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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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...
More good news #r4today
The Times front page:
Blair could be called as a witness.
Misconduct in public office can result in a life sentence. Even for Princes of Darkness.
The police investigation is well under way.
(Not so the USA)
The Times front page:
Blair could be called as a witness.
Misconduct in public office can result in a life sentence. Even for Princes of Darkness.
The police investigation is well under way.
(Not so the USA)
February 11, 2026 at 7:08 AM
More good news #r4today
The Times front page:
Blair could be called as a witness.
Misconduct in public office can result in a life sentence. Even for Princes of Darkness.
The police investigation is well under way.
(Not so the USA)
The Times front page:
Blair could be called as a witness.
Misconduct in public office can result in a life sentence. Even for Princes of Darkness.
The police investigation is well under way.
(Not so the USA)
Note to all readers: the 'City of London' is NOT the city of London. The filthy rich & forever greedy bosses of London's financial district are like a borough or parish council relentlessly on the lookout for more riches. Real Londoners and their Mayor will block this.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Plans to transform Liverpool Street station approved
The project has been met with opposition from those who say it will disfigure the railway station.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Note to all readers: the 'City of London' is NOT the city of London. The filthy rich & forever greedy bosses of London's financial district are like a borough or parish council relentlessly on the lookout for more riches. Real Londoners and their Mayor will block this.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Why would you let Mandelson vet candidates? Why would you let him do anything?"
Ian Hislop
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
youtu.be/jnCe3H6RcBs?...
Ian Hislop
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
youtu.be/jnCe3H6RcBs?...
Mandy Lifeboats! Private Eye on Peter Mandelson, Epstein & Keir Starmer's Chances
YouTube video by Private Eye Magazine
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"Why would you let Mandelson vet candidates? Why would you let him do anything?"
Ian Hislop
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
youtu.be/jnCe3H6RcBs?...
Ian Hislop
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
youtu.be/jnCe3H6RcBs?...
"This was always a project rooted in cynicism and a desire to neutralise Labour as a threat to wealthy interests. It achieved its goal, and the very survival of the party may be the price.
McSweeney has not just left Labour facing disaster but the rest of us too."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
McSweeney has not just left Labour facing disaster but the rest of us too."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones
Peter Mandelson helped Morgan McSweeney privilege Labour’s reactionary forces to sustain the PM, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 PM
"This was always a project rooted in cynicism and a desire to neutralise Labour as a threat to wealthy interests. It achieved its goal, and the very survival of the party may be the price.
McSweeney has not just left Labour facing disaster but the rest of us too."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
McSweeney has not just left Labour facing disaster but the rest of us too."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
😂😂😂
Labour has scrapped the use of ‘His Majesty’ in official government communications. Tories apoplectic.
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
😂😂😂
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Things are still surfacing. Plus six men whose names have been kept secret, for reasons not disclosed.
Epstein files reference 'nine-year-old victim' in disturbing unredacted emails seen by lawmakers — The Standard
US lawmakers have expressed concern and called for more transparency after viewing unredacted Epstein files in Washington
apple.news
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Things are still surfacing. Plus six men whose names have been kept secret, for reasons not disclosed.
Hello again @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Schools have failed abysmally to lead children into the joys of reading for pleasure. Not all schools, but many. Libraries have diminished, disappeared & declined due to defunding. Chasing after test scores began with Blunkett and was rocket boosted by Gove. #LBC
Schools have failed abysmally to lead children into the joys of reading for pleasure. Not all schools, but many. Libraries have diminished, disappeared & declined due to defunding. Chasing after test scores began with Blunkett and was rocket boosted by Gove. #LBC
February 10, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Hello again @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Schools have failed abysmally to lead children into the joys of reading for pleasure. Not all schools, but many. Libraries have diminished, disappeared & declined due to defunding. Chasing after test scores began with Blunkett and was rocket boosted by Gove. #LBC
Schools have failed abysmally to lead children into the joys of reading for pleasure. Not all schools, but many. Libraries have diminished, disappeared & declined due to defunding. Chasing after test scores began with Blunkett and was rocket boosted by Gove. #LBC
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Yes, fiscal rules are entirely dreamt up by the Chancellor and have no real value. This country has a FIAT currency, and the government could use the BoE to transform our society, but they are too timid.
Again, we should not be subservient to the bond markets. Let them whine and complain.
Again, we should not be subservient to the bond markets. Let them whine and complain.
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Yes, fiscal rules are entirely dreamt up by the Chancellor and have no real value. This country has a FIAT currency, and the government could use the BoE to transform our society, but they are too timid.
Again, we should not be subservient to the bond markets. Let them whine and complain.
Again, we should not be subservient to the bond markets. Let them whine and complain.
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Banks are making record profits while our bills go up!
Not only that, the BoE allows big banks to charge the BoE interest on public safety funds.😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Not only that, the BoE allows big banks to charge the BoE interest on public safety funds.😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing.
The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up!
Not only that, the BoE allows big banks to charge the BoE interest on public safety funds.😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Not only that, the BoE allows big banks to charge the BoE interest on public safety funds.😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Rebuilding state capacity requires building the confidence of the civil service as well as investing in the dynamic capabilities needed to tackle grand challenges - not outsourcing to consultancies.
February 4, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Rebuilding state capacity requires building the confidence of the civil service as well as investing in the dynamic capabilities needed to tackle grand challenges - not outsourcing to consultancies.
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Public Value of Arts and Culture ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
#CarnivalEconomics ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
#CarnivalEconomics ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
The Public Value of Arts and Culture
Authored by Mariana Mazzucato
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Public Value of Arts and Culture ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
#CarnivalEconomics ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
#CarnivalEconomics ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
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The latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece with @jayatighosh.bsky.social on how to have multinational corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
While US MNEs were exempted from the global minimum, the #UNTaxConvention offers a way forward for tax justice.
As @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @jayatighosh.bsky.social explain in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social, tax extreme wealth or watch democracy crumble.
Here⤵️:
shorturl.at/z3rES
As @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @jayatighosh.bsky.social explain in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social, tax extreme wealth or watch democracy crumble.
Here⤵️:
shorturl.at/z3rES
Will Democracy Govern Capitalism - or Be Consumed by It?
Joseph E. Stiglitz & Jayati Ghosh urge the rest of the world to salvage a global tax convention that the United States wants to derail.
shorturl.at
February 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece with @jayatighosh.bsky.social on how to have multinational corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
Spot on Tim. It's possible Starmer did and still does have those pledges in his heart & soul. It's also possible McSweeney and Mandelson encouraged him to make them in order to win the leadership vote. And it's possible they and Reeves told him to ditch them as soon as he became PM. "Bond markets"!
February 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Spot on Tim. It's possible Starmer did and still does have those pledges in his heart & soul. It's also possible McSweeney and Mandelson encouraged him to make them in order to win the leadership vote. And it's possible they and Reeves told him to ditch them as soon as he became PM. "Bond markets"!
"What Wes Streeting has done"?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Apart from kiss Peter Mandelson via his many messages on WhatsApp? He's now breaking free from the clutches of his longtime mentor Mandelson. He sees the need to distance himself, obviously. Always a pragmatist, dear Wes. Always "on manoeuvres".
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Apart from kiss Peter Mandelson via his many messages on WhatsApp? He's now breaking free from the clutches of his longtime mentor Mandelson. He sees the need to distance himself, obviously. Always a pragmatist, dear Wes. Always "on manoeuvres".
February 10, 2026 at 11:06 AM
"What Wes Streeting has done"?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Apart from kiss Peter Mandelson via his many messages on WhatsApp? He's now breaking free from the clutches of his longtime mentor Mandelson. He sees the need to distance himself, obviously. Always a pragmatist, dear Wes. Always "on manoeuvres".
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Apart from kiss Peter Mandelson via his many messages on WhatsApp? He's now breaking free from the clutches of his longtime mentor Mandelson. He sees the need to distance himself, obviously. Always a pragmatist, dear Wes. Always "on manoeuvres".