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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#r4today floating the idea that Wes Streeting could be the next Labour leader. Which really would be the end for the party of Clem Attlee. It's nonsense and the BBC must know it. "Wes Strerting will be joining us at 7.45 today."
#r4today floating the idea that Wes Streeting could be the next Labour leader. Which really would be the end for the party of Clem Attlee. It's nonsense and the BBC must know it. "Wes Strerting will be joining us at 7.45 today."
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will fight any attempt to replace him, friends say
Allies of the prime minister are worried his job might be under immediate threat.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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#r4today floating the idea that Wes Streeting could be the next Labour leader. Which really would be the end for the party of Clem Attlee. It's nonsense and the BBC must know it. "Wes Strerting will be joining us at 7.45 today."
#r4today floating the idea that Wes Streeting could be the next Labour leader. Which really would be the end for the party of Clem Attlee. It's nonsense and the BBC must know it. "Wes Strerting will be joining us at 7.45 today."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"I got out to avoid the vile process," says Nick, 63, who was a primary school teacher and head teacher in Derbyshire.
"I got out to avoid the vile process," says Nick, 63, who was a primary school teacher and head teacher in Derbyshire.
Why Ofsted’s school inspection shakeup risks causing new problems
Ofsted's new 'traffic light' rating system comes into force this week - does this mark meaningful change or, as one expert puts it, 'high level tinkering'?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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"I got out to avoid the vile process," says Nick, 63, who was a primary school teacher and head teacher in Derbyshire.
"I got out to avoid the vile process," says Nick, 63, who was a primary school teacher and head teacher in Derbyshire.
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Bob Dylan – Masters of War (Powerful Blues Cover w/ Extended Chorus) youtu.be/wqVFR-YOZMI?... @wmnf.org @kteltowers.bsky.social @ronnyelliott.bsky.social @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social @tatermagoo.bsky.social
Bob Dylan – Masters of War (Powerful Blues Cover w/ Extended Chorus) | By Chiltan Studios
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November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Bob Dylan – Masters of War (Powerful Blues Cover w/ Extended Chorus) youtu.be/wqVFR-YOZMI?... @wmnf.org @kteltowers.bsky.social @ronnyelliott.bsky.social @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social @tatermagoo.bsky.social
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Bob Dylan - Man in the Long Black Coat (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Solidarity with Venezuela
Saturday 22nd November
6.30pm
Bolivar Hall
54 Grafton Way
London W1T 5DL
Music, films, dance, talks, food, drinks
Saturday 22nd November
6.30pm
Bolivar Hall
54 Grafton Way
London W1T 5DL
Music, films, dance, talks, food, drinks
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Solidarity with Venezuela
Saturday 22nd November
6.30pm
Bolivar Hall
54 Grafton Way
London W1T 5DL
Music, films, dance, talks, food, drinks
Saturday 22nd November
6.30pm
Bolivar Hall
54 Grafton Way
London W1T 5DL
Music, films, dance, talks, food, drinks
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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 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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
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This by Lewis Goodall on the internal ugliness at the BBC is very well worth reading:
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This by Lewis Goodall on the internal ugliness at the BBC is very well worth reading:
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Sure enough - no bias on BBC news towards the hard left or hard right, but a strong tendency to uphold the status quo, which is small c conservative and 'liberal' - in an era that demands social democracy for greater social justice. As you say George, profoundly biased towards established power.
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sure enough - no bias on BBC news towards the hard left or hard right, but a strong tendency to uphold the status quo, which is small c conservative and 'liberal' - in an era that demands social democracy for greater social justice. As you say George, profoundly biased towards established power.
