Finlay

Passionate about housing, infrastructure, tech, all things growth, @Arsenal & @uklabour

[adidas Scotland @adidasUK]

CHOOSE SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆

@ScotlandNT @LewisCapaldi

[Sapporo 🇬🇧 🐘🌲 @landofangle]

"Chips."
"You see what's fascinating about chips is that good ones are impossible to make at home but they're never viewed as a luxury item in a restaurant."
"And graveh."

[alex lei @alexL_E_I]

checking in with the goat

[Finlay @finlayhen]

@Oscar__Harman What a journey that was. Proud of the boys

[Finlay @finlayhen]

I love this man. Heartfelt article and an emotional read

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

“My relationship with my club began the same way it does for most football fans: before I was old enough to understand what I was getting myself into. When I was nine, my uncle introduced me to a team with a cannon on its shirt, a grizzled captain named Tony Adams, and players like Nwankwo Kanu who had been born in Africa but now lived somewhere else, just like me. Arsenal felt familiar before I even understood why.

“And then there was the manager, a man who I initially thought had been named after the club and then believed that somehow the club must have been named after him. Arsene Wenger may have struggled with his raincoat, but rarely with his orchestra. The football his teams played sang.

“But what was once the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present.

“We won. We are champions of England. And we are just one game away from being crowned champions of Europe too.”

@ZohranKMamdani, mayor of New York City, writes for The Athletic on what Arsenal means to him.

FREE READ 🔗 https://t.co/ge64qWmVuz

[Sam Dean @SamJDean]

The Champions League final in Budapest comes 70 years after Istvan Gyokeres, Viktor's grandfather, fled Hungary in the dead of night. It's an astonishing story: uprisings, Soviets, illegal radios, secret letters. This is the tale of the "Black Horseman"

https://t.co/Wfpwut36nT

[Finlay @finlayhen]

@MaxKendix @thetimes Congrats Max ! Great gig

[Finlay @finlayhen]

@andytwelves andygrok v mattGPT - the battle continues

[Will @willglloyd]

“Burnham’s team is understood to have lined up an “impressive” candidate to replace him as Greater Manchester mayor.”

[Fin Moorhouse @finmoorhouse]

Best city in the world

[First To Hear It @firsttohearit]

REPORTER: You mentioned that, staying on as Fed governor, you intend to keep a low profile. Could you give us a little more detail on what that looks like?

JEROME POWELL: *ducks down*

[Finlay @finlayhen]

Good

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government has launched a £50m "Savvy Squirrel" ad campaign to encourage more Brits to invest instead of saving

[James Seabridge @jmseabs]

Exciting to see the van itself driving through Brixton - especially as Lambeth Greens have contributed almost 1000 to this total one their own!

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

The Green Party want you to think that they care about housing.

But here’s the facts that Zack Polanski would rather you ignore.

[Goggsy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GoggsyNineNine]

ITV will never top their intro for Brazil 2014 and Slaven Bilic’s elite punditry

[GkCoach @GkCoach3]

Apparently Win The Dog has been recalled from his walk and is having a lay down in front of the fire at London Colney purely as a precaution.

[Finlay @finlayhen]

Wow

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

Patient attends A&E with a chest infection… standard stuff.

Decides to pop outside for a vape and a bit of fresh air because, let’s be honest, the waiting room atmosphere could finish anyone off quicker than the illness.

Next minute… casually clocks a bloke acting a bit off outside the maternity ward.
Not aggressive, not shouting… just that “something’s not right here” vibe every frontline worker knows all too well.

So what does he do?
Doesn’t walk away.
Doesn’t ignore it.

Goes over for a chat.

Two hours later…

🧠 Talked down a “lone wolf” terrorist
🎒 Convinced him to open the bag (yeah… that bag)
💣 Found himself staring at a pressure cooker bomb
📏 Asked about blast radius like he’s doing a dynamic risk assessment
🚪 Moved the whole situation away from the hospital entrance
🤝 Built enough trust to keep the bloke calm
🤗 Given him a hug when asked
📞 Got him to agree to call police before he “changed his mind”

All while his own phone’s dead and there’s not a single staff member in sight to wave over.

Genuinely the most British de-escalation imaginable:
“Alright mate… talk to me… what’s going on?”

No PPE.
No backup.
No radio.
Just vibes, empathy, and absolute nerves of steel.

Meanwhile inside:
Crews stacked 8 deep
Handover delays hitting biblical levels
Someone asking “can you clear please” every 30 seconds

And this guy is outside single-handedly preventing a mass casualty incident like it’s just another shift problem.

Police turn up, job gets wrapped up, and he just wanders back in like:
“Yeah I’m back… still got that chest infection by the way.”

Probably still had to wait for discharge as well.

Massive respect though.
That’s not luck, that’s character. Calm under pressure, compassion when it mattered most.

George Medal couldn’t have gone to a more deserving person.

Proof that sometimes the difference between a normal day and a major incident…
…is just one person deciding to step forward instead of walking away 🚑

[Blades Ball @BladesBall]

Has an arsenal season ticket , takes his son to the football , goes to the pub without PR , plays 5 a side , worked his entire life

More in common with the working man than the grifters @reformparty_uk

[S👻 @scrapytweets]

“Dad, tell me how Max Dowman won us the league on March 12”