Gary Foskett
@garyfoskett.bsky.social
Main interests are family, friends, education, music, politics, equality, philosophy, health.
"Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" - Bob Dylan
"Blues a healer" JLH
https://3diassociates.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/progressing-education/
"Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" - Bob Dylan
"Blues a healer" JLH
https://3diassociates.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/progressing-education/
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Jim Rat Cliffe. The billionaire who wanted Brexit then ran away to Monaco to avoid taxes. Given a £120m support package by the government. Asking for public money to build his “Wembley of the North”. Bought Man U with his tax avoidance savings. Builds his INEOS empire in France & Belgium. A parasite
February 12, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Jim Rat Cliffe. The billionaire who wanted Brexit then ran away to Monaco to avoid taxes. Given a £120m support package by the government. Asking for public money to build his “Wembley of the North”. Bought Man U with his tax avoidance savings. Builds his INEOS empire in France & Belgium. A parasite
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I’ve written for Bearly Politics on the need for musicians, filmmakers and writers to take a stand against the rise of the Far Right.
Reader Contribution: Where Is The Art Rage?
The last line of defence is failing
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:19 AM
I’ve written for Bearly Politics on the need for musicians, filmmakers and writers to take a stand against the rise of the Far Right.
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Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.
February 12, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.
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UK polling from IPSOS:
![Political parties and their leaders
I like ...
Ed Davey
Zack Polanski
Nigel Farage
Kemi Badenoch
Keir Starmer
31%
31%
27%
27%
39%
39%
62%
55%
20%
70%
The Labour Party
Reform UK
The Green Party
Liberal Democrats
The Conservative Party
34%
31%
28%
28%
24%
56%
57%
43%
43%
58%
Base: 1,104 British adults 18+, 22-27 January 2026
Source: Ipsos Political Monitor
Qu: Which of these statements come closest to your views of [...], and [...]?
I do not like...
Ipsos](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:movn6xzezospl7lnkhy7nzpt/bafkreid3ft3qrscg5rhmpg4gvknpqvfk5qitrs2k3ykow5ey5tqwfpdg4q@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 8:47 AM
UK polling from IPSOS:
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Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time
Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role
bylinetimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
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That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.
February 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.
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Starmer is boasting that McSweeney helped him to "change the Labour party" #PMQs
Yes indeed - by bringing back Mandelson, excluding left wing candidates, booting out left wing MPs. He's in a hole and still digging. No awareness, no credit to the people of Britain - not HIM - for booting out Tories.
Yes indeed - by bringing back Mandelson, excluding left wing candidates, booting out left wing MPs. He's in a hole and still digging. No awareness, no credit to the people of Britain - not HIM - for booting out Tories.
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Starmer is boasting that McSweeney helped him to "change the Labour party" #PMQs
Yes indeed - by bringing back Mandelson, excluding left wing candidates, booting out left wing MPs. He's in a hole and still digging. No awareness, no credit to the people of Britain - not HIM - for booting out Tories.
Yes indeed - by bringing back Mandelson, excluding left wing candidates, booting out left wing MPs. He's in a hole and still digging. No awareness, no credit to the people of Britain - not HIM - for booting out Tories.
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From the archives:
#PMQs
#PMQs
"Morgan McSweeney helped me to change the Labour party" says Starmer #PMQs
Yes, and there lies the problem: in collaboration with Mandelson McS produced a list of all the left of centre Labour MPs whom they then marginalised & dumped.
Starmer & McSweeney are fully exposed by the Mandelson affair.
Yes, and there lies the problem: in collaboration with Mandelson McS produced a list of all the left of centre Labour MPs whom they then marginalised & dumped.
Starmer & McSweeney are fully exposed by the Mandelson affair.
February 11, 2026 at 12:20 PM
From the archives:
#PMQs
#PMQs
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Pathetic Starmer #c4news #PMQs
"I delivered a landslide victory!"
Such boasting does him no favours and fools nobody. WE - the people - booted out the revolting, useless and corrupt Tories. Starmer got fewer votes than the Corbyn/McDonnell leadership. YOU - the prime minister - should thank us.
