Alex Walters
@alexwalters.bsky.social
Crime writer among other strange things. Latest book: https://mybook.to/nothingleftofme
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Axing the Iain Anderson show isn’t “schedule refresh.” It’s a loss to Scottish culture. Iain’s programme has been a place of warmth, discovery and musical storytelling for decades. Please consider signing the petition to save the show.
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Save The Iain Anderson Show – Reverse the BBC Radio Scotland decision
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November 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Axing the Iain Anderson show isn’t “schedule refresh.” It’s a loss to Scottish culture. Iain’s programme has been a place of warmth, discovery and musical storytelling for decades. Please consider signing the petition to save the show.
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It gets dark early now and the country is raked by rain, so if you're the protagonist in an M John Harrison novel now is the right time of year to take a slow train to an unfamiliar town to check on an old friend who hasn't been doing so well
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It gets dark early now and the country is raked by rain, so if you're the protagonist in an M John Harrison novel now is the right time of year to take a slow train to an unfamiliar town to check on an old friend who hasn't been doing so well
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I'm old enough to remember when the BBC editing a senior political figure's speech was a completely normal thing that nobody had to resign over, let alone the DG. www.theguardian.com/media/2017/j...
BBC Trust says Laura Kuenssberg report on Corbyn was inaccurate
Regulator says report on Labour leader’s views about shoot-to-kill breached impartiality and accuracy guidelines
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I'm old enough to remember when the BBC editing a senior political figure's speech was a completely normal thing that nobody had to resign over, let alone the DG. www.theguardian.com/media/2017/j...
Turns out we do have no-go zones in the UK after all. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Turns out we do have no-go zones in the UK after all. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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@theobserveruk.bsky.social points the finger👇
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
@theobserveruk.bsky.social points the finger👇
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Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
novaramedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
I see everyone is now claiming that the BBC is biased in whatever direction suits them (me included, I imagine).
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I see everyone is now claiming that the BBC is biased in whatever direction suits them (me included, I imagine).
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'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
At the Cenotaph, by Siegfried Sassoon
I saw the Prince of Darkness, wit…
Standing bare-headed by the Cenot…
Unostentatious and respectful, the…
He stood, and offered up the follo…
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what t…
www.poeticous.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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Fascinated to know whar this ‘similar balancing’ programme would have covered. Has anyone asked Prescott?
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Fascinated to know whar this ‘similar balancing’ programme would have covered. Has anyone asked Prescott?
Yeah.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Yeah.
Today’s cloud inversion over the firth.
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Today’s cloud inversion over the firth.
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There’s a special election in Tennessee on Dec 2 for a House seat he expects to win. He plans to swear in Adelina once he makes sure his guy will balance out her vote. The Dem running is @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Please donate so that she can get out the vote.
Please donate so that she can get out the vote.
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
There’s a special election in Tennessee on Dec 2 for a House seat he expects to win. He plans to swear in Adelina once he makes sure his guy will balance out her vote. The Dem running is @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Please donate so that she can get out the vote.
Please donate so that she can get out the vote.
Fenny’s had a tough day for various reasons but has now relaxed.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Fenny’s had a tough day for various reasons but has now relaxed.
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Ok but Christian Calgie is the Express political editor. He's a journalist. And in his frame, he's "got them" to commit to this. I mean, that's weird, isn't it? Isn't that a strange thing for a journalist to say?
This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Ok but Christian Calgie is the Express political editor. He's a journalist. And in his frame, he's "got them" to commit to this. I mean, that's weird, isn't it? Isn't that a strange thing for a journalist to say?
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I'm The People's Friend online writer of the week. www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/writing/writ...
Writer Of The Week: Helen Walters
Fiction Ed Lucy, meets 'Friend' author, Helen Walters, whose latest story appears in Special 284, out now.
www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I'm The People's Friend online writer of the week. www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/writing/writ...
What television is she watching?
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white". She goes on to say there are now more or less no white people represented on British television anymore.
October 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
What television is she watching?
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Trying to calculate how many of my friends and neighbours would fall foul of this.
The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Trying to calculate how many of my friends and neighbours would fall foul of this.
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The Beano kids are investigating the haunted Pizza shop in this week's Beano.
The Pizza shop on Hobbs lane.
Because if there's one thing kids love it's references to Quatermass and the Pit.
The Pizza shop on Hobbs lane.
Because if there's one thing kids love it's references to Quatermass and the Pit.
October 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The Beano kids are investigating the haunted Pizza shop in this week's Beano.
The Pizza shop on Hobbs lane.
Because if there's one thing kids love it's references to Quatermass and the Pit.
The Pizza shop on Hobbs lane.
Because if there's one thing kids love it's references to Quatermass and the Pit.
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You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...
UK Hongkongers rue the rockiness of their ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes
People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...
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Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
x.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
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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.
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.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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.
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.
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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.
But, by all means, focus on the football supporters.
October 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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.
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...
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
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
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an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy
Don Ciccio Osteria Italiana | Italian Restaurant | 1A Hampstead Lane, London, UK
Don Ciccio Osteria is a true italian resturant in North London.
Home made fresh pasta, meat and fish specialities.
We're home of the authentic italian truffle
www.donciccio-highgate.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy