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Dr Luke Walker
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📚 Writer on William Blake & Allen Ginsberg
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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · Dec 1
Most of my book chapters and journal articles can be read via the link in profile above.

But here's a thread of my recorded talks and podcast appearances.

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Starting with this one on Blake and Dylan:
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Luke Walker on Bob Dylan and William Blake
YouTube video by Zoavision
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dsquareddigest.bsky.social
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"

"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
He lives on melting ice, runs a zero-emissions sleigh, and believes in fairness! 🎄

So yes — it is no surprise that a recent YouGov poll suggests Father Christmas would vote Green. 💚
Green and white illustration of Father Christmas dressed entirely in green, waving against a black background filled with falling snowflakes. Large text at the top reads “Father Christmas has gone Green!” with the word “Green” highlighted in green. Green Party logo and imprint text appear at the bottom of the image.
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
drlukewalker.com
Probably my favourite Christmas tradition. Sitting on my own on Christmas Eve, wrapping presents while I listen to this album
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The McGarrigle Christmas Hour - YouTube
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December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.

Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.

Times up.

Merry Christmas!

Join.greenparty.org.uk
A green Christmas would be more awful than you can imagine
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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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 · 6d
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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dangrey.bsky.social
It's over two years until Devon's local authorities will be reorganised into a single tier yet somehow that's being used as an excuse to potentially not hold local elections in May.

Labour will likely lose power in Exeter; what's the betting they will bottle it?
Plymouth council confirms elections to go ahead but Exeter unsure
Elections due to be held in Exeter in May could still be cancelled.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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scottishgreens.org
Happy Winter Solstice! 💚☀️
Happy solstice from the Scottish Greens
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Lovely to meet @zackpolanski.bsky.social tonight - got a real sense of his humanity
Me and Zack Polanski
December 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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doublehelix.bsky.social
1939 was 86 years ago
Newspaper clipping from August 1939: Vanished sisters return as boys: Mark and David brave gossip.
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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marajohnson.bsky.social
Oh look, a transgender person in 1952. 73 years ago
Daily News article from Monday December 1st 1952 Ex-GI becomes Blonde Beauty. Bronx Youth is a happy woman after 2 years, 6 operations
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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goodlawproject.org
New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers.

This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).
[17] There is also no evidence of a particular need to act urgently to prevent new prescriptions because of some immediate risk to physical health if young people commence treatment. [18] Puberty blockers are reversible. There is no evidence that they affect fertility. If they did, they would hardly be prescribed for children with precocious puberty and they have been prescribed for that purpose for decades. They may alleviate distress for a child who is simply not ready to cope with puberty either because they are too young or because their mental health is such that a delay is recommended. The only evidence-based impact on physical health is on bone density and that impact results from long term use. A period of months until the Judicial Review can be heard is not said to create any issues with bone density for a young person commencing treatment. [19] The evidence relating to mental health outcomes suggests negative outcomes from a ban are a far more immediate concern.
December 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
Absolutely shocking.

We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.

We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
More than a decade ago trans people were warning that the far right wouldn’t stop with trans people.

Now they are coming for disabled people.
Wes Streeting’s ‘Overdiagnosis’ Crusade Isn’t Going to Help Anyone | Novara Media
Mental health diagnoses are far from perfect. But attacking ‘overdiagnosis’ as a way to push sick and disabled people back into work is far worse, argues Micha Frazer-Carroll.
novaramedia.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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vintageobscura.net
Anne Waldman - Uh Oh Plutonium [USA, New Wave] (1982)
https://redd.it/f1y4lv
https://youtu.be/FHX-PU9SN8A
Anne Waldman - Uh Oh Plutonium [USA, New Wave] (1982)
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December 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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blakecottagetrust.bsky.social
This weekend (13th December) Legendary Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson, who is the International Patron of the Blake Cottage Trust (BCT), visited the small cottage in Felpham where iconic poet, printer, artist and visionary William Blake (1757-1827) lived (1800-1803). I
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
drlukewalker.com
Delighted to discover that my current favourite YouTube channel, Dr Justin Sledge's 'Esoterica', has a whole episode devoted to William Blake.

It serves as an excellent introduction to Blake's creation mythos, and tackles the question of Blake's relation to Gnosticism

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William Blake's Prophetic & Mystical Mythology - Analysis of The Book of Urizen & its Gnostic Myth
YouTube video by ESOTERICA
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December 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
The Telegraph Graham Linehan My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism. "I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational. When I read that, I phoned him immediately. When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper. At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you." I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all. Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole". David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane. Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by. And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another "he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
thegmcconnachie.bsky.social Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 16d
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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lewisbaston.bsky.social
Wonder if any heads will roll over this grim editorial blunder?
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18d
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time

"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"

Chair says "have English as a second language"

Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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debbietann.bsky.social
Labour seem determined to wreck what’s left of our natural world. So many broken promises.

