R Freeman
@iamrobf.bsky.social
#Journalism engineering & development, #strategy, innovation. Tertiary #education media #law & ethics. Also the sound medium.
My thoughts & mistakes. He/him.
https://mastodon.green/@robf
#medialaw #innovation #audio #podcast #London #Leeds
My thoughts & mistakes. He/him.
https://mastodon.green/@robf
#medialaw #innovation #audio #podcast #London #Leeds
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Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government…
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government…
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
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EU Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit
EU Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit
Deal agreed for £570m to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledge
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Europe live – latest updates
Young people across the UK will be able to study or gain work experience through the EU’s Erasmus scheme for the first time since Brexit, after the government announced an agreement to rejoin at a cost of £570m.
The scheme officially known as Erasmus+ will be reopened to those involved in education, training, culture and sport from 2027, after discussions in London and Brussels to fulfil a Labour election manifesto pledge. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
EU Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit
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What happens when a law firm acts for a business widely suspected of fraud — run by a convicted fraudster, owned by unknown parties, and unable to answer fraud allegations?
And threatens whistleblowers, regulators and even the police who try to stop it?
Nothing.
And threatens whistleblowers, regulators and even the police who try to stop it?
Nothing.
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What happens when a law firm acts for a business widely suspected of fraud — run by a convicted fraudster, owned by unknown parties, and unable to answer fraud allegations?
And threatens whistleblowers, regulators and even the police who try to stop it?
Nothing.
And threatens whistleblowers, regulators and even the police who try to stop it?
Nothing.
This is brilliant reuse for a product that normally can't be reused!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#ukraine #recycling #fishing
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#ukraine #recycling #fishing
Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine
Fishers from the Brittany coast are sending horse-hair nets to catch weapons and shield civilians and soldiers
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This is brilliant reuse for a product that normally can't be reused!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#ukraine #recycling #fishing
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#ukraine #recycling #fishing
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Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
If you haven't seen it, My Old School is currently on iPlayer. A top, top documentary.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
My Old School
The story of Scotland's most notorious impostor. A 16-year-old boy is the new kid at school and becomes a model pupil - until he is unmasked.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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From last night a special edition of Today in Parliament with Susan Hulme marking 80 years of the programme. A late evening summary of parliamentary proceedings was first broadcast on the Home Service on Tuesday 9 October 1945
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Today in Parliament, 17/10/2025
Susan Hulme looks back on 80 years of Today in Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
From last night a special edition of Today in Parliament with Susan Hulme marking 80 years of the programme. A late evening summary of parliamentary proceedings was first broadcast on the Home Service on Tuesday 9 October 1945
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Not heard in nearly three decades, today BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcasts Are You Still Awake? 15 minute plays starring real-life couples written by Russell Davies First episode with Prunella Scales & Timothy West was broadcast on Radio 3 28.11.94
October 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Not heard in nearly three decades, today BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcasts Are You Still Awake? 15 minute plays starring real-life couples written by Russell Davies First episode with Prunella Scales & Timothy West was broadcast on Radio 3 28.11.94
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Still need to update our #TheTraitors display...🗡 #IYKYK
October 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Still need to update our #TheTraitors display...🗡 #IYKYK
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‘And when children are told for the umpteenth time to get off their phones, they can cast a meaningful glance at grandpa in the corner, chuckling at the latest memes on WhatsApp.’
economist.com/leaders/2025...
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Never mind your children’s screen time. Worry about your parents’
A new generation of pensioners are glued to their smartphones
economist.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
‘And when children are told for the umpteenth time to get off their phones, they can cast a meaningful glance at grandpa in the corner, chuckling at the latest memes on WhatsApp.’
economist.com/leaders/2025...
economist.com/leaders/2025...
