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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 26/09/2026

💚 Delighted to have got @markforqueenspark.bsky.social elected as the 12th Green cllr in Brighton & Hove, after yet another Labour cllr resigned. www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/09/25/s... 🌞 A 'Beautiful Day' indeed, as the Levellers (who endorsed Mark!) sang: music.youtube.com/watch?v=nyrM...

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 16/09/2026

It's been 4 years since I last worked at a university, but I was proud to stand in the rain yesterday with UCU and Unison members and supporters, including local Green party members, in protest again the massive attack on workers' rights just launched by University of Brighton management

Large group of UCU and Unison members and supporters, with banners and flags, standing outside a University of Brighton building. A heavy rain shower has just passed

Group of candidates and other members of Brighton & Hove Green Party outside the University of Brighton, with fists in the air

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 14/09/2026

Galloway standing (or threatening to) in H&SP is a perfect opportunity for Polanski to reaffirm his support for trans rights and for Ukraine (which is fully compatible with Polanski's understandable urge to question the workings of Nato in a Trumpian world). novaramedia.com/2026/09/14/g...

Screenshot of paragraph from the linked Novara Media article: 'Galloway framed his candidacy as a direct challenge to Polanski. Speaking on his talk show, Galloway cited Polanki’s [sic] support for Ukraine and his position on trans rights among the reasons he would oppose him. Later in the show, Galloway said he supports Russia’s war on Ukraine as part of “a wider anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist framework”.'

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 14/09/2026

🙏 Thanks to Rachel Millward for coming to support our Queen's Park by-election campaign in Brighton 🤯 It's the third Labour resignation in that ward since 2024 - in a two-member ward! 💚 Let's get Mark Strong elected on 24th September! @markforqueenspark.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social

Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward standing with Queen's Park by-election candidate Mark Strong and lots of volunteers holding 'Vote Green' boards and 'Vote Mark Strong' posters.

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/08/2026

Spot on from The Lancet. Shame they don't specifically mention UK though.

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 17/08/2026

Another great evening campaigning in the Queen's Park by-election for our candidate Mark. Looking forward to repeating last year's stonking by-election win in the same ward! #GetGreensElected #VoteGreen

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 13/08/2026

Great to be out campaigning for Mark Strong @markforqueenspark.bsky.social in Brighton's Queen's Park by-election! (This is the third by-election in that ward in 3 years, all caused by Labour resignations!) #GetGreensElected #VoteGreen

Green candidate Mark Strong stands with a group of other Green activists on a sunny Brighton street holding posters

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 19/07/2026

There were so many people at Trans Pride Brighton! Lovely to see my local MP @sianberry.bsky.social and many other friends there 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights are Human Rights

Group of smiling people at Trans Pride, including Sian Berry MP. Many are holding or wearing trans flags. Behind them are a mass of other people holding signs and flags. Picture is taken on the main road along Brighton seafront

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 19/07/2026

Best wishes for a healthy recovery, physically and from the shock. No pets, so here's a frog at my allotment

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 15/07/2026

Thanks to @swedenborghouse.bsky.social for hosting two beautiful evenings of conversation, film and music in celebration of 100th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's birth. Including UK premier of the extraordinary documentary Outrider on the work of incomparable poet Anne Waldman. Watch it if you can!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 29/06/2026

Several venues in Scandinavia now listing Bob Dylan concert dates for October, so looks like he'll be back in UK in November. Saw him in Bournemouth 2022, Royal Albert Hall 2024, and a beautiful performance in my home town of Brighton in 2025. Keeping fingers crossed he'll be back!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 17/06/2026

🙏 Thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social for joining us yesterday in Hove. One week left to get Nadia Barton Ahmad elected in the Goldsmid by-election. See nadia4goldsmid.uk to get involved! 💚 And as the fortuitously placed hoarding says, vote Green 'for the goodness of one's health'!

