Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1hWelcome to 4Q26, everyone. Please maintain a laser-like focus on your Key Goals, be mindful of our Values, and help us all to a strong year-end close. Thank you. 100
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 14h2,000 words for The Guardian: ‘At last! Teenage girls are reclaiming the language of middle-aged men from the 1970’s’. 060
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A ScrewFix City has opened near my office and is regularly queued out of the door. The people want convenient access to ironmongery and electrical accessories on their lunchtimes! 110
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Between 5 and 7pm today I will be playing a range of single-coil pickup guitars with ‘The Los Dawsons’ at the Shortlands Tavern, Bromley. 001
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Spotted this after we’d been in a pizza place which was only a third full but staff were warning about “a long wait for food”. The malign influence of Deliveroo etc, on the eating out experience! 000
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Recently-opened vegetarian restaurant in Blackheath has the strapline “Meatless Not Tasteless”, which seems a bit…unambitious. 021
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A pint of Kernel Table Beer to the tremendous sound of Deptford Dub Club sound system playing Jonny Too Bad by the Slickers. 030
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Man City Women brought an unprecedented *two* official team buses to the Valley today. I guess one of them might be listed on AutoTrader soon, though. 000
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Closer to home, Charlton Athletic Women play petrostate-backed, industrial-strength cheaters Manchester City at the Valley, KO 1.30pm. #wsl 021
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Local-ish PSA: Deptford Dub Club are at Beckenham Place Park this afternoon/evening. Nice day for it; think I’ll go along. 010
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This feels like it could be significant, until I remember the median Labour MP’s default fondness for the gambling industry www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comVast Casino Secrets leak exposes inner workings of offshore gambling firmsFiles could have seismic consequences for online casinos, including those accused of illegally targeting consumers 000
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026£5 pints of Five Points Best in London’s Glittering West End? The Age of Abundance may well be round the corner! 030
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This piece is incredibly depressing on so many levels, but I will confess to an involuntary chuckle at “More Garden Centres” as a political attack line. Wtf is going on over that side of London? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRow over AI caricatures of west London councillorLabour's Sital Punja says the cartoons contain "racist tropes" - something the Conservatives reject. 100
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026On Sunday I’m helping a friend out by playing guitar with his band, as the guitarist he’d been playing with since they were both about 13 - a really lovely bloke - sadly died earlier in the summer. Suspect there may be more emotions on stage than is usual for a pub gig in Bromley. 100
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New Jeff Parker, celebrating the centenary of Coltrane’s birth (FAO: the people who like that sort of thing). intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/miles-...intlanthem.bandcamp.comMiles' Mode, by Jeff Parker featuring Chris Speed, Kaveh Rastegar, and Aaron Steeletrack by Jeff Parker featuring Chris Speed, Kaveh Rastegar, and Aaron Steele 010
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Opinionz: this is an excessive % of pavement to give over to dockless bike parking. 120
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There are people out here in winter coats this morning. Madness. 010
Reposted by NeilBadger5000 @badger5000.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Let’s get these fucking backwards arseholes in the bin www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform UK-led council ends support for Show Racism the Red CardCharity’s head coach ‘shocked’ after Sunderland council leader says it will not support ‘politically charged’ groups 141
Reposted by NeilLondon SE1 community website @se1.news · 22/09/2026French tightrope walker Charles Elleano crossed the Thames near Hungerford Bridge on this day 75 years ago, drawing a crowd of more than 150,000 spectators www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urzi...youtube.com1951 Elleano Crosses the Thames RiverDate: 27th September 1951 Location: Thames, USA Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) SLATE INFORMATION: Crossing The Thames By Wire ENGLAND: Thames… 022
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My parents went for a break this week at what they thought was a country house hotel but turned out to have originally been the hotel of doomed theme park 'Camelot', featuring a combination of 1980's decor and mock-medieval interior features set in acres of desolation. #VisitBritain 141
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I swam 3km this morning and now can’t think of anything but pies, pastries, mixed grills, charcuterie boards, cheese trolleys, toad in the hole, etc, etc. 020
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Enjoyed this very much - and not just because it was written by a ‘Hank Shteamer’. Surely the best possible name for someone writing about spiritual jazz for the NYT? 010
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Apart from the awkward kick-off time, the scoreline, the complete mismatch between the teams, and some terrible refereeing, another great WSL matchday experience. 000
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Halft-time: CAFC Women are 3-1 down to billionaire-bankrolled LCL at the Valley, but we have at least scored our first WSL goal. 010
Reposted by NeilWayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk · 18/09/2026Whenever I visit the National Portrait Gallery, I always have to spend a little time with this portrait of the poet and satirist Alexander Pope painted by Jonathan Richardson in 1737. The economy of mark making, and psychological intensity of the face make the portrait feel surprisingly modern. 043
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Maybe not what you need at this point on a Friday morning, but the new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy live album out today has a pretty stunning I See A Darkness at the end. 110
Reposted by NeilNate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Today the original artwork for 'Time Out,' by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, sold at auction for a record-breaking $576K. Its artist and designer, S. Neil Fujita, is part of a brilliant new exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Here’s a piece I just wrote about him, and the show.wrti.orgA designer of iconic jazz albums shines in a new show at the Barnes'Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America' explores the impact of Japanese-American incarceration on modern American design. One of its six featured artists is S. Neil Fujita, whose work is known t... 16827
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@hulatommy.bsky.social Bit of microplastics coverage in the Guardian today. Thought you ought to be informed. 100
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Big fan of this Dylan era, but 39 discs seems…too many to process? Certainly a lot of guitar-with-phaser-pedal-applied to listen to. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comBob Dylan Announces Massive 39-Disc Box Set Chronicling 1976 Rolling Thunder RevueBob Dylan's 1976 leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue will be chronicled in the new box set 'The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings.' 000
Reposted by NeilJames @zemblamatic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just had an exquisite rhubarb yoghurt. Would it be indiscreet to ask if there is a Bon Papa? 041
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Attempts to divide the population neatly in two like this never work, expect for “ask culture/guess culture”, which remains undefeated (as pointed out to me by @nikkicoates.bsky.social some years ago). 000
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Mildly addictive game for the sort of people who think they have a solid sense of english football clubs’ average league positions since 1992: higherground.footballhigherground.footballHigher Ground — the football pyramid quizWhich club ranks higher, on average, since 1992-93? 10 fixtures, each closer than the last. One wrong answer ends the run. 010
Reposted by NeilPaul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Slowly walking down the hall/to my premium toilet stall/where were you when wees were priced so high" 48930
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Once again googling “holidays in most arid destination”. 010
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Charlton Athletic Women are now *above* Man Utd in the WSL table 💪. (No need to look more closely at the details of this scenario, tks) 000
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026@ure.bsky.social I was up a church tower yesterday and they let me ring a couple of bells. I’m not sure this a bell-ringing rig for the purist, though. 230
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Autumnal colours are here! Thinking back nostalgically to the times when our streets were covered in little silver ND capsules rather than these things. 010
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Richard Williams writes: thebluemoment.com/2026/09/13/e...thebluemoment.com‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’On its own terms, Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans is an extraordinary film, fully deserving the accolades and awards coming its way. Adapted from Intermission, the 2013 novella by the W… 263
