Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 15hIt was inspiring to hear Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, on the Today programme saying Britain's decision to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank would increase tensions in the Middle East. Israel has been working so hard to reduce tensions over the last few years. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Listening to Wes Streeting on the Today programme in the background - he is a terrible speaker, he talks as fast as he can and sounds like he's afraid of being interrupted because he's talking nonsense. He also said "we're literally putting our money where our mouth is", when LITERALLY we aren't. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Greenland Assembly demands more information about American plans to build multiple ballrooms across the Arctic territory ”for defense purposes”.theguardian.comDenmark and Greenland say US military agreement will not compromise Arctic territory’s sovereigntyStatement sought to clarify Trump’s announcement that US will have ‘permanent control’ over Greenland’s security 010
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Guardian headline: "Farage says Reform has 'broken no laws' after party suspends officials over donations sting". I hope when I get charged with a serious offence I'm brought up in front of Judge Farage, who is obviously well-qualified to decide upon the tricky points of English law. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Plumber: oh blimey! Who installed that cup for you? It's going to have to come out and be replaced. These things don't come cheap! 020
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Why do they send three emergency warnings? And why do they have to use a tone that scares the hell out of my dog and make her run upstairs? They should choose something calming like Eno's Another Green World. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Haven't we all suffered enough? people.com/barbra-strei...people.comBarbra Streisand Announces First Children’s Book ‘And By the Way’ — See the Cover!Barbra Streisand announces her first children’s book, ‘And by the Way...’ a picture book about a grandparent and grandchild, out March 30, 2027. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 26/07/2026After seeing Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, I'm inclined to agree with Elon Musk's criticism of historical accuracy. The scene where a Spitfire dived out of the clouds and machine-gunned Polyphemus probably wouldn't have been possible in the Bronze Age. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Ruining a book by adding a word... The Huckleberry Hound of the Baskervilles 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The Repair Shop wasn't very good either, so you haven't missed anything. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 09/07/2026How long before Reform UK dredge up grainy CCTV footage of Count Binface having sex with a bottlebank in Wigan? 010
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It's outrageous that Nigel Farage will be allowed to leave his post as MP for Clacton by accepting the Crown office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. What qualifications does this clown have for this job? There must be thousands of better-qualified applicants for this post - myself included. 120
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 22/06/2026In a time of crisis, the nation is buoyed up by the prospect of a six-part Keir Starmer biopic, starring David Morrissey. 001
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Just turned off Radio 4's World at One because Zia Yusuf was spewing out a twisted attack on the police (they deserve criticism, but not the criticism Yusuf is making) and Sarah Montague couldn't make him stop. Don't bring these people onto the programme in the first place - they make things worse. 021
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Breaking news... Stephen Miller has had his head repurposed for planned Golden Dome anti-ballistic missile system. A senior Department of War official said "Our top boffins noticed how his shiny empty bald head resembles a radome protecting sensitive radar equipment. Maybe he can be of use now" 011
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I don’t think any new house can truly be called “home” until you have your Blodwyn Pig album cover on display 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Matthew Syed as a commentator on Newsnight right now. Why? I could understand if it was about ping pong, but it;s about the local elections. He's no expert - on anything, except ping pong. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Unpleasant 15 minutes listening to BBC's The World At One, with Wes Streeting talking almost without interruption. He kind of shouts and says everything very fast, because he's memorised the script his SPAD's forced him to stick to. Pointless letting him on a news programme uninterrupted. 020
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 26/04/2026From today's Guardian... "The entire room emptied as people were told the event would not resume and the presidential seal was removed from the podium." What was the White House thinking, bringing a seal to a crowded, noisy and dangerous event? Thank goodness it wasn't injured in the shooting. 010
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026If only we'd had Vance, Witkoff and Kushner negotiating the Versailles Treaty in 1919, we'd never have had World War II. Everything would have been so chaotic and unwritten and unenforceable, the Great War would have continued up to the present day - Silesia, Saarland, Danzig, Trieste... whatever. 100
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I'll repost this from 13 months ago. The only thing that's changed is that Greenland and Canada were uppermost in Trump's senile brain then - and now it's Iran, for the time being. But Britain should still have plans to take over all US bases to stop the madness. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 01/04/20261940-41 Jews expelled from their homes into ghettos then death camps… Warsaw - 380,000; Łódź - 200,000; Lwów - 120,000; Minsk - 100,000 April 2026 Lebanese expelled from their homes and homes destroyed to prevent return… Southern Lebanon - 600,000 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I've never been a monarchist, but I would swear undying loyalty to King Charles if he wears this T shirt when he meets Trump on his state visit to the USA later this month 100
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Remember how ineffective the League of Nations was? But It imposed sanctions on Italy for invading Ethiopia in 1935, expelled the USSR for invading Finland in 1939. The USA & Israel should be suspended from the UN. And Nato should suspend the USA - we can’t trust them. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Not sure who was the hapless minister being interviewed on the Today programme a few minutes ago, but he sounded exactly like hapless minister Ben Swain in The Thick Of It 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Thank goodness - now we can build a flyover high above Stonehenge instead. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comStonehenge tunnel plan officially scrapped after years of protestsCampaigners have been fighting proposals to build traffic tunnel under the world heritage site since 1994 010
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 14/03/2026That settles it - if Simon Jenkins thinks the King's visit should go ahead, then it should definitely be cancelled. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe king’s visit to the US must go ahead despite Trump's terrible military aggression | Simon JenkinsA state visit is a connecting of people, not governments – our national bonds should be honoured, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins 010
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Hegseth says the sinking of the Iranian frigate Dena was "the first sinking of a warship by a torpedo since World War Two". As with most things he says, that is untrue - the obsolete Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by a torpedo from the British submarine Conqueror on 2 May 1982. 031
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 02/03/2026So if a UK Typhoon capable of mach 2 using an ASRAAM missile costing $250,000 shoots down an Iranian Shahed drone doing 300 knots costing about $30,000, wouldn't it be better to develop modern versions of slower and cheaper cannon-armed piston-engine aircraft like Hawker Tempests or P-51s? 020
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I feel sorry for the PR agency hoping to promote British Pie Week, 2-9 March. Tragic. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Whatever you think of Farage and Jenrick, two guys who can laugh when they both fart at once can't be ALL bad. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Just switched off Matthew Syed's Sideways on Radio 4. At least I can say I've done something useful today. 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Careful Tim - that language got Derek Bentley into a lot of trouble. 010
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I'd like to know what the UK will do if the USA invades Greenland and our Nato allies resist. Will we take over US bases at Mildenhall, Lakenheath and Fairford? Who will do the job - Suffolk & Gloucestershire Constabularies? RAF Regiment? Parachute Regiment? I hope someone is planning for this. 020
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 12/01/2026What they're really thinking at a Kristi Noem press conference 020
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Slightly diminish a band... Huey Lewis and the Newts 010
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Slightly diminish a band... Godspeed You Black Lord Mayor 000
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Slightly diminish a band... The Recycled Plastic Ono Band 010
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Nice obituary of Molly Parkin in the Guardian, with this intriguing sentence:- "After years of serial, often trophy, men (many bored her – she spent tedious hours spanking John Mortimer)..." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comMolly Parkin obituaryArtist, writer, fashion editor and raconteur whose bohemian lifestyle inspired her bonkbuster novels 020
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 22/11/2025BREAKING: RFK Jr orders immediate shutdown of all power plants - "I read somewhere on the Internet that electricity causes cancer - FACT!" 361
Mike Foster @swanmore.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Can you trust a Russian non-aggression pact? Compare the history of Soviet pacts with… Lithuania 1926: occupied 1940. Finland 1932: invaded 1939. Latvia 1932: occupied 1940. Estonia 1932:occupied 1940. Poland 1932: invaded 1939. Japan 1941: invaded 1945. 023