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma....
Nightmare before Christmas: worst environmental regression in decades looms | The Wildlife Trusts
Labour’s list of broken promises mounts
www.wildlifetrusts.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Remember when Helen Joyce was called out as "not an expert" by Australian courts - Now Maya Forstater has been told the same in the Peggie judgment! 👏👏👏

The judgement states outright that the evidence submitted by her & Sex Matters was “not skilled evidence.”

This is the Tribunal’s exact wording!
Highlighted paragraph: Evidence from Ms Forstater and Mx Valentine 1038. We turn to address the evidence from Ms Forstater and Mx Valentine, which the parties had described as “research evidence”. That is not, so far as we are aware, a term of law. Nothing was cited to support the use of that term. It is not skilled evidence as explained below, and the parties did not suggest that either witness was skilled or expert in that sense. It was not necessarily inadmissible, given the terms of Rule 41, and until read and considered the extent to which it might be relevant could not be assessed, but the weight to attach to it was a different consideration Highlighted sections: 1040. In many respects the evidence in the statements was more in the nature of material for the public debate on wider issues as to what the law should be, and on occasion it appeared to us to be polemic, rather than evidence relevant to the issues at an Employment Tribunal. 1041. Opinion evidence was addressed in Walker and Walker on Evidence, Fifth Edition (“Walker”), which explained the distinction between evidence of fact, and of belief or opinion. Opinion evidence may be led from what Walker describes as an ordinary witness (the classification of witnesses is between ordinary and skilled), and examples of that are given. Ms Forstater 1042. The statement from Ms Forstater was not presented as impartial evidence, but specifically as one given in support of the claimant. It had at paragraph 10 an argument as to facts, of which Ms Forstater said that she was certain. They are however we consider not facts, but expressions of her opinion. The assertion at 10 (b) for example was “Sex is in general readily perceptible and is salient to other people.” That we consider cannot be other than her opinion, for which no support from any document in the Supplementary Bundle appeared to be referred to in her written witness statement. It was contradicted by other evidence, and the terms of a Note issued by EJ Tinnion on 5 January 2025 in relation to the second respondent. It did not appear to be an assertion related to the second respondent in particular, but as a more general proposition. 1043. The assertion at (d) had a further series of propositions which were opinions although presented as facts. If the 1992 Regulations, then as discussed they are not within this Tribunal’s jurisdiction, and the comment appears to be an argument over the policy of the law, or how the law should be interpreted, neither of which are relevant evidence before us. 1044. The sub-paragraphs include, by way of example, (ii) “women are in general more fearful of men than men … Highlighted sections: That is again an expression of opinion without cross reference to any document in the Supplementary Bundle. Sub-paragraph (v) was “unless rules about single-sex spaces are clearly stated and enforced it leaves women open to risk of sexual harassment and assault, and makes these spaces feel unsafe.” That again is an expression of opinion. The witness statement purports to expand on the comments at paragraph 10 stating that the facts stated are true. In our view they are not reliable as evidence from a person not a skilled witness on the propositions that are advanced. 1045. Where there was reference to documentation it is in our view both partial and incomplete. Part of it is based on research undertaken by Sex Matters, an organisation of which she is the Chief Executive Officer. It is a campaigning organisation, as set out in paragraph 4. There is an obvious risk that that research is impacted by the nature of it, which is not suggested to be an independent academic study .... In our view it would not be dealing with a case fairly or justly to rely on expressions of opinion from a person campaigning on one side of the argument on such an issue. We did not consider that the case of Connor on which the claimant founded, cited above and which indicated that in some situations evidence which was not expert in nature could be sufficient, was applicable to such a matter. 1047. Our review of the literature referred to by Ms Forstater reveals that the broad generalisations she seeks to take from it are not sufficiently supported by the document or document founded on, both from the terms of the document and the other documents in relation to the same broad issue, to be treated as reliable evidence.
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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greenbenali.bsky.social
Reaching 200,000 Greens members in early 2026 seems entirely doable

An amazing grassroots force, ready to topple Labour and Reform in the May elections

It's time to join! join.greenparty.org.uk
180,000 Green Party members today!
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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crisortunity.bsky.social
When you made a manifesto pledge to reduce energy bills, but also made a series of foolhardy promises to build new nuclear power plants
drpauldorfman.bsky.social Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 23d
‘Troubled Hinkley Point C #nuclear will add £1bn annually to UK energy bills as soon as it’s switched on, official figures show. The money will be taken from consumers and handed to the French owner #EDF.'
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December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM