Conrad Bower
@conradbower.com
Writer who loves music, mountains, and motorcycles. He's also fond of many things that don't start with M.
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Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
The perfect gift for those who believe freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy, and not just an optional extra.
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
I played on a huge rope swing in Horwich. Jump on and swing high over the river. Firemen would often cut it down after broken limbs. Huge straggly knot at the bottom, I jumped on, 2 more jumped on top. Swing. Jumped off, one leg in loop, dragged through the river, bouncing off rocks. Happy days.
Rope swings are inevitable: if nature and climate have conspired together to create a tree whose bows offer the perfect height for a swing, in a location looking over a river or steep slope, at some point in time one will appear.
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 AM
I played on a huge rope swing in Horwich. Jump on and swing high over the river. Firemen would often cut it down after broken limbs. Huge straggly knot at the bottom, I jumped on, 2 more jumped on top. Swing. Jumped off, one leg in loop, dragged through the river, bouncing off rocks. Happy days.
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11 MPs signed up against 14 years of illegal sewage👏
1 since I recorded this video 🎉
116 MPs to go 🧐
Please help by asking them to prove they're not "spineless public servants" weownit.org.uk/news/is-your...
#117MPsewagechallenge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwp...
1 since I recorded this video 🎉
116 MPs to go 🧐
Please help by asking them to prove they're not "spineless public servants" weownit.org.uk/news/is-your...
#117MPsewagechallenge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwp...
The real enemy of clean rivers isn't Thames Water
YouTube video by We Own It
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
11 MPs signed up against 14 years of illegal sewage👏
1 since I recorded this video 🎉
116 MPs to go 🧐
Please help by asking them to prove they're not "spineless public servants" weownit.org.uk/news/is-your...
#117MPsewagechallenge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwp...
1 since I recorded this video 🎉
116 MPs to go 🧐
Please help by asking them to prove they're not "spineless public servants" weownit.org.uk/news/is-your...
#117MPsewagechallenge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwp...
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PSC is supporting @netpol.org important campaign to end Met Police's authoritarian rationing of our right to protest - carried out with a total lack of accountability, and seen through the unprecedented conditions they are placing on our demonstrations for Palestine 1/6
netpol.org/end-zero-acc...
netpol.org/end-zero-acc...
netpol.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:03 PM
PSC is supporting @netpol.org important campaign to end Met Police's authoritarian rationing of our right to protest - carried out with a total lack of accountability, and seen through the unprecedented conditions they are placing on our demonstrations for Palestine 1/6
netpol.org/end-zero-acc...
netpol.org/end-zero-acc...
The ICE murders in Minneapolis sicken me.
Trump and his henchmen have claimed this chilling terrorist militia are above the law.
The American justice system needs to show that it still upholds the law. No man or woman should be above it.
Trump and his henchmen have claimed this chilling terrorist militia are above the law.
The American justice system needs to show that it still upholds the law. No man or woman should be above it.
January 27, 2026 at 8:01 AM
The ICE murders in Minneapolis sicken me.
Trump and his henchmen have claimed this chilling terrorist militia are above the law.
The American justice system needs to show that it still upholds the law. No man or woman should be above it.
Trump and his henchmen have claimed this chilling terrorist militia are above the law.
The American justice system needs to show that it still upholds the law. No man or woman should be above it.
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Abolish ICE is not enough.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Abolish ICE is not enough.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Check out this from We Own It.
Water is life, it should not be in private hands.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/sout...
Water is life, it should not be in private hands.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/sout...
Take South East Water into public ownership NOW
South East Water has failed households in Kent and Sussex. It is time to bring it into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
January 27, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Check out this from We Own It.
Water is life, it should not be in private hands.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/sout...
Water is life, it should not be in private hands.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/sout...
All water companies in the UK should be nationalised. Privatisation of utilities in the UK is a failed experiment, a government who represented the people of this country would end it, now.
🚨Thames Water is on the brink of collapse.
🙋We asked its customers what should happen next.
54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector.
Read the full results here.
🙋We asked its customers what should happen next.
54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector.
Read the full results here.
New polling: majority of Thames Water customers want Ofwat to reject creditors’ proposal for the utility
New polling has revealed that 54% of Thames Water customers think Ofwat should reject a deal proposed by Thames Water's creditors, and put it into special administration.
weownit.org.uk
January 12, 2026 at 8:16 PM
All water companies in the UK should be nationalised. Privatisation of utilities in the UK is a failed experiment, a government who represented the people of this country would end it, now.
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Looking to sub your work this year? Here's our top five places to send your work in January.
Full details writershq.co.uk/5-competitio...
Full details writershq.co.uk/5-competitio...
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Looking to sub your work this year? Here's our top five places to send your work in January.
Full details writershq.co.uk/5-competitio...
Full details writershq.co.uk/5-competitio...
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Are you looking for a creative challenge as 2025 draws to a end?
