Richard James Foster
@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
Artist, author & culture writer. History & art buff. The Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. My 2nd book, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club is now out. All stuff here. https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
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Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Thanks to @weare1of100.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
OH got an early christmas present.
OH got an early christmas present.
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thanks to @weare1of100.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
OH got an early christmas present.
OH got an early christmas present.
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A little silver packet of joy arrived in work today. 🙂
Thanks Richie and Richard. @weare1of100.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
Thanks Richie and Richard. @weare1of100.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A little silver packet of joy arrived in work today. 🙂
Thanks Richie and Richard. @weare1of100.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
Thanks Richie and Richard. @weare1of100.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
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What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
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A drawing for The Signal Man.
October 9, 2023 at 9:47 PM
A drawing for The Signal Man.
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
I’m really enjoying Damian Barr’s tender fiction about Roberts Colqohoun and MacBryde. Camille Ralphs’ collection, After You Were, I Am is also a tour de force e of language and ideas.
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I’m really enjoying Damian Barr’s tender fiction about Roberts Colqohoun and MacBryde. Camille Ralphs’ collection, After You Were, I Am is also a tour de force e of language and ideas.
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November books.
A fair mix again; pleased to have read the Reed biography. Enjoyed the Winter Fens. Will re-read the Sinclair.
A fair mix again; pleased to have read the Reed biography. Enjoyed the Winter Fens. Will re-read the Sinclair.
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
November books.
A fair mix again; pleased to have read the Reed biography. Enjoyed the Winter Fens. Will re-read the Sinclair.
A fair mix again; pleased to have read the Reed biography. Enjoyed the Winter Fens. Will re-read the Sinclair.
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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Crucial note: For all the talk about Member States, it is always and only Brussels that really shapes third-country relations.
Crucial note (2): The Brussels consensus-making engine is breaking down. That is the EU's biggest challenge, by far. See e.g. US, China etc.
Crucial note (2): The Brussels consensus-making engine is breaking down. That is the EU's biggest challenge, by far. See e.g. US, China etc.
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Crucial note: For all the talk about Member States, it is always and only Brussels that really shapes third-country relations.
Crucial note (2): The Brussels consensus-making engine is breaking down. That is the EU's biggest challenge, by far. See e.g. US, China etc.
Crucial note (2): The Brussels consensus-making engine is breaking down. That is the EU's biggest challenge, by far. See e.g. US, China etc.
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
A tragicomedy- two words, first word…
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A tragicomedy- two words, first word…
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One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Cambridge University cosies up to Reform
The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
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If you are outside the UK and happen to enjoy this extract I feel duty bound to inform you that Blackwell’s - amazingly - will send you the book with free (yes, FREE) shipping: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Villager
Villages are full of tales: some are forgotten while others become a part of local folklore. But the fortunes of one West Country village are watched over and i
blackwells.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
If you are outside the UK and happen to enjoy this extract I feel duty bound to inform you that Blackwell’s - amazingly - will send you the book with free (yes, FREE) shipping: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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#nowreading I’m obsessed with Nicholas Freeling. He’s up there with Chandler and Simenon, imo, but oddly unsung. Very quiet books but intensely atmospheric. ‘Europe in a European idiom’ he once said. This is a 1980’s Henri Castang novel (not as well known as Van Der Valk; similar character though)
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#nowreading I’m obsessed with Nicholas Freeling. He’s up there with Chandler and Simenon, imo, but oddly unsung. Very quiet books but intensely atmospheric. ‘Europe in a European idiom’ he once said. This is a 1980’s Henri Castang novel (not as well known as Van Der Valk; similar character though)
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The Cold War Steve Xmas Store is Open!! 👇👇👇👇👇👇
www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Cold War Steve Xmas Store is Open!! 👇👇👇👇👇👇
www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/27/t...
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15,300+ more signatures to go, let's do it! 🇬🇧🇺🇦 #standwithUkraine
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
15,300+ more signatures to go, let's do it! 🇬🇧🇺🇦 #standwithUkraine
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Even the sun is raging, as dark clouds gather over guilty Cain. Finding of the body of Abel, as envisioned by William Blake, born on this day in 1757.
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Even the sun is raging, as dark clouds gather over guilty Cain. Finding of the body of Abel, as envisioned by William Blake, born on this day in 1757.
Marie often makes me laugh, but her points are often SERIOUS.
if someone had recently given a speech as eloquent and intellectually complex yet clear-minded as the Thatcher speech Stephen mentioned, it would have led to Harry Cole hitting his big red head like an angry chimp and writing in the Sun that Big Words Bad Why Hate Britain Like This? Boo!
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Marie often makes me laugh, but her points are often SERIOUS.
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I would rather die in the painful obliteration of an atomic shock wave than join LinkedIn and learn it's fucken bro code, thanks.
It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code | ✍️ Harry Wallop
It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I would rather die in the painful obliteration of an atomic shock wave than join LinkedIn and learn it's fucken bro code, thanks.
Blank Friday
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Blank Friday