David Walker
@davidwlkr0.bsky.social
Author (The Only Way is Up, with Polly Toynbee), non-executive, former Audit Commission director and journalist
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Hope looks different to everyone 🌱
From the people I meet to the changes happening across our city, there’s plenty to feel hopeful about.
From the people I meet to the changes happening across our city, there’s plenty to feel hopeful about.
December 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hope looks different to everyone 🌱
From the people I meet to the changes happening across our city, there’s plenty to feel hopeful about.
From the people I meet to the changes happening across our city, there’s plenty to feel hopeful about.
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Thierry Breton blacklisté aux Etats-Unis : pour le sénateur Claude Malhuret, «il faut arrêter d’être à plat ventre devant Trump»
Thierry Breton blacklisté aux Etats-Unis : pour le sénateur Claude Malhuret, «il faut arrêter d’être à plat ventre devant Trump»
Le sénateur de l’Allier dénonce la décision de l’administration Trump d’interdire l’accès au territoire américain à cinq personnalités européennes, dont l’ancien commissaire Thierry Breton, et réclame à l’UE une riposte à la hauteur.
www.liberation.fr
December 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Thierry Breton blacklisté aux Etats-Unis : pour le sénateur Claude Malhuret, «il faut arrêter d’être à plat ventre devant Trump»
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Les sanctions américaines contre @ThierryBreton et 4 autres Européens ont choqué sur le vieux continent, confronté à un Trump hostile. Un divorce douloureux auquel l’Europe n’est pas préparée. Ma chronique Géopolitique bilan 2025 dans le 7/9 @franceinter www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
En 2025, l’Europe a compris que le monde avait changé – mais pas en sa faveur
Les sanctions américaines visant l’ex-Commissaire européen Thierry Breton et quatre autres personnalités européennes ont choqué les dirigeants européens. Elles sont pourtant dans la droite ligne de la...
www.radiofrance.fr
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Les sanctions américaines contre @ThierryBreton et 4 autres Européens ont choqué sur le vieux continent, confronté à un Trump hostile. Un divorce douloureux auquel l’Europe n’est pas préparée. Ma chronique Géopolitique bilan 2025 dans le 7/9 @franceinter www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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The Starmer government has decided the national interest is to appease Trump.
But other Labour politicians will surely conclude their path to reelection lies in the opposite direction bsky.app/profile/dral...
But other Labour politicians will surely conclude their path to reelection lies in the opposite direction bsky.app/profile/dral...
Very ROBUST intervention by UK govt spokesperson today:
"While every country has the right to set its own visa rules, we support the laws and institutions which are working to keep the internet free from the most harmful content".
Hold my beer, Emmanuel Macron...
"While every country has the right to set its own visa rules, we support the laws and institutions which are working to keep the internet free from the most harmful content".
Hold my beer, Emmanuel Macron...
December 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Starmer government has decided the national interest is to appease Trump.
But other Labour politicians will surely conclude their path to reelection lies in the opposite direction bsky.app/profile/dral...
But other Labour politicians will surely conclude their path to reelection lies in the opposite direction bsky.app/profile/dral...
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we ask the question: why are Labour MPs and ministers still using X when its owner has vowed to destroy them?
www.ft.com/content/5b0e...
www.ft.com/content/5b0e...
‘A stream of negativity and abuse’: why are Labour MPs still sticking with X?
Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk’s platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents
www.ft.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
we ask the question: why are Labour MPs and ministers still using X when its owner has vowed to destroy them?
www.ft.com/content/5b0e...
www.ft.com/content/5b0e...
As long as people vote on national tickets, ignoring local council performance…
This is what Reform UK does.
“These closures are nothing short of a betrayal of local people and staff.”
“Derbyshire county council did not stand before the electorate last May pledging to shut care homes."
https://bit.ly/4pOeD9h
“These closures are nothing short of a betrayal of local people and staff.”
“Derbyshire county council did not stand before the electorate last May pledging to shut care homes."
https://bit.ly/4pOeD9h
Reform council's plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people'
Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
As long as people vote on national tickets, ignoring local council performance…
Since Bernard Shaw, good Fabians have had to accept the limits of localism. Social policy is inherently centralist - for the sake of (the attempt to secure more) equality
open.substack.com/pub/cradle2g...
open.substack.com/pub/cradle2g...
Ending the post code lottery in care?
Local social care spending across England does not reflect different levels of need - and reforms announced last week make only a slow start at putting that right
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Since Bernard Shaw, good Fabians have had to accept the limits of localism. Social policy is inherently centralist - for the sake of (the attempt to secure more) equality
open.substack.com/pub/cradle2g...
open.substack.com/pub/cradle2g...
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Opinion: Has public debt in the developed world become unmanageable? Recent debt numbers starkly underline how far we have moved beyond the ancient public finance paradigm whereby debt was racked up in wars and paid down in peacetime ft.trib.al/CCWRAox
December 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Opinion: Has public debt in the developed world become unmanageable? Recent debt numbers starkly underline how far we have moved beyond the ancient public finance paradigm whereby debt was racked up in wars and paid down in peacetime ft.trib.al/CCWRAox
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With all the moral force your victory on a 7% turnout gives you.
