Neal Champion
@champ.org.uk
Motorcyclist and racer, left-leaning, Europhile, musician
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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NEW
Performative Litigation Letters
How certain lawyer letters are intended for news and social media consumption
By me, on the legal threats of Truss and now Trump
emptycity.substack.com/p/performati...
Performative Litigation Letters
How certain lawyer letters are intended for news and social media consumption
By me, on the legal threats of Truss and now Trump
emptycity.substack.com/p/performati...
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
NEW
Performative Litigation Letters
How certain lawyer letters are intended for news and social media consumption
By me, on the legal threats of Truss and now Trump
emptycity.substack.com/p/performati...
Performative Litigation Letters
How certain lawyer letters are intended for news and social media consumption
By me, on the legal threats of Truss and now Trump
emptycity.substack.com/p/performati...
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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Now that we've all got over the initial outrage and got used to them, I think we can all agree that plastic bottles having the lids attached is a genius idea. No dropped lids, easier to recycle and always able to reseal the bottle. Brilliant.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Now that we've all got over the initial outrage and got used to them, I think we can all agree that plastic bottles having the lids attached is a genius idea. No dropped lids, easier to recycle and always able to reseal the bottle. Brilliant.
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NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
emptycity.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
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This Carl Sagan passage - oft quoted but still undimmed and relentlessly haunting… bsky.app/profile/kent...
"Spiritual attacks"? Carl Sagan proved prescient again (and again, and again...).
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This Carl Sagan passage - oft quoted but still undimmed and relentlessly haunting… bsky.app/profile/kent...
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Lisa Nandy has a tremendous opportunity to do some good here. My personal preference is Robbie Gibb's head on a pike as a warning to others but I'll accept other reforms
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Lisa Nandy has a tremendous opportunity to do some good here. My personal preference is Robbie Gibb's head on a pike as a warning to others but I'll accept other reforms
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In case of an emergency…. Grab 3 friends and sing Bohemian Rhapsody
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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If BBC News's rivals who are today damning it for bias were held to similar standards, most of them would be shut down on the spot.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If BBC News's rivals who are today damning it for bias were held to similar standards, most of them would be shut down on the spot.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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Trump's whingeing can now dispatch the director general of the BBC. He must be delighted.
I thought we had more balls than this.
I thought we had more balls than this.
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Trump's whingeing can now dispatch the director general of the BBC. He must be delighted.
I thought we had more balls than this.
I thought we had more balls than this.
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Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
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This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...
"Vibe coding" is apparently the "word of the year"
@theregister.com nails it
www.theregister.com/2025/11/06/v...
@theregister.com nails it
www.theregister.com/2025/11/06/v...
'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers faceplant
: It's not a bug, it's a feeling
www.theregister.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
"Vibe coding" is apparently the "word of the year"
@theregister.com nails it
www.theregister.com/2025/11/06/v...
@theregister.com nails it
www.theregister.com/2025/11/06/v...
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I'm not scared to say it - unless you can trace your ancestry back to someone who lived in the Rift Valley, 200,000 years ago, and quietly tutted about the frankly loutish behaviour of the Neanderthals, then you're not *really* British.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I'm not scared to say it - unless you can trace your ancestry back to someone who lived in the Rift Valley, 200,000 years ago, and quietly tutted about the frankly loutish behaviour of the Neanderthals, then you're not *really* British.
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Every time a pop-up window in an application asks if I'd like to use the AI option it's like a waiter smoothly asking if sir would care to try the shit platter
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Every time a pop-up window in an application asks if I'd like to use the AI option it's like a waiter smoothly asking if sir would care to try the shit platter
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Starting to think the concept 'artificial intelligence' is the same futuristic idea used to sell computers to the world by saying 'electronic brain'.
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Starting to think the concept 'artificial intelligence' is the same futuristic idea used to sell computers to the world by saying 'electronic brain'.
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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This really the cracking of speeches: a banger.
Worth reading in full.
Worth reading in full.
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This really the cracking of speeches: a banger.
Worth reading in full.
Worth reading in full.