PSA: Smoke alarms need regular testing so they work when you need them. Might sound obvious but a fire in my 4 flat building this weekend saw all smoke alarms fail except mine. Check your smoke alarm works 🔥 🚨
Shelagh Fogarty
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social
Broadcaster, Journalist, lover of swimming. Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.
What a lovely lovely compliment 🤗
Paul TM 🇪🇺 Wafels (Stroop)@trogdouser.bsky.social · last yr.@mrjamesob.bsky.social @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social If I may, and forgive me if this is inappropriate, but you two do handovers of the level of beauty that was only rivalled by Terry Wogan & Jimmy Young. And no, I'm merely showing my own age here. Love your work.
“It's been underinvested in, steadily, for years & years...across governments, across many years — and you have to see it to believe it" Outgoing @NHSEngland chair Richard Meddings talks to Sunday Times Oli Shah www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
I chaired the NHS and hardly believed it: sewage flows into sinks
The outgoing chairman of NHS England is full of praise for its staff but says the service is ‘sclerotic’ and relies too heavily on politicians
thetimes.com
Back on air Wednesday 1-4pm. To borrow from @mrjamesob.bsky.social ….full disclosure, I had a bad cough for a bit but then it was jury service for seven days. Fascinating but exhausting. See ya tomorrow.
Apropos of nothing …Jerry Seinfeld has been a major contributor to my sanity over the last few years. #Seinfeld and #Comediansincars #netflix are just brilliant. I came to both late. If you need laughs you’ll find them here.
We need to think hard about how we describe what’s happening in #NHS A&E/ Ambulance services. We can’t just talk about Winter pressure and flu numbers absent any context on bed numbers since 2010, staff sickness because they work in hellish places, vaccine messaging, GP/community/social care gaps.
Meta is getting rid of factcheckers, recommending political material and “dramatically reducing the amount of censorship” (of Far Right material), Zuckerberg has just announced. Welcome to the new Twitter.
Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
theguardian.com
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Victoria Derbyshire@vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 2y agoSome people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social A dangerous dynasty: House of Assad is back on iPlayer. As you’ve said repeatedly it’s a fascinating documentary
8-8.30: argue with a man parked in our garden! 🤬 9-9.30: make coffee for five scaffolders who are now singing Xmas songs amid the drilling outside the house. Cheered me up no end.
In the new #MisadventuresinMusic podcast with Ian Prowse & Mick Ord our guest is the music & kickass legend, #JayneCasey. There's far, far more to her than Big in Japan, Pink Military, Pink Industry, Cream. Enjoy. @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social urbanistamagazine.uk/podcast-jayn...
Podcast: Jayne Casey - Urbanista Magazine
n the latest episode of the chart-topping podcast "Misadventures in Music," hosts Mick Ord and Ian Prowse delve deep into the vibrant and tumultuous journey of music icon Jayne Casey.
urbanistamagazine.uk
just want one (1) of the 'don't you dare return the Elgin Marbles' people to be asked which is their favourite, if they could pick it out of a lineup of similar classical statues, and when they last popped in to see them in the british museum, if being able to pop in and see them is so important.
Harassment is a crime. In case you were wondering.
When mostly men say Wallace story shouldn’t dominate over Syria/Russia/Ireland/Ukraine/France what they’re really saying is ‘chill out girls’. This girl, meanwhile covered all of the above on her LBC show. Chill out lads.
Mobility, work & rights is a new podcast hosted by @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social & myself on #irregularmigration and the production of irregularised migrants. With the help of experts, we try to understand what is irregular migration & why is such a topical and polarising issue. i-claim.eu/podcasts/
Podcasts - I-CLAIM
i-claim.eu
No fewer than six former editors/EiCs of the Observer have written to the Scott Trust urging them to pause the sale of the title to Tortoise Media pressgazette.co.uk/news/observe...
Six former editors urge Scott Trust not to 'gamble' with future of Observer
Six former Observer editors have urged the Scott Trust to halt the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media in a new open letter.
pressgazette.co.uk
What a grievous loss for the BBC and us the audience. Brilliant journalist, and such a fine person and role model www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Mishal Husain to leave BBC
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@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social Hello, appeal for participants by Noelette Hanley, Luton Irish Forum, dissertation on volunteering & young people 13-18 yrs old with Irish roots, 5 minute questionnaire forms.office.com/e/VyKY1350EE + guardian's consent form forms.office.com/e/VJKAZ6t4Ts... via X
Microsoft Forms
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"Having him in the Royal Society seemed such a contradiction of all the values of the Royal Society. And I didn’t really want to have anything to do with it.” Huge respect for Prof Dorothy Bishop, given Musk's avid promotion of vaccine conspiracy theories. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
there is no columnist I've admired more than Melanie Reid, because she took a world whose horizons had necessarily shrunk (at times to the dimensions of a hospital bed) & found something new & interesting in it to say every week. An incredible feat of writing www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
This is my last Spinal Column. Writing it helped me survive
Melanie Reid wrote her first Spinal Column in 2010, just days after breaking her neck and back in a riding accident. She thought she might have enough material for a month. Almost 15 years and many aw...
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Saw Gladiator II. Very violent and graphically bloody (more so than original film, less so than real Roman Empire). Less heart than original. Pedro Pascal and Denzel predictably gripping. Paul Mescal (meh cf Crowe but blimey!) and Joseph Quinn mesmerising.
Dear Santa and all my friends, please NEVER send me ANYTHING via Royal Mail that needs a signature. It’s not the 1950s so I am not at home all day. Royal Mail Depot collection is the first circle of Hell. Well if it were ever open it would be 🤬🤬🤬🤯
I talked with Jonny Dymond and Jane Corbin about the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. You can listen here:
The Conflict - Middle East - Israel Declares Independence (1948): Why did Britain leave its mandate in Palestine? - BBC Sounds
We take a look at what history can teach us about the conflict in the Middle East.
bbc.co.uk
For the possibility of more Jon dancing, buy the just released batch of final tickets for the News Agents live show at the Royal Albert Hall. tickets.royalalberthall.com/syos/perform...