Neil Page

@Frances_Coppola Sorry to hear that

@Frances_Coppola Frances, this may be of no consolation but one thing I have understood about the Israel/Gaza events is that unless an individual has taken time to really understand what has happened, then they will naturally believe what is reported in the press which unfortunately is pro Israel

I have just been called a Holocaust denier by a member of my family. She is no longer a member of my family.

@mattkandela Awaiting details on what I’ve got Matt. Was in Paris as well….although a lot easier and cheaper to get to that time!

CL final ticket - category 3 - €180. Have to be happy about that. Grateful to not be paying close to €1000 face value. 20 years since I was in the stadium in Paris on that heart breaking day. It’s time.

@SophyRidgeSky Glorious for the Gunners!!!!

Gutted for West Ham

@neomarscity Gutted, just read the news

storror…callum…what the heck

@MintySainsbury Your studio.....

Early stages of this drawing, but can anyone guess where it is?

@nntaleb @Satyaki_R @trishankkarthik Hi Nassim, do you order your library based on themes/topics?

@Satyaki_R @trishankkarthik FOund it here!

Finally reunited with my library, found Corbin's 4 vol. Still looking for stuff on Zoroastrianism.

@mehdirhasan I think the lesson here is that Trump can do no wrong when it comes to corruption, misogyny, sexual offences, racism etc etc but when it involves religion, this crosses the line for the MAGA base

I love* how it took so long for MAGA media personalities to realize what an awful, un-Christian man Trump is. (*I don’t actually love it, it’s fricking annoying, actually.)

@RnaudBertrand Thanks. My bad, I thought it was only a suggestion. Don’t blame Iran at all - I suppose they must have read Art of he Deal to pull off such a great outcome for their country 😀

@NeilJPage More than likely since it's already the case!

The war with Iran will doubtlessly be studied for decades but what's already pretty clear at this stage is how much of a strategic defeat it is for the U.S. and Israel, perhaps the worst ever in their history (which is actually what former Israeli PM Yair Lapid already called it: x.com/yairlapid/stat…). I mean, how crazy is this: JP Morgan calculated (jpost.com/middle-east/ir…) that, as per the new Hormuz toll arrangement, Iran may get as much as $70-90 billion in additional annual revenue, representing a stunning 20% of its GDP, in extra revenue. Hilariously, Trump commented on Truth Social that the arrangement means “big money will be made” and “Iran can start the reconstruction process” (@realDonaldTrump/116367088879643074" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…). Damn right: they gained the single most valuable geographic rent on earth, by a huge margin. For comparison, the Suez Canal earns Egypt “only” $9-10B/year, and the Panama Canal about $5B. Stunning. Make no mistake, this establishes Iran as the new dominant power in the Middle-East. When you're a country that others need to effectively pay to do business in a region - which is what having a toll booth on Hormuz means in practice - you're no longer shut out of the global economy: you're the one charging admission. It's a phoenix rising from the ashes story if there ever was one (an apt metaphor since it comes from Persian mythology): after 47 years of sanctions, being the target of every trick in the book, and ultimately a war aimed at finishing them off, Iran is coming out the other end stronger than at any point in modern history. Above all, though, the most dramatic consequence of this war is what it means about U.S. power. As I argued in my previous article (open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…), this war is qualitatively different from other U.S. wars in the past few decades, such as Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Serbia, etc. (the list is unfortunately very long). In those wars the pattern was roughly always the same, with an immense power differential between aggressor and victim. These were imperial wars, the empire attempting to crush a much weaker people whose only realistic recourse was guerrilla resistance. As I wrote, as spectators of these wars, if you had any moral sense, the dominant emotion was a kind of helpless disgust: you were watching a giant stomp through someone else’s house. This war wasn’t at all like that: stunningly, Iran managed to hold its own symmetrically and tactically against the United States and Israel. This is an absolutely crucial difference because it changes what losing means. When the U.S. lost in Vietnam or Afghanistan, it was embarrassing but ultimately manageable - the giant walked away with a bruised ego, and the world shrugged. Empires lose to guerrillas sometimes, it doesn’t say much about the empire's ability to fight a real war. But losing symmetrically - losing when your most advanced stealth fighters get shot down from the sky, your military bases are neutered across an entire theater (x.com/RnaudBertrand/…), your most advanced missile defense systems get destroyed, your enemy seizes control of the world’s most strategic waterway, your navy can’t reopen it, and your “allies” get bombed unforgivingly despite your “protection” - that's a different kind of losing entirely. That tells the world the giant isn't such a giant anymore. This is the topic of my latest article: what the war revealed, what it destroyed, and what may come next. I titled the article "Don't bluff someone who can't fold." You'll understand why when you read the article here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

@BreizhLondon its pretty remarkable that they are going to miss their third world cup! For me as a kid growing up, Italy were one of the ever present teams - now there are young kids in Italy who have never known their national team compete in the World Cup...mamma mia!!!

I forgot to mention "Never let the truth in the way of a good story".

There were signs

@BreizhLondon Maybe if humans can extend their own lives, he may live to be 1963 and then can resend his tweet for accuracy 😉

@RnaudBertrand He's in Trump's pocket - i seriously wouldnt be surprised if Trump has chucked him a few million EUROs on the quiet just to be his NATO mouthpiece.

I can't find words strong enough to express the amount of contempt Europeans should feel for this guy 👇 I started writing a long explanation why, but I deleted it because at this stage it's just so painfully obvious. You guys know.

@BreizhLondon I think the more up to date analogy is that the UK could possibly build 1 boat in 700 days!

William I built 700 boats in one summer from scratch. Can do it again.

@terryflewers Thank you Terry for your continued objective analysis on all things football but particularly Arsenal related in the last couple of months. 👏

Arsenal LIES EXPOSED...... 📲- youtu.be/goB2qYK5gIg

@Frances_Coppola In a weird coincidence, I have just persuaded my 13 yo to try dates and he is a date converter 😀. I couldn’t find any Palestinian dates so opted for ones from Lebanon which are superb (and Taleb would approve)

I love dates. But I don't have to buy Israeli dates. Palestinian ones are great. #BuyPalestinian

@Frances_Coppola Hopefully will end her glittering career in jail

Trump talk.

@Mannytalksfooty @slbsn @NA1907_ Pep is arguably the greatest PL manager of all time - the fact that he also has the courage and moral compass to call out the atrocities that have happened in Gaza (and are continuing) shows he is also great man.

@slbsn @HeyJapanime @NA1907_ It’s ok we got it guys Pep called it a Genocide and Slbsn got his nips in a twist

Guardiola says he doesn’t like seeing people die and you’ve got people like slbsn taking issue with that 🤔

@mehdirhasan Mehdi, I started following you fairly recently - annoyed I didn’t know about you before! Great insight, great courage, please keep doing what you do 🙏

Musk ruined this site.

People keep asking me this. It's simple. Every time I tweet - whatever the subject or topic, from the mundane to the existential - the replies on this hellsite are filled with racists, Islamophobes, & white supremacists hurling abuse at me & each other. So I shut the replies.

@davetrott Dave, she’s an absolute lunatic, steer well clear of her.

I wish I was as articulate as she is