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Alex Walters

@alexwalters.bsky.social
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Crime writer among other strange things.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
God, I love it when I’m wrong.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Amol Rajan: That's right, 8.5m people tuned in to see me!
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not remotely terrifying.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW | It’s more horrifying than Gove as PM… IN THE TERRIFYING WORLD OF DR. STRANGEGOVE. Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-the-ter...
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In the terrifying world of Dr StrangeGove
Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ugh.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What’s the opposite of genocide? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech
Israeli PM attacks critics and calls New York mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘antisemitic’ in inflammatory address
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Does Clegg really still believe anyone cares what he thinks?
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: News At Ten reports on Pat Phoenix's funeral, attended by both famous people and, accompanying Tony Booth, at least two people whom we didn't know yet how famous they would be.
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Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In my book “Poacher’s Pilgrimage” I explore the roots of this dangerously wacky theology that is deeply embedded in USA. US vice-President JD Vance ‘told Bryce that he is “doing as much of God’s work as possible” and that he is okay “if that leads to the end times,” which, he added, “are coming.”’
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Evan Davis on PM asked if ‘Danny Tommo’ “had any kind of point” by puncturing a dinghy with a knife because “the [authorities] should be doing that themselves”. He went on to describe it as “vigilante action”.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of our teachers led a whole assembly while standing in a waste paper bin. He concluded: ‘You may not understand why I’m doing this. But one day you’ll realise and see why it was important.’ He was wrong.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I get why people are asking “what have we become?” but the answer is “exactly what you’d expect from a decade and a half of the press reciting the spicier bits of Mein Kampf at the public, and our whole ruling class agreeing we need to crack down on the lesser races and their Bolshevik allies”.
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Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This needs stopped. Hard.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/09/2026
President Trump berated a CNN reporter, days after barring the network from the White House. “I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me,” he said. Kaitlan Collins, CNN’s White House correspondent, responded, “The United Nations allowed us in, sir.”
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Trump berates CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after ban: ‘You shouldn’t be covering me’
The terse interaction came during the president’s visit to the United Nations.
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 22/09/2026
[1980] The Edge of the Ceiling - Alan Garner, best known for his children's fantasy novels, talks about his life and writing process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6_kO_4WqM
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The Edge of The Ceiling - Alan Garner
Alan Garner talks about his life and writing process.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Konstantin Kisin blogs he tried to apologise to Rishi Sunak for "making him the case study" saying “He’s a brown Hindu. How is he English?” Kisin said on TV he didn't say this. He now says it "was not the best articulation" of his case why Sunak isn't English www.konstantinkisin.com/p/my-respons...
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My Response to Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak means well but his rhetoric and ideology are helping to create the racialised Britain he is so desperate to avoid.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I bring worse news. That poor woman who lives in Piddington & who @vicderbyshire.bsky.social interviewed after that ridiculous election has had her address leaked to Tommy Robinson & the Pink Ladies & she’s been doxxed by both of them. Wtaf is going on. These people all need to be proscribed now.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I worked in a factory with a part-time lifeboatman once. His beeper would go off every now and then and he'd drop whatever he was doing and RUN out to his car. No-one would say a word, we'd just work around him, what with the guy being an actual real life hero and everything.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Since a couple of posts today in which Piddington has been autocorrected to Paddington. Not sure what to conclude from that.
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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My god this woman's simple truth telling and refusal to be silenced for it should shame the current leadership of Labour. Total respect for her.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m a great believer in self-determination. If that’s what the good people of Piddington want, we should give them complete independence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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English village votes to leave UK in protest over migrant housing plan
Villagers in Piddington, Oxfordshire, hold symbolic referendum over plans to house more than 1,000 asylum seekers nearby
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
Bonnie Blue’s baby outrage – and the dangers of our extreme attention economy | Arwa Mahdawi
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Bonnie Blue’s baby outrage – and the dangers of our extreme attention economy | Arwa Mahdawi
The porn performer and new mother has posted a video of herself holding a baby, while promoting sexual content. It exposes something horrifying about our era, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's the crypto aspect (as well as size of the donations/ concentration of donation to a couple of individuals) which is of particular concern: regardless of the currency of the donation, what is the origin of all this money? What are the underlying activities upon which these fortunes are built?
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What I don't understand about Rayner's comments on banning crypto donations is, once more, that these *are not* donations in crypto, they're donations from crypto billionaires The donations aren't in crypto because pretty much nobody does anything in crypto (except money launders, drug dealers etc)
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Reform has already enjoyed several years of support from a loss-making TV channel whose main function seems to be to give money and favourable coverage to its MPs. The government has done nothing about this. It's probably a more effective way of spending millions than Farage will manage.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Quite impressive example of everyone blaming everybody else.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Peter’s of course right, but separately, wild to me that the Telegraph, a paper Kemi literally reads, keeps (rightly!) sledging Restore and even before “she should be asked what the hell she’s playing at”, what would it take for her to go “hmm, maybe shouldn’t give this guy a select committee post”.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Having spent the last three nights staying in one, my sympathies for ‘the owner of Premier Inn’ (I note the Guardian doesn’t name Whitbread as if the owner might be just some guy) are limited. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ministers face backlash from hospitality industry over ‘tourist tax’ plans
Many mayors welcome power to impose tourist tax but industry warns of ‘irreparable harm’ and job losses
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Justin Webb is doing the ‘you’re not a *proper* Jew, are you?’ thing to Ed Miliband on the Today programme right now.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I mean, there’s selective hearing and there’s this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026
almost word for word
Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Looks like I’m going to have to tap the “no, there is no legal reason whatsoever that your internal investigation means you can’t answer questions” sign. For such a long sign, I get a surprising amount of use out of it these days.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Electoral Commission appears to be straightforwardly wrong about its role and responsibilities in law as the regulator when it says publicly "Information about any potential attempt to evade the controls on donations is for the police to consider". It is the core job of the Electoral Commission
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
reminds me of a joke @tom-phillips.com once made about Boris Johnson's handling of the pandemic. "yeah coronavirus may do well on cities - but how will it perform in towns?"
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