensive

We lost at home to a much worse team and basically went to pieces after taking the lead. No excuses. Just be honest.