Tim Chapman
@IslingtonChap
Times reader. 📚 Radio 4 listener. 📻 Rejoiner. 🇪🇺 Adore Ottolenghi. 😋 Father of two. 👪 Cambridge graduate. 🏆 Investigative journalism costs money. 🫰
ANNOUCEMENT: A new campaign, following the roaring success of Let’s Bloody Go (murder is now illegal). 🐽 POUNDS IN THE PIGGYBANK. My first exclusive: the taxpayer has been paying woke Universities to research homosexual pornography. More to follow.

Social media has been a cesspit since Dominic Cummings invented algorithms. But today, I’m starting to see the green shoots of recovery. No more videos of protests. Ethnic minorities fighting, etc. Just chats, chinwags. Next years’s Ed Balls day is going to be a belter.
Corbyn’s new party is designed to put Farage in No10 ... Sultana, Lali and others are using the same playbook/rhetoric that the KPD used to pave Hitler's path to victory... I am not exaggerating ... 1/... thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-cor…
I claim it is quite recent. Yookay did not exist at the time of the 2012 Olympics even in London. It may even be post-Covid / Boriswave
When did YooKay begin?
First the racists whinge about paying for Asylum Seeker’s meals. Then, when our interpreters show a bit of ‘small-c’ immigrant entrepreneurialism, and catch their own ducks. In a London Park. The racist whingeing gets even more shrill.
Sometimes I think I’ve gone a bit nutty. Think there’s a robust conversation to be had on immigration, or trans. Then I see this. Undiluted Starmer. And it all comes flooding back. Go on, our girls. Our Lionesses. Do us proud.

I’m in Spain. We Brits are such heathens. Listening to all the Europeans speaking each others languages beautifully. Even the lucky lucky men selling fake handbags can speak 4 languages fluently. We barely manage our own language.
I think this unwise. Getting a steaming hot meal delivered to your home for tuppence ha’penny in pouring rain is one of the few material pleasures young people enjoy that my generation did not.
We're taking action to stop migrants working illegally as food delivery drivers.
Find myself getting quite sodded off on behalf on the train companies when Trainline urges me to file a delay repay claim. It just doesn’t strike me as particularly comradely conduct. Biting the hand that feeds.
> decides to stop poasting about politics for a bit > "it's just one, no one will even notice" > get's retweeted by Dominic Cummings
My last interaction with James was: He and some of his friends were discussing how awful it is for people to want to build new houses. I said "no, we need them. People my age can't afford houses". He and his friends then turned to me, looked me in my eyes, and burst out…
What a performance, @Lionesses! Into the final and inspiring the nation Let’s bring it home.
Best of luck in the semi-final tonight @Lionesses. We’re all behind you.
Maybe there are locals in Essex too yellow of teeth to embrace diversity. But Canary Wharf? Population: 60,000 citizens of nowhere. Pack it in, Putin. We won’t get fooled again.
My last interaction with James was: He and some of his friends were discussing how awful it is for people to want to build new houses. I said "no, we need them. People my age can't afford houses". He and his friends then turned to me, looked me in my eyes, and burst out…
Delighted to meet our new Shadow Housing Secretary @JamesCleverly today. @consyimby look forward to working with him to get Britain building again! #BuildBabyBuild
Wake up. WAKE UP. It’s ShadCab reshuffle day. I need you on top form.
Football is in our country’s DNA. It means so much to so many of us. That’s why I’m proud that today we deliver on our promise to fans as the landmark Football Governance Act becomes law. Protecting clubs across the country and giving fans more say in how they are run.
It’s very closely run but I think the Nightingale Hospitals were my main pandemic highlight. The NHS joining hands with our Armed Forces to protect the public at pace. Just impossible to beat. Honourable mentions, of course, to FaceMasks (😷) and Scotch Eggs (🤣).
A pitch that mixes conventional Populism with lockdown nostalgia, even longing. Detest him, but he is the undisputed master of modern political communications.
