Mark Wallace
@wallaceme.bsky.social
Chief Executive of Total Politics Group. Writer, broadcaster, media CEO. Publisher of PoliticsHome, The House magazine, Holyrood magazine, The Parliament magazine, Civil Service World, ConservativeHome and more. Columnist for the i paper. Never a dull day.
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Meanwhile every year we have 30,000 people dying prematurely from pollution. This stuff is so infuriating.
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Meanwhile every year we have 30,000 people dying prematurely from pollution. This stuff is so infuriating.
Why is energy so expensive and productivity so sluggish? The great British mystery continues. 🧐 🧐
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Why is energy so expensive and productivity so sluggish? The great British mystery continues. 🧐 🧐
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Think Biggles is a children's character? Maybe that's what he became, but he started out in a much darker place.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Think Biggles is a children's character? Maybe that's what he became, but he started out in a much darker place.
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This did give us the chance to talk about why the Biggles books are brilliant - tough and traumatic rather than the Famous Five Go To War stereotype in people’s minds, and intended, presciently, by their author to help Britain get enough pilots to win a war with Nazi Germany.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This did give us the chance to talk about why the Biggles books are brilliant - tough and traumatic rather than the Famous Five Go To War stereotype in people’s minds, and intended, presciently, by their author to help Britain get enough pilots to win a war with Nazi Germany.
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I had huge fun talking to @duncanweldon.bsky.social and Rob for @warmovietheatre.bsky.social about the Biggles film. It’s the worst film I’ve ever watched (aged 11 and aged 41), so Duncan, Rob (and my wife) had to watch it too. Enjoy!
A beloved British hero, a masked German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? We're watching the ultimate crime against literature and cinema: the Biggles movie. With @wallaceme.bsky.social of Total Politics, who was scarred for life by this film.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I had huge fun talking to @duncanweldon.bsky.social and Rob for @warmovietheatre.bsky.social about the Biggles film. It’s the worst film I’ve ever watched (aged 11 and aged 41), so Duncan, Rob (and my wife) had to watch it too. Enjoy!
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"While there are positive signs of progress among the statistical community, in our review we that found few press releases named the source of the numbers they use"
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Statistics regulator calls for greater transparency in government comms
OSR says intelligent transparency should be default approach to government communication of statistics
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November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"While there are positive signs of progress among the statistical community, in our review we that found few press releases named the source of the numbers they use"
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Some people really just cannot enjoy a fun thing for itself…
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Some people really just cannot enjoy a fun thing for itself…
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We will take you on, and your time-travelling helicopter.
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We will take you on, and your time-travelling helicopter.
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A ROAST IN A BEEF
GIANT YORKSHIRE PORK
PUDDING TURKEY
GIANT YORKSHIRE PORK
PUDDING TURKEY
November 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
A ROAST IN A BEEF
GIANT YORKSHIRE PORK
PUDDING TURKEY
GIANT YORKSHIRE PORK
PUDDING TURKEY
I had huge fun talking to @duncanweldon.bsky.social and Rob for @warmovietheatre.bsky.social about the Biggles film. It’s the worst film I’ve ever watched (aged 11 and aged 41), so Duncan, Rob (and my wife) had to watch it too. Enjoy!
A beloved British hero, a masked German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? We're watching the ultimate crime against literature and cinema: the Biggles movie. With @wallaceme.bsky.social of Total Politics, who was scarred for life by this film.
pod.fo/e/3564bb
pod.fo/e/3564bb
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I had huge fun talking to @duncanweldon.bsky.social and Rob for @warmovietheatre.bsky.social about the Biggles film. It’s the worst film I’ve ever watched (aged 11 and aged 41), so Duncan, Rob (and my wife) had to watch it too. Enjoy!
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A beloved British hero, a masked German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? We're watching the ultimate crime against literature and cinema: the Biggles movie. With @wallaceme.bsky.social of Total Politics, who was scarred for life by this film.
pod.fo/e/3564bb
pod.fo/e/3564bb
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A beloved British hero, a masked German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? We're watching the ultimate crime against literature and cinema: the Biggles movie. With @wallaceme.bsky.social of Total Politics, who was scarred for life by this film.
