Pete Bowler
@beardypete.bsky.social
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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'In the video, the pair discuss the disastrous 1998 tour of America: "“All any of us were asking of Mark was to stand on that stage for an hour, and sing the songs. That was all we asked of him."'
Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
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Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
buff.ly/4YeJQwU
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
'In the video, the pair discuss the disastrous 1998 tour of America: "“All any of us were asking of Mark was to stand on that stage for an hour, and sing the songs. That was all we asked of him."'
Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
buff.ly/4YeJQwU
Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
buff.ly/4YeJQwU
So Farage was a racist and a bully at school. You could blow me down with a feather.
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So Farage was a racist and a bully at school. You could blow me down with a feather.
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Ireland’s big moment is what World Cup qualifying is all about
Troy Parrott’s last-gasp goal and DR Congo’s triumph proved once again why the best football is almost never about the football - @jonawils.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Troy Parrott’s last-gasp goal and DR Congo’s triumph proved once again why the best football is almost never about the football - @jonawils.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Ireland’s big moment is what World Cup qualifying is all about
Troy Parrott’s last-gasp goal and DR Congo’s triumph proved once again why the best soccer is almost never about the soccer
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Ireland’s big moment is what World Cup qualifying is all about
Troy Parrott’s last-gasp goal and DR Congo’s triumph proved once again why the best football is almost never about the football - @jonawils.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Troy Parrott’s last-gasp goal and DR Congo’s triumph proved once again why the best football is almost never about the football - @jonawils.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Theres a French film, can’t remember the name, our heroine is in hospital and is asked what they gave her to eat. Carrot soup and cheese on toast. Since then I have craved that at least once a week. Like today. It’s a good film.
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Theres a French film, can’t remember the name, our heroine is in hospital and is asked what they gave her to eat. Carrot soup and cheese on toast. Since then I have craved that at least once a week. Like today. It’s a good film.
Looking forward to Cricket et al podcast by fair minded and witty Aussies as the Ashes progresses.
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Looking forward to Cricket et al podcast by fair minded and witty Aussies as the Ashes progresses.
Vote Green. Better still, join the buggers.
Sheer cruelty on display in the Home Secretary's proposed new asylum laws, which could see refugee families with children suddenly uprooted and deported after spending years rebuilding their lives in Britain. Shameful capitulation to Reform's agenda at the expense of the most vulnerable.
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Vote Green. Better still, join the buggers.
Stella Creasy railing against the asylum proposals. That’s how wrong they are.
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Stella Creasy railing against the asylum proposals. That’s how wrong they are.
A Secret Sense of Rhythm, A Secret Sense of Sin (The Complete ZTT Propaganda)
open.spotify.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I see there is a backlash against gratitude. I suppose we should be grateful
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I see there is a backlash against gratitude. I suppose we should be grateful
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Boiler Shop Worker Seen Through Large Pipe,
Vicker’s Armstrong Steel Foundry, England
E.O. Hoppé, 1928
Vicker’s Armstrong Steel Foundry, England
E.O. Hoppé, 1928
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Boiler Shop Worker Seen Through Large Pipe,
Vicker’s Armstrong Steel Foundry, England
E.O. Hoppé, 1928
Vicker’s Armstrong Steel Foundry, England
E.O. Hoppé, 1928
A young Trevor Francis bottom left corner if I’m not mistaken
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A young Trevor Francis bottom left corner if I’m not mistaken
Listening to two chaps discuss Labours plans on immigration on the World Service. Dunno who they are but I don’t like ‘em. There’s a lady chirping up too. Don’t think much of her either.
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Listening to two chaps discuss Labours plans on immigration on the World Service. Dunno who they are but I don’t like ‘em. There’s a lady chirping up too. Don’t think much of her either.
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Neo-Liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Thatcherism or whatever you call it really has more in common with fundamentalist religion than anything else.
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Neo-Liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Thatcherism or whatever you call it really has more in common with fundamentalist religion than anything else.
This is better than the hilarious bantz of the rugby lads on the radio. Better than a lot of things, in fact.
open.spotify.com/album/1DH7Lw...
open.spotify.com/album/1DH7Lw...
Caracol
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is better than the hilarious bantz of the rugby lads on the radio. Better than a lot of things, in fact.
open.spotify.com/album/1DH7Lw...
open.spotify.com/album/1DH7Lw...
Not keen on politicians who have never had a proper job. That’s all of them, I think.
Pretty sure in the sixties and seventies loads of MP’s had worked prior to getting their snouts in the trough.
Not Tories, obviously.
Pretty sure in the sixties and seventies loads of MP’s had worked prior to getting their snouts in the trough.
Not Tories, obviously.
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Not keen on politicians who have never had a proper job. That’s all of them, I think.
Pretty sure in the sixties and seventies loads of MP’s had worked prior to getting their snouts in the trough.
Not Tories, obviously.
Pretty sure in the sixties and seventies loads of MP’s had worked prior to getting their snouts in the trough.
Not Tories, obviously.
Been a while since I spent a Saturday morning mooching around Ledbury. It is a helluva town.
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Been a while since I spent a Saturday morning mooching around Ledbury. It is a helluva town.
I’ve avoided this book for much the same reasons as Jonathan. Might give it a whirl
Bill Buford’s Among the Thugs, and thoughts on hooliganism in the eighties - @jonawils.bsky.social
Read: jonawils.substack.com/p/among-the-...
Read: jonawils.substack.com/p/among-the-...
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I’ve avoided this book for much the same reasons as Jonathan. Might give it a whirl
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
Listening to the new Jeff Tweedy again. Up there with the best of Wilco.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Listening to the new Jeff Tweedy again. Up there with the best of Wilco.