Michael Walker

Host Novara Live Mon, Wed, Fri at 6pm @novaramedia

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

.@novaramedia's YouTube had over seven million views last month, covering topics that will shape the future of humanity, like AI-risk, the new cold war with China, and the genocide in Gaza.

But to keep doing what we do we need 1,000 new financial supporters. Can you be one?

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

We need 1,000 new regular supporters to join us and help build a new media for a different politics. Can you help us reach our target?

Help us shift the public conversation and take on the vested interests that have corrupted mainstream media.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Great to have @cenkuygur join us on @novaramedia tonight.

Mr Prime Minister, you are making this country a laughing stock! @Keir_Starmer

https://t.co/H7LSweJvhj

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Britain at the height of its power and prestige was home to Karl Marx and Giuseppe Mazzini. It was a refuge for Alexander Herzen and Victor Hugo.

Now, in 2026, it wont allow American YouTubers & streamers to enter because they criticised Israel. 🥀

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

This is absolutely bonkers. The commitment to go to any length to protect Israel is destroying liberalism from within.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

I’ve been banned from the UK. I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!

[Actu Foot @ActuFoot_]

🚨 Vidéo INCROYABLE des supporters de Hull City chantant « Someone Like You » À L’UNISSON pour célébrer leur montée en Premier League. 🏆😍

Essayez de ne pas avoir les frissons.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Exclusive from @eleanorhayward

Britain is facing an “economic catastrophe” as young adults “rewired” by smartphones are becoming trapped in worklessness, a government review has found

A landmark report into why one million young people are off work says businesses must adapt to this “anxious generation” by offering greater flexibility and mental health support

Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, was appointed by Sir Keir Starmer to investigate the 946,000 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training, known as Neets

His interim report, to be published next week, says that a “rising tide of mental ill-health, anxiety, depression, neurodiversity” is the main reason for high economic inactivity

Milburn said that these young people “are not snowflakes or faking it”, adding that their heightened distress and anxiety is linked to growing up in a digital age on social media

The review team held focus groups with young people, which revealed smartphones had led to poorer sleep and mental distress. “Every one of a group of ten 12 and 13-year-olds told us they went to bed between midnight and 3am because they were scrolling on their phone,” the review says

Milburn said: “This is a bedroom generation. They are sort of living in their bedrooms. They are on all the time, they’re never off. [Social media] is leading to some evidence of functional impairment, changing their sleep patterns, concentration levels. That is having an impact on their ability to work “

https://t.co/pFopxqJj0P

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

These @Dyson strawberries are from an advanced fully automated farm.

Europe is a leader in Agri-Tech! 🇪🇺

[Jordan Tumwesigye @JTumwesigye]

The greatest fanbase in the world 🤣🤣❤️

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

New hypothetical polling with Burnham as leader turns a 7 point lead for Reform UK into a 3 point lead for Labour. Obviously hypotheticals are just that and things change when they become reality (see Your Party), but the size of the shift is striking.

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

@HoustonPuddle affordable mandates reduce supply, as does the defunding of local authorities so they can't afford to mass build council homes. I support a package (mass social building, plus less restrained private development) that would lead to mixed communities and housing abundance. Do you?

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

Some thoughts on current housing debate
- Attacking social housing due to "unproductive" tenants comes is cruel and will make it harder for YIMBYs to win consensus in the places they want to build.
- The discourse on left that says increased supply doesn't matter for prices is empirically wrong, and suggests a commitment to ideology over evidence.
- Cities with expanding populations need new housing for every class. If middle class professionals plus international students can't live in new high-rises, they will be competing for - and pushing up the price - of existing housing stock.
- Speculative development being the only game in town won't provide enough supply as it is pro-cyclical. Oligopolistic developers will only build on mass when prices are stable or rising.
- Public authorities need better funding to contribute to a mix of housing stock, especially in downturns. Status quo creates zero-sum game of chicken where private developers and council wrangle over how much "affordable" or social housing should be included, with the result often being that nothing gets built.
- Our needs based social housing system, plus massive waiting lists, means millions of people struggling with housing costs will never be able to acquire social housing. Simply saying "we need more social housing, and nothing else really matters" is not providing them with a solution to their legitimate housing grievances.

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

@HoustonPuddle I think local authorities and housing associations should be properly funded to build social housing. If that happens, sure, get rid of the mandates. But that isn't happening now!

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

Excellent thread that cuts through lots of housing dogma on left and right.

TLDR: We need way more housing, supply and demand is real (!), but the speculative model alone won’t get us where we need to be.

[Rose Grayston @rosegrayston]

We cannot increase long-term housing supply without diversifying how Britain builds homes.

This is sometimes taken to mean we need a greater diversity of developers building to the speculative model.

This will help at the margins, but it's not the solution...

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[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

@haugejostein @novaramedia Thanks again for coming on - a very enjoyable conversation.

(And again: great look!)

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

I recently sat down with @michaeljswalker from @novaramedia for a conversation about China's development model. It's one of the most enjoyable and wide-ranging conversations about China I've had.

Michael was brilliant. And while we may be doppelgängers, I promise this wasn't just an hour of me talking with a mirror.

Link to the full conversation in the comments.

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

This clip is made even stranger by the fact the lead singer is the perfect doppelganger of recently murdered-in-jail paedophile Ian Watkins.

[The Jase 🐶 🎸 🎥 @jasemonkey]

This is the first time I've seen a performance of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' in which every member of the band is playing and singing in a different key.

[David Pfau @pfau]

This guy sounds exactly like e/acc types two years ago who talked themselves into voting for Trump because they didn't like Lina Khan. Look how that's going now. This guy would take a brain drain bigger than Brexit over slightly higher taxes. Don't be like this guy.

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

Burnham loses Makerfield, soft left discredited, winning back reform voters proven to be impossible, demoralised membership need something to believe in, Wes swoops in on rejoin platform.

The Streeting Plan 👇

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Wes Streeting calls for the Government to rejoin the EU

"Leaving the EU was a catastrophic mistake"

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

"Chad Michael"
"Its like an ad for gym, before and after"
​​"Michael China maxxed so hard they gave him a clone"

Reviews are in on the preview of my interview with @haugejostein on Chinese development. Full interview out on Monday!

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Just did @MichelleDewbs show and people from Makerfield said they were angry with Labour, and Burnham. That he’s taking them for granted.

I can’t agree. This is easily one of the most risky decisions I’ve seen a politician make. Lose this and his career is essentially over!