Nick Wallis
@nickwallis.bsky.social
Journalist. Author of Depp v Heard: the unreal story and The Great Post Office Scandal. Sex is corporeal. Gender is performative.
Two clinicians who blew the whistle on what was happening to children at the Tavistock have written an open letter to Wes Streeting warning him the new puberty blocker trial risks "repeating the very errors" they helped uncover. Read the letter in full:
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Tavistock whistleblowers call for immediate halt to puberty blocker trial
Marcus and Susan Evans Susan and Marcus Evans – two of the first whistleblowers involved in exposing the scandal at the Tavistock’s GenderIdentity Development Service (GIDS) – hav…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Two clinicians who blew the whistle on what was happening to children at the Tavistock have written an open letter to Wes Streeting warning him the new puberty blocker trial risks "repeating the very errors" they helped uncover. Read the letter in full:
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genderblog.net/tavistock-wh...
Sorry I have not been posting much here. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks at an employment tribunal in Belfast. Here is my review of the first week.
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Morrison v Belfast Film Festival: Week 1
Sara Morrison (centre) with two supporters on Friday This employment tribunal is taking place at Killymeal House in Belfast. Sara Morrison is the Claimant. Belfast Film Festival (BFF) are the Respo…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Sorry I have not been posting much here. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks at an employment tribunal in Belfast. Here is my review of the first week.
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‼️ NEW EPISODE from #BattleFest 2025
Celebrate Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100 with @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests @nickwallis.bsky.social , @johnyorkestory.bsky.social and Maxie Allen
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Celebrate Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100 with @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests @nickwallis.bsky.social , @johnyorkestory.bsky.social and Maxie Allen
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Why You Should Read Franz Kafka's The Trial in 2025
YouTube video by The Booking Club podcast
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November 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
‼️ NEW EPISODE from #BattleFest 2025
Celebrate Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100 with @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests @nickwallis.bsky.social , @johnyorkestory.bsky.social and Maxie Allen
📺 youtu.be/AkOsfe6apwY?...
Celebrate Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100 with @jackaldane.bsky.social and guests @nickwallis.bsky.social , @johnyorkestory.bsky.social and Maxie Allen
📺 youtu.be/AkOsfe6apwY?...
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Are the figures who stoke the fires of bureaucracy in Franz Kafka's The Trial the novel's true victims? @jackaldane.bsky.social @nickwallis.bsky.social @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOsfe6apwY
FULL EPISODE🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOsfe6apwY
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Are the figures who stoke the fires of bureaucracy in Franz Kafka's The Trial the novel's true victims? @jackaldane.bsky.social @nickwallis.bsky.social @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOsfe6apwY
FULL EPISODE🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOsfe6apwY
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This week, Hertfordshire Police accepted liability for wrongly holding Maxie Allen and his wife for 11 hours on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications. At #battlefest, Maxie told the whole story.
@nickwallis.bsky.social @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
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@nickwallis.bsky.social @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This week, Hertfordshire Police accepted liability for wrongly holding Maxie Allen and his wife for 11 hours on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications. At #battlefest, Maxie told the whole story.
@nickwallis.bsky.social @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOs...
@nickwallis.bsky.social @johnyorkestory.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOs...
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Maxie Allen and his wife finally received compensation from Hertfordshire Police this week for being wrongly held on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications. @nickwallis.bsky.social gave his thoughts on the ordeal at #battlefest.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOs...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOs...
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Maxie Allen and his wife finally received compensation from Hertfordshire Police this week for being wrongly held on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications. @nickwallis.bsky.social gave his thoughts on the ordeal at #battlefest.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOs...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOs...
One of my journalism heroes (and a brilliant novelist to boot) @louisetickle is doing a writing course in a castle. Louise is great company. If you can, do it! Blurb:
“Writing to Challenge and Change Your World”
Early bird discount for a limited period here
www.louisetickle.co.uk/courses_loui...
“Writing to Challenge and Change Your World”
Early bird discount for a limited period here
www.louisetickle.co.uk/courses_loui...
Writing Courses with Louise Tickle | June 2026
Writing to Challenge your World. A writing Course and Retreat with journalist, broadcaster and novelist Louise Tickle on the Isle of Coll in the Hebrides
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June 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
One of my journalism heroes (and a brilliant novelist to boot) @louisetickle is doing a writing course in a castle. Louise is great company. If you can, do it! Blurb:
“Writing to Challenge and Change Your World”
Early bird discount for a limited period here
www.louisetickle.co.uk/courses_loui...
