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Alex Walters
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Crime writer among other strange things. Latest book: https://mybook.to/nothingleftofme
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
Exactly. And I really don’t care about how British people are by that standard.
I find this genuinely weird. My family is, as far as I’m aware, English for generations. I’ve no desire at all to exclude any immigrants or their descendants. Multiculturalism is one of the UK’s great successes.
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A third of UK councils are projected to go bust, as is Thames Water, NHS mental care is an oxymoron and your "industrial strategy" is fully built on an AI bubble thats gonna pop.

But, by all means, focus on the football supporters.
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Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
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The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
Aurora from the Black Isle tonight.
The word ‘Orwellian’ is overused, but I’m beginning to see how Newspeak works.
Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."
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Holy moly, look at the BEAUTY!!!
Step into a haunted Christmas... Illusions of Presence revives 15 lost tales of festive fear, Victorian séances, spectral nights & supernatural chills. A perfect spooky seasonal read, available online today.

🎁 shop.bl.uk/products/illusions-of-presence-lost-christmas-ghost-stories
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Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology.

Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)
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That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
This is glorious. Up there with that Highway episode that Victoria Wood loved.
He’s a lovely cat, A stray who adopted us. (We spent a lot of rime ensuring he didn’t belong to anyone else locally).
It hadn’t occurred to me that it was an ambiguous post though it clearly was! He’s fine. Sleeping next to me now.
I do. And I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often. John Fowles reworked The Magus, for good or ill, but I can’t think of many other examples. I re-edited some of my books when I got the rights back, but that was mainly recognising the flaws in books I’d written 20 years before.
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It would be tacky and obvious to buy and read either of these books, with their creepy, atmospheric, unsettling stories, in October. Come on. You're better than that.
Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
In my experience, many aren’t.
No, thankfully not. He was just looking particularly comfortable.
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This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.
One of the strangest moments of my life was staying in a hotel for work near there and going for a walk along the canal. I knew RA only from his stories so coming across the plaque was a wonderfully Aikmanesque experience.