Natasha Walter
@natashawalter.bsky.social
Writer, feminist, climate campaigner
Coming 2026: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life, The New Feminism
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
Coming 2026: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life, The New Feminism
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
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My next book, Feminism for a World on Fire, is out next May.
In it, I’m honest about the challenges that women are facing, from misogyny to the climate emergency - but I also look at how women are still defending our rights and trying to build a better world…
In it, I’m honest about the challenges that women are facing, from misogyny to the climate emergency - but I also look at how women are still defending our rights and trying to build a better world…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My first job on a newspaper was at the Independent during Andreas Whittam Smith's last years as editor. It already felt like being at the end of something rather fine. Not perfect, but an amazing time & place to be a young writer. Thank you Andreas. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Sir Andreas Whittam Smith obituary
Financial journalist who was the founding editor of the groundbreaking Independent newspaper in 1986
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My first job on a newspaper was at the Independent during Andreas Whittam Smith's last years as editor. It already felt like being at the end of something rather fine. Not perfect, but an amazing time & place to be a young writer. Thank you Andreas. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Great to read all those amazing reviews of Ivo van Hove's production of All My Sons. Not so great to see those prices. Top seats £300, cheapest around £100. I hate the way that theatre has become such a rich person's delight.
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Great to read all those amazing reviews of Ivo van Hove's production of All My Sons. Not so great to see those prices. Top seats £300, cheapest around £100. I hate the way that theatre has become such a rich person's delight.
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Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
You need to learn English… but we will stop you going to classes.
Racist protest against mums going to English classes is just such a vile, toxic result of the anti-migrant movement. Enraging and heartbreaking. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Racist protest against mums going to English classes is just such a vile, toxic result of the anti-migrant movement. Enraging and heartbreaking. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
You need to learn English… but we will stop you going to classes.
Racist protest against mums going to English classes is just such a vile, toxic result of the anti-migrant movement. Enraging and heartbreaking. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Racist protest against mums going to English classes is just such a vile, toxic result of the anti-migrant movement. Enraging and heartbreaking. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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The gaslighting is relentless:Saudi Arabia is changing, women are thriving, empowerment is the new norm. And because loyalty is the currency of their privilege, they take on the regime’s dirtiest work:attacking dissidents, dismissing critics, and teaching ordinary women to doubt their own suffering.
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The gaslighting is relentless:Saudi Arabia is changing, women are thriving, empowerment is the new norm. And because loyalty is the currency of their privilege, they take on the regime’s dirtiest work:attacking dissidents, dismissing critics, and teaching ordinary women to doubt their own suffering.
I read this article expecting to hate the scammer. But I ended up feeling incredibly sad for her. The joys of writing and reading are under such intense threat from AI, and we are all losing so much.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I read this article expecting to hate the scammer. But I ended up feeling incredibly sad for her. The joys of writing and reading are under such intense threat from AI, and we are all losing so much.
'The Saudi bourgeoisie celebrates the American president’s remarks as a license to escalate their abuses...'
Here, 'Saudi Whisperer' speaks about the terrible effect of Trump's support on dissenters.
Don't let her courage go unheard!
saudiwhisperer.substack.com/p/americas-b...
Here, 'Saudi Whisperer' speaks about the terrible effect of Trump's support on dissenters.
Don't let her courage go unheard!
saudiwhisperer.substack.com/p/americas-b...
“America’s Betrayal of Press Freedom: A Green Light for Saudi Repression”
Thanks for reading!
saudiwhisperer.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
'The Saudi bourgeoisie celebrates the American president’s remarks as a license to escalate their abuses...'
Here, 'Saudi Whisperer' speaks about the terrible effect of Trump's support on dissenters.
Don't let her courage go unheard!
saudiwhisperer.substack.com/p/americas-b...
Here, 'Saudi Whisperer' speaks about the terrible effect of Trump's support on dissenters.
Don't let her courage go unheard!
saudiwhisperer.substack.com/p/americas-b...
This is a remarkable article by Diane Taylor.
It reminds us why we should never stop standing up for refugees.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It reminds us why we should never stop standing up for refugees.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This is a remarkable article by Diane Taylor.