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It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
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It is, apparently, 120 years ago to the day that @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social admitted its first University of London students
Happy Birthday, Goldsmiths: here's a #HigherEducationPostcard to celebrate
Happy Birthday, Goldsmiths: here's a #HigherEducationPostcard to celebrate
September 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It is, apparently, 120 years ago to the day that @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social admitted its first University of London students
Happy Birthday, Goldsmiths: here's a #HigherEducationPostcard to celebrate
Happy Birthday, Goldsmiths: here's a #HigherEducationPostcard to celebrate
"In our society today we have even more billionaires than in the age of Andrew Carnegie. What are they doing to support the diffusion of knowledge and the mental culture of all? We need a new Carnegie."
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Libraries are palaces for the people. Their ramparts need...
The spirit of public improvement that led to the legislation that created free public libraries 175 years go needs to be rekindled
observer.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"In our society today we have even more billionaires than in the age of Andrew Carnegie. What are they doing to support the diffusion of knowledge and the mental culture of all? We need a new Carnegie."
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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What would happen if politicians actually answered the question?
What would happen if politicians actually answered the question?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What would happen if politicians actually answered the question?
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Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money".
Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.
Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.
Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
TV tonight: an essential record of the Covid contracts scandal
An investigation into the extent of greed and deception in PPE provision. Plus: weird drama Coldwater goes off the rails. Here’s what to watch this evening
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money".
Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.
Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.
Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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We are in Vienna for a work thing, taking a leisure walk around the city center and then
AND THEN
WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAM WORLD CUP 2025
DREAMS DO COME TRUE
AND THEN
WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAM WORLD CUP 2025
DREAMS DO COME TRUE
September 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
We are in Vienna for a work thing, taking a leisure walk around the city center and then
AND THEN
WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAM WORLD CUP 2025
DREAMS DO COME TRUE
AND THEN
WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAM WORLD CUP 2025
DREAMS DO COME TRUE
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Woke up in my hotel to find out it's the official headquarters of the first ever World Tramdriver Championship, and I'm so here for it.
September 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Woke up in my hotel to find out it's the official headquarters of the first ever World Tramdriver Championship, and I'm so here for it.
September 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Unforgivable inaccuracy.
Judges always take off their ceremonial wigs when engaging in gavel-bashing.
This stuff is basic.
Judges always take off their ceremonial wigs when engaging in gavel-bashing.
This stuff is basic.
New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice
The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.
www.bbc.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Unforgivable inaccuracy.
Judges always take off their ceremonial wigs when engaging in gavel-bashing.
This stuff is basic.
Judges always take off their ceremonial wigs when engaging in gavel-bashing.
This stuff is basic.
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Judges don't use gavels, only auctioneers do.
September 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Judges don't use gavels, only auctioneers do.
I've just watched all of 'The Turkish detective'. Ethan Kai should be pressing his agent to put him up for James #Bond. He's a really good action hero.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#acting #jamesbond #casting #drama #action #film #movie
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#acting #jamesbond #casting #drama #action #film #movie
BBC Two - The Turkish Detective
Crime thriller series based on the Inspector Cetin Ikmen novels by Barbara Nadel.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've just watched all of 'The Turkish detective'. Ethan Kai should be pressing his agent to put him up for James #Bond. He's a really good action hero.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#acting #jamesbond #casting #drama #action #film #movie
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#acting #jamesbond #casting #drama #action #film #movie
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Once again: even if vacating X is too much of a leap for the government to contemplate, cross post! There are apps (Fedica, Buffer, others) that allow you to send the same message to every site with no more effort. Call it being "platform-neutral". Help non-death-threat platforms to grow.
It’s wild. If a journalist accidentally said, e.g. the names of a minister‘s school age children on air, Downing Street would rightly lose it, yet death threats, conspiracies about the PM’s marriage, racism against ministers…all fine apparently!
September 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Once again: even if vacating X is too much of a leap for the government to contemplate, cross post! There are apps (Fedica, Buffer, others) that allow you to send the same message to every site with no more effort. Call it being "platform-neutral". Help non-death-threat platforms to grow.