"I delivered a landslide victory!"
Such boasting does him no favours and fools nobody. WE - the people - booted out the revolting, useless and corrupt Tories. Starmer got fewer votes than the Corbyn/McDonnell leadership. YOU - the prime minister - should thank us.
February 11, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Starmer's anger and petulance at #PMQs lashing out at the reasonable and mild-mannered Ed Davey does him no favours. This is the way of the bully and the narcissist who can't handle criticism. Is this the 'passion' that his followers are looking for? Hardly a man to trust in a crisis. #r4today
Yes he's an idiot who thinks we're all idiots who can't detect bullshit when it's spouted. Many of us voted anti-Tory in spite of the very unattractive Labour leadership - not because of it. Most of us are repulsed by vain, arrogant, boastful politicians. They exist to serve us, not vice versa.
February 12, 2026 at 7:41 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reminder ⬇️ #r4today #PMQs
P Toynbee is a Labour centrist after all.
"It’s time for Labour to start all over again – this time with more humility and an understanding that the public is revolted by transactional politics conducted in ways they don’t understand."
A reminder ⬇️ #r4today #PMQs
P Toynbee is a Labour centrist after all.
"It’s time for Labour to start all over again – this time with more humility and an understanding that the public is revolted by transactional politics conducted in ways they don’t understand."
It’s tragic that a decent PM will be brought down by Mandelson’s sleaze – but it’s a matter of when, not if | Polly Toynbee
With three years left and a huge majority, Labour can govern with more humility and deliver real change. But with Starmer at the helm? I can’t see it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:18 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reminder ⬇️ #r4today #PMQs
P Toynbee is a Labour centrist after all.
"It’s time for Labour to start all over again – this time with more humility and an understanding that the public is revolted by transactional politics conducted in ways they don’t understand."
A reminder ⬇️ #r4today #PMQs
P Toynbee is a Labour centrist after all.
"It’s time for Labour to start all over again – this time with more humility and an understanding that the public is revolted by transactional politics conducted in ways they don’t understand."
Thread ⬆️ ⬇️
February 12, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Thread ⬆️ ⬇️
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We don’t have a functioning democracy when the people who lied to our faces to ‘get Brexit done’ are never held to account for the damage they’ve caused… and, worse still, are rewarded for life, for cynically or moronically selling our country out.
They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.
They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.
Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
February 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
We don’t have a functioning democracy when the people who lied to our faces to ‘get Brexit done’ are never held to account for the damage they’ve caused… and, worse still, are rewarded for life, for cynically or moronically selling our country out.
They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.
They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.
Pathetic Starmer #c4news #PMQs
"I delivered a landslide victory!"
Such boasting does him no favours and fools nobody. WE - the people - booted out the revolting, useless and corrupt Tories. Starmer got fewer votes than the Corbyn/McDonnell leadership. YOU - the prime minister - should thank us.
"I delivered a landslide victory!"
Such boasting does him no favours and fools nobody. WE - the people - booted out the revolting, useless and corrupt Tories. Starmer got fewer votes than the Corbyn/McDonnell leadership. YOU - the prime minister - should thank us.
February 11, 2026 at 7:21 PM
From the archives:
#PMQs
#PMQs
"Morgan McSweeney helped me to change the Labour party" says Starmer #PMQs
Yes, and there lies the problem: in collaboration with Mandelson McS produced a list of all the left of centre Labour MPs whom they then marginalised & dumped.
Starmer & McSweeney are fully exposed by the Mandelson affair.
Yes, and there lies the problem: in collaboration with Mandelson McS produced a list of all the left of centre Labour MPs whom they then marginalised & dumped.
Starmer & McSweeney are fully exposed by the Mandelson affair.
February 11, 2026 at 12:20 PM
From the archives:
#PMQs
#PMQs
Starmer is boasting that McSweeney helped him to "change the Labour party" #PMQs
Yes indeed - by bringing back Mandelson, excluding left wing candidates, booting out left wing MPs. He's in a hole and still digging. No awareness, no credit to the people of Britain - not HIM - for booting out Tories.