It reminds us why we should never stop standing up for refugees.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It reminds us why we should never stop standing up for refugees.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The mountain of waste by the Cherwell is poisoning our environment. It’s also being seized upon by those who would poison our politics with xenophobia. This is what happens now when government fails to act, migrants are blamed, hate rises.
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The mountain of waste by the Cherwell is poisoning our environment. It’s also being seized upon by those who would poison our politics with xenophobia. This is what happens now when government fails to act, migrants are blamed, hate rises.
This is so true!
There is nothing new about Home Secretaries saying that refugees must return when countries become safe. The problem is that the countries don't become safe. So all this does is make refugees less secure and less able to integrate...
There is nothing new about Home Secretaries saying that refugees must return when countries become safe. The problem is that the countries don't become safe. So all this does is make refugees less secure and less able to integrate...
Is there a Home Secretary who, since 2005, *hasn’t* “introduced” safe return reviews for refugees? Other than Grant Shapps, who only had a few hours. Re-announcing an old, existing and totally pointless policy is very, very tired.
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is so true!
There is nothing new about Home Secretaries saying that refugees must return when countries become safe. The problem is that the countries don't become safe. So all this does is make refugees less secure and less able to integrate...
There is nothing new about Home Secretaries saying that refugees must return when countries become safe. The problem is that the countries don't become safe. So all this does is make refugees less secure and less able to integrate...
Incredibly sad news about Rachel Cooke. She will be so missed.
Wonderful tribute here by her longstanding colleague and friend @timadamswrites.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Wonderful tribute here by her longstanding colleague and friend @timadamswrites.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Incredibly sad news about Rachel Cooke. She will be so missed.
Wonderful tribute here by her longstanding colleague and friend @timadamswrites.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Wonderful tribute here by her longstanding colleague and friend @timadamswrites.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My next book, Feminism for a World on Fire, is out next May.
In it, I’m honest about the challenges that women are facing, from misogyny to the climate emergency - but I also look at how women are still defending our rights and trying to build a better world…
In it, I’m honest about the challenges that women are facing, from misogyny to the climate emergency - but I also look at how women are still defending our rights and trying to build a better world…
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My next book, Feminism for a World on Fire, is out next May.
In it, I’m honest about the challenges that women are facing, from misogyny to the climate emergency - but I also look at how women are still defending our rights and trying to build a better world…
In it, I’m honest about the challenges that women are facing, from misogyny to the climate emergency - but I also look at how women are still defending our rights and trying to build a better world…
God, the world is depressing right now.
Here's something good to chase away the viciousness.
Win an exquisite piece of embroidery art; and even if you don't win, help brave women doing lovely things in a dark world. If you haven't got £10 to enter, pls share.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/keep-our-d...
Here's something good to chase away the viciousness.
Win an exquisite piece of embroidery art; and even if you don't win, help brave women doing lovely things in a dark world. If you haven't got £10 to enter, pls share.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/keep-our-d...
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
God, the world is depressing right now.
Here's something good to chase away the viciousness.
Win an exquisite piece of embroidery art; and even if you don't win, help brave women doing lovely things in a dark world. If you haven't got £10 to enter, pls share.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/keep-our-d...
Here's something good to chase away the viciousness.
Win an exquisite piece of embroidery art; and even if you don't win, help brave women doing lovely things in a dark world. If you haven't got £10 to enter, pls share.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/keep-our-d...
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Over 11,000 Palestinians from Gaza, mostly women and children, have disappeared since October 7. Their relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, trapped under rubble or detained in Israeli prisons — but they’re desperate to find answers.
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
The search for Gaza's missing
Over 11,000 Palestinians have disappeared since Oct. 7. Relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, under rubble or in prison.
www.972mag.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Over 11,000 Palestinians from Gaza, mostly women and children, have disappeared since October 7. Their relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, trapped under rubble or detained in Israeli prisons — but they’re desperate to find answers.
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
I find the pressure to spend around Christmas quite bleak.
But some things are beautiful & do good!
