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Guy Walsh/Wah
@aguynamedguy.co.uk
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Performer. Photographer. Speaker. Commentator. ADHD. Green Party Member. Arse. I post about all these things, including my arse.

Find me on Substack @aguynamedguyuk.

All opinions are my own, even the ridiculous ones.
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😂😂😂
January 14, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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boldpolitics.bsky.social
Tomorrow's episode is going to be a big one...

linktr.ee/boldpolitics
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Bonus Monday night #ADHD post. I describe how I managed to turn a simple trip to buy Grace Blakeley’s Vulture Capitalism book into two Substack posts, an argument with Gabor Maté, and a research project about Naomi Klein.

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/aguyname...

#neurodivergent
This is ADHD
Or "How to complicate the simple process of buying a book"
open.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
I recently came across the concept of “scaffolding” in educational psychology.

It gave me language to explain the gap between knowing what helps, and actually being able to function.

Read the article now: open.substack.com/pub/aguyname...

#ADHD #Neurodivergent #ADHDCoaching
A blurred photograph of a man, standing against against a plain background. Overlaid white text reads: “A key part of the scaffolding is the understanding that we all have bad days, whether neurodivergent or not, and empathy and compassion should remain an underlying feature. Fluctuations in performance should be expected, just as with any employee, but the scaffolding gives neurodivergent people the best chance of maintaining consistency.” Below the quote, smaller white text reads: “A Guy Named Guy ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding” At the bottom of the image, faint text reads: “AGUYNAMEDGUYUK.SUBSTACK.COM” A blurred portrait-style photograph of a man standing against a neutral background. Overlaid white text reads: “This is where the current support offering falls down. Most working people can obtain ADHD coaching through Access to Work, but anything else has to be paid for privately. In my case, a combination of therapy and scaffolding support would have been the best approach, but therapy cannot be obtained through Access to Work, and the scaffolding support doesn’t seem to exist as a standalone service.” Below the quote, smaller white text reads: “A Guy Named Guy ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding” At the bottom of the image, faint text reads: “AGUYNAMEDGUYUK.SUBSTACK.COM” A blurred portrait-style photograph of a man standing against a neutral background, with text overlaid. The overlaid white text reads: “Even if it did, it would need to be a holistic service that encompassed life outside of work, so it would be unlikely to be something that Access to Work would fund. I’m sure there are some very good ADHD coaches out there that offer this service, but there is no regulation in the coaching sector and as a result, competence across providers varies greatly.” Below the quote, smaller white text reads: “A Guy Named Guy ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding” At the bottom of the image, faint text reads: “AGUYNAMEDGUYUK.SUBSTACK.COM” A blurred portrait-style photograph of a man standing against a neutral background, with text overlaid. The overlaid white text reads: “The problem isn’t ADHD coaching in itself – it’s the fact that the prescription of coaching is the default response, when scaffolding will, in many cases, be far more appropriate. Coaching can only get you so far – to understanding – and as valuable as this is, understanding has limited value without the function provided by scaffolding.” Below the quote, smaller white text reads: “A Guy Named Guy ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding” At the bottom of the image, faint text reads: “AGUYNAMEDGUYUK.SUBSTACK.COM”
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
I recently came across the concept of “scaffolding” in educational psychology, and it helped me understand why neurodivergent support focuses on insight but so often misses something equally important.

Read the article now: open.substack.com/pub/aguyname...

#ADHD #Neurodivergent #ADHDCoaching
ADHD: Coaching vs Scaffolding
Explaining the disconnect between the support offered to people with ADHD and the support actually needed
open.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:31 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
What???

After losing Sophie Howard in the summer, we've now lost another leader.

I'm seriously worried for this team right now.

#LCFC #LCFCWomen

www.lcfc.com/pages/en/med...
www.lcfc.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Nigel Farage couldn't even condemn something he admits is contrary to international law because he's entirely subservient to Donald Trump.

Some patriot...

www.thenational.scot/news/2574676...
Zack Polanski with perfect comeback as Nigel Farage calls him a 'lunatic'
ZACK Polanski has hit back at Nigel Farage after the Reform UK leader called him a "lunatic"
www.thenational.scot
January 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Absolutely freezing at the King Power this evening. Think it's going to be frosty in more ways than one...
January 5, 2026 at 7:05 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Amorim yesterday, Nancy today, Maresca a few days ago.

Honestly, men's football needs to take a long, hard look at itself. Style over substance is a deathwish.
January 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
New Substack post. Today I'm looking at one of the most common excuses we hear for failing to apply compassion in government policy: "It's complicated", and how the Green Party under @zackpolanski.bsky.social are the only party offering genuine change.

Read here: open.substack.com/pub/aguyname...
January 3, 2026 at 11:51 AM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
My favourite thing about politics at the moment is the lies that Labour are forced to make up because they have no legitimate case to make against what the Green Party is offering, and they're being exposed for the charlatans they are.
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14d
“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.”

Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me.

So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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sianberry.bsky.social
“Reform is not asking people to join its party so they can work together to build community spirit and support each other in response to the problems they face. But that is almost 100% of the Green message. It is so positive to be part of a growing band of active citizens like ours.”
December 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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jeffreon.bsky.social
The Express directly associating a gay man they don't like with a notorious paedophile in a headline. That's not an accident.