Yes indeed - by bringing back Mandelson, excluding left wing candidates, booting out left wing MPs. He's in a hole and still digging. No awareness, no credit to the people of Britain - not HIM - for booting out Tories.
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Starmer is boasting that McSweeney helped him to "change the Labour party" #PMQs
Yes indeed - by bringing back Mandelson, excluding left wing candidates, booting out left wing MPs. He's in a hole and still digging. No awareness, no credit to the people of Britain - not HIM - for booting out Tories.
Yes indeed - by bringing back Mandelson, excluding left wing candidates, booting out left wing MPs. He's in a hole and still digging. No awareness, no credit to the people of Britain - not HIM - for booting out Tories.
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It’s a serious criminal offence to conspire to remove a UK Prime Minister
Meanwhile, let’s have a look at Steve Bannon’s well documented and ultimately successful attempts to remove Theresa May (with Epstein’s support) from 2018-19
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
Meanwhile, let’s have a look at Steve Bannon’s well documented and ultimately successful attempts to remove Theresa May (with Epstein’s support) from 2018-19
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
February 10, 2026 at 11:36 PM
It’s a serious criminal offence to conspire to remove a UK Prime Minister
Meanwhile, let’s have a look at Steve Bannon’s well documented and ultimately successful attempts to remove Theresa May (with Epstein’s support) from 2018-19
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
Meanwhile, let’s have a look at Steve Bannon’s well documented and ultimately successful attempts to remove Theresa May (with Epstein’s support) from 2018-19
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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Clive Lewis MP: This deal with Palantir stinks. It stank before Peter Mandelson was involved, and it stank when those now on the Opposition Benches initiated the NHS and defence contracts. Peter Thiel is an oligarch who despises democracy... Even the Swiss army has rejected Palantir...
#R4Today
#R4Today
Ministry of Defence: Palantir Contracts - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Ministry of Defence: Palantir Contracts' on Tuesday 10 February 2026.
hansard.parliament.uk
February 11, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Clive Lewis MP: This deal with Palantir stinks. It stank before Peter Mandelson was involved, and it stank when those now on the Opposition Benches initiated the NHS and defence contracts. Peter Thiel is an oligarch who despises democracy... Even the Swiss army has rejected Palantir...
#R4Today
#R4Today
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Great that people are noting Epstein’s role as a classic ‘disaster capitalist’ along with Paul Marshall and Crispin Odey.
I wrote a week ago how he told Bannon “Brexit is just the beginning”
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
I wrote a week ago how he told Bannon “Brexit is just the beginning”
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
February 11, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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WATCH — @warnock.senate.gov: “They are seizing ballots, gunning down ordinary citizens, arresting journalists. All the alarm bells 🚨 are blaring. The question is, are we listening?”
February 10, 2026 at 9:52 PM
WATCH — @warnock.senate.gov: “They are seizing ballots, gunning down ordinary citizens, arresting journalists. All the alarm bells 🚨 are blaring. The question is, are we listening?”
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In the least shocking news ever, the DOJ illegally redacted Trump's name from manyEpstein files. [And of course that doesn't count the ones they just didn't release because they are about Trump]
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files
Ranking member of House judiciary panel said ‘mysterious redactions’ in files obscured names of abusers
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:42 PM
In the least shocking news ever, the DOJ illegally redacted Trump's name from manyEpstein files. [And of course that doesn't count the ones they just didn't release because they are about Trump]
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"Trump said he was around Epstein when he was with teenagers." "Trump and Epstein socialised and appeared in photographs together in the 1990s."
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-police chief said Trump told him 'everyone' knew of Epstein's behaviour
The now-president allegedly called police in Florida who were investigating Epstein and said
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 7:33 AM
"Trump said he was around Epstein when he was with teenagers." "Trump and Epstein socialised and appeared in photographs together in the 1990s."
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...