Alex Varley-Winter
avwinter.bsky.social
Alex Varley-Winter
@avwinter.bsky.social
For realism, insight & transparency. Will boost those qualities where I find them.
What’s this emerald-looking beetle? Just landed on my coat in a London playground.
#insects #nature #green
April 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Monstrous Anger of the Guns, Pluto Press, covers the corrupting & often cyclical nature of the global arms trade. A good primer. At a signing, Corbyn urged everyone to keep big money out of politics & Feinstein sighed that they can’t update the book monthly, with Orange One in Oval Office.
April 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
3/3 crucial oversight on this is summed up by Caroline Knowles in her book Serious Money (2022). London has half a million high net worth individuals & more billionaires than either New York, Hong Kong, or Moscow.
Our capital is a plutocrats’ playground. They can afford it. Disabled people can’t.
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The life and writing of a distant cousin, Arthur Gordon Richardson who died for Britain in WW2. Rendered beautifully by features journo Wendy Varley my mum.

The world felt all this. Powerful men - Putin, esp - are incapable of sorrow. We smile back at you Gordon.
open.substack.com/pub/wendyvar...
March 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“Housing is a feminist issue” / “keep families safe” #womensday #london
March 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“When care stops, the world stops” #womensday #carework
March 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Represent! #womensday
March 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Fave sign. #womensday
March 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hmm— this must be *expert* trolling of the MAGA movement by a group called the anti-imperialist front. At the feminist #womensday march in London. :)
March 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM