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A.M.J. Walker

@amjw.bsky.social
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A dad learning to paint, 18 months in. Ex sound designer. 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇦🇹🇱🇰 London Vienna NYC Colombo amjw.carrd.co

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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Menik Farm Oil on canvas, 150x100cm, 2026 In May 2009, Ban Ki-moon flew over the largest internment camp in Asia. Below him, nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians were held behind barbed wire in Menik Farm, northern Sri Lanka, displaced by the final months of a civil war that killed many tens of thousands.
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ndola Oil & acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm, 2025 On 18/9/1961, a DC-6 carrying Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was brought down near Ndola. He was travelling to negotiations during the Congo crisis. (After a photograph by Adrian Begg.) #contemporarypainting #artcollector #studiopractice
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
NEW: Carney nails it. We have to stop pretending. Read this to understand the deep & dark hinterland behind the speech & why Vaclav Havel’s concept of ‘living in truth’ is the guide we need right now 1/
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Bath time. Oil on canvas. 150x200cm.
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Work in progress. ‘Bath time’. Oil on canvas. 200x150cm. Detail.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Anselm Kiefer in Kiefer / Van Gogh at the Royal Academy
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Proud parenting moment: blasting Coltrane’s Giant Steps in the car, when it comes to an end my 2yo pipes up from the backseat “again!”
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
About a sixth of the public endorse very extreme views on making legal/settled migrants leave & then follow up on the specifics. (This overlaps with the 8% who say they support violence in protests & liked the riots, so it should be challenged, not indulged)
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Rebecca @rebeccafpainter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Sunday Morning. Oil on linen. Private collection. I think this is the only time I've had an image of how I wanted a painting to be in my imagination and managed to create it. Usually my paintings kind of find themselves. I love the sleepy smokiness of it.
Oil painting of a backlit man smoking a cigarette wearing a dressing gown
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My latest painting. A study of childhood ephemera.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Migrants.... are overall more likely to be in work and have slightly higher wages. It follows almost automatically that their short-term impact is to boost, not reduce, GDP per capita. Indeed, that’s exactly what the ONS says.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s one slight issue with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes
The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 14/05/2025
Extraordinary and chilling moment at the UN. Relief chief Tom Fletcher accuses Israel of using starvation “as a bargaining chip.” Urges the Security Council to act decisively to prevent genocide in Gaza.
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So tired of all this. There's zero evidence that more punishing terms of entry discourages entry. But it does hamper life chances, child poverty, productivity and integration.
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Jenny Saville at the Albertina in Vienna
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Celia Paul @ Victoria Miro
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 08/04/2025
Russian internet users searched for “Michael Stürzenberger stabbed” before the knife attack on him in Mannheim, Germany, in May 2024. 1/5
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Philosopher study. Karl Popper. Oil pastel on paper. Did this one last year.
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Noah Davis @ the Barbican. Wonderful exhibition. Catch it if you can.
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Brasil! Brasil! @ the RA
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
There's absolutely no evidence to support Starmer's claim. Overall immigration increases wages. Where there are negative impacts it tends to be on lowest paid 5%, overwhelmingly existing migrants. In terms of undocumented migrants there is no evidence of impact wages due to nature of employment. 1/
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 05/02/2025
*head desk* *endless screaming* *Gen X face*
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Today, Google announced that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people,” “technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms,” and “technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I started teaching myself to paint about ten months ago. This is my latest. Self portrait, oil on wooden panel.
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Last week of the Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/12/2024
The fact that we appear to treat Russian attempts at sabotage, assassination and murder as somehow less significant than other forms of terror is baffling to me. Attempting to blow a plane up in mid-air is bad regardless of whether the ones responsible are doing it for Putinism or Wahhabism.
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
David Hockney lithographs at Halcyon Gallery, New Bond Street
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Mariia Zolkina @mariiazolk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Russia officially started massively conscripting 🇺🇦youth on territories occupied after 2022. Young men from occupied part of Zaporizhzhya region were officially sent to serve in 🇷🇺Armed Forces. This is what the West underestimates: occupation of 🇺🇦land will add mobilization resources for RU
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#r4today already getting it wrong in its coverage from Turkey: 1) Turkey has never been "welcoming" to refugees. The EU paid it, a lot, to prevent people reaching its borders, and Turkey has been shown to repeatedly abuse them. 2) Refugees are not "illegal". Nothing about what they do is illegal.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
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A.M.J. Walker @amjw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Wonderful exhibition at Offer Waterman. Frank Auerbach 1931-2024
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