About Niles

Niles / Alex Foster

My name is Alex Foster, and I was born in Shrewsbury in August 1978, which makes me a 27 30-year-old Leo. I’m just a little under 5’11″ and my BMI is approximately 30 32. Which is bad.

I come from the small market town of Leominster in Herefordshire. I came to university in Nottingham in 1996 and stayed for a BA in French and German and an MA in Film Studies finishing in 2002.

In 2003 I was elected a Lib Dem councillor for the Basford Ward of Nottingham City Council. In 2007 I was elected to represent Leen Valley ward, which stretches from Nottingham’s Crown Island to the Nuthall Road.
I have worked in adult education teaching basic IT skills, for two MEPs and for two MPs.

Niles

If you know me via a newsgroup or IRC then you’ll know that my internet pseudonym is Niles, or a variation of that. (Nilex, my sometime IRC nick was a typo that I rather liked the look of, and has nothing to do with either the Star Trek character Nelix or the nuclear company Nirex.) This dates from when I had an anonymous university address and no real urge to use my own name. There are at least half a dozen Alex Fosters out there. The name is taken from the character played by cute’n'dimpled concert pianist David Hyde Pierce who plays Niles in the American sitcom Frasier, and whom I do not in any way resemble.

Pictures

There are a variety of pictures of me on Flickr.

Contact Details

Please see the Contact page.