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Jack Walton

England, Manchester, Oldham, Wigan

Journalist at Freelance

Writer and Editor at Birmingham Dispatch

Writer & editor: @brumdispatch Email: [email protected]

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Articles

  • What should be done about Manchester city centre?

    5 days 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.

  • Pyramid scheme

    3 weeks 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.

  • Regional mayors paid £3 million to a training company. What did they get in return?

    2 months ago | livpost.co.uk | Abi Whistance |Jack Walton

    Today’s article is a collaboration between The Post and our Birmingham-based sister publication, The Dispatch. We have been working together to dig into Redstone Training, a ‘skills’ provider which took a combined £3 million from regional mayors in Liverpool and Birmingham, which is now under investigation for a variety of allegations. If you want to read the full story, you’ll need to be a paying member.

  • Leaked recordings and scheming councillors: did Labour councillors engage in a ‘campaign of abuse’?

    2 months ago | birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Kate Knowles |Jack Walton

    Dear readers — when leaked audio of a Birmingham councillor talking to an ex-convict about a plot to remove a number of her colleagues from the council appeared online earlier in the week, several people swiftly reached out to us to make sure we were aware of the clip. “Presume you’ve already heard this?” one source asked The Dispatch. “This is the nasty side of politics,” wrote another.

  • Waseem Zaffar’s house was turned into a filthy HMO. He says he has nothing to do with it

    2 months ago | birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Jack Walton

    Dear readers — the name Waseem Zaffar will mean different things to different people in Birmingham. To some, he is one of the city’s most accomplished local politicians — at the forefront of campaigns on clean air and low traffic neighbourhoods, as well as Birmingham City Council’s former cabinet member for transport. To others, he’s a highly controversial figure.

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Jack Walton @jlaverick99
5 Mar 25

RT @brumdispatch: We now have our own, brand new website! And it's looking very swish if we do say so ourselves. Check it out: https://t.co…

Jack Walton
Jack Walton @jlaverick99
1 Mar 25

RT @joshi: Veronica Crawford was housed by a company paid millions to support the most vulnerable. Less than three months later, she was de…

Jack Walton
Jack Walton @jlaverick99
19 Feb 25

RT @joshi: This is one of the wildest stories we’ve ever published: two senior university executives agreeing a deal to divert student fee…