Jonathan Foyle
@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social
Lecturer at the University of Bath. Researcher of historic buildings, uses, design solutions: https://soloist.ai/jonathanfoyle Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages.
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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
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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.
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...
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...
The things that lurk... No. 13,407 www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The things that lurk... No. 13,407 www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
Carlisle Cathedral's jazz nocturne of a vault.
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Carlisle Cathedral's jazz nocturne of a vault.
Salisbury Cathedral: jazzy
November 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Salisbury Cathedral: jazzy
Things found in the medieval drains of Salisbury, in 1854. (Salisbury Museum)
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Things found in the medieval drains of Salisbury, in 1854. (Salisbury Museum)
Gratifying. Pressure's on...
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Gratifying. Pressure's on...
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NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.
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AI isn’t just about algorithms.
In The Means of Prediction, Maximilian Kasy explores how AI reflects the interests of those who control it and why democratic oversight is essential for a better technological future.
🔗 Learn more + order now: buff.ly/U6anYCF
#academicpress #newbooks
In The Means of Prediction, Maximilian Kasy explores how AI reflects the interests of those who control it and why democratic oversight is essential for a better technological future.
🔗 Learn more + order now: buff.ly/U6anYCF
#academicpress #newbooks
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
AI isn’t just about algorithms.
In The Means of Prediction, Maximilian Kasy explores how AI reflects the interests of those who control it and why democratic oversight is essential for a better technological future.
🔗 Learn more + order now: buff.ly/U6anYCF
#academicpress #newbooks
In The Means of Prediction, Maximilian Kasy explores how AI reflects the interests of those who control it and why democratic oversight is essential for a better technological future.
🔗 Learn more + order now: buff.ly/U6anYCF
#academicpress #newbooks
Torre dei Conti in Rome partially collapses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Worker pulled from partially collapsed medieval tower in Rome
The man was trapped for several hours after part of the Torre dei Conti, on the edge of the famous Roman Forum, gave way.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Torre dei Conti in Rome partially collapses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You'd think this were the only British street with examples of houses
November 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
You'd think this were the only British street with examples of houses
You’re welcome
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You’re welcome
A gap in the clouds…
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A gap in the clouds…
Interesting project with Bath Uni at St Stephen’s Lansdown- how to make a church purposeful and self sustaining? Not a unique problem for but a distinctive space and urban landmark.
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Interesting project with Bath Uni at St Stephen’s Lansdown- how to make a church purposeful and self sustaining? Not a unique problem for but a distinctive space and urban landmark.
So Randy Andy has gone the way of Dirty Bertie (Edward VII)- exiled to Sandringham.
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So Randy Andy has gone the way of Dirty Bertie (Edward VII)- exiled to Sandringham.
Oh super www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Oh super www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Guy in the village, absolute pumpkin fiend, grows the blue whales of orange vegetables
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Guy in the village, absolute pumpkin fiend, grows the blue whales of orange vegetables
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Oh, super.
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Oh, super.
Only carved wooden arms of Cardinal Wolsey discovered. www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74454 Well, except some other ones
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Only carved wooden arms of Cardinal Wolsey discovered. www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74454 Well, except some other ones
Such a Lincolnshire take, great. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Dry Doddington church rivals Leaning Tower of Pisa
Villagers who believe their church tower tilts more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa are trying to get official confirmation.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Such a Lincolnshire take, great. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