It'd be a terrible shame if such an egregious smear backfired and increased support for the Greens!

join.greenparty.org.uk
December 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Today will go down in history as the day that ChatGPT called me a bellend.

Probably not for the last time, either.
December 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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edpoole1975.bsky.social
I love @zackpolanski.bsky.social What he has achieved, particularly with the media I think most of us thought was impossible.

But he doesn't set the direction of the Green Party. He is a reflection of it.

We are packed full of bold and principled socialists from all walks of life.
December 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Me before the match Vs me after the match. #lcfc
December 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
I totally forgot about this trip to #Looughborough just after memorial Sunday. Some more #StreetPhotography for you.
Closed shopfront with boarded windows painted with large blue letters spelling ‘PASTA CLUB’. Faded graffiti above the sign reads ‘Spoons was ere RIP £2 pints’. A person walks past on the pavement carrying a patterned shopping bag. Brick building with shuttered windows above. Metal sculpture of a dog standing in a small fenced garden bed, surrounded by red and blue poppy-shaped memorial flowers. The dog has a metal backpack on its back. Two people sit on a bench in the background in a green park with fallen leaves scattered on the grass. Street scene showing a Japanese restaurant with a warmly lit interior and diners visible through the window. A cyclist rides past in the foreground, slightly blurred. The shop sign reads ‘Gohan Bento & Sushi’. Neighbouring storefronts and brick buildings frame the scene. Side wall of a house painted white with large black text reading ‘EVERY HOUSE HAS A STORY’. Three people walk past on the pavement, one carrying a red shopping bag. A parked silver car sits beside the wall, with neighbouring brick buildings and small shops visible.
December 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Ah, so we're rehashing the anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism bullshit on Christmas Day, are we? Classy by Labour, as always.
December 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Merry Christmas and all that.

Here is some Christmas-themed #StreetPhotography from #MarketHarborough from the end of November.
A street-corner sweet shop decorated for Christmas, with two large inflatable nutcracker figures framing the entrance under a red arch reading “Step Into Christmas,” while pedestrians walk past on the pavement. A person walks past a shop window displaying large “Ho Ho Ho” lettering, with Christmas-themed window decorations and brightly coloured drinks and sweets advertised inside. The front of The White Company store, with white shopfront windows displaying homeware and gift items, sale signage in the windows, and a man standing outside holding a shopping bag while other shoppers move in and out of the shop. A family walks through a glowing Christmas light arch in a town square at dusk, with festive fairy lights, decorated trees, and shops illuminated in the background.
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Hope is here.

Merry Hopemas.
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Nothing to see here. Just a perfectly normal headline from a reasonably-minded publication.
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21d
Right wing press having a real normal one about this Christmas Day message.

Does anyone think we should be spending £476m on cruelty towards vulnerable people?

Watch it live at 3pm:

youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...
Zack Polanski will use his provocative Christmas day message to say £476m currently being spent on cruelty instead on compassion kindness and humanity.
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.

When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.

Happening under a Labour Government.
thecanaryuk.bsky.social The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 22d
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
Yeah I know it's Christmas Eve but I've been thinking a lot about the lack of nuance in conversations about AI, so you're getting an article exploring that as an early Christmas present.

I tell a lie, it's your only Christmas present: open.substack.com/pub/aguyname...

#AI #sustainability
December 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London

Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
aguynamedguy.co.uk
When your beliefs are tied to how you stay stable in the world, challenging them head-on just makes you defend them harder.

What actually changed my mind was feeling safe enough to let go. We on the left need to learn that.

New Substack post: aguyanamedguyuk.substack.com

#GreenParty #Politics
Portrait photograph of a bald white man standing against a neutral grey background, wearing a white T-shirt with a distressed Union Jack print and blue jeans. He is pulling a slightly exaggerated, sceptical facial expression and standing with his hands clasped in front of him. Above the image is the title “Sowing the seeds of change,” and below it reads “A Guy Named Guy” with the URL aguyanamedguyuk.substack.com. White text over a blurred portrait of the same man. The quote reads: “Reviewing my early life made me realise that although my neurodivergence played a part, my views were reinforced by the attitudes of people who were trying to show me the truth, but doing a particularly bad job of it. There are lessons to be learned here well beyond neurodivergence, as I’m about to explain.” Attribution reads “A Guy Named Guy – Sowing the seeds of change.” White text over a blurred portrait of a bald man wearing a Union Jack T-shirt. The quote reads: “Because once an opinion feels like part of your personality, changing it doesn’t feel like growth – it feels like loss, betrayal, or weakness. For neurodivergent people especially, whose identities are often hard-won after years of misunderstanding, the idea of letting go of something familiar can feel destabilising.” Attribution at the bottom reads “A Guy Named Guy – Sowing the seeds of change.” White text over a blurred version of the same portrait image. The quote reads: “Once you’ve offered a reason, you’re expected to stand behind it. If it’s challenged, you feel the need to back it up. So you research. You do a quick Google, searching for the surface-level content that helps you explain yourself.” Attribution reads “A Guy Named Guy – Sowing the seeds of change.”
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM