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 🔥 🚨

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 🤗

Here it is @lewisgoodall.com 😳

“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...

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.

My obituary of David Lodge on.ft.com/3Wg3XDM

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.

Ah Fred. Calm down.

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.

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Thanks again for said double act. Always welcome.

@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...

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/

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...

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/...

@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

"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...

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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...

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:

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...

Dying laughing at the depiction of the priest in Bad Sisters funeral service. I’ve sat through entire masses and heard not a syllable connected to actual Scripture. Amen!

@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social every nurse is shouting at the radio ! Doctors are not responsible for nurses actions. We are autonomous practitioners.

When Ed Sheeran is the surprise turn at a work event. Song after song and Irish lament to end. Jessie J a total star too, giving Whitney a run for her money in a cover of I Have Nothing. 💫

I’ll be live on @lbc.co.uk with @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social in a few minutes talking about our new documentary podcast series: The Trapped. Listen on Spotify, Apple or at thetrapped.co.uk

Welcome ! @shivanisharmaaa.bsky.social

There’s no verification on this site, so it’s hard to be sure what you’re looking at. The Kemi Badenoch account on here is fake, her team tell me

I love this observation

Doorman Darren’s call to @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social after the riots an early front runner…

I know a girl who lost her brother. He was in his twenties.

With the latest expansion of Bluesky more and more people are looking for reliable news - here is a starter pack of #BBCjournos - journalists and freelancers who make excellent #BBC content and worth checking out go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD

Please tell me @Peston is not here yet

Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!

@eddiemair.bsky.social Welcome to this place. Let’s see what happens. We miss you!

National Insurance, minimum wage & inheritance tax: who can you trust? Poppy police & contempt for free speech. Student snobbery. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

Trump is the most dominant president since FDR. Progressives around the world have to recognise that being the party of institutions doesn't work. Being the party of normalcy doesn't either- because Trump and the radical right are it. Me @theipaper inews.co.uk/opinion/dona...

@paulinemcadam.bsky.social Hello!!!

Indulging in a Shakespeare binge on Iplayer. Highly recommend Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius which leads nicely to ‘Simon Sharma’s Shakespeare’.

I should warn you, this is unbearable to read. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/w...

Constantly changing sky this morning here in Glastonbury. On my walk this morning I saw the moon, lightning, dark clouds and eventually a bit of colour.