Neil Chappell

I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith. Honorary President, Prosecco Regifting Society UK

[Neil Chappell @neilchappell]

Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis
https://t.co/pXnOuxLPgL

[The Onion @TheOnion]

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
https://t.co/vGsKzjstjr

[Neil Chappell @neilchappell]

@maxrushden I agree, Max. I also thought it was a great game of football. #consensus

[John Harris @johnharris1969]

Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
https://t.co/HRZJP2xw8c

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Jimmy Carter Holds Open-Casket Birthday Party https://t.co/aJxw7irAoS

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

No. It’s the responsibility of any news or information organisation to challenge misinformation, and to ask proper questions of those in power. Fact has to be more valid than Lie. To ridicule those who ask for these simple principles is a lazy abdication of the responsibilities held by someone with the reach and influence you so relentlessly claim to have.

[Neil Chappell @neilchappell]

Jaya was a lovely chap. If you can spare a few quid please consider donating.

[StortfordIndependent @StortfordIndie]

Maria Fernando and her three children have been devastated by the sudden death of husband and father Jaya, who had no life insurance. Please help us to help lighten their financial load by donating to our online appeal for his funeral.
@bishcricket
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[Neil Chappell @neilchappell]

New York could make history by making polluters pay for climate damages, but Governor Hochul is on the fence. Add your name now, this bill could set a precedent in making polluters pay! https://t.co/nnidlpwlpJ

[Snigdha ON BLUESKY @snigskitchen]

This perfectly sums up what the media should do about Robert Jenrick's comments on "British culture".

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

Don't call them Farage Riots. It makes him really upset.

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

"The part of the family that doesn't know how to use apostrophes vs the schoolteacher" is probably not the contrast they were going for.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Quick story about Sven-Goran Ericksson (RIP). Such a good man, open and easy to talk to. You needed humility being the first “foreign” England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 manager, but one night we realised just how humble (and witty) he was.

At a charity dinner after the World Cup in 2006, when he was no longer England manager, I was lucky enough to be on his table. Finding my moment, I asked “why did you include a 17 year old Theo Walcott in the World Cup squad when he hadn’t played a single game in the Premier league?”

I didn’t want to upset him because it was a controversial decision at the time - he took an injured Wayne Rooney and a struggling Michael Owen but left out a fit and well Jermaine Defoe. But he replied “no, it’s a good question. Many would like to know. I could not say then, but I can now…” and explained his thinking with a measured response:

“You know, the countries that do well at World Cups always have a ‘secret weapon’. A player unknown to the other teams, to bring on as a substitute to help win a game in the latter stages. This was Theo. And we agreed to use him only in a semi-final or the final.” He and his assistant Tord Grip had seen Walcott in a reserve game at Arsenal and said Theo had “lightening pace” and was “extremely skilful.” Theo was “the perfect unknown quantity to surprise teams and steal a goal and win a championship. That’s why we took him, not Jermaine” he concluded.

I then offered “but Sven, in the quarter final v Portugal we lost on penalties. After Rooney got sent off, surely that was the time to bring on Walcott - not Peter Crouch as you did - to use Theo’s pace and score an extra time winner when we were down to 10 men?”

He looked at me as if it was the first time anyone had ever suggested the idea. He looked ruefully at all of us on the table and said “well now that you say it, yes maybe I should have. In retrospect, this was a mistake.”

The table went silent. We all seemed to be contemplating what could have been, for England and for Theo Walcott. Sven broke the silence with “Omid. Tell us a joke.” I laughed coz it was a delightfully off beat way to deflect, and without thinking, I did. A really inappropriate joke that got absolutely nothing. With a wink and a smile Sven then said “you see, it’s not always easy to think of the right thing to do in the moment, as Mr. Djalili just showed us, and so well.” Cue big laugh.

We understood at that moment, sometimes even the best laid plans can go to cock. And that’s life. It was new information and no one judged him.

Personally I was just thrilled he knew my name.

#SvenGoranEriksson

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

We are facing a climate emergency and there can be no room for malign influences on policy making whilst our planet boils.

Labour MPs should not be taking dirty money from oil and gas lobbyists. Full stop.

I spoke to @Global_Witness

https://t.co/zpUdnEgzOc

[Neil Chappell @neilchappell]

@Samfr @Aiannucci David Frost: a man who earned his living as a photocopier repair man before technology rendered his role obsolete, leaving him with only an ill-fitting suit and political views gleaned from discarded office tabloids. At a guess.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Climate change is hugely disruptive and coping with its impacts is enormously costly - since it will only get worse the longer we delay, the cheapest, least disruptive option is to immediately throw everything at addressing it
https://t.co/PsFPfvYktj

[Neil Chappell @neilchappell]

Great job, ⁦@HomeOfCricket⁩ Who would have thought there would be a crowd on match day?

[Neil Chappell @neilchappell]

@MarioNawfal He’s a bit of a bellend, by the sound of it.

[Neil Chappell @neilchappell]

@MarioNawfal Who’s Joe Rogan?