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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 Cynical populists of the right have been replaced by cynical populists of the left as the main characters in UK politics for this season.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 · 18/12/2025

Best response to this is probably to flag that we are actively part of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition. (and with that i'll reimpose my personal rule of not litigating complex matters on social media! Drop me a line if you'd like to talk more!) www.creativerightsinai.co.uk

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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Thanks for the thoughtful comments, on this one though, a clarification is merited - it's a misinterpretation to read the report as any way endorsing comics produced by AI. Recognition that it exists and the industry needs to have agency over its impact, yes, but AI generated comics no.

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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Appreciate but respectfully disagree with the view. But thanks for taking the time to engage constructively.

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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

And it's worth noting that CBUK is an active member of this campaign, which has done great work in heading off the immediate threat of legal changes that would hand creative work over to AI developers: www.creativerightsinai.co.uk

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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Would probably say 'ready to engage pragmatically' rather than 'supportive of'. Overall take is that AI is a reality that wont go away regardless of how much we may wish it, so best to be in driving seat rather than being driven.

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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

CBUK CX here, rare poster as debate on social media is rarely constructive but feel this merits an important clarification - the excerpt posted here is a description of a measure proposed in the UK Gov's Creative Industries Sector Plan, not a CBUK proposal. Thanks for engaging.

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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This post is giving me flashbacks to all of the 'the devil will be in the detail' press releases I've written in the past...

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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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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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Mark Fuller @markhf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This kind of patronising dismissal of public concerns and high handed judgement of public sentiment serves only to push people into the arms of those offering easy but fantastical solutions. Far better to do the hard graft of actually dealing with them.

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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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