Nick Walker
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
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New piece from me.
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The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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My beautiful laundrette
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
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November 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My beautiful laundrette
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Glad to see Anneliese Dodds raising this important issue in Parliament today
Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is the largest in the world.
And now more disturbing news is coming from El Fasher of civilians under attack.
Civilians must be protected and the fighting must stop.
And now more disturbing news is coming from El Fasher of civilians under attack.
Civilians must be protected and the fighting must stop.
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Glad to see Anneliese Dodds raising this important issue in Parliament today
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Exciting news for Oxfordshire today: the Labour government has announced a £120 million investment to restore passenger services on the Cowley Branch Line, following efforts by my colleague Anneliese Dodds MP and the local Labour team.
Discover more here - www.oxfordlabour.org.uk/just-announc...
Discover more here - www.oxfordlabour.org.uk/just-announc...
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Exciting news for Oxfordshire today: the Labour government has announced a £120 million investment to restore passenger services on the Cowley Branch Line, following efforts by my colleague Anneliese Dodds MP and the local Labour team.
Discover more here - www.oxfordlabour.org.uk/just-announc...
Discover more here - www.oxfordlabour.org.uk/just-announc...
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HOPE not Hate founder, Nick Lowles, speaking to the
@theguardian.com Today in Focus podcast. 🎧
He says, this is an exceptionally dangerous moment, but we must remember that the majority of people are still in favour of our multicultural society.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
@theguardian.com Today in Focus podcast. 🎧
He says, this is an exceptionally dangerous moment, but we must remember that the majority of people are still in favour of our multicultural society.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
How to defeat Britain’s far right – podcast
Hope Not Hate founder Nick Lowles has spent decades researching, infiltrating and helping communities to combat far-right groups. But now, he says, ‘they have their sights on our multicultural society...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
HOPE not Hate founder, Nick Lowles, speaking to the
@theguardian.com Today in Focus podcast. 🎧
He says, this is an exceptionally dangerous moment, but we must remember that the majority of people are still in favour of our multicultural society.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
@theguardian.com Today in Focus podcast. 🎧
He says, this is an exceptionally dangerous moment, but we must remember that the majority of people are still in favour of our multicultural society.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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It has long been known that Mandelson remained close to Epstein even after he was convicted of sex offences.
He shouldn't have been appointed in the first place, and it is very clear that the Prime Minister must sack him immediately.
We either stand with victims or we don’t.
He shouldn't have been appointed in the first place, and it is very clear that the Prime Minister must sack him immediately.
We either stand with victims or we don’t.
September 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It has long been known that Mandelson remained close to Epstein even after he was convicted of sex offences.
He shouldn't have been appointed in the first place, and it is very clear that the Prime Minister must sack him immediately.
We either stand with victims or we don’t.
He shouldn't have been appointed in the first place, and it is very clear that the Prime Minister must sack him immediately.
We either stand with victims or we don’t.
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Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.
July 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.
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This is excellent news 🙌
Sure Start was one of the most transformational policies of the last Labour government.
Great to see Labour rebuilding support for families.
Sure Start was one of the most transformational policies of the last Labour government.
Great to see Labour rebuilding support for families.
Children growing up in our country deserve the best start in life.
Building on the legacy of Sure Start, we’re opening Best Start Family Hubs in every local authority.
That’s the difference Labour makes.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Building on the legacy of Sure Start, we’re opening Best Start Family Hubs in every local authority.
That’s the difference Labour makes.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
One-stop family hubs to be opened in all English council areas
Government announces £500m project to provide single-point of access for health, education and wellbeing services
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is excellent news 🙌
Sure Start was one of the most transformational policies of the last Labour government.
Great to see Labour rebuilding support for families.
Sure Start was one of the most transformational policies of the last Labour government.
Great to see Labour rebuilding support for families.
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The frequency with which @morganj0nes.bsky.social publishes incisive analysis in evocative prose is astonishing.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
The revenge of Labour’s soft left
Keir Starmer has provoked the mass of his party into organising – against his leadership.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The frequency with which @morganj0nes.bsky.social publishes incisive analysis in evocative prose is astonishing.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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The public finances are under pressure.
✂️ big spending cuts are not sustainable
💷 changing the fiscal rules risks increasing borrowing costs
So we must to look at increasing tax.
I set out three options for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/07/rach...
✂️ big spending cuts are not sustainable
💷 changing the fiscal rules risks increasing borrowing costs
So we must to look at increasing tax.
I set out three options for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/07/rach...
Welfare vote: 'Three options Rachel Reeves has to plug the fiscal gap' - LabourList
What remained of the welfare reform bill scraped through the Commons yesterday. The government had been banking on…
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July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The public finances are under pressure.
✂️ big spending cuts are not sustainable
💷 changing the fiscal rules risks increasing borrowing costs
So we must to look at increasing tax.
I set out three options for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/07/rach...
✂️ big spending cuts are not sustainable
💷 changing the fiscal rules risks increasing borrowing costs
So we must to look at increasing tax.
I set out three options for @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/07/rach...
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Still recovering after a long couple of days.
I am overwhelmed to have been re-elected as the Oxfordshire County Councillor for the larger Isis division.
It has been an absolute privilege to represent the diverse communities of South & East Oxford over the last four years.
I am overwhelmed to have been re-elected as the Oxfordshire County Councillor for the larger Isis division.
It has been an absolute privilege to represent the diverse communities of South & East Oxford over the last four years.
