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How Manchester’s Bus Drivers Beat ‘Fire and Rehire’

Originally published in Tribune magazine, 22 May, 2021.

4 min readMay 23, 2021

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How Manchester’s Bus Drivers Beat ‘Fire and Rehire’

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Alex King

Community and the carnivalesque — thoughts on the Manchester bus driver picket line

6 min readMay 23, 2021

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Community and the carnivalesque — thoughts on the Manchester bus driver picket line

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Alex King

The climate crisis demands we scale up retrofitting homes in Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester must retrofit 60,000 residential and commercial buildings a year to be zero carbon by 2038.

8 min readDec 5, 2020

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Alex King

After coronavirus, let’s choose carefully which sectors we want to regrow — and which to let go of

The pandemic has made clear what really matters to our economy. Let’s restart it selectively, writes Alex King

3 min readDec 5, 2020

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Alex King

Coronavirus has forced the government to finally acknowledge the real wealth creators

Just months ago, the government described these workers as ‘low skilled’, now they’re the ones keeping our country going

4 min readApr 15, 2020

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Alex King

Reflecting on defeat

During the 2019 election, I canvassed in five marginal constituencies in the North West and one in the South West, all of which Labour…

5 min readDec 17, 2019

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Reflecting on defeat

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Alex King

England/New Zealand 2019 Rugby World Cup semi-final — the end of a rugby era and Englcautious…

I never thought I would say this but —

4 min readOct 28, 2019

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England/New Zealand 2019 Rugby World Cup semi-final — the end of a rugby era and Englcautious…

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Alex King

The life and outlook of Sigmund Jähn, Germany’s first man in space

On 26 August, 1978, East Germans woke up to the headline banded across a special edition of Neues Deutschland: “Der erste Deutscher im…

4 min readSep 25, 2019

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The life and outlook of Sigmund Jähn, Germany’s first man in space

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Alex King

Lemn Sissay on his new memoir ‘My Name Is Why’

Lemn Sissay, award-winning and internationally acclaimed poet, was stolen from his birth mother and given to a foster family. He was…

9 min readAug 30, 2019

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Lemn Sissay on his new memoir ‘My Name Is Why’

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Alex King

The Green Industrial Revolution- Labour’s path to government?

Stepping on stage at the Durham Miners’ Gala the weekend before last, Jeremy Corbyn had decided to talk about climate change. ““Labour…

2 min readJul 23, 2019

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The Green Industrial Revolution- Labour’s path to government?

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Alex King

Alex King

Writing about climate, employment, politics | words for The Guardian, The Independent, Novara Media, Tribune, The Bristol Cable, The Manchester Mill

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