Group of around 30 Green activists near Hove Station, including Caroline Lucas and Goldsmid candidate Nadia Barton Ahmad, all holding dayglo green posters. Fortuitously placed behind them is a large advertising hoarding with the slogan 'For the Goodness of One's Health'

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 03/06/2026

🎉 Happy 100th Birthday Allen Ginsberg! 3 June 1926 - 5 April 1997 Subject of so much of my research and attention for many years! His poetry, organizing and networking brought into being the Beat movement and ongoing counterculture 🙏 www.drlukewalker.com/publications www.drlukewalker.com/media

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 14/05/2026

I had a search, and found this on marriage. Not exactly what you asked for, but perhaps it's helpful? But anyway, all our policies are democratically proposed and voted on by members, so join the party and propose yours! join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 30/04/2026

Local election seats forecast by @britainelects.com for the New Statesman. We'll know next week how accurate this turns out to be, but there's no real doubt that the result will be devastating for Labour. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 26/02/2026

Some crazy shit being pulled by Labour in Gorton & Denton today. Confirmed this was Labour not Reform

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/02/2026

Looks like there's another G&D constituency poll due out soon 👀 Unclear from the phrasing here whether it has Greens or Reform in first place, but definitely has Greens ahead of Labour How long will you make us wait, @bylinetimes.bsky.social ?

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 28/01/2026

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes - Zoe Playdon

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 28/01/2026

Out of the Ordinary - Michael Dillon

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 24/01/2026

Now with this rather lovely cover! Due to be published in April

Book cover for 'Allen Ginsberg in Context', showing a picture of Ginsberg as an old man, with a grey beard and wearing thick glasses. He holds up a tiny hardcover book in front of his left eye.

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 05/01/2026

Just watching the Godfather III and found it stars an instantly recognizable Gregory Corso, for a scene-stealing 10 seconds, playing 'Unruly Stockholder 2'

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 05/01/2026

Delighted to receive author proofs for a project in which I had two roles! Allen Ginsberg in Context (Cambridge UP) includes my chapter on Ginsberg's Blakean contexts, and an index also by me, as a professional indexer. Available for indexing, copyediting and proofreading work www.drlukewalker.com

Screenshot of page titled 'Chapter 5. Blake, Romanticism, and the Visionary. Luke Walker'

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 17/10/2025

So excited to be going to see Bob Dylan in my home town of Brighton in 3 weeks! I saw him in 2022 in Bournemouth and 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall, but I never imagined he'd be coming back to UK again this year, and performing in Brighton!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 07/10/2025

I had a great time volunteering behind the bar at the Hanover Beer Festival at the weekend 🍻 It's a lovely annual event which raises funds for our very special local community centre 🏫 Once again @sianberry.bsky.social sponsored a barrel. She was at Green conference, so picture of her last year! 💚

Luke standing by beer barrels, wearing Hanover Beer Festival lanyard and t-shirt

Luke with Sian Berry, who is holding a glass of beer and laughing

Luke holding a beer glass in a tent pointing at a sign saying 'Thank you from Sian Berry and Brighton & Hove Green Party'

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 01/09/2025

More vile tweets from @bhlabour.bsky.social candidate Simon Charleton

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 01/09/2025

I knew that @bhlabour.bsky.social candidate in Brighton's Queen's Park by-election was Blue Labour, but turns out he also retweets vile transphobic and racist content from the SDP and Spiked. Good job @bhgreens.bsky.social are putting all our effort into making sure Marina Lademacher beats him!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 25/07/2025

Follow @lgbtiqagreens.bsky.social (and/or sign up to their email list). They are asking candidates for all internal elections to sign these pledges. I don't know when the results will be released?

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 24/07/2025

I've got plenty of respect for Sultana and Corbyn's political views, but the 'launch' of their 'party' has just been one disaster after another. Meanwhile @zackpolanski.bsky.social is showing how things can be done differently, with videos like this ⤵️

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 15/07/2025

Great episode of @drugscience.bsky.social podcast, on one of my favourite topics, psychedelic Romanticism! I've written myself about 20th C psychedelic Romanticism, but in this case it's Thomas Beddoes, Humphry Davy and poet friends Coleridge and Southey. I had to buy @mikejay.bsky.social book!

My copy of Mike Jay's book 'Free Radicals'

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 14/07/2025

Not usually one to post pretty pictures on here, but my allotment is looking particularly lovely right now!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 31/05/2025

Nice to see the New Statesman taking the Greens seriously, and identifying @zackpolanski.bsky.social as the leadership contender who poses the biggest threat to Labour www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 30/05/2025

Just had my hair cut and did my bit for society by turning the comics-reading, stoner-dude barber on to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Amazingly, he'd never heard of them. The kids of today don't know their countercultural history!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 26/05/2025

Zack is not only a great media communicator, he's also shown he can be relied on to support Green teams around the country. There's a lot of enthusiasm for him among members in Brighton & Hove. His energy is inspirational. I'm backing Zack to be leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 17/05/2025

@zackpolanski.bsky.social has strongly supported @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social in his role as a Green party member of the London Assembly, asking this question of Sadiq Khan:

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 17/05/2025

BHCC council leader Bella Sankey clearly has no idea about the history of Brighton & Hove. Her claim that the new Hove Beach Park is the first new park in 100 years will surprise residents of Elm Grove where the wonderful Patch park was opened in 1980s www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2025/ce... 1/3

Screenshot of story on BHCC website, headlined 'First new park in more than a century'

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 08/05/2025

This is a mad headline, even by the standards of the anti-trans extremists in charge of The Telegraph and other UK media. Well done Carla!

Daily Telegraph headline: 'Good riddance to Carla Denyer: wrong about everything, all the time'
Subheading: 'If the Greens have any sense they'll appoint as next co-leader someone who knows what a woman is'

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 30/04/2025

And Frieda Harris' beautiful original paintings for the Thoth deck, plus her sketch of Aleister Crowley as a froggy flaneur!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 30/04/2025

Also wonderful to see Austin Osman Spare's deck (only recently rediscovered!) which had some distinctly Blakean design elements

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 30/04/2025

Finally went to the Tarot - Origins & Afterlives exhibition at @warburginstitute.bsky.social, on the very last day! These cards from Suzanne Treister's modern deck seemed appropriate

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/04/2025

Finally Byron. I think he might just vote for whichever candidate (of any gender) he found sexiest! Hopefully he'd appreciate the Greens' commitment to LGBTQ rights. And like Shelley, he was a real political radical despite his class background. So I'm marking him as a Green voter too 💚 7/7

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/04/2025

On to Cowper. Only those of us who studied English Literature at university are likely to have read him today. So he'd probably vote for any candidate who listened to him (and pronounced his name right!) Greens know the importance of doorstep conversations (and of funding Arts and Humanities!)

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/04/2025

Next, Shelley. It's likely the planners were thinking of Percy. But Greens stand for (trans-inclusive) feminism. Nowadays Mary may have more readers than Percy. Greens are also (eco-)socialists - unlike Labour! Eleanor Marx wrote 'Shelley and Socialism'. Both Shelleys would surely vote Green!

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/04/2025

Next, Coleridge. He gets a street and a pub named in his honour, though his drug of choice was opium. Green policy is for legalization and sensible regulation of all drugs. No war on drugs. Coleridge's opiate addiction would be managed as a health issue. I reckon Coleridge would vote Green. 4/7

The Ancient Mariner pub, with hanging pub sign depicting an albatross

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/04/2025

I also think there is a physical resemblance between Geoff Shanks and William Wordsworth 🤔 But of course Geoff has not followed Wordsworth's path towards conservatism as he has (gracefully) aged. He'll be a great addition to our progressive Green group of councillors in Brighton & Hove! 3/7

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/04/2025

Wordsworth Street is quite long, which is appropriate given the Poet Laureate's long life. He infamously shifted from revolutionary idealist youth to Tory old age. But I reckon if the young Wordsworth was around today he'd vote Green. He was a nature poet after all 🌱 2/7

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/04/2025

Great to be out knocking doors again in Westbourne & Poets' Corner ward, to get Geoff Shanks elected to Brighton & Hove City Council on 1st May. As the ward name sugggests, many of the streets are named after Romantic poets! I made a little thread of how I imagine each poet would vote 1/7

Calling card for Green candidate Geoff Shanks

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 03/04/2025

Yes it's real. Labour's 'shop' (for activists and local parties) is selling bundles of this leaflet boasting about 'deportation flights'. shop.labour.org.uk/product/ille...

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 28/02/2025

Looks like @bhlabour.bsky.social have been reading our newsletter

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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 28/02/2025

Brighton Labour cllr Tim Rowkins clearly feeling pressure as stories in Green newsletter force two announcements from him on same day! www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/02/28/c... www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/02/28/w... Thanks to @sarahbookerlewis.bsky.social for reporting!

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