Jack Walton
Journalist at Freelance
Writer and Editor at Birmingham Dispatch
Writer & editor: @brumdispatch Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Walton
“My physicality is very important to me,” Tameside councillor Allan Hopwood explains. Pastas, cereals, cakes (heaven forefend) do not sit well with him. They fog his mind, they slow him down. He needs to be svelte, to stay sharp, so he opts for a diet of meat, fish and veg. He loves salmon. But why does Hopwood need to stay so trim? It can’t be for all of that leafleting, can it? The answer, of course, is biking.
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2 weeks ago |
livpost.co.uk | Jack Walton
Editor’s note: To read today’s investigation in full, you’ll need to be a paying member of The Post. It costs just £7 a month to subscribe, and you’ll get 15 editions a month as well as access to our entire back catalogue of deep dives and investigations like this one. More importantly, you’ll be helping to support our tiny team in delivering high quality journalism to Merseyside.
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1 month ago |
manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Walton
Here beneath the Basque sun I am suffering a terrible indignity: I’m on a Flixbus. The people in front of me are talking football. The people across the aisle are talking football. The Spanish driver is talking into the intercom. What’s he talking? Fútbol. The people behind are actually talking politics — the politics of Ruben Amorim’s team selections. We roll around the Bay of Biscay: Bilbao-bound. I feel as though we’ve been travelling for months.
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1 month ago |
manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Walton
Three years ago, Andy Burnham held a press conference that captured the hard choices at the heart of Manchester city centre. On the one hand, the mayor said that the number of people sleeping rough was rising, and that he had signed off on extra funds to create more emergency housing for the homeless.
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2 months ago |
manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Walton
"As for all men who shall enter this my tomb... impure... there will be judgment... an end shall be made for him... I shall seize his neck like a bird... I shall cast the fear of myself into him" — inscription on the tomb of Khentika Ikhekhi (sixth dynasty); Jack Walton, 19 April 2025, in the back of a taxiI’ll say this: I enjoyed myself in the taxi. When my bobble-hat-headed driver asked, “Where you off to, mate?” I’d had my line prepared days in advance. “Valley of the Kings, boss.
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