If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq
If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq
Europeana Creative Climate Action Award - Enter our creative writing competition before 11 January 2026
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of climate action imagery. Prizes and publication for the winners!
bit.ly
December 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Are you looking for a creative challenge as 2025 draws to a end?
If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq
If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️
Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq
The perfect gift for those who believe freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy, and not just an optional extra.
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The perfect gift for those who believe freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy, and not just an optional extra.
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity
The beauty, utility and health giving boons of our countryside should not be the preserve of the privileged few. It is OUR LAND. We have a natural right to roam over it, which needs to be backed by legislation.
#righttoroam
#righttoroam
The Enclosure Acts took away centuries of shared access to land, putting fences between people and nature. Securing the Right to Roam is about reclaiming the freedom to explore, enjoy, and reconnect with our countryside once again.
Why do you support a Right to Roam?
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Why do you support a Right to Roam?
forms.gle/6q1uu2yf7ip3...
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The beauty, utility and health giving boons of our countryside should not be the preserve of the privileged few. It is OUR LAND. We have a natural right to roam over it, which needs to be backed by legislation.
#righttoroam
#righttoroam
Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.
#resistance #protest #palestineaction
#resistance #protest #palestineaction
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.
#resistance #protest #palestineaction
#resistance #protest #palestineaction
There are 2 HisFic stories in my collection
One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.
The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest
⏳📚 #resistance #liberty
One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.
The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest
⏳📚 #resistance #liberty
Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There are 2 HisFic stories in my collection
One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.
The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest
⏳📚 #resistance #liberty
One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.
The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest
⏳📚 #resistance #liberty
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Welcome to the Historical Fiction feed! ⏳📚💙
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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Welcome to the Historical Fiction feed! ⏳📚💙
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Meta makes more money spreading lies than it does spreading truth.
Unless it is regulated, it will continue to spread lies and topple our already unstable democracies.
#democracy #freepress
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Unless it is regulated, it will continue to spread lies and topple our already unstable democracies.
#democracy #freepress
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Meta makes more money spreading lies than it does spreading truth.
Unless it is regulated, it will continue to spread lies and topple our already unstable democracies.
#democracy #freepress
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Unless it is regulated, it will continue to spread lies and topple our already unstable democracies.
#democracy #freepress
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.
#resistance #protest
#resistance #protest
95 ARRESTS
Police arrested 90 sign-holders at the Peace Garden today. 5 arrests were made at an autonomous action in Hastings.
45 people held the same signs in Derry and Belfast, without arrest.
Join us on any of three days of action this coming week: www.wedonotcomply.org
Police arrested 90 sign-holders at the Peace Garden today. 5 arrests were made at an autonomous action in Hastings.
45 people held the same signs in Derry and Belfast, without arrest.
Join us on any of three days of action this coming week: www.wedonotcomply.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.
#resistance #protest
#resistance #protest
Now, this is a UK #budget I would support.
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social, any chance of you whispering some of these policies into Rachel Reeves's ear?
#economics
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social, any chance of you whispering some of these policies into Rachel Reeves's ear?
#economics
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 4: Renationalisation
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long.
I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Now, this is a UK #budget I would support.
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social, any chance of you whispering some of these policies into Rachel Reeves's ear?
#economics
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social, any chance of you whispering some of these policies into Rachel Reeves's ear?
#economics
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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Reposted by Conrad Bower
I’m reposting this again because I’m so chuffed to get such an amazing review 😊
On the blog today is my book review of A Week in the Life of Amelia Nash by #author @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social
This book is so worthy of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#booksky 💙📚
This book is so worthy of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#booksky 💙📚
A Week in the Life of Amelia Nash by Sarah Healey - #bookreview
Left on the Shelf Book Blog Book Reviews Book Information Recommendations Writing Reading Books for Children Books for Adults Books for Teens Fiction
leftontheshelfbookblog.blogspot.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I’m reposting this again because I’m so chuffed to get such an amazing review 😊
Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Ordinary people. Extraordinary courage. Stories of struggle, solidarity, and survival
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Echoes of Resistance: Stories from the Frontlines
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836541430
Eight grassroots rebels dare to rise against the entrenched inequities of power.
#booksky #writingcommunity #resistance #protest
Smacks of IBM supplying punch card technology to the Nazis to assist their 'Final Solution'.
This is just a starting solution for #Trump and #Google, but it worries me where they will go from here.
Don't be evil, Google - Do the right thing!
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
This is just a starting solution for #Trump and #Google, but it worries me where they will go from here.
Don't be evil, Google - Do the right thing!
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Smacks of IBM supplying punch card technology to the Nazis to assist their 'Final Solution'.
This is just a starting solution for #Trump and #Google, but it worries me where they will go from here.
Don't be evil, Google - Do the right thing!
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
This is just a starting solution for #Trump and #Google, but it worries me where they will go from here.
Don't be evil, Google - Do the right thing!
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Who can we really afford — the rich or everyone else? youtu.be/SzTi95kUBKo?...
Who can we really afford — the rich or everyone else?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I wish Robert Reich was president of the USA.
Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I wish Robert Reich was president of the USA.