Wes Ball
@wesleyball.bsky.social
Mid-Herts Young Referee of the Year 1995. England and Poland. Brentford and Spurs. Durham and Surrey. I support two teams. What of it?
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
I’ll be speaking on a @futuregovforum.bsky.social panel with some of Labour’s best do-ers later this evening. Come and join us to talk about building trust in government and politics. Drinks available too!
We're heading to Liverpool with our biggest Labour Party Conference programme yet. We’re hosting 12 events, all but one in our dedicated pod within the ACC and featuring a fantastic line-up of speakers. Come and join us!
@futuregovforum.bsky.social
@futuregovforum.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I’ll be speaking on a @futuregovforum.bsky.social panel with some of Labour’s best do-ers later this evening. Come and join us to talk about building trust in government and politics. Drinks available too!
Happy Be Here Now day to all who celebrate.
Don’t know what I’m talking about? Cross over to the other place to catch up now.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Happy Be Here Now day to all who celebrate.
Don’t know what I’m talking about? Cross over to the other place to catch up now.
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Don’t know what I’m talking about? Cross over to the other place to catch up now.
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Prescient stuff from Adrian.
Stumbled across this from 12 years ago. Holds up pretty well. www.labourhame.com/lessons-from...
Lessons from the Yes campaign
Adrian McMenamin takes a look at how the Yes campaign got closer than most folk expected, and what lessons we can take from the campaign experience. It is just over a month since the people …
www.labourhame.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Prescient stuff from Adrian.
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Stumbled across this from 12 years ago. Holds up pretty well. www.labourhame.com/lessons-from...
Lessons from the Yes campaign
Adrian McMenamin takes a look at how the Yes campaign got closer than most folk expected, and what lessons we can take from the campaign experience. It is just over a month since the people …
www.labourhame.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Stumbled across this from 12 years ago. Holds up pretty well. www.labourhame.com/lessons-from...
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It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
The Long Goodbye
Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
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June 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
I know a shameless leadership bid to please party members when I see one!
June 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I know a shameless leadership bid to please party members when I see one!
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A thread of London documentaries currently on BBC iPlayer from the 1950s to 1990s.
Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵
Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵
June 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A thread of London documentaries currently on BBC iPlayer from the 1950s to 1990s.
Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵
Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵
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Spurs sack the only manager to win them anything in two decades. How very Spursy
June 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Spurs sack the only manager to win them anything in two decades. How very Spursy
Some lunchtime about why I'm right and Alex Petridis' classist and dismissive take on Britpop is Peak Guardian and Peak Wrong.... with an an amazing playlist as a reward if you make it all the way to the end.
🇬🇧🥤🧵[Britpop thread] incoming
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
June 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Some lunchtime about why I'm right and Alex Petridis' classist and dismissive take on Britpop is Peak Guardian and Peak Wrong.... with an an amazing playlist as a reward if you make it all the way to the end.
Reposted by Wes Ball
🇬🇧🥤🧵[Britpop thread] incoming
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
June 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🇬🇧🥤🧵[Britpop thread] incoming
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
🇬🇧🥤🧵[Britpop thread] incoming
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
June 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🇬🇧🥤🧵[Britpop thread] incoming
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)
Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22
Like the incredible Life Story which I had to watch again and again on a worn out VHS until I threw away the machine. Then couldn’t find until it reappeared recently.
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Meanwhile, the BBC, again, with a much deeper and more impressive library than Netflix, as far as I can tell the function of the login is to send you the same peevish 'are you SURE you have a TV licence?' message while learning *nothing* about you:
June 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Like the incredible Life Story which I had to watch again and again on a worn out VHS until I threw away the machine. Then couldn’t find until it reappeared recently.
bsky.app/profile/wesl...
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Life Story, with incredible performances by Juliet Stevenson, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Piggott-Smith, is an amazing BBC production. For years it just disappeared from view, completely forgotten. Thankfully now on iPlayer - def watch it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
June 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Life Story, with incredible performances by Juliet Stevenson, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Piggott-Smith, is an amazing BBC production. For years it just disappeared from view, completely forgotten. Thankfully now on iPlayer - def watch it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Life Story, with incredible performances by Juliet Stevenson, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Piggott-Smith, is an amazing BBC production. For years it just disappeared from view, completely forgotten. Thankfully now on iPlayer - def watch it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
June 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Life Story, with incredible performances by Juliet Stevenson, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Piggott-Smith, is an amazing BBC production. For years it just disappeared from view, completely forgotten. Thankfully now on iPlayer - def watch it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Most anticipated book of the year, not least because one the central characters (ok not central, just a minor criminal) is named Wesley Ball!
I am thrilled that THE ART OF A LIE is featured in @crimereads.bsky.social most anticipated books of the summer list 💚💚💚
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The Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of Summer 2025
Summer is coming! And in some parts of the country, it’s already here. And that means that summer thriller season has arrived. We hope the following titles will provide comfort and distractio…
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May 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Most anticipated book of the year, not least because one the central characters (ok not central, just a minor criminal) is named Wesley Ball!
Alan is spot on here. Big strategic lessons for Labour.
Both Dutton in Australia and Poilievre in Canada *losing their own seats* in the same week.
I think we can begin to talk about a clear backlash against the International Nationalist movement.. do Labour fancy joining in?
*checks UK news*
I think we can begin to talk about a clear backlash against the International Nationalist movement.. do Labour fancy joining in?
*checks UK news*
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
May 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Alan is spot on here. Big strategic lessons for Labour.
Thirty years on Adrian remembers the Clause IV special conference and how it nearly didn’t happen.
A friend has reminded me today is the 30th anniversary of the special conference to write a new Clause IV into the Labour constitution... 1/6
April 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thirty years on Adrian remembers the Clause IV special conference and how it nearly didn’t happen.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR).
April 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR).
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A fascinating piece about party management by @siennarodgers.bsky.social but as a former PLP secretary I would gently suggest that it is often helpful to have some gap between the PLP and the leader’s office so that MPs have a trusted place to let off steam. Let the whips do the whipping.
April 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A fascinating piece about party management by @siennarodgers.bsky.social but as a former PLP secretary I would gently suggest that it is often helpful to have some gap between the PLP and the leader’s office so that MPs have a trusted place to let off steam. Let the whips do the whipping.
Reposted by Wes Ball
A fascinating piece about party management by @siennarodgers.bsky.social but as a former PLP secretary I would gently suggest that it is often helpful to have some gap between the PLP and the leader’s office so that MPs have a trusted place to let off steam. Let the whips do the whipping.
April 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A fascinating piece about party management by @siennarodgers.bsky.social but as a former PLP secretary I would gently suggest that it is often helpful to have some gap between the PLP and the leader’s office so that MPs have a trusted place to let off steam. Let the whips do the whipping.
Joyful
A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad:
1. The Swimming Pool.
1. The Swimming Pool.
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Joyful