Complete this well-known song:
“we’re top of the league, we’re top of the leaea-eague, Tottenham Hotspur, we’re top of the league…” (You complete it by repeating it non-stop until Saturday, depending on future results, but if we win on Friday… if we beat Palace… then it doesn’t matter what happens on Saturday and you can keep singing it FOREVERRRRRR).

I know, it’s a long season, I get that, and we’re still ‘early on’. But we’re about a quarter the way through. As someone who is happy with being top on week 2 because we’ve scored one more goal than all the 7 other teams who’ve won 2 games, this, 9 matches in, feels more like ‘the real deal’. So I’ve asked the Premier League if the season can stop now. And they said ‘no’. Therefore we’ll just have to keep winning. ‘It’s in our own hands’! ‘Ours to lose!!!’

I’m not under any illusions… ok, I’m totally deluded, but that hope, coupled with my sheer amazement at my team’s total transformation under Ange Postecoglou’s stewardship, in play but mostly in attitude, that I’m allowed to dream. Who said Man City HAVE to win the league every fucking year?

And just a note to our Home Secretary: there may be many meanings of the word ‘jihad’, everything from minor self-improvement to an all out declaration of war upon all ‘non-believers’, and you have to decide which is acceptable. Because the police can’t; they’re neither linguists nor so sensitive to the contextual nuances of the Arabic language. But its safe to say, such a word, when shouted, repeatedly, passionately by members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, in the context of the current Gaza crisis, is probably nearer the latter end of the spectrum. As the word is always understood in the West because that’s generally the only context in which we hear it. ‘Holy War’.

Hizb-ut-Tahrir are not a ‘proscribed organisation’ here, like Hamas, ISIS, Al Queda, but they’re cut from exactly the same cloth and hence are banned in most sensible countries. And you don’t get banned for issuing public proclamations of ‘improving yourself from sin’. Especially if you’re doing it whilst screaming support for child-murdering terrorists.

So Suella, get your shit together, Babe, and sort out the ambiguity, its not the police’s job to make decisions, just to enforce unambiguous laws.

There ya go: the good and the bad.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx