David Foster
@jckspk.bsky.social
Grandfather, pedestrian … but that’s enough about me ….
Sometimes comments irritate me because of shaky assumptions and weak logic from clearly well meaning people. On reflection, I realise that any comment made in good faith is valuable, even if misguided or objectively wrong, because it shows us how other people are thinking - and we need to know.
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Sometimes comments irritate me because of shaky assumptions and weak logic from clearly well meaning people. On reflection, I realise that any comment made in good faith is valuable, even if misguided or objectively wrong, because it shows us how other people are thinking - and we need to know.
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Dogs of War by @aptshadow.bsky.social is a splendid book. It begins as a war story with bio-engineered animals and becomes much more.£2.29 though, it's been cheaper.
www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-War-Adr...
Also not reduced on Kobo
www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-War-Adr...
Also not reduced on Kobo
Dogs of War
Dogs of War eBook : Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Dogs of War by @aptshadow.bsky.social is a splendid book. It begins as a war story with bio-engineered animals and becomes much more.£2.29 though, it's been cheaper.
www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-War-Adr...
Also not reduced on Kobo
www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-War-Adr...
Also not reduced on Kobo
In Cambridge today it rained, and rained, and rained. So I ducked into the Picturehouse and chose The Choral from the three options on at that time of the afternoon. I’d been avoiding it: fearing sentimentality - but it was a really good piece of theatrical storytelling and musicality. Engaging.
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In Cambridge today it rained, and rained, and rained. So I ducked into the Picturehouse and chose The Choral from the three options on at that time of the afternoon. I’d been avoiding it: fearing sentimentality - but it was a really good piece of theatrical storytelling and musicality. Engaging.
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In response to some of the comments:
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended
Recent events at the BBC have wide-reaching implications for our democracy - and the sooner we realise it, the better
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In response to some of the comments:
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan.
This is true regardless of your politics.
Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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EU rejoin is a *current* Lib Dem policy and one that we ran on in 2024. Simply announcing it isn't an option for the UK. We don't get to tell the EU that we're rejoining without years of prior steps. It will need a careful pathway, such as the one set out below, to make it a reality.
October 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
EU rejoin is a *current* Lib Dem policy and one that we ran on in 2024. Simply announcing it isn't an option for the UK. We don't get to tell the EU that we're rejoining without years of prior steps. It will need a careful pathway, such as the one set out below, to make it a reality.
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Finally caught up with One Battle After Another and those have to be 165 of the most enjoyable and exciting minutes I've ever spent in the cinema.
Thought it played at times like a mash-up of Running On Empty and Midnight Run, two of my favourite films of the 1980s.
Thought it played at times like a mash-up of Running On Empty and Midnight Run, two of my favourite films of the 1980s.
October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Finally caught up with One Battle After Another and those have to be 165 of the most enjoyable and exciting minutes I've ever spent in the cinema.
Thought it played at times like a mash-up of Running On Empty and Midnight Run, two of my favourite films of the 1980s.
Thought it played at times like a mash-up of Running On Empty and Midnight Run, two of my favourite films of the 1980s.
Really enjoyed watching ‘One Battle After Another’ yesterday. A classic of the USA condition wrapped up with very well played personal stories: oh, and some imaginatively shot chases and encounters.
October 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Really enjoyed watching ‘One Battle After Another’ yesterday. A classic of the USA condition wrapped up with very well played personal stories: oh, and some imaginatively shot chases and encounters.
@jowolff.bsky.social Just enjoyed the Origin Story treatment of Marx. I am addicted to the Dunt/Lynskey works in general. Hearing that you contributed to this one I feel bound to say bravo to you too.
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@jowolff.bsky.social Just enjoyed the Origin Story treatment of Marx. I am addicted to the Dunt/Lynskey works in general. Hearing that you contributed to this one I feel bound to say bravo to you too.
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The evidence of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine is plain to see.
Unpunished crimes encourage new atrocities.
Today, we are providing the first €10 million for the Special Tribunal to ensure that those responsible for the crimes of aggression do not escape justice.
Extract of my press conference ↓
Unpunished crimes encourage new atrocities.
Today, we are providing the first €10 million for the Special Tribunal to ensure that those responsible for the crimes of aggression do not escape justice.
Extract of my press conference ↓
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The evidence of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine is plain to see.
Unpunished crimes encourage new atrocities.
Today, we are providing the first €10 million for the Special Tribunal to ensure that those responsible for the crimes of aggression do not escape justice.
Extract of my press conference ↓
Unpunished crimes encourage new atrocities.
Today, we are providing the first €10 million for the Special Tribunal to ensure that those responsible for the crimes of aggression do not escape justice.
Extract of my press conference ↓
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🫡🐸 we all stand together, in war-ravaged Portland
October 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🫡🐸 we all stand together, in war-ravaged Portland
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The Knitting Nannas have gone global ... led by Aunt Tifa.
#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa
#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa
October 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The Knitting Nannas have gone global ... led by Aunt Tifa.
#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa
#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa
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Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”
👉👉 nokings.org
👉👉 nokings.org
October 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”
👉👉 nokings.org
👉👉 nokings.org
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“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings
October 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings
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Quietly powerful.
October 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Quietly powerful.
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On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
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It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
September 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
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🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history
The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world
westenglandbylines.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
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They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
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This. Humanities people say and believe equally stupid things about the sciences (no, ffs the laws of acoustics are physical laws, NOT METAPHORS, and no, quinine did not invent malaria.)
It is much better when we respect each other’s disciplinary rigour and methods and work together.
It is much better when we respect each other’s disciplinary rigour and methods and work together.
I see the reaction to that silly French Revolution paper has now, inevitably, reached the "STEM people think they're better than us and that's why we're better than them" stage.
People, please don't do this.
People, please don't do this.
August 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This. Humanities people say and believe equally stupid things about the sciences (no, ffs the laws of acoustics are physical laws, NOT METAPHORS, and no, quinine did not invent malaria.)
It is much better when we respect each other’s disciplinary rigour and methods and work together.
It is much better when we respect each other’s disciplinary rigour and methods and work together.
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"All those in favour of using a dog poo bag say 'Aye'"
"Aye!"
"Motion carried"
"Aye!"
"Motion carried"
August 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"All those in favour of using a dog poo bag say 'Aye'"
"Aye!"
"Motion carried"
"Aye!"
"Motion carried"
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A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford.
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
An open letter to Nigel Farage - Bishop Steven's Blog
Bishop Steven writes an open letter in response to Nigel Farage MP's immigration policy which was launched in Oxford this week.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford.
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
I’d rather have ‘rule of law’ than not. But remember, democratic rule of laws is a necessary condition for this: to prevent arbitrary and majoritarian rule.
August 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I’d rather have ‘rule of law’ than not. But remember, democratic rule of laws is a necessary condition for this: to prevent arbitrary and majoritarian rule.
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Too many folk overthinking this. "Mass deportations are an abhorrence that a civilised country should not countenance".
That's all.
No need for logistical advice, the spirit of Churchill, or picking your favourite previous action down the slippery slope.
That's all.
No need for logistical advice, the spirit of Churchill, or picking your favourite previous action down the slippery slope.
A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Too many folk overthinking this. "Mass deportations are an abhorrence that a civilised country should not countenance".
That's all.
No need for logistical advice, the spirit of Churchill, or picking your favourite previous action down the slippery slope.
That's all.
No need for logistical advice, the spirit of Churchill, or picking your favourite previous action down the slippery slope.