George Walker

New Statesman • 7th March 2024

Are we really living in Children of Men?

From the pioneering social realism of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh – whose work sounded a long howl for the social settlement torn apart by Thatcherism – to the horrifying depictions of nuclear warfare in the Eighties’ Threads, there’s a deep history of...

New Statesman • 17th August 2023

What Lee Anderson forgets about Brian Clough

The Tory MP keeps betraying his labour roots.

New Statesman • 3rd August 2023

The war on Jamie Driscoll

Britain's last Corbynista has fallen afoul of Labour's authoritarian machine.

Vittles • 17th March 2023

Parmo Populism

The political exploitation of delicious chicken, béchamel and melted cheese.

Tribune • 16th November 2022

Support the Nurses or Lose the NHS

This month, the Royal College of Nursing voted for its first national strike in over 100 years. Its members aren’t just fighting for themselves – they’re fighting for the future of the NHS.

Huck Magazine • 20th October 2022

Levelling Up is leaving my home town of Teesside worse off

Amid the chaos engulfing Liz Truss’s government, one of the last scraps of her mini-budget left is investment zones. Writer George Walker explains why they’ll only do more harm than good.

Tribune • 30th July 2022

Empty Words Are not Enough – It’s Time Nurses Got a Pay Rise

Nurses were clapped and called 'heroes' during Covid, only to be slapped with a real-terms pay cut by the government. Now they are fighting back – and many are prepared to take to the picket lines.

Tribune • 29th June 2022

Inside the St Monica Strike

Workers at St Monica's care homes in Bristol and the South West are striking against fire and rehire. If they win, it could galvanise action across the care sector – and after the pandemic, care workers urgently need change.

Red Pepper • 27th November 2021

The fate of Teesside’s industrial heritage

Following the destruction of the Dorman Long Tower, George Walker explores what the Conservatives' 'levelling up' agenda means for Teesside's industrial icons.

Yorkshire Evening Post • 5th August 2021

Voices of the Future: We need to redirect our anger away from ordinary people on ‘Freedom Day’

Why despite widespread news coverage of reckless clubbers, we ought to blame those in power for the UK's premature 'Freedom Day'

ERA Magazine • 9th December 2020

Remembering Middlesbrough's race riots •

Exploring and remembering my hometown Middlesbrough's race riots in the 1960s, using this example and British post-colonial histories to address contemporary struggles.

Young Fabians • 27th September 2020

Pandemic As Lived Experience: The Interconnection Between Individual Loss and Political Change

How we can look at the past eighteen months and drag from its darkest recesses the inspiration to recast our political and economic order anew.