Shelagh Fogarty
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social
Broadcaster, Journalist, lover of swimming.
Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
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 🔥 🚨
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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 🔥 🚨
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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.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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 🤗
@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.
And no, I'm merely showing my own age here.
Love your work.
February 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
What a lovely lovely compliment 🤗
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“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...
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
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“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...
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.
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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.
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My obituary of David Lodge on.ft.com/3Wg3XDM
David Lodge, novelist and academic, 1935-2025
[FREE TO READ] One of the leading practitioners of the ‘campus novel’, his fiction also evoked strongly Catholic themes
on.ft.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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.
January 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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.
January 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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.
January 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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.
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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.
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
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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.
Welcome to the new Twitter.
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Some 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…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Thanks again for said double act. Always welcome.
A lovely little one-two double act with
@liamthorp.bsky.social on @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social show just now talking about the NHS crisis.
@liamthorp.bsky.social on @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social show just now talking about the NHS crisis.
January 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Thanks again for said double act. Always welcome.
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@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social A dangerous dynasty: House of Assad is back on iPlayer. As you’ve said repeatedly it’s a fascinating documentary
December 12, 2024 at 10:21 PM
@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.
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.
December 12, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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.
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.
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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...
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
December 4, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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...
There's far, far more to her than Big in Japan, Pink Military, Pink Industry, Cream.
Enjoy.
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social
urbanistamagazine.uk/podcast-jayn...
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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.
December 3, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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.
December 2, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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.
December 2, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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.
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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/
@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
November 27, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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/
@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/
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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
November 27, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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...
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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/...
Brilliant journalist, and such a fine person and role model
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Mishal Husain to leave BBC
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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/...
Brilliant journalist, and such a fine person and role model
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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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
forms.office.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:34 PM
@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
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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...
Huge respect for Prof Dorothy Bishop, given Musk's avid promotion of vaccine conspiracy theories.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2024 at 6:56 PM
"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...
Huge respect for Prof Dorothy Bishop, given Musk's avid promotion of vaccine conspiracy theories.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis
A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country
A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country
A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
November 23, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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