Mark Fuller
@markhf.bsky.social
MD Showrunner Communications - a consultancy that supports academic researchers to contribute to policymaking and debates.
Chief Executive of Comic Book UK - working to make the UK the best place in the world to create, publish and sell comics.
Chief Executive of Comic Book UK - working to make the UK the best place in the world to create, publish and sell comics.
Not usually one for 4d chess nonsense Westminster speculation, but when there's briefing on the leadership potential of Labours best media performer by some distance the night before he's on the morning round, I do have to go hmmmmm.
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Not usually one for 4d chess nonsense Westminster speculation, but when there's briefing on the leadership potential of Labours best media performer by some distance the night before he's on the morning round, I do have to go hmmmmm.
Fascinating watching parts of the commentariat get so excited by Mamdani's win. Reality is that the US left needs to pray that NYC is a low crime, low cost, high tax base utopia over the next few years to avoid him being a convincing scare story told by Republicans in 2028...
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Fascinating watching parts of the commentariat get so excited by Mamdani's win. Reality is that the US left needs to pray that NYC is a low crime, low cost, high tax base utopia over the next few years to avoid him being a convincing scare story told by Republicans in 2028...
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It’s like Andy Warhol said, in the future everyone will repurpose my quip about everyone being famous for 15 minutes to be a social media post about the French prime minister for uh 15 minutes ok this one doesn’t work
October 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It’s like Andy Warhol said, in the future everyone will repurpose my quip about everyone being famous for 15 minutes to be a social media post about the French prime minister for uh 15 minutes ok this one doesn’t work
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Creative businesses and freelancers outside of London are in line for major government support to help them innovate, up-skill and attract private investment
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
October 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Creative businesses and freelancers outside of London are in line for major government support to help them innovate, up-skill and attract private investment
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
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The Home Sec is entirely right. The *vast* majority of the British public will agree with her that this weekend is not a weekend for a march like this. And it will have an impact on what they think of the marchers and their cause.
NEW: Home secretary Shabana Mahmood urges pro-Palestine protesters to consider not taking part in marches this weekend.
"Imagine if you lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country ... sometimes a little unity, a little solidarity, some love to other people is required"
"Imagine if you lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country ... sometimes a little unity, a little solidarity, some love to other people is required"
October 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The Home Sec is entirely right. The *vast* majority of the British public will agree with her that this weekend is not a weekend for a march like this. And it will have an impact on what they think of the marchers and their cause.
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Andy BECKETT thinks the insurgent leftist party run by a Bennite crank has huge potential? ANDY BECKETT? The Andy Beckett? Well, you could blow me down with a feather.
Corbyn and Sultana have a half-formed party with huge potential. Don’t write them off yet | Andy Beckett
Corbyn and Sultana have a half-formed party with huge potential. Don’t write them off yet | Andy Beckett
Vast numbers want a party that counters the country’s rightward lurch. Despite the chaos, they are willing Your Party to get off the ground, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Andy BECKETT thinks the insurgent leftist party run by a Bennite crank has huge potential? ANDY BECKETT? The Andy Beckett? Well, you could blow me down with a feather.
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If you're unhappy with Keir Starmer and you think the answer is Andy Burnham and a wealth tax you're not serious about the state of the country/party and the actual *hard, unpopular decisions* that need to be made to put things right.
September 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
If you're unhappy with Keir Starmer and you think the answer is Andy Burnham and a wealth tax you're not serious about the state of the country/party and the actual *hard, unpopular decisions* that need to be made to put things right.
Brilliant to see this. Comic Book UK is very happy to work with any communities looking to repurpose empty buildings into places where people can enjoy opportunities to create and celebrate comics together. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Communities to seize control over high streets and restore pride
Local communities will be handed new powers to revitalise their high streets and restore pride in their towns.
www.gov.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Brilliant to see this. Comic Book UK is very happy to work with any communities looking to repurpose empty buildings into places where people can enjoy opportunities to create and celebrate comics together. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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I increasingly feel that the lobby has not yet moved on from writing about the catastrophically dysfunctional Tories and is determined to see Labour through the same lens. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister
With his government mired in scandal, an operation to dethrone Starmer is now under way
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I increasingly feel that the lobby has not yet moved on from writing about the catastrophically dysfunctional Tories and is determined to see Labour through the same lens. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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See also: an MP quoted as saying 'Starmer's not up to the job' without any mention of the fact that said MP thought that Jeremy Corbyn was an absolutely fine choice to put to the electorate.
September 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
See also: an MP quoted as saying 'Starmer's not up to the job' without any mention of the fact that said MP thought that Jeremy Corbyn was an absolutely fine choice to put to the electorate.
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We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
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I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Anyone in any way celebrating or taking satisfaction in a shooting of anyone needs to take a good hard look at themselves.
September 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Anyone in any way celebrating or taking satisfaction in a shooting of anyone needs to take a good hard look at themselves.
Would be a good result. Sensible, effective Minister who would use the role to help the Government get things done rather than indulge in performative nonsense.
📢 EXCLUSIVE! Overnight polling done in partnership with Survation shows @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social in the lead with Labour members in the race to be Labour's Deputy Leader.
Labour deputy leader election: Phillipson takes early lead in exclusive member poll - LabourList
Exclusive polling for LabourList sees Bridget Phillipson take an early lead in the race to be Labour deputy leader.
labourlist.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Would be a good result. Sensible, effective Minister who would use the role to help the Government get things done rather than indulge in performative nonsense.
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It is hard to see why a Cabinet minister would take the risk of standing in and losing this contest. Burgon and Whittome and others on the left of the party don't have a path to 80 MPs to nominate them. So the contest is likely to come down to 3 of the 9 centreleft backbenches named in the middle.
September 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It is hard to see why a Cabinet minister would take the risk of standing in and losing this contest. Burgon and Whittome and others on the left of the party don't have a path to 80 MPs to nominate them. So the contest is likely to come down to 3 of the 9 centreleft backbenches named in the middle.
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“Maybe down to the cafe, they do a lovely all day breakfast there”
September 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
“Maybe down to the cafe, they do a lovely all day breakfast there”
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The deputy leadership election is going to be very depressing. I don't understand why so few people in Labour are incapable of actually looking at what happened to our tax burden under the last government.
Some of what she suggests is clearly good (reduce OBR forecast frequency to align with the budget cycle), some is detail that I don’t know enough about, but the screaming gap at the heart of it is her complete unity with the government in ignoring the need to reverse Tory tax cuts on middle earners.
September 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The deputy leadership election is going to be very depressing. I don't understand why so few people in Labour are incapable of actually looking at what happened to our tax burden under the last government.
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Highly recommend @davewwest.bsky.social on why and how politicians are ‘taking back control’ of the NHS: www.hsj.co.uk/comment/how-...
How politicians took back control of the NHS, Part 1
In its first year in charge of the NHS after more than a decade on the sidelines, Labour triggered a revolution in how the service is run. Dave West asked insiders what drove the new government's thinking, and what comes next. Part one of two.
www.hsj.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Highly recommend @davewwest.bsky.social on why and how politicians are ‘taking back control’ of the NHS: www.hsj.co.uk/comment/how-...
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A very popular opinion, it seems, and I think it's rubbish. It's also interesting how persistently a lot of people underestimate Starmer.
Starmer has the worst political instincts of any party leader in history. His entire strategy is trying to appease a bunch of people who already decided years ago they hated him. Meanwhile he's pissing off everybody who tolerated him.
September 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
A very popular opinion, it seems, and I think it's rubbish. It's also interesting how persistently a lot of people underestimate Starmer.
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I really worry that so many politcos sneer at "centre-left and centre-right sensibly debate how to tax and spend effectively" that they want four years of Reform being at the centre of our politics because a battle on race, identity and culture is just more novel and exciting to them
September 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I really worry that so many politcos sneer at "centre-left and centre-right sensibly debate how to tax and spend effectively" that they want four years of Reform being at the centre of our politics because a battle on race, identity and culture is just more novel and exciting to them
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Honestly baffled by where this reflexive scepticism to 'the public services should run better and the economy should grow more, and the government would be re-elected if this happens' comes from. 'Deliverism' in the United Kingdom has won whenever it has been tried!
Just pondering with regard to Andy Burnham being seen as Labour's alternative whether he isn't in fact more of the same local government inspired "deliverism" when what is needed at national level is the kind of story-telling vision which is even more distrusted in the party after Corbyn?
September 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Honestly baffled by where this reflexive scepticism to 'the public services should run better and the economy should grow more, and the government would be re-elected if this happens' comes from. 'Deliverism' in the United Kingdom has won whenever it has been tried!
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As a purveyor of high-quality satire myself I absolutely adored this parody of the new Corbyn / Sultana party.
Very witty, jolly well done to all involved. www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Very witty, jolly well done to all involved. www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Inside The Founding Of Jeremy Corbyn's New Party: 'End This Horrible Power Struggle'
The trials and tribulations of founding a new party on the left. Can they unite? What challenges lie ahead? Sienna Rodgers reports
www.politicshome.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
As a purveyor of high-quality satire myself I absolutely adored this parody of the new Corbyn / Sultana party.
Very witty, jolly well done to all involved. www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Very witty, jolly well done to all involved. www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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"I don't do implementation"
Yes because being a gobshite on YouTube is a lot easier than doing hard policy graft 🙄
Yes because being a gobshite on YouTube is a lot easier than doing hard policy graft 🙄
“ I am just a f*cking YouTuber, it’s up to the experts to work out how to implement the wealth tax”…”I don’t do implementation”
“maybe we should seize assets like the Chinese”
Interesting latest YouTube video from Gary “the best trader in the world at Citi” Stevenson. youtu.be/gHrxoKEnvEs?...
“maybe we should seize assets like the Chinese”
Interesting latest YouTube video from Gary “the best trader in the world at Citi” Stevenson. youtu.be/gHrxoKEnvEs?...
Is a wealth tax actually possible?
YouTube video by Garys Economics
youtu.be
September 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"I don't do implementation"
Yes because being a gobshite on YouTube is a lot easier than doing hard policy graft 🙄
Yes because being a gobshite on YouTube is a lot easier than doing hard policy graft 🙄
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Mark Ferguson is pitch perfect, not least because he is obvs simply talking about his relationship with our flag, long before he became an MP. Others can adapt his vg message and tone
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August 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Mark Ferguson is pitch perfect, not least because he is obvs simply talking about his relationship with our flag, long before he became an MP. Others can adapt his vg message and tone
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