Neal Champion
@champ.org.uk
Motorcyclist and racer, left-leaning, Europhile, musician
This is both sad and inspiring
This is what we, the good guys, need to do to resist the tide of hate
I hope @robinince.bsky.social wakes up to a tsunami of support today
This is what we, the good guys, need to do to resist the tide of hate
I hope @robinince.bsky.social wakes up to a tsunami of support today
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This is both sad and inspiring
This is what we, the good guys, need to do to resist the tide of hate
I hope @robinince.bsky.social wakes up to a tsunami of support today
This is what we, the good guys, need to do to resist the tide of hate
I hope @robinince.bsky.social wakes up to a tsunami of support today
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“Those who protest that human rights have gone too far often do not like human rights in the first place,” writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“Those who protest that human rights have gone too far often do not like human rights in the first place,” writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
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The only country in the world where memorials to those who are dying fighting fascism stand alongside memorials to those who died fighting fascism in 1945 🇺🇦
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The only country in the world where memorials to those who are dying fighting fascism stand alongside memorials to those who died fighting fascism in 1945 🇺🇦
Once again, I appear to be....
... going down to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
😉
... going down to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
😉
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Once again, I appear to be....
... going down to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
😉
... going down to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
😉
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That's the way to do it
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
That's the way to do it
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Gen Z know the social contract is broken. It’ll take more than youth clubs and StarmerTok to reach them | Gaby Hinsliff
Gen Z know the social contract is broken. It’ll take more than youth clubs and StarmerTok to reach them | Gaby Hinsliff
Labour’s £500m national youth strategy has some positives, but real change must start by tackling the root causes of unhappiness, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Gen Z know the social contract is broken. It’ll take more than youth clubs and StarmerTok to reach them | Gaby Hinsliff
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The real asylum scandal is the incompetence of the Home Office inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The real asylum scandal is the incompetence of the Home Office inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
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The Spectator has never been profitable, it cannot stop losing money. If a system is what it does, the Spectator cannot be understood to function as a profit-generating company; its function is to spread gutter fascist propaganda amongst its lay readership and politicians, money is no object
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Spectator has never been profitable, it cannot stop losing money. If a system is what it does, the Spectator cannot be understood to function as a profit-generating company; its function is to spread gutter fascist propaganda amongst its lay readership and politicians, money is no object
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I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
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When they want to increase public spending, every politician is asked how they will pay for it, but the same is not true (yet) for cutting immigration (because it is incorrectly understood as not having a cost.) I wonder if that will change as the impact on the economy becomes more visible.
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
When they want to increase public spending, every politician is asked how they will pay for it, but the same is not true (yet) for cutting immigration (because it is incorrectly understood as not having a cost.) I wonder if that will change as the impact on the economy becomes more visible.
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“The UK will not diverge much from the European model. That means Brexit really is the worst of all possible worlds, like a divorce where you neither move out nor download a dating app, but instead remain confined to one room in the marital home.”
@stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/007f...
@stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/007f...
December 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“The UK will not diverge much from the European model. That means Brexit really is the worst of all possible worlds, like a divorce where you neither move out nor download a dating app, but instead remain confined to one room in the marital home.”
@stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/007f...
@stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/007f...
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The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
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So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
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narrator: the US has a higher proportion of foreign-born residents (around 16%) than most European nations
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
narrator: the US has a higher proportion of foreign-born residents (around 16%) than most European nations
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I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
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This is absolutely fascinating. How Google Maps affects restaurants, and how its ranking algorithm affects the physical world.
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This is absolutely fascinating. How Google Maps affects restaurants, and how its ranking algorithm affects the physical world.
This is a pretty devastating summary (for the gender critical mob) of the Peggie tribunal ruling
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is a pretty devastating summary (for the gender critical mob) of the Peggie tribunal ruling
Great piece, as always, on how the law cannot protect us if the extremists gain power
I also read it as a call to arms. Don't bite your tongue. Don't cough and change the subject. If someone spouts foul stuff, call it out. Don't let it become normalised
I also read it as a call to arms. Don't bite your tongue. Don't cough and change the subject. If someone spouts foul stuff, call it out. Don't let it become normalised
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Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
emptycity.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Great piece, as always, on how the law cannot protect us if the extremists gain power
I also read it as a call to arms. Don't bite your tongue. Don't cough and change the subject. If someone spouts foul stuff, call it out. Don't let it become normalised
I also read it as a call to arms. Don't bite your tongue. Don't cough and change the subject. If someone spouts foul stuff, call it out. Don't let it become normalised
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It's only been five years, but it's amazing how quickly we've forgotten that the people who really affect ours lives positively are medics, farmers, shop workers, etc, and not entrepreneurs, billionaires, etc
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It's only been five years, but it's amazing how quickly we've forgotten that the people who really affect ours lives positively are medics, farmers, shop workers, etc, and not entrepreneurs, billionaires, etc
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“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
Hey @excelpope.net - might be time to make this chap a archbishop:
www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/d...
www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/d...
Ireland's Diarmuid Early wins Excel World Championship
: Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals
www.theregister.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Hey @excelpope.net - might be time to make this chap a archbishop:
www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/d...
www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/d...
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Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it