Dave Challis

Husband, granddad to 9, City fan, loved by God. Author of “Discipling Like Ducks: on being church, being human, and being a light.”

[Dave Challis @ChallisDave]

@nico_sats @utdreport Ronny

[Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance]

Absolutely infuriating that one of my colleagues has decided that what Parliament should focus on in the coming months - given everything going on in the world and here at home - is bringing back the assisted dying bill. Head in hands.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

@nicolelampert We have effectively legalised sexual assault and VAWG, are selling tickets, cheering the assailants on and then giving them women's medals. Bravo 'progressive' men's rights 2026 and all who pretend not to see this 👏🏻

[Dave Challis @ChallisDave]

@KingBobIIV @nico_sats Uprising - through the ballot box of course.

[Dave Challis @ChallisDave]

@interallia @maitlis @TheNewsAgents @Keir_Starmer Bye 👋🏻 election - a long goodbye to the Labour Government

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep.

The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements.

For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep.

A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own.

The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing.

Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin.

So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good.

A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off.

You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

[Dave Challis @ChallisDave]

@Veritatem2021 @SpeechUnion Protests do not belong in the lecture room

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

You want to know what's worse than incompetence? Knowing the truth and burying it anyway.

They knew. That's the bit nobody is saying. They knew.

Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.

Hampshire Police had that tape.

They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.

Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.

Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.

Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.

This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.

That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.

Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.

[Deepak Patel @x_deepakpatel]

Kids don't get confident from being told they're great. They get confident from doing hard things and finding out they can.

[Dave Challis @ChallisDave]

@nico_sats @Keir_Starmer We will pass a law, but before we do we will draft a plan, then do a consultation then a White Paper. Oh and increase tax to pay for it!

[Dave Challis @ChallisDave]

People are right to be concerned about Police diversity training in the wake of recent events, and political discussion about it. When a Christian officer is not allowed to question his training (in a “safe space”) something is wrong about the underlying assumptions.

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

🚨(1)BREAKING: Christian community police officer wins settlement after being forced out of his role for questioning and criticising Islam during diversity training.

Luke Salmons, who has been supported by the Christian Legal Centre, was suspended for six months, forced to resign and put on a police barring list after he had questioned radical Islam in a training session.

He had been told that the session was a 'safe place' for discussion, but after expressing his beliefs, the consequences were devastating.

After taking legal action, his case has now been settled on confidential terms, however his story raises serious concerns about free speech and religious freedom in UK policing.

See more in this thread 🧵on our website and breaking in the media:
https://t.co/Ed9elAMIKa

https://t.co/sAkxcVf9PW

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[foland (fan) @propsMCFC]

all favourable calls by the PGMOL that made Arsenal champions.

PGMOL title👍

[Heisenberg 🇮🇳 @Internetumpire7]

Cricket Disaster class 😂😂

[Manchester City @ManCity]

Everyone at City would like to send their love and support to Kevin Keegan and his family following his diagnosis of stage four cancer.

We are all thinking of you and we will never forget what you did for this club during your four years here. 🩵

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

Ed Davey has urged Bridget Phillipson to withdraw EHRC guidance protecting women-only toilets and changing rooms—guidance based on the Supreme Court’s Equality Act ruling. Calling it incompatible with “British values”, he’s chosen a side. It isn’t women.

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

Is there anything more British than destroying a young world champion because he dares give a bit back to a load of pissed-up idiots who couldn’t hit their own lips with the top of a pint glass, let alone a 170 checkout. We don’t deserve Luke Littler.

[Nuel @LfcNuel]

Bukayo Saka manhandled the ball in his penalty area but a penalty wasn’t given because he wears an Arsenal shirt.
The referee and VAR are helping Arsenal https://t.co/fyJ9pEcIJp

[Colin Robinson @croucher_tiger]

@writethewrongs2 Tell us what will happen to climate change when the UK gets to zero

When nobody is allowed a car, a holiday, a log burner, a gas boiler, a beef dinner

When everything has been taken from us & our lives are miserable, where will the blue line be?