Pete Bowler
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Pete Bowler
@beardypete.bsky.social
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Aficionado of Birmingham City FC, country music, reggae music, odd,quirky music, crime fiction, odd, quirky fiction, and odd, quirky people. Politically homeless socialist.
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"He looked so big and awkward in the ring that the spectators laughed."
Italy's world heavyweight champion, Primo Carnera, was born 26 October 1906. This is the story of his time in London.
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The Ambling Alp in London
Italian boxer Primo Carnera got namechecked in the 1930s by PG Wodehouse and Sandy Powell. ALWYN TURNER explains why.
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Morning all.

Photographer John Bulmer. A woman walking down a wet street of terraced houses in the north of England in 1963. The street is paved with setts.
Been listening to Songs For Swinging Lovers. Singing along. Baffled as to how I know these songs.
Bloody good record.
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To go from "Who is Katie Lam?" to "Everybody hates Katie Lam, the Tory Idi Amin" in less than a week is exemplary "rising star" behaviour
Idly browsing the programme for the Ledbury winter weekend poetry festival saw Simon Armitage is doing a reading. Clicked to book tickets and bugger me they are free to locals. Happy with that.
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Voting for other parties than Labour does NOT let Reform in.

Voting for other parties than Labour means other parties can win.
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:

PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Bit early to say and I'll probably put the kibbosh on it but since retiring I have had no migraines or attacks of gout. Living here may be a contributory factor
Rydyn ni i gyd yn Gaerffili nawr!
We are all Caerphilly now
If only there were more buses to travel on
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨

📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.

And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk
Hot Dogs, Jumping Frogs
Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA.

Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.

The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.
Just heard on the radio that The Wicker Man is one of the best films ever made. Never could stand it.
The world at one is boiling my blood. The presenter, this MP being interviewed, Jess Phillips, Kemi Badenoch. All bad for the nations well being.
Collywobbles all through that bloody second half
#bcfc
Dyche to Forest, as expected. Should be fun.