My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions | Andrea Egan
I have been appalled by Wes Streeting’s attacks on resident doctors. The destructive right wing of the Labour party should know that this is a new era, says the general secretary-elect of Unison, Andr...
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
With all the moral force your victory on a 7% turnout gives you.
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After spending all of last week in Berlin, I wish I was feeling more upbeat about what EU leaders achieved and the outlook for 2026. But I think the messy deal was not a good enough outcome from the EU at a moment when it was essential to demonstrate unity & geopol strength ENDS
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
After spending all of last week in Berlin, I wish I was feeling more upbeat about what EU leaders achieved and the outlook for 2026. But I think the messy deal was not a good enough outcome from the EU at a moment when it was essential to demonstrate unity & geopol strength ENDS
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New Swingometer post! I review the preditions I made last Christmas about politics in 2025 and try and draw some lessons from my various blunders and missteps:
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New Swingometer post! I review the preditions I made last Christmas about politics in 2025 and try and draw some lessons from my various blunders and missteps:
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
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Marie Perrin, 28 ans, a résolu un casse-tête vieux de plusieurs siècles : séparer efficacement les terres rares pour recycler ces métaux précieux présents dans nos objets du quotidien.
➡️ https://l.lepoint.fr/UN4
➡️ https://l.lepoint.fr/UN4
December 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Marie Perrin, 28 ans, a résolu un casse-tête vieux de plusieurs siècles : séparer efficacement les terres rares pour recycler ces métaux précieux présents dans nos objets du quotidien.
➡️ https://l.lepoint.fr/UN4
➡️ https://l.lepoint.fr/UN4
Not the right question below: rather, can Britain afford to resist Trump/Vance, risking the ci-devant security environment of Europe
Can Britain afford not to support Ukraine, risking a security environment with a triumphant Russia? Major Laurence Thomson explores this question below.
Britain’s Economic and Military Dividend from Supporting Ukraine
Can Britain afford not to support Ukraine, risking a security environment with a triumphant Russia?
www.rusi.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Not the right question below: rather, can Britain afford to resist Trump/Vance, risking the ci-devant security environment of Europe
Faiblesse/zwakheid
Le problème de l'UE, ce n'est pas la Belgique, c'est Trump /
Alors que les dirigeants européens s'apprêtent à se réunir à Bruxelles jeudi pour discuter du financement de l'Ukraine, ils le font sous une pression énorme et sans précédent de la part des États-Unis.
Alors que les dirigeants européens s'apprêtent à se réunir à Bruxelles jeudi pour discuter du financement de l'Ukraine, ils le font sous une pression énorme et sans précédent de la part des États-Unis.
The EU’s problem isn’t Belgium — it’s Trump
As European leaders prepare to meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Ukraine funding, they do so under huge and unprecedented pressure from the U.S.
www.politico.eu
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Faiblesse/zwakheid
Amazing complacency, so typical of liberal American responses to Trump
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Trump’s New National Security Strategy Is a Nixon Doctrine 2.0
And Its Nixon-era Defeatism Undermines American National Interests
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Amazing complacency, so typical of liberal American responses to Trump
open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...
open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...
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Excellent news: from January 2027, British students will once again be able to take part in the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme.
This is something I have long campaigned for and is a huge win for London and our young people.
This is something I have long campaigned for and is a huge win for London and our young people.
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Excellent news: from January 2027, British students will once again be able to take part in the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme.
This is something I have long campaigned for and is a huge win for London and our young people.
This is something I have long campaigned for and is a huge win for London and our young people.
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Seems mandatory for journos these days to say you ‘sat down with’ the person you interviewed. Woodward & Bernstein’s best work was standing in underground car parks.
December 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Seems mandatory for journos these days to say you ‘sat down with’ the person you interviewed. Woodward & Bernstein’s best work was standing in underground car parks.
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"The money's not here. Your money's on Joe's blockchain, right next to yours. And on the Kennedy blockchain, and Mrs Macklin's blockchain, and a hundred others"
December 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"The money's not here. Your money's on Joe's blockchain, right next to yours. And on the Kennedy blockchain, and Mrs Macklin's blockchain, and a hundred others"
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How liberal democracy amused itself to death, chapter 67572.
December 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
How liberal democracy amused itself to death, chapter 67572.
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I think we can add this to the growing list of exhibits evidencing "Twitter is damaging our political culture". Only a Twitter-brained BBC producer would even use the phrase "cultural erasure" let alone think it is a meaningful or credible 'threat'.
December 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I think we can add this to the growing list of exhibits evidencing "Twitter is damaging our political culture". Only a Twitter-brained BBC producer would even use the phrase "cultural erasure" let alone think it is a meaningful or credible 'threat'.
