Daniel Chapman

Local government engagement and procedure nerd. Often found running around Westminster or Benidorm. Known to bang on about stem cell donation.

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

FROM BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS TO MOUNTAIN SUMMITS🩸🏔️

A year post-stem cell transplant, was great to be back on @itvcalendar talking recovery, the Three Peaks and stem cell donation.

I've been incredibly fortunate. Not everyone finds a match.

Please consider joining the register.

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You do know this means we need a @BritishBakeOff road trip spin-off with Connie and Moyin just tearing around the country trying cakes or something. Anything. Just make it work, Channel 4. #GBBO

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BEREFT. HEARTBROKEN. #gbbo

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You have to go back to Gladstone in the 1880s for a time when there were NO living Prime Ministers, and Churchill’s second time when there was just one former PM still alive - Attlee.

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At the 2009 Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph, only 17 years ago, there were just three living former Prime Ministers - Blair, Major, and Thatcher (who watched the service from a window overlooking Whitehall)…

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

At the 2009 Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph, only 17 years ago, there were just three living former Prime Ministers - Blair, Major, and Thatcher (who watched the service from a window overlooking Whitehall)…

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Your regular reminder that Britain has 9 living former PMs, 6 of whom have served in the last 10 years.

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

BLANSAS.

The first Dem elected to the Senate in Kansas in almost a century.

Dems have now made the four gains they need for a majority - if they hold onto existing seats.

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Decision Desk HQ projects Adam Hamilton wins the KS US Senate General Election

#DecisionMade: 10:48 PM EST

Follow live results here: https://t.co/VWaAGZyKPo

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

Diva was just playing the long game.

#IAGov

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Decision Desk HQ projects Rob Sand wins the IA Governor General Election

#DecisionMade: 9:57 PM EST

Follow live results here: https://t.co/cYry2iHjLk

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At this rate, we won't even have to wait for the returns from Maine and Alaska to know the balance of power in the Senate.

Wow.

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Decision Desk HQ projects Annie Andrews wins the SC US Senate General Election

#DecisionMade: 9:54 PM EST

Follow live results here: https://t.co/Ay5OSp1v3i

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

THREE LIVE STREAMS, MULTIPLE TWITTER TABS, NYT AND CNN MAPS...

I HAVE SO MUCH INFORMATION OVERLOAD RIGHT NOW AND I'VE NEVER FELT MORE ALIVE.

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

If you’re here for mouldy focaccia, stay for a story:

In May 2025, I was diagnosed with bone marrow failure. Months in hospital, daily blood transfusions and a stem cell transplant later, I’m alive.

You could save a life too.

Check out @AnthonyNolan and @DKMS_uk for more info!

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Something tells me that maybe, just maybe, a fourth yellow sticker might just shift this mouldy focaccia, @Tesco…

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@positivelyleon @Tesco Really got to appreciate that extra…lingering…taste 😌

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@talonfast @Tesco With complimentary hazmat suit!

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

Got discharged after the transplant a year ago, and, well, since then we’ve not stopped.

(Actually mad to think about everything that’s happened within that year.)

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

START SPREADING THE NEWS, I’M LEAVING TODAY✨

All a bit surreal after the last five months but I’ve been formally discharged this evening. Lots of emotions but the overarching one is of thankfulness.

Thankful for so much but especially that stranger donating their stem cells 🤍

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@I__naenae In the old days Cité Europe in Calais had a Tesco solely selling booze (the days of the cheap Booze Cruise), and I remember my nan would STOCK UPPP on the Value Whisky.

Came in useful as they’d be sent Computers for Schools vouchers, and would just give away whole books of them.

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

Saying that, despite presenting books and books of Computers for Schools vouchers after each trip over the Channel and back, I don’t think we ever saw a new computer???

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

In the old days Cité Europe in Calais had a Tesco solely selling booze (the days of the cheap Booze Cruise), and I remember my nan would STOCK UPPP on the Value Whisky.

Came in useful as they’d be sent Computers for Schools vouchers, and would just give away whole books of them.

[sophie @I__naenae]

This is frying me

[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

The planes had horsepower - I had to make do with sheer willpower 😮‍💨✈️💨🏃🏻

Aviation history and running - two of my favourite things together at the Duxford Dash.

The 50mph gusts had other ideas though. Running with them? Fine. Against them? Never again.

@IWMDuxford @I_W_M 🫡

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

In 2021, workmen digging a rainwater cistern in Hazeweidestraat, St Juliaan, Belgium spotted human remains in their trench. A few days later an archaeological excavation was undertaken by the Flanders Heritage Agency. Artefacts recovered alongside the remains showed them to be those of a soldier who had served in the 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.

The Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), launched an investigation to name him. Research identified twenty men from the regiment missing in the area, all of whom died in the Spring of 1915.

Following genealogical investigation, living descendants of the missing men were traced one by one until eventually DNA testing proved that the remains were those of Lance Corporal Claude Stanley Dell. He was laid to rest last week at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium.

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[Daniel Chapman @DanielChappers]

PEAK-TIME TELEVISION 📺⛰️

Lovely to be invited on to @itvcalendar to talk about our Three Peaks challenge, the incredible support we've received and most importantly - why raising awareness of stem cell donation means so much to me.

Thanks for having me! 🫡

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