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Alex Niven
@Alex_Niven
Two appearances in Pseuds Corner (2014, 2024) for Oasis apologism // @alamedainst // alex_niven@outlook dot com
Newcastle upon Tyne
Joined January 2011
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    Alex Niven
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    Feb 25
    Just reposting this as I’m still getting a lot of emails/messages about Tribune stuff - I handed in my notice many months ago and left several weeks ago!
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    Alex Niven
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    Feb 3
    Some personal news … After an eventful year I’ve decided to step down as Tribune editor. Big thanks & love to Marcus Barnett, Lauren Kelly, Fergal Kinney, Fran Newton, Peter Lucas, Karl Hansen, Grace Blakeley, Sean Waters & all contributors for comradeship and many other things.
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    Alex Niven
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    Jun 20, 2024
    Newcastle Uni students are now 50 days into their protest against the war in Gaza. Give them a retweet
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    Alex Niven
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    Mar 10, 2025
    Quelle surprise! Turns out the people with lots of money in this country do, in fact, have lots of money
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    Alex Niven
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    Feb 2, 2025
    What a delightful tone to take. Doubtless Gen Z will benefit greatly from heeding this respectful, not-at-all-condescending moral lecture from another one of our sage New Labour-era light-entertainers posing as a public intellectual
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    Alex Niven
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    May 7, 2021
    Can we pls just fast-forward to the bit where Andy Burnham becomes Labour leader? Lord knows he’s imperfect but he’s now the only thing standing in the way of total extinction & a Tory millennium
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    Alex Niven
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    May 3, 2025
    Whoever this MP is, credit to them for not talking in Blairspeak-Starmerese and articulating the frankest, most accurate take on the local elections I’ve yet seen
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    Alex Niven
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    Dec 12, 2019
    Possible next moves for socialists: ❌Become alcoholic ❌Become Tory ❌Become Neo-Blairite ✅Keep working towards radical left breakthrough in the 2020s & in meantime cultivate joy, hope, solidarity wherever you can (+ don't let heart turn to stone)
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    Alex Niven
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    Nov 6, 2024
    Thank goodness we still have an extremely clever centrist elite dominating the cultural/political establishment & publishing, feeding us regular nuggets of wisdom, telling us which way the wind will blow
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    Rory Stewart
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    Nov 4, 2024
    Kamala Harris will win comfortably, because: • Biden’s admin has been solid • Trump’s lost ground since 2016 • The young Black male votes which Trump needs didn’t turn out in 16, 18, 20, or 22 • Young women like Kamala + vote ✴️Ignore polls—they’re herding, after past misses
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    Alex Niven
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    Nov 17, 2023
    Ah yes, the British government has famously had absolutely zero influence on significant events in Palestine & Israel throughout history
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    Alex Niven
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    Apr 18, 2020
    I mean I know I'm biased but is there a finer geometric ensemble in the history of building stuff?
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    Alex Niven
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    Jun 14, 2024
    Lol an absolutely matchless headline, fair play
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    Alex Niven
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    Nov 24, 2020
    Still think this is true
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    Alex Niven
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    Oct 21, 2025
    Taking a single journal article by a history PhD student and its finding that 10% of people in C19 Ancoats were middle class, then using this to say that Engels was ‘taking liberties’ in a headline on the fifth article on the Guardian homepage … those are some real real moves
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    Alex Niven
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    Sep 24, 2023
    Something of a routine victory for Philippa this one
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