“Writing to Challenge and Change Your World”
Early bird discount for a limited period here
www.louisetickle.co.uk/courses_loui...
National Trust "deeply disappointed" by removal of stitching over JK Rowling's name. Full story:
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National Trust “deeply disappointed” by removal of JK Rowling stitch-over
JK Rowling’s name, over-stitched with pink and blue thread. Photo copyright WRN Staffordshire and Derbyshire The National Trust has declared it is “deeply disappointed” by the una…
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June 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
National Trust "deeply disappointed" by removal of stitching over JK Rowling's name. Full story:
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genderblog.net/national-tru...
Friends, this Friday at 6.15pm (16 May), the Sunday Times' Political Editor Caroline Wheeler and I will be talking about journalism and our books at the inaugural Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words. Please come! It would be great to see you.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Friends, this Friday at 6.15pm (16 May), the Sunday Times' Political Editor Caroline Wheeler and I will be talking about journalism and our books at the inaugural Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words. Please come! It would be great to see you.
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This sounds like an extraordinary festival - I'm delighted to be there THIS Saturday - do come along if you can. The line up is eclectic. From Dom Joly to Tico Siefert with Pam Ayers in between!
@bozzyfest #Ayrshire #DumfriesHouse
www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk/2025/events/
@bozzyfest #Ayrshire #DumfriesHouse
www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk/2025/events/
Main festival events will be live at Dumfries House. Tickets range from £5 to £15.
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May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This sounds like an extraordinary festival - I'm delighted to be there THIS Saturday - do come along if you can. The line up is eclectic. From Dom Joly to Tico Siefert with Pam Ayers in between!
@bozzyfest #Ayrshire #DumfriesHouse
www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk/2025/events/
@bozzyfest #Ayrshire #DumfriesHouse
www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk/2025/events/
Delighted with this interview by Murray Scougall in the Sunday Post ahead of the Boswell Book Festival at Dumfries House next month.
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Nick Wallis says Post Office victims let down again by lawyers
Nick Wallis made a BBC Panorama documentary on the subject, wrote an in-depth book and was a consultant on ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office.
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April 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Delighted with this interview by Murray Scougall in the Sunday Post ahead of the Boswell Book Festival at Dumfries House next month.
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Superb open letter from the SEENinjournalism network to the BBC director general Tim Davie. Link to follow…
April 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Superb open letter from the SEENinjournalism network to the BBC director general Tim Davie. Link to follow…
Politicians who cannot or will not define what a woman is deserve all the contempt they get. If you can’t define women you can’t legislate to protect them.
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Senedd in uproar as First Minister asked to describe what a woman is
Emily Price The leader of the Senedd Conservatives has been accused of creating divisions and engaging in culture wars after he asked the First Minister to describe the “definition of a woman”. The q...
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March 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Politicians who cannot or will not define what a woman is deserve all the contempt they get. If you can’t define women you can’t legislate to protect them.
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Hello! I have started a new blog and have reposted, with kind permission, a looong but superb essay by the lawyer Peter Daly on how institutions start to believe they are morally superior and cause harm as a result. Please read, comment and share as you see fit:
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Captured institutions and bad decisions
I first met Peter Daly in a hotel bar in Portugal in 2024. I found him to be great company and good fun. Peter is a lawyer (and partner at Doyle Clayton) who has spent the last 15 years working as …
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February 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Hello! I have started a new blog and have reposted, with kind permission, a looong but superb essay by the lawyer Peter Daly on how institutions start to believe they are morally superior and cause harm as a result. Please read, comment and share as you see fit:
genderblog.net/captured-ins...
genderblog.net/captured-ins...
I really hope this is a good review. Ah well, even if it's not...
Ontem acabei o libro "Post Office Scandal" do @nickwallis.bsky.social.
Uma empresa pública, o Post Office do Reino Unido, que estragou a vida a centenas de empregados, por causa de um sistema informático. É um escandâlo relativamente recente que passou me ao lado.
🧵 ⬇️
#Livros #Leitura
Uma empresa pública, o Post Office do Reino Unido, que estragou a vida a centenas de empregados, por causa de um sistema informático. É um escandâlo relativamente recente que passou me ao lado.
🧵 ⬇️
#Livros #Leitura
November 25, 2024 at 1:17 PM
I really hope this is a good review. Ah well, even if it's not...
