Harry Wallop
@harrywallop.co.uk
Consumer journalist | Feature writer | Columnist for Times Business | Make TV progs, chats on radio | Host conferences, panels etc.
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👏👏👏🥇🥇🥇 @teamgbofficial.bsky.social – the first time it’s ever won x3 gold medals in one Winter Olympics. Incredible turnaround after disappointing start.
👏👏 🥇 🥇 @teamgbofficial.bsky.social – the first time it’s ever won x2 gold medals at a single Winter Olympics
February 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
👏👏👏🥇🥇🥇 @teamgbofficial.bsky.social – the first time it’s ever won x3 gold medals in one Winter Olympics. Incredible turnaround after disappointing start.
Reposted by Harry Wallop
🇲🇦🇪🇸 I’ve written about how the dire floods in Morocco and storms in Spain have – once again – exposed the fragility of UK food security.
And our obsession with eating summer berries in winter.
In today’s Sunday Times. 🧵3/3
www.thetimes.com/article/a49c...
And our obsession with eating summer berries in winter.
In today’s Sunday Times. 🧵3/3
www.thetimes.com/article/a49c...
The problem with Britain’s year-round berry addiction
We want strawberries, we want blueberries and we want them now, but Mother Nature might have other ideas
www.thetimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:26 AM
🇲🇦🇪🇸 I’ve written about how the dire floods in Morocco and storms in Spain have – once again – exposed the fragility of UK food security.
And our obsession with eating summer berries in winter.
In today’s Sunday Times. 🧵3/3
www.thetimes.com/article/a49c...
And our obsession with eating summer berries in winter.
In today’s Sunday Times. 🧵3/3
www.thetimes.com/article/a49c...
Reposted by Harry Wallop
🇲🇦 Begnat Robichaud, at iBerry, which supplies most UK supermarkets from Morocco: "It's an absolute disaster for the area and for our industry. We can't even access our packhouse because the village in which it is in is so badly flooded." 🧵2/3
February 15, 2026 at 10:25 AM
🇲🇦 Begnat Robichaud, at iBerry, which supplies most UK supermarkets from Morocco: "It's an absolute disaster for the area and for our industry. We can't even access our packhouse because the village in which it is in is so badly flooded." 🧵2/3
Reposted by Harry Wallop
🍓🫐 Noticed a shortage of raspberries, strawberries & blueberries on the supermarket shelf? You could soon.
🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Devastating storms in Spain & Morocco – where we get most of our winter berries – have destroyed polytunnels, flooded farms. 150,000 have been evacuated in 🇲🇦 🧵1/3
🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Devastating storms in Spain & Morocco – where we get most of our winter berries – have destroyed polytunnels, flooded farms. 150,000 have been evacuated in 🇲🇦 🧵1/3
February 15, 2026 at 10:24 AM
🍓🫐 Noticed a shortage of raspberries, strawberries & blueberries on the supermarket shelf? You could soon.
🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Devastating storms in Spain & Morocco – where we get most of our winter berries – have destroyed polytunnels, flooded farms. 150,000 have been evacuated in 🇲🇦 🧵1/3
🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Devastating storms in Spain & Morocco – where we get most of our winter berries – have destroyed polytunnels, flooded farms. 150,000 have been evacuated in 🇲🇦 🧵1/3
👏👏 🥇 🥇 @teamgbofficial.bsky.social – the first time it’s ever won x2 gold medals at a single Winter Olympics
February 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM
👏👏 🥇 🥇 @teamgbofficial.bsky.social – the first time it’s ever won x2 gold medals at a single Winter Olympics
🍓🫐 Noticed a shortage of raspberries, strawberries & blueberries on the supermarket shelf? You could soon.
🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Devastating storms in Spain & Morocco – where we get most of our winter berries – have destroyed polytunnels, flooded farms. 150,000 have been evacuated in 🇲🇦 🧵1/3
🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Devastating storms in Spain & Morocco – where we get most of our winter berries – have destroyed polytunnels, flooded farms. 150,000 have been evacuated in 🇲🇦 🧵1/3
February 15, 2026 at 10:24 AM
🍓🫐 Noticed a shortage of raspberries, strawberries & blueberries on the supermarket shelf? You could soon.
🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Devastating storms in Spain & Morocco – where we get most of our winter berries – have destroyed polytunnels, flooded farms. 150,000 have been evacuated in 🇲🇦 🧵1/3
🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Devastating storms in Spain & Morocco – where we get most of our winter berries – have destroyed polytunnels, flooded farms. 150,000 have been evacuated in 🇲🇦 🧵1/3
If you’ve “messed up” by forgetting Valentine’s Day, I’m not convinced that a cameo from Gregg is going to cut it…
February 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
If you’ve “messed up” by forgetting Valentine’s Day, I’m not convinced that a cameo from Gregg is going to cut it…
Is there a supermarket car park in England with a finer view than @boothscountry.bsky.social in Keswick?
February 14, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Is there a supermarket car park in England with a finer view than @boothscountry.bsky.social in Keswick?
This is a 5kg solid gold coin. Worth about £600,000. But for it to be legal tender – and this can be used in a shop! – it has to have a denomination. And the Royal Mint has decided its face value is…£5,000.
I discovered this strange fact at The Trial of the Pyx
🧵 1/3
I discovered this strange fact at The Trial of the Pyx
🧵 1/3
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
This is a 5kg solid gold coin. Worth about £600,000. But for it to be legal tender – and this can be used in a shop! – it has to have a denomination. And the Royal Mint has decided its face value is…£5,000.
I discovered this strange fact at The Trial of the Pyx
🧵 1/3
I discovered this strange fact at The Trial of the Pyx
🧵 1/3
Stewards’ inquiry needed into @teamgbofficial.bsky.social Winter Olympics. So far, by end of day 5, every solid medal chance has ended in 4th. Or worse.
February 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Stewards’ inquiry needed into @teamgbofficial.bsky.social Winter Olympics. So far, by end of day 5, every solid medal chance has ended in 4th. Or worse.
Matthew Parris in @thetimes.com correctly spots the demise of nox canisters littering the streets.
But he fails to spot that in many neighbourhoods the new litter caused by teens is…Buzzballz
But he fails to spot that in many neighbourhoods the new litter caused by teens is…Buzzballz
February 11, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Matthew Parris in @thetimes.com correctly spots the demise of nox canisters littering the streets.
But he fails to spot that in many neighbourhoods the new litter caused by teens is…Buzzballz
But he fails to spot that in many neighbourhoods the new litter caused by teens is…Buzzballz
Without wishing to sound like my father, I do wonder of Mia Brookes didn’t wear her trousers around her thighs she might have got a medal…
February 9, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Without wishing to sound like my father, I do wonder of Mia Brookes didn’t wear her trousers around her thighs she might have got a medal…
The use of drone cameras in #WinterOlympics is very clever. But does anyone else find the high pitch whine very annoying?
February 8, 2026 at 10:55 AM
The use of drone cameras in #WinterOlympics is very clever. But does anyone else find the high pitch whine very annoying?
Francesca Lollobrigida, who has just won Italy’s 1st 🥇at Olympics is the great-niece of Gina Lollobrigida, the legendary Italian actress
February 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Francesca Lollobrigida, who has just won Italy’s 1st 🥇at Olympics is the great-niece of Gina Lollobrigida, the legendary Italian actress
Quiz question for a Friday afternoon. Which player has won a Wimbledon title on a record 38 separate occassions?
February 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Quiz question for a Friday afternoon. Which player has won a Wimbledon title on a record 38 separate occassions?
Story of the day. "Penis-gate" claims rock the Winter Olympics. Ski jumpers are injecting their penises in order to give them greater lift on the jump. Really.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
‘Penis injection’ claims in Winter Olympics ski jumping investigated by Wada
Wada is to investigate claims ski jumpers are injecting acid into their penises to game the suit-measuring system
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Story of the day. "Penis-gate" claims rock the Winter Olympics. Ski jumpers are injecting their penises in order to give them greater lift on the jump. Really.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Because supermarkets are not allowed to "promote" high-sugar food by placing them at the end of an aisle, the puddings in Asda's Valentine's Meal Deal have to be moved around the corner🙄
(Great spot by @dresserman on X)
(Great spot by @dresserman on X)
February 5, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Because supermarkets are not allowed to "promote" high-sugar food by placing them at the end of an aisle, the puddings in Asda's Valentine's Meal Deal have to be moved around the corner🙄
(Great spot by @dresserman on X)
(Great spot by @dresserman on X)
If Starmer should go, then Starmer can blame Trump.
Mandelson was appointed to US ambassador *because* he was a sleazeball friend of a paedophile. And Starmer thought he could make a deal with another sleazeball friend of a paedophile: Trump.
That proved a catastrophic decision
Mandelson was appointed to US ambassador *because* he was a sleazeball friend of a paedophile. And Starmer thought he could make a deal with another sleazeball friend of a paedophile: Trump.
That proved a catastrophic decision
February 5, 2026 at 7:28 AM
If Starmer should go, then Starmer can blame Trump.
Mandelson was appointed to US ambassador *because* he was a sleazeball friend of a paedophile. And Starmer thought he could make a deal with another sleazeball friend of a paedophile: Trump.
That proved a catastrophic decision
Mandelson was appointed to US ambassador *because* he was a sleazeball friend of a paedophile. And Starmer thought he could make a deal with another sleazeball friend of a paedophile: Trump.
That proved a catastrophic decision
Reposted by Harry Wallop
February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Reading some v dull annual reports. Because that's how I roll. And I see that Rio Tinto's contains hyperlinks under the CEO & chairman's statements inviting you to follow them on LinkedIn.
This is now a thing?!
This is now a thing?!
February 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Reading some v dull annual reports. Because that's how I roll. And I see that Rio Tinto's contains hyperlinks under the CEO & chairman's statements inviting you to follow them on LinkedIn.
This is now a thing?!
This is now a thing?!
What I’d most like to know is whether Reinaldo qualified as an osteopath. Was that £10k that Mandelson took off Epstein worth it…?
February 3, 2026 at 8:35 AM
What I’d most like to know is whether Reinaldo qualified as an osteopath. Was that £10k that Mandelson took off Epstein worth it…?
V late to this (it’s just appeared on Sky) but The Ballad of Wallis Island is such a lovely film.
Full of heart.
Full of heart.
February 1, 2026 at 7:33 PM
V late to this (it’s just appeared on Sky) but The Ballad of Wallis Island is such a lovely film.
Full of heart.
Full of heart.
Astonishing stat about Soviet Russia. Because condom production was restricted there were 20,000 abortions *each day*.
Via @thetimes.com review of ‘Exit Stalin’ by Mark B Smith.
Via @thetimes.com review of ‘Exit Stalin’ by Mark B Smith.
February 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Astonishing stat about Soviet Russia. Because condom production was restricted there were 20,000 abortions *each day*.
Via @thetimes.com review of ‘Exit Stalin’ by Mark B Smith.
Via @thetimes.com review of ‘Exit Stalin’ by Mark B Smith.
Why are the very wealthy so interested in extending their healthy lives?
For this week's @thetimes.com business column I've looked at the booming world of longevity and biohacking. Inspired by James Watt, of Brewdog, and his hyperbaric chamber...
For this week's @thetimes.com business column I've looked at the booming world of longevity and biohacking. Inspired by James Watt, of Brewdog, and his hyperbaric chamber...
January 30, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Why are the very wealthy so interested in extending their healthy lives?
For this week's @thetimes.com business column I've looked at the booming world of longevity and biohacking. Inspired by James Watt, of Brewdog, and his hyperbaric chamber...
For this week's @thetimes.com business column I've looked at the booming world of longevity and biohacking. Inspired by James Watt, of Brewdog, and his hyperbaric chamber...