Neal Champion
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Neal Champion
@champ.org.uk
Motorcyclist and ex-racer, left-leaning, Europhile, musician
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This took me fucking ages
February 2, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Great line from critic William Bibbiani: '“Melania” is the feature film version of that wedding video in “Love Actually,” the one where the best man spent the whole event obsessively filming the bride… Ratner look more invested in Melania than her husband, which is a really weird vibe to shoot for.'
February 2, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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I too have had such trouble changing a duvet cover.
February 2, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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I score weddings and funerals on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. Funerals always score more highly. They're cheap, you get time off work, there's free food, and you don't have to buy a present. You get to meet all the same people as at weddings and there's no shitty disco.
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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It’s understandably easy to be frustrated with HM Government but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Good piece in @bylinetimes.bsky.social by Prof Chris Painter… bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/k...
Keir Starmer’s Labour Government Is Much Better Than the Media Admits
There is a deep disconnect between the Government's actions to improve the country and its standing in the polls, argues Professor Chris Painter
bylinetimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Electing Trump and supporting MAGA was essentially a murder-suicide pact.
February 1, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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transmission from the csam hellsite
February 1, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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My daughter Millie impressed with her birthday pressie 🤣
February 1, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes.

As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them.

Effectively a mark of rank.
"why are these rich freaks so bad at writing emails?"

because they've never had to be good enough at it to keep paying rent
February 1, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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"I can be a pedophile all on my own" is not the flex he thinks it is.
February 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
This is a great thread on 15 minute cities and the right wing conspiracy theories which have sprung up around them
Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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1/25
February 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it
January 31, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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Noticeable absence of asylum seekers, trans people and drag queens listed as child rapists in the files.

Pretty much all very rich, very powerful and very white men.

Almost as if that’s who the problem has always fucking been, isn’t it?
January 31, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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My mum had bombs dropped on her as a child. My dad bled on a beach in battle. I'm not yet bored of rules-based coexistence, because anger isn't the same as education, history isn't a comic, and interesting times don't just happen to someone else.
January 31, 2026 at 11:18 PM
I would love to hear @davidallengreen.bsky.social's take on this
The order is only 2 pages and it's drippppping with contempt, everyone should read it
February 1, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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We are Christopher Isherwood, watching neighbours inform on neighbours from our apartment above.
straight up Gestapo shit
January 31, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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I've said this before, but if you send me a voice note I will just not listen to it. Sorry (not sorry).
January 31, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Everyone's going to have a favourite bit from a Melania review. This is mine so far.
January 31, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Musk has been spamming crap about SpaceX and Grok all day but now every single reply to any of his posts is someone calling him a pedophile. the stage has been set for something historic
January 31, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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January 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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I enjoyed reading this column, which somehow blames Keir Starmer for the result of an employment tribunal following laws passed under the Tory government regarding an incident and suspension that took place before the last election.
January 31, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Perhaps, due to one of Epstein's typos, Musk thought it was a "pedalo island" and was keen to have fun with a bunch of massive pedalos
January 31, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.

This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM