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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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
This is your regular reminder that words mean things, and don’t mean things that they do not mean.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is your regular reminder that words mean things, and don’t mean things that they do not mean.
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Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.
Ars Garfunkuli: 🎶 oculi clari… 🎶
Happy Monday!
Leaping into the new week with this lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare!
Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
Leaping into the new week with this lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare!
Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ars Garfunkuli: 🎶 oculi clari… 🎶
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Happy Monday!
Leaping into the new week with this lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare!
Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
Leaping into the new week with this lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare!
Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Happy Monday!
Leaping into the new week with this lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare!
Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
Leaping into the new week with this lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare!
Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
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This is the Bucklersbury Pavement, a Roman mosaic found in 1869 during construction of Queen Victoria Street in the City of London. Dating to around 200-250 CE, it was later exhibited in the old Museum of London (and will hopefully feature in the new @londonmuseum.bsky.social too!) #MosaicMonday
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is the Bucklersbury Pavement, a Roman mosaic found in 1869 during construction of Queen Victoria Street in the City of London. Dating to around 200-250 CE, it was later exhibited in the old Museum of London (and will hopefully feature in the new @londonmuseum.bsky.social too!) #MosaicMonday
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The big question is whether he's willing to actually do what needs to be done. Cutting through all of it is the work of several Parliaments.
Keir Starmer: “As Prime Minister, every time I go to pull a lever, there are a whole bunch of regulations, consultations, arms-length bodies that mean the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be"
December 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The big question is whether he's willing to actually do what needs to be done. Cutting through all of it is the work of several Parliaments.
Keir Starmer: “As Prime Minister, every time I go to pull a lever, there are a whole bunch of regulations, consultations, arms-length bodies that mean the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be"
December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Keir Starmer: “As Prime Minister, every time I go to pull a lever, there are a whole bunch of regulations, consultations, arms-length bodies that mean the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be"
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Anas Sarwar has written to Greens co-leaders Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay urging them to rethink ahead of the vote, which is expected to happen on Tuesday. www.holyrood.com/news/view,gr...
Greens urged to rethink Angela Constance backing ahead of confidence vote
A vote of no confidence is expected to take place on Tuesday
www.holyrood.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Anas Sarwar has written to Greens co-leaders Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay urging them to rethink ahead of the vote, which is expected to happen on Tuesday. www.holyrood.com/news/view,gr...
Striking doctors are amazingly far out of touch with the public on this. They're cynically targeting the winter NHS pinch point, amid rising flu, like tube drivers trying to wreck Christmas retail sales. It's tin-eared.
December 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Striking doctors are amazingly far out of touch with the public on this. They're cynically targeting the winter NHS pinch point, amid rising flu, like tube drivers trying to wreck Christmas retail sales. It's tin-eared.
Would it be unreasonable to ask that it should be CS Lewis’ Narnia?
IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond says Greta Gerwig’s ‘NARNIA’ film will be a “cultural event” that is “going to change the world”
“This is not your mother’s or your grandmother‘s Narnia”
“This is not your mother’s or your grandmother‘s Narnia”
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Would it be unreasonable to ask that it should be CS Lewis’ Narnia?
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I’ll be on #skypapers with @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social from 10.30pm
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ll be on #skypapers with @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social from 10.30pm
Joking aside, the real lesson of Bonnie Blue endorsing Reform is that the party is now so popular that associating yourself with it is now a way for people to gain attention in a useful way. That wasn’t the case for, say, UKIP.
December 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Joking aside, the real lesson of Bonnie Blue endorsing Reform is that the party is now so popular that associating yourself with it is now a way for people to gain attention in a useful way. That wasn’t the case for, say, UKIP.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A plan for Starmer to pay tribute to a scene from the Christmas film Love Actually in his first TikTok video was scrapped over copyright concerns
Aides had wanted to soundtrack the PM's first post on the platform with Jump by The Pointer Sisters – the song that accompanies Hugh Grant’s famous dance
Aides had wanted to soundtrack the PM's first post on the platform with Jump by The Pointer Sisters – the song that accompanies Hugh Grant’s famous dance
Copyright Thwarts Plan To Recreate Love Actually Moment In Prime Minister's TikTok
A plan for Keir Starmer to pay tribute to a scene from the Christmas film Love Actually in his first TikTok video was scrapped over copyright conce...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A plan for Starmer to pay tribute to a scene from the Christmas film Love Actually in his first TikTok video was scrapped over copyright concerns
Aides had wanted to soundtrack the PM's first post on the platform with Jump by The Pointer Sisters – the song that accompanies Hugh Grant’s famous dance
Aides had wanted to soundtrack the PM's first post on the platform with Jump by The Pointer Sisters – the song that accompanies Hugh Grant’s famous dance
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December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I mean, it’s one way of trying to reduce your workload.
Bonnie Blue endorses Nigel Farage as she claims there are ‘too many people in the UK’
Bonnie Blue endorses Nigel Farage as she claims there are ‘too many people in the UK’
Bonnie Blue endorses Nigel Farage as she claims there are ‘too many people in the UK’
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I mean, it’s one way of trying to reduce your workload.
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Stunning pair of c. 1,500 year-old luxury women’s leather shoes!
Exceptionally well-preserved and still shimmering with gold leaf! ✨
From Egypt. V&A Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Exceptionally well-preserved and still shimmering with gold leaf! ✨
From Egypt. V&A Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Stunning pair of c. 1,500 year-old luxury women’s leather shoes!
Exceptionally well-preserved and still shimmering with gold leaf! ✨
From Egypt. V&A Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Exceptionally well-preserved and still shimmering with gold leaf! ✨
From Egypt. V&A Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Use the code BOOK25 to claim your reward
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Use the code BOOK25 to claim your reward
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December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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You can just destroy brutalism. 👏
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
You can just destroy brutalism. 👏
I only just learned that the character of Negan in #TheWalkingDead comics was modelled on Henry Rollins - and that Rollins auditioned for the role in the TV show. I love how it turned out with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, but Rollins would have been awesome.
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I only just learned that the character of Negan in #TheWalkingDead comics was modelled on Henry Rollins - and that Rollins auditioned for the role in the TV show. I love how it turned out with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, but Rollins would have been awesome.
There are protests in Dublin over a park named after the Dublin-born Chaim Herzog, simply because he became President of Israel in the 1980s. Meanwhile a statue still stands in another Dublin park of Sean Russell, an IRA man who died on a Nazi submarine in 1940 while on a terror mission for Hitler
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
There are protests in Dublin over a park named after the Dublin-born Chaim Herzog, simply because he became President of Israel in the 1980s. Meanwhile a statue still stands in another Dublin park of Sean Russell, an IRA man who died on a Nazi submarine in 1940 while on a terror mission for Hitler