Philosophy

Ian Walker (The Last Politician) has been involved in music and activism since he was sixteen, first of all as a roady and follower of the Anti-Nazi League in the late 1970s. He is an affirmed member of the awkward squad and could not give a crap if this upsets you. He has worked for several charities and protest groups, both full time and as a volunteer, ranging from homeless and senior citizen charities to international freedom and refugee rights organisations, some of whom were successful and went on to be ministers in their country’s first democratically elected government.

The Last Politician hales from Doncaster but has lived a big chunk of his life in London, when not travelling. He spent a decade caring for ill members of his family as many people do, and sporadically gigging and recording until his parents both passed away within 6 months of each other. Needing a new home he helped renovate a Victorian town house and returned to music in 2015; because someone needs to rescue pop music from the mundane.

Then set up a New Business in 2019 leasing public address systems in Sheffield. Only for Covid to kill off his business the next year and more importantly six of his good friends, with the youngest being in his early thirties. 😢

The Last Politician has also been a librarian, a social worker, worked in a climbing wall, a welder, an engineer and a computer programmer and systems analyst, a carer, programmed robots, built computer games and military simulations for NATO, sat and broken bread with kings, squatters, soldiers and protesters and even perhaps a few secret policemen, and has enjoyed the company of each, slept in palaces and squats and under a parachute at over 5,000m up in the Himalayas.

The Last Politician has travelled a bit of the world and loves traveling by train. So far he has had several adventures, from being on the last train out of a war torn city in a civil war, which was blown up after his train passed, to unofficially crossing the Iron Curtain twice, to being on a smugglers' train across the borders of Iran and Pakistan, as well as by Camel Train around the borders of Afghanistan and India. Once he was stuck between heavily armed drug runners and police in a fracas about the ownership of some opium, has had bullets whizz over his head and rescued people in the mountains.

So far The Last Politician has seen most of Europe and a big chunk of Asia as well as the bowels of a secure lab somewhere in the USA, where he survived on pizza and sushi, occasionally taken out for dinner in the evenings for being a good little nerd. 

The Last Politician thinks; the world is a wonderful place and that if you are alive, then you are at least one point ahead, which means you can go and travel to the bits you have not reached yet! You just need to remember to leave every place as you found it, and in the case of life and the world leave it better.

The Last Politician wants to End Representative Democracy and replace it with 21st Century Greek Forum Democracy but to find out more you will have to read his Manifesto.