This man brushes a crow and stopped, but the bird gives the brush back as it wanted more.

Constructing your whole personality around politics is like sketching your life's work in sand by the edge of the sea

This is very, very worthwhile: Alfoxton Park Trust #JustGiving justgiving.com/campaign/alfox…

‘There is a common misconception that Google Translate, and now AI tools, are making language capabilities redundant. On the contrary, the skills and intellectual values that a “linguistic mindset” can instil are even more important in this age of rapid technological change.‘

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” — Albert Camus

Impoverished nation

The death of reading is a civilisational catastrophe telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/2…

Cracker Barrel, sure Still not over this

“When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

Interested in following the BREATHING OF THE TIDES, visualized by the movements of #WATLAS tagged #waders/#shorebirds in the western Dutch Wadden Sea? Follow the amazing 'community tracking' at maps.nioz.nl/watlas/ waakvogels.nl @niozsearesearch.bsky.social

The most alarming thing about the internet is how it kills our capacity for delight. People spend hours scrolling glass-eyed through content that brings only crumbs of amusement. Real joy is found in the real world: in reading, in starlight, in birdsong, in service to others.

A book of my essays has just been published: 'Ethics, law and the business of being human: Against nine to five philosophy': anthempress.com/books/ethics-l… Anthem Press Exeter College, Oxford Uehiro Oxford Institute Ethox Centre HeLEX Oxford

Out now! Explores what it means to be human and how we should live, critiquing the failures of philosophy, law and academia. Click here➡️ tinyurl.com/58a7j8vy #AnthemPress Charles Foster 🇬🇷 Exeter College, Oxford Uehiro Oxford Institute Ethox Centre @45GraysInnSq #getyourcopy #newrelease

Honoured to have a chapter in 'The Shortest History of Tomorrow: I am the world: AI meets Plato', alongside the likes of Slavoj Zizek, Yanis Varoufakis, Bernardo Kastrup, Rupert Sheldrake and Thomas Hertog: G10agency.nl Exeter College, Oxford Boudewijn Richel Stichting G10 van de economie

'I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other's feelings by satisfying our own egos.' This reminds me of Newman's words: 'The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast.'

In 1940 George Orwell reported on the reading habits of children: Dickens, Shakespeare, Defoe, RL Stevenson and GK Chesterton. Incomprehensible now. I'm not sure our culture and politics can survive the accompanying loss of critical thinking, attention and intelligence.

My book, 'The Edges of the World' will be published in January. It's a tour of marginal places and a contention that everything important happens only at the edges: the centre contributes nothing but corruption. amazon.co.uk/Edges-World-ma…

📢 Congratulations to Professor Charles Foster, Supernumerary Fellow at Exeter College, on the publication of his latest book 'Ethics, Law and the Business of Being Human' (Anthem Press, September 2025). 🔗 Read more ⬇️ ow.ly/5ghW50WXoMI #ExeterCollegeOxford

In the middle of the Wadden Sea: a piece by me in The TLS Global Flyway Network Exeter College, Oxford Alex Christofi the-tls.com/regular-featur…

“What are you reading at University?” has become “Are you reading at University?”