Imogen Forster
@imogenforster.bsky.social
Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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Why threats to academic freedom are growing – and how universities can respond to intimidation
theconversation.com/why-threats-...
theconversation.com/why-threats-...
Why threats to academic freedom are growing – and how universities can respond to intimidation
When scholarship is politically steered, the public loses access to evidence and the means to hold power to account.
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Why threats to academic freedom are growing – and how universities can respond to intimidation
theconversation.com/why-threats-...
theconversation.com/why-threats-...
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What autistic people – and those with ADHD and dyslexia – really think about the word ‘neurodiversity’
theconversation.com/what-autisti...
theconversation.com/what-autisti...
What autistic people – and those with ADHD and dyslexia – really think about the word ‘neurodiversity’
A new UK survey of more than 900 neurodivergent adults has revealed strong feelings about the language of neurodiversity.
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
What autistic people – and those with ADHD and dyslexia – really think about the word ‘neurodiversity’
theconversation.com/what-autisti...
theconversation.com/what-autisti...
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A Welsh writer and researcher has called for meaningful 'solidarity' from the left in Wales, arguing that they can no longer stay monolingual as Wales' native language continues to decline
The left in Wales 'can't stay monolingual' according to Welsh researcher
Stephen Price A Welsh writer and researcher has called for meaningful ‘solidarity’ from the left in Wales, arguing that they can no longer stay monolingual as Wales’ native language continues to decli...
nation.cymru
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A Welsh writer and researcher has called for meaningful 'solidarity' from the left in Wales, arguing that they can no longer stay monolingual as Wales' native language continues to decline
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Only catching up with this now: Jeremy Noel-Tod on The Poems of Seamus Heaney. literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...
Jeremy Noel-Tod - The Pen & the Spade
Jeremy Noel-Tod: The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.)
literaryreview.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Only catching up with this now: Jeremy Noel-Tod on The Poems of Seamus Heaney. literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...
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Are there any decent hybrid / crowdfunding publishing houses in the UK? Been thinking about my OOP second novel lately and don't want to risk an Unbound, or waste my own money.
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Are there any decent hybrid / crowdfunding publishing houses in the UK? Been thinking about my OOP second novel lately and don't want to risk an Unbound, or waste my own money.
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If you're an agent / publisher who likes the sound of a book about a young Cypriot guy who gets drawn into a world of sex work and wealth, but the story reveals itself to actually be about how free will and freedom are an illusion when you're from a formerly colonized, war-torn country, hit me up.
Are there any decent hybrid / crowdfunding publishing houses in the UK? Been thinking about my OOP second novel lately and don't want to risk an Unbound, or waste my own money.
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If you're an agent / publisher who likes the sound of a book about a young Cypriot guy who gets drawn into a world of sex work and wealth, but the story reveals itself to actually be about how free will and freedom are an illusion when you're from a formerly colonized, war-torn country, hit me up.
If you're an agent / publisher who likes the sound of a book about a young Cypriot guy who gets drawn into a world of sex work and wealth, but the story reveals itself to actually be about how free will and freedom are an illusion when you're from a formerly colonized, war-torn country, hit me up.
Are there any decent hybrid / crowdfunding publishing houses in the UK? Been thinking about my OOP second novel lately and don't want to risk an Unbound, or waste my own money.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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‘There are thought to be close to a million deer in Scotland, with at least 100,000 culled annually.
Deer pressure on nationally and globally important protected areas is revealed in data we obtained via freedom of information from NatureScot, the Scottish Government’s wildlife agency’
Deer pressure on nationally and globally important protected areas is revealed in data we obtained via freedom of information from NatureScot, the Scottish Government’s wildlife agency’
Nearly 300 protected areas are being damaged or put at risk by Scotland’s rampant deer population, including breeding grounds for capercaillie – a bird facing extinction, The Ferret can reveal. theferret.scot/nearl...
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
‘There are thought to be close to a million deer in Scotland, with at least 100,000 culled annually.
Deer pressure on nationally and globally important protected areas is revealed in data we obtained via freedom of information from NatureScot, the Scottish Government’s wildlife agency’
Deer pressure on nationally and globally important protected areas is revealed in data we obtained via freedom of information from NatureScot, the Scottish Government’s wildlife agency’
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The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
One for you, @tonythorne007.bsky.social?
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
One for you, @tonythorne007.bsky.social?
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Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
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1/2 El Presidente Trump is Venezuela’s Juan Vicente Gómez, who looted the nation to make himself the wealthiest man in the country & disdained public education to—in the words of the scholar Paloma Griffero Pedemonte—“keep the people ignorant & docile”
El Presidente—in every dictatorship follows...
El Presidente—in every dictatorship follows...
America is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
1/2 El Presidente Trump is Venezuela’s Juan Vicente Gómez, who looted the nation to make himself the wealthiest man in the country & disdained public education to—in the words of the scholar Paloma Griffero Pedemonte—“keep the people ignorant & docile”
El Presidente—in every dictatorship follows...
El Presidente—in every dictatorship follows...
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Israelis blow up and destroy a residential complex in the Al- Shujai’yya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, in breach of the ceasefire agreement
(Sarah Wilkinson)
(Sarah Wilkinson)
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Israelis blow up and destroy a residential complex in the Al- Shujai’yya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, in breach of the ceasefire agreement
(Sarah Wilkinson)
(Sarah Wilkinson)
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Humans really need to rethink this AI push by billionaires. It isn't that great. Not only is it overhyped technology, it uses a lot of energy and water. We will pay for that -- not the corporations. It needs to be regulated heavily.
As water sources become scarcer and scarcer and ground water depletion surges
AI wants our water
A Greenpeace study estimates that data centres will consume 664 billion litres annually by 2030, compared to 239 billion litres in 2024.
www.eco-business.com/opinion/ai-w...
AI wants our water
A Greenpeace study estimates that data centres will consume 664 billion litres annually by 2030, compared to 239 billion litres in 2024.
www.eco-business.com/opinion/ai-w...
AI wants our water
While much of the AI debate focuses on its economic potential, its expanding physical footprint tells a different story. The machines driving this revolution depend on a resource far older – and far m...
www.eco-business.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Humans really need to rethink this AI push by billionaires. It isn't that great. Not only is it overhyped technology, it uses a lot of energy and water. We will pay for that -- not the corporations. It needs to be regulated heavily.
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Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
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March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
Charity Commission: IEA must change to address political bias | Good Law Project
After a formal complaint from Good Law Project, the charities regulator has told a radical rightwing think-tank to act on transparency and balance.
goodlaw.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
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Israel are really good at not paying attention to ceasefires and getting away with it
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Israel are really good at not paying attention to ceasefires and getting away with it
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Hanno Hauenstein in an exceptionally intelligent and well-informed interviewer, and the 30 minutes he spends with Omer Bartov on the subject of Israel's genocide, the history of other genocides, and the rule of law is worth watching.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foO7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foO7...
Holocaust Historian Omer Bartov: How Germany Enabled the Genocide in Gaza
YouTube video by Nullpunkt – mit Hanno Hauenstein
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November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Hanno Hauenstein in an exceptionally intelligent and well-informed interviewer, and the 30 minutes he spends with Omer Bartov on the subject of Israel's genocide, the history of other genocides, and the rule of law is worth watching.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foO7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foO7...
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The Daily Whitley, Cleethorpes
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The Daily Whitley, Cleethorpes