I'm proud to be the chair of the charity Makani, which supports women in Lebanon who make exquisite blankets, bags & cushions.
Perfect presents for people with taste and heart.
oshana.co.uk/blankets
But some things are beautiful & do good!
I'm proud to be the chair of the charity Makani, which supports women in Lebanon who make exquisite blankets, bags & cushions.
Perfect presents for people with taste and heart.
oshana.co.uk/blankets
Crochet blankets — Oshana - crafts to empower women- London- UK
Crochet blankets handmade by Syrian refugee women
oshana.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I find the pressure to spend around Christmas quite bleak.
But some things are beautiful & do good!
I'm proud to be the chair of the charity Makani, which supports women in Lebanon who make exquisite blankets, bags & cushions.
Perfect presents for people with taste and heart.
oshana.co.uk/blankets
But some things are beautiful & do good!
I'm proud to be the chair of the charity Makani, which supports women in Lebanon who make exquisite blankets, bags & cushions.
Perfect presents for people with taste and heart.
oshana.co.uk/blankets
Incredible courage in the face of indescribable suffering. A women's film festival held in the rubble of Gaza.
By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...
By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...
In a tent in central Gaza, a women’s film festival is born
Held over six days last week, the inaugural International Festival for Women's Cinema was ‘an affirmation that Gaza loves life despite the genocide.’
www.972mag.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Incredible courage in the face of indescribable suffering. A women's film festival held in the rubble of Gaza.
By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...
By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...
'We are going through a period of extreme political upheaval. Old allegiances are breaking down. It is chaotic, but we have to make sure there are hopeful examples out there.'
I keep hearing snippets of truth from
@greenparty.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I keep hearing snippets of truth from
@greenparty.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights
Private member’s bill backed by Chris Packham and Natalie Bennett would impose a duty of care on government and business
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
'We are going through a period of extreme political upheaval. Old allegiances are breaking down. It is chaotic, but we have to make sure there are hopeful examples out there.'
I keep hearing snippets of truth from
@greenparty.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I keep hearing snippets of truth from
@greenparty.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I've read quite a few western journalists telling us what to think about Saudi Arabia recently, and none of them take the time to talk to Saudi women.
If you want a different perspective, I urge you to read the Saudi Whisperer Substack, authored by a Saudi woman 1/3
If you want a different perspective, I urge you to read the Saudi Whisperer Substack, authored by a Saudi woman 1/3
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I've read quite a few western journalists telling us what to think about Saudi Arabia recently, and none of them take the time to talk to Saudi women.
If you want a different perspective, I urge you to read the Saudi Whisperer Substack, authored by a Saudi woman 1/3
If you want a different perspective, I urge you to read the Saudi Whisperer Substack, authored by a Saudi woman 1/3
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More disturbing reporting from The Nerve.
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
If you share this thread or images, please credit @thenerve_news.
We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support.
And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, it’s this.
8/
🙏🙏🙏
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support.
And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, it’s this.
8/
🙏🙏🙏
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP
Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...
www.thenerve.news
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
More disturbing reporting from The Nerve.
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
How can a scrappy startup in 3 weeks leave BBC trailing in its coverage of Russian interference in our politics?
This isn't strong enough or urgent enough from @rspb.bsky.social
Your members want more - we want nature protected and birds given space to thrive. Please hold this destructive government to account.
Your members want more - we want nature protected and birds given space to thrive. Please hold this destructive government to account.
The Government has tabled 67 last-minute amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.‼️
Rushed through with little scrutiny, it’s a shambolic way to reform the planning system.
It creates confusion, sidelines science and leaves nature dangerously exposed.
(1/3)
Rushed through with little scrutiny, it’s a shambolic way to reform the planning system.
It creates confusion, sidelines science and leaves nature dangerously exposed.
(1/3)
October 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This isn't strong enough or urgent enough from @rspb.bsky.social
Your members want more - we want nature protected and birds given space to thrive. Please hold this destructive government to account.
Your members want more - we want nature protected and birds given space to thrive. Please hold this destructive government to account.
Unspeakable cruelty.
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD
He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Unspeakable cruelty.