This Friday I will be at the Otley Courthouse in Yorkshire with former Subpostmaster Janet Skinner to talk about the Post Office scandal.
The evening event is sold out, but there are still tickets for the 2pm talk. Come along if you can!
#Otley
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The evening event is sold out, but there are still tickets for the 2pm talk. Come along if you can!
#Otley
otleycourthouse.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
Ticketbooth
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November 21, 2024 at 1:24 AM
This Friday I will be at the Otley Courthouse in Yorkshire with former Subpostmaster Janet Skinner to talk about the Post Office scandal.
The evening event is sold out, but there are still tickets for the 2pm talk. Come along if you can!
#Otley
otleycourthouse.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
The evening event is sold out, but there are still tickets for the 2pm talk. Come along if you can!
#Otley
otleycourthouse.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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Listening to more of @nickwallis book, I’ve never heard the term “Malicious Prosecution” before, but I can’t think of any better description for what POL did to the SPM.
They pursued baseless prosecutions solely in an attempt to file POCA claims to recover money.
They pursued baseless prosecutions solely in an attempt to file POCA claims to recover money.
November 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Listening to more of @nickwallis book, I’ve never heard the term “Malicious Prosecution” before, but I can’t think of any better description for what POL did to the SPM.
They pursued baseless prosecutions solely in an attempt to file POCA claims to recover money.
They pursued baseless prosecutions solely in an attempt to file POCA claims to recover money.
Is this place worth it? Or any less of a potential hellsite?
February 6, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Is this place worth it? Or any less of a potential hellsite?
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Listening to @nickwallis.bsky.social on James O'Brien's Full Disclosure.
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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien - Podcast | Global Player
<p>Nick Wallis was presenting the breakfast show for BBC Radio Surrey in 2010 when he was contacted by a listener with a story he’s been investigating ever since. Nick helped expose one of the bigge...
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January 20, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Listening to @nickwallis.bsky.social on James O'Brien's Full Disclosure.
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For the first time in two weeks Amazon have got The Great #PostOfficeScandal back in stock on Prime. Get your copy now before they run out again.
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The extraordinary true story behind the hit ITV Drama #MrBatesVsThePostOffice
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The extraordinary true story behind the hit ITV Drama #MrBatesVsThePostOffice
The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innoce...
Buy The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail 1 by Wallis, Nick (ISBN: 9781739099206) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low...
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January 19, 2024 at 5:51 AM
For the first time in two weeks Amazon have got The Great #PostOfficeScandal back in stock on Prime. Get your copy now before they run out again.
amzn.eu/d/hbsVR8q
The extraordinary true story behind the hit ITV Drama #MrBatesVsThePostOffice
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The extraordinary true story behind the hit ITV Drama #MrBatesVsThePostOffice
More Singh'd against than Singh-ing.
The Post Office's former Head of Criminal Law reveals himself to be an incoherent clown.
It would be funny had he not helped give innocent people criminal convictions.
postofficescandal.uk/post/more-sing… #PostOfficeScandala#PostOfficeInquiryry
The Post Office's former Head of Criminal Law reveals himself to be an incoherent clown.
It would be funny had he not helped give innocent people criminal convictions.
postofficescandal.uk/post/more-sing… #PostOfficeScandala#PostOfficeInquiryry
https://postofficescandal.uk/post/more-sing…
December 1, 2023 at 7:27 PM
More Singh'd against than Singh-ing.
The Post Office's former Head of Criminal Law reveals himself to be an incoherent clown.
It would be funny had he not helped give innocent people criminal convictions.
postofficescandal.uk/post/more-sing… #PostOfficeScandala#PostOfficeInquiryry
The Post Office's former Head of Criminal Law reveals himself to be an incoherent clown.
It would be funny had he not helped give innocent people criminal convictions.
postofficescandal.uk/post/more-sing… #PostOfficeScandala#PostOfficeInquiryry
It’s very unlikely I will ever have two books published in 12 months, so forgive me if this gets a bit relentless in the run up to xmas but do consider The Great Post Office Scandal and/or Depp v Heard: the unreal story as presents for the book lover in your life.
November 17, 2023 at 10:01 AM
It’s very unlikely I will ever have two books published in 12 months, so forgive me if this gets a bit relentless in the run up to xmas but do consider The Great Post Office Scandal and/or Depp v Heard: the unreal story as presents for the book lover in your life.
Someone’s been drinking.
November 13, 2023 at 8:27 PM
Someone’s been drinking.