May 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Still recovering after a long couple of days.
I am overwhelmed to have been re-elected as the Oxfordshire County Councillor for the larger Isis division.
It has been an absolute privilege to represent the diverse communities of South & East Oxford over the last four years.
I am overwhelmed to have been re-elected as the Oxfordshire County Councillor for the larger Isis division.
It has been an absolute privilege to represent the diverse communities of South & East Oxford over the last four years.
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The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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May 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Back in the summer I don’t think anyone would have expected the first ministerial resignation over policy to come from Anneliese Dodds
A team player who is smart, principled, pragmatic & collegiate - clearly she felt she was in an untenable situation
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A team player who is smart, principled, pragmatic & collegiate - clearly she felt she was in an untenable situation
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Back in the summer I don’t think anyone would have expected the first ministerial resignation over policy to come from Anneliese Dodds
A team player who is smart, principled, pragmatic & collegiate - clearly she felt she was in an untenable situation
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A team player who is smart, principled, pragmatic & collegiate - clearly she felt she was in an untenable situation
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This is huge news. She's not a household name but she's a Starmer ally, usually super loyal, and on a core point of principle. She's also right.
Amazing exclusive by @pippacrerar.bsky.social. And a big blow for Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is huge news. She's not a household name but she's a Starmer ally, usually super loyal, and on a core point of principle. She's also right.
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That rare thing, a principled political resignation (remember Dodds was Starmer's first choice for shadow chancellor, in that pre-Hartlepool, soft left shadow cabinet. He's come a long way...) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
That rare thing, a principled political resignation (remember Dodds was Starmer's first choice for shadow chancellor, in that pre-Hartlepool, soft left shadow cabinet. He's come a long way...) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.
February 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.
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"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way.
Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."
Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."
Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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February 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way.
Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."
Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."
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This is a hell of a piece of writing about a story that, if you heard about it for the first time, would blow your socks off.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The lies and smears from Murdoch’s news empire cannot be ignored
Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please ...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is a hell of a piece of writing about a story that, if you heard about it for the first time, would blow your socks off.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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A community workshop took place this Saturday to gather community input on pieces of art to be featured across Cowley's Templars Square. The murals will reflect what Cowley means to locals and be created by local artist Lisa Made It.
January 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A community workshop took place this Saturday to gather community input on pieces of art to be featured across Cowley's Templars Square. The murals will reflect what Cowley means to locals and be created by local artist Lisa Made It.
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Or to put it another way, bill to protect children voted through, despite Tory attempt to wreck it. Good old BBC.
January 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Or to put it another way, bill to protect children voted through, despite Tory attempt to wreck it. Good old BBC.
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However much they shout, facts remain the same. Our democracy and our freedom to live peacefully with each other is now at risk every second these people use their money and their networks to rewrite history. We need urgent political finance law reform and we each need to stand up for the truth.
January 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
However much they shout, facts remain the same. Our democracy and our freedom to live peacefully with each other is now at risk every second these people use their money and their networks to rewrite history. We need urgent political finance law reform and we each need to stand up for the truth.
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In 2024, hundreds of thousands of children in London received free school meals.
Many young Londoners would otherwise have gone hungry.
As we enter 2025, let's never forget that while politics can be frustrating, it can have a huge impact, offering much-needed hope to those who need it most.
Many young Londoners would otherwise have gone hungry.
As we enter 2025, let's never forget that while politics can be frustrating, it can have a huge impact, offering much-needed hope to those who need it most.
December 31, 2024 at 2:47 PM
In 2024, hundreds of thousands of children in London received free school meals.
Many young Londoners would otherwise have gone hungry.
As we enter 2025, let's never forget that while politics can be frustrating, it can have a huge impact, offering much-needed hope to those who need it most.
Many young Londoners would otherwise have gone hungry.
As we enter 2025, let's never forget that while politics can be frustrating, it can have a huge impact, offering much-needed hope to those who need it most.
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🇩🇪 "Scholz and Starmer have sometimes been compared – both centrist social democrats, who have sought to appear as reassuring, competent politicians."
✍️ Ed Turner on what lessons Labour can learn from Olaf Scholz's fall from grace:
labourlist.org/2024/12/germ...
✍️ Ed Turner on what lessons Labour can learn from Olaf Scholz's fall from grace:
labourlist.org/2024/12/germ...
German election: ‘Olaf Scholz’s fall from grace has crucial lessons for Starmer’ – LabourList
And now it’s official. On 23 February, Germany will go to the polls again, with elections brought forward from late September after the three party…
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December 17, 2024 at 8:04 AM
🇩🇪 "Scholz and Starmer have sometimes been compared – both centrist social democrats, who have sought to appear as reassuring, competent politicians."
✍️ Ed Turner on what lessons Labour can learn from Olaf Scholz's fall from grace:
labourlist.org/2024/12/germ...
✍️ Ed Turner on what lessons Labour can learn from Olaf Scholz's fall from grace:
labourlist.org/2024/12/germ...
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Anyone who dreads the prospect of Faragist nationalist populism in Britain should want this Labour government to succeed. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We cannot afford for Starmer’s government to fail. Because Farage is lying in wait | Jonathan Freedland
It is not enough for the Labour leader’s ‘milestones’ to be achieved. Voters must feel the improvement in their daily lives, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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December 6, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Anyone who dreads the prospect of Faragist nationalist populism in Britain should want this Labour government to succeed. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...