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Mark Fuller

@markhf.bsky.social
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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.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Just to illustrate the scale of this a bit more. The shift in votes in the Gorton by-election wasn't so much left right - but from the traditional big two parties to the two insurgent parties.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
'Move to the left' or 'move the the right' are both inferior to 'deliver tangible results on a set of specific issues that don't fit easily into ideological boxes' as sustainable political strategies.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A wake up and smell the coffee moment for Labour. Early signs are that Labour wants to sip hot milk instead ("we couldn't turn out our vote." No, you did. That's the problem.) Governing strategy, policy, comms, campaigning - all needs a complete reset and in that order.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Oh good. Cynical populists of the right have been replaced by cynical populists of the left as the main characters in UK politics for this season.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
You may not like it, but strip out the hyperbole and abuse and it's quite hard to argue with this Cummings asssessment of the public mood
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Indeed, this is a cracking read.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Creative businesses and freelancers outside of London are in line for major government support to help them innovate, up-skill and attract private investment downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-rec…
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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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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.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 13/09/2025
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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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
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Richard Miller @richard-miller1.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Anyone in any way celebrating or taking satisfaction in a shooting of anyone needs to take a good hard look at themselves.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“Maybe down to the cafe, they do a lovely all day breakfast there”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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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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.
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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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...
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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
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"I don't do implementation" Yes because being a gobshite on YouTube is a lot easier than doing hard policy graft 🙄
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
13 years on, and this still applies: "Their interest is not in reducing oppression as much as it is in reducing their own participation in it. Above all else, they want to be able to say that they are not oppressing, not that oppression has ended." mattbruenig.com/2012/05/10/p...
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Purity leftism – Matt Bruenig Dot Com
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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 bsky.app/profile/mark...
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Good interview from one of the Gov's most impressive Ministers so far. Pushing forward serious reform in criminal justice and speaks with clarity on the need for similar in welfare. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Shabana Mahmood: My pledge to solve the prisons crisis in six months
The justice secretary will move away from short jail sentences to tougher community punishments and a ‘good behaviour’ programme
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Good. It's not the Government's job to offer a running commentary on every bit of nonsense touted by cranks. Just get on with the difficult task of delivering actual results.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The only way Labour can extinguish the nonsense of the populist left and right by the next election is to have delivered on the issue that median voters most care about. They must do whatever it takes to do so. Anything that's gets in the way of that has to be bulldozed.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
3 episodes in and I'm prepared to say that Alien Earth is far better than Andor. A gripping, brilliant show in its own right that expands on the lore and is completely consistent in tone with the source material.
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
What happens when one of the poorest parts of the country has jobs guaranteed for 60 years? I went to Barrow to investigate the government’s defence industrial strategy observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Labour’s defence pledge breathes new life back into Barrow
The surge in security spending means one of Britain’s poorer towns has been guaranteed jobs for the next 60 years – and locals are beginning to reap the ...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Is there a competition for maddest non-sequitur that I missed?
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Interesting from Paul Mason on the Your Party open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
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Corbyn/Sultana: The Fiasco Party
A long-read on the fantasy politics that lie behind the platitudes
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Dipping into here for the first time in a while and slightly frustrating to find that a lot of the sentiment on issues of public concern is variations of 'the public need to be made to understand why they are wrong to feel the way they feel!!!!'
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If Corbyn and co can help Labour shed these fantasists from its membership they will have done the party a great service.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Brilliant work as ever from @mollyroseorg.bsky.social on what an essential first step the #OnlineSafetyAct is but how it needs to be strengthened. Those arguing for it's abolition need to justify why they want to leave kids at risk in an untamed digital space.
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced the creators forming its latest British Comics Now delegation, who will be heading to Brussels in October for a special weekend of Ninth Art events
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British Comics Now Delegation to Brussels Announced
Five great creators set to bring British Comics to Brussels
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I couldn't be more pleased that Comic Book UK is now fully operational! Applying my professional skills to an industry that has given me so much is a dream come true. The UK comics industry has so much untapped potential and team CBUK and I look forward to supporting it!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Toby Young really has turned failing upwards into an art form.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Coffee Britain versus Monster Britain is the true class divide
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I'd wondered if the Crush Crime campaign was related to Dom Cummings Start Up Party plans and this article seems to suggest it might be. Worth taking very seriously - despite the panto villain persona Cummings is a very smart guy.
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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A newish Government means that there are lots of consultations doing the rounds at the moment. A few of my academic clients are asking me about them and i'm seeing a lot of the people I follow on here take an interest, so here's a few thoughts on how to best contribute.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Excellent thread on the WASPI compensation question. It’s just…hard, in my view, to stand up the claim that a blanket *ten billion* is even the best way to compensate the women directly hit by the change in the pension age.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
bsky.app/profile/ryan... Since I'm told BlueSky is an echo chamber of woke lefty nonsense, let's give an extra cheer for the seeming arrival of smart people of the Right like Ryan
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