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Sure enough - there is no BBC bias towards the hard left or hard right, but there IS a strong tendency to uphold & not critique the status quo, which is small c conservative and 'liberal' - in an era that demands social democracy for greater social justice. Centrism is not neutral or apolitical.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sure enough - there is no BBC bias towards the hard left or hard right, but there IS a strong tendency to uphold & not critique the status quo, which is small c conservative and 'liberal' - in an era that demands social democracy for greater social justice. Centrism is not neutral or apolitical.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
Listening to @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social proclaiming the BBC's lack of bias #LBC Sure enough - no bias towards the hard left or hard right, but a strong tendency to uphold the status quo, which is small c conservative and 'liberal' in an era that demands social democracy for greater social justice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Listening to @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social proclaiming the BBC's lack of bias #LBC Sure enough - no bias towards the hard left or hard right, but a strong tendency to uphold the status quo, which is small c conservative and 'liberal' in an era that demands social democracy for greater social justice.
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Sky News' Data and Forensics team research proved that the X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content.
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
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November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sky News' Data and Forensics team research proved that the X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content.
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Final episode. Check out the rest on BBC Sounds.
Final episode. Check out the rest on BBC Sounds.
BBC Radio 4 - Legend, The Bruce Springsteen Story, 5. The Land of Hope and Dreams
The journey to Bruce’s 2025 tour culminates at San Siro Stadium in Milan.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Final episode. Check out the rest on BBC Sounds.
Final episode. Check out the rest on BBC Sounds.
Stoke v Coventry: Top two prepare to meet in the Championship
Two superb managers - both of them responsible for and essential to the revival of Coventry City. Best of luck to both of them for their future careers in football.
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Two superb managers - both of them responsible for and essential to the revival of Coventry City. Best of luck to both of them for their future careers in football.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Stoke v Coventry: Top two prepare to meet in the Championship
A year on from being sacked by Coventry City, Mark Robins faces his old club as Stoke City take on the Sky Blues in a top-of-the-Championship blockbuster.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Stoke v Coventry: Top two prepare to meet in the Championship
Two superb managers - both of them responsible for and essential to the revival of Coventry City. Best of luck to both of them for their future careers in football.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Two superb managers - both of them responsible for and essential to the revival of Coventry City. Best of luck to both of them for their future careers in football.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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"If the Greens overtake Labour in the polls, it will become harder for Labour to make the case that a vote for Polanski is a vote for Farage." www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
The Green surge is about to break Labour
Polanski's increasing popularity has huge implications for the future of British politics
www.newstatesman.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"If the Greens overtake Labour in the polls, it will become harder for Labour to make the case that a vote for Polanski is a vote for Farage." www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Riddles? Gove continues to spout absolute bilge. According to him our national decline is due to a decline in "authority". Nothing to do with increased inequality and poverty. He's an absolute charlatan who says there's a need for "restraints on passion". Sure thing Govey - that'll sort everything.
Learnings from this mornings' #r4today:-
- some people / governments are beyond reproach
- racing greyhounds deserve better
- Gove speaks in riddles
- intelligent AI would not support an economic model in which Musk made that much money
- some people / governments are beyond reproach
- racing greyhounds deserve better
- Gove speaks in riddles
- intelligent AI would not support an economic model in which Musk made that much money
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Riddles? Gove continues to spout absolute bilge. According to him our national decline is due to a decline in "authority". Nothing to do with increased inequality and poverty. He's an absolute charlatan who says there's a need for "restraints on passion". Sure thing Govey - that'll sort everything.
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Ah yes, let’s get Michael Gove, one of those responsible for our current dysfunction to point firmly in the direction of immigrants as those who are to blame. #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Ah yes, let’s get Michael Gove, one of those responsible for our current dysfunction to point firmly in the direction of immigrants as those who are to blame. #r4today
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Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.
For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.
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It is both ethically wrong & fundamentally anti-democratic for one man to command this much wealth and power.
States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It is both ethically wrong & fundamentally anti-democratic for one man to command this much wealth and power.
States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ffs Rajan #r4today Nobody needs to know what Michael Gove thinks about culture and class. Why bring this right wing loon into the BBC yet again? Let him blather in his own little Tory house magazine.
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Ffs Rajan #r4today Nobody needs to know what Michael Gove thinks about culture and class. Why bring this right wing loon into the BBC yet again? Let him blather in his own little Tory house magazine.