Richard
@ashcroftethics.bsky.social
Bookhoarder. Soi-disant intellectual of the outer suburbs.
I am enjoying this tremendously joyful and optimistic book. @astrokatie.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I am enjoying this tremendously joyful and optimistic book. @astrokatie.com
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Tiepolo, Virtue and Nobility Putting Ignorance to Flight (at Dulwich Picture Gallery).
Take that, modern world.
Take that, modern world.
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Tiepolo, Virtue and Nobility Putting Ignorance to Flight (at Dulwich Picture Gallery).
Take that, modern world.
Take that, modern world.
Post a perfect album from 1989.
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989.
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media.
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media.
Dave Ball. Like any 80s kid I danced to Soft Cell. But I remember him most fondly for this. RIP
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Dave Ball. Like any 80s kid I danced to Soft Cell. But I remember him most fondly for this. RIP
Schumpeterian meme.
September 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Schumpeterian meme.
Cooler than you, even while napping. Maybe even because napping. #catontheinternet
August 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Cooler than you, even while napping. Maybe even because napping. #catontheinternet
Cat on the internet
July 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Cat on the internet
A corner that held them. (Whitby Abbey)
July 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A corner that held them. (Whitby Abbey)
No one looks good in a beret, except maybe The Security of the First World
July 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
No one looks good in a beret, except maybe The Security of the First World
If I see one more illiterate screed decrying facism, I’m going to start a petition to put LP Hartley on the national curriculum.
June 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
If I see one more illiterate screed decrying facism, I’m going to start a petition to put LP Hartley on the national curriculum.
Not a book about civil engineering. Alas.
June 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Not a book about civil engineering. Alas.
It’s Satie-day. I’m reading this and listening to 840 Vexations.
June 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It’s Satie-day. I’m reading this and listening to 840 Vexations.
A terrific day out at Lord’s. This was at the start of play, and it got better and better.
June 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A terrific day out at Lord’s. This was at the start of play, and it got better and better.
And today, Alan Johnson talking about Harold Wilson (with Gerry Foley).
June 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
And today, Alan Johnson talking about Harold Wilson (with Gerry Foley).
A very good event today with David Torrance and Alan Johnson discussing DT’s book about the first Labour government, Wild Men. In a Methodist church, EP Thompson would be nodding.
June 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A very good event today with David Torrance and Alan Johnson discussing DT’s book about the first Labour government, Wild Men. In a Methodist church, EP Thompson would be nodding.
I’m just a spacerocker doing spacerock things. #setthecontrols 🚀☀️
May 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I’m just a spacerocker doing spacerock things. #setthecontrols 🚀☀️
An excellent book.
April 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
An excellent book.