pod.fo/e/3564bb
pod.fo/e/3564bb
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This is in our local town centre. My favourite bit is the old man who appears to be burning a penguin. Merry Christmas! 🐧 🔥
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is in our local town centre. My favourite bit is the old man who appears to be burning a penguin. Merry Christmas! 🐧 🔥
This is in our local town centre. My favourite bit is the old man who appears to be burning a penguin. Merry Christmas! 🐧 🔥
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is in our local town centre. My favourite bit is the old man who appears to be burning a penguin. Merry Christmas! 🐧 🔥
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I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
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Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
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Wildlife
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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
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You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
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SFO will move to Canary Wharf offices on Cabot Square next year after abandoning relocation to government hub in the same area
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Serious Fraud Office reignites move to Canary Wharf
SFO to move to Cabot Square next year after abandoning relocation to 10 South Colonnade
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November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
SFO will move to Canary Wharf offices on Cabot Square next year after abandoning relocation to government hub in the same area
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
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V important @politicshome.bsky.social on the UK's critical minerals opportunity:
"Europe & the UK have been talking about critical minerals for ages...But when Americans do it, they go big and hard, and make it happen. We don’t; we mostly just talk about it.”
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"Europe & the UK have been talking about critical minerals for ages...But when Americans do it, they go big and hard, and make it happen. We don’t; we mostly just talk about it.”
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Inside The Race To Mine The UK's Critical Minerals
The UK has deposits of critical minerals but has stopped mining them. Sophie Church hears that, if we don’t take advantage of our assets, others ar...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
V important @politicshome.bsky.social on the UK's critical minerals opportunity:
"Europe & the UK have been talking about critical minerals for ages...But when Americans do it, they go big and hard, and make it happen. We don’t; we mostly just talk about it.”
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
"Europe & the UK have been talking about critical minerals for ages...But when Americans do it, they go big and hard, and make it happen. We don’t; we mostly just talk about it.”
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reminder that tactical voting was much-heralded but largely ineffective when it was just about a “progressive alliance”. The idea of left wing parties persuading their voters to vote Tory, when they couldn’t even persuade them to vote for one another to beat Tories, is untested.
Peter Kellner has done the crunching of those YouGov numbers on tactical voting: Reform lose about 100 seats, half to Tories, half to Lab kellnerp.substack.com/p/one-hundre...
One hundred ways to thwart Reform
How tactical voting could stop Nigel Farage becoming prime minister
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November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reminder that tactical voting was much-heralded but largely ineffective when it was just about a “progressive alliance”. The idea of left wing parties persuading their voters to vote Tory, when they couldn’t even persuade them to vote for one another to beat Tories, is untested.
Aside from everything else, it was just really easy to *lose* people. Meeting up, no way to know if your Metro or bus was delayed. Night out, where’s x gone? No idea.
It's a genre doing the rounds on social. Analogue images of carefree kids living smartphone-free lives, set to the sounds of Blur, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana…Welcome to #90snostalgia. But were the 1990s really better than now?
An #FTEdit 🧵on the case for 2025 👇
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An #FTEdit 🧵on the case for 2025 👇
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November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Aside from everything else, it was just really easy to *lose* people. Meeting up, no way to know if your Metro or bus was delayed. Night out, where’s x gone? No idea.
Mahmood is up for a fight - with her own backbenches and the lawfare blob. My latest for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...
Labour isn't ready for the consequences of its radical new asylum policy
Shabana Mahmood, though, clearly doesn't mind a fight
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November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Mahmood is up for a fight - with her own backbenches and the lawfare blob. My latest for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...
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Cloudflare's outage seems... bad? X, ChatGPT, multiple other sites down
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Cloudflare's outage seems... bad? X, ChatGPT, multiple other sites down
This piece by @markurban.bsky.social is a refreshing dispelling of the nonsensical ideas that the BBC has no real problem to confront and that there is some kind of "coup" underway at the Corporation markurban.substack.com/p/the-bbc-is...
The BBC is Deep in Crisis
Some inside scoop on what's happened and why
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November 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This piece by @markurban.bsky.social is a refreshing dispelling of the nonsensical ideas that the BBC has no real problem to confront and that there is some kind of "coup" underway at the Corporation markurban.substack.com/p/the-bbc-is...
The decision to leave 13 months - and therefore more uncertainty and speculation - between budgets is inexplicable and indefensible. An unforced error.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The decision to leave 13 months - and therefore more uncertainty and speculation - between budgets is inexplicable and indefensible. An unforced error.
I once asked a British former Islamist extremist what life was like in the radical underground. His reply was: “Fattening. We spent all our time meeting in halal chicken shops - extremism left me pre-diabetic.” Pure Four Lions.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I once asked a British former Islamist extremist what life was like in the radical underground. His reply was: “Fattening. We spent all our time meeting in halal chicken shops - extremism left me pre-diabetic.” Pure Four Lions.
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they're literally done an android Yeltsin
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
they're literally done an android Yeltsin
Russia invented a drunk robot. Satire is six feet under.
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Russia invented a drunk robot. Satire is six feet under.