Pete Bate
@petebate.bsky.social
Living each day as it comes with incurable bowel cancer. Dad, husband, vinyl enthusiast, runner, West Ham, Worcs CCC, write stuff. Seeking the kind way through. Where I’m at: petesprogress.com
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I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
Belated thanks for the heads up on this @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social Although I remember hearing the soundtrack in the 80s, I was probs too young to watch it on first screening. Just put that right and it’s a corker 🤠
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Belated thanks for the heads up on this @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social Although I remember hearing the soundtrack in the 80s, I was probs too young to watch it on first screening. Just put that right and it’s a corker 🤠
The Blue Nile’s Heatwave - the perfect pop song for an early autumn evening, despite its title?! Paul Buchanan’s aching melody over the bouncing bass line in the chorus gets me every time. @petepaphides.bsky.social
youtu.be/PypoQDHG6Kg?...
youtu.be/PypoQDHG6Kg?...
The Blue Nile - Heatwave (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Blue Nile Official
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November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Blue Nile’s Heatwave - the perfect pop song for an early autumn evening, despite its title?! Paul Buchanan’s aching melody over the bouncing bass line in the chorus gets me every time. @petepaphides.bsky.social
youtu.be/PypoQDHG6Kg?...
youtu.be/PypoQDHG6Kg?...
My For Folk’s Sake review of the timely new Mavis Staples album. www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/4198...
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My For Folk’s Sake review of the timely new Mavis Staples album. www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/4198...
This was such a refreshing, fun, life-affirming listen. Thanks Tim and Elliot 👍🏼
In the new Nomad Podcast episode, Tim and his 11-year-old son Elliot look back on a year of experimenting with spiritual practices — from activism and art to bird song and pilgrimage.
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This was such a refreshing, fun, life-affirming listen. Thanks Tim and Elliot 👍🏼
@martycricket.bsky.social loving the commentary even if I’m having to carefully pause the live stream to make you, Dave and Mel sync up. Not sure why they can’t use you on the stream like the Pears do?
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@martycricket.bsky.social loving the commentary even if I’m having to carefully pause the live stream to make you, Dave and Mel sync up. Not sure why they can’t use you on the stream like the Pears do?
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‘They just want a better life’: the UK households who host asylum seekers
‘They just want a better life’: the UK households who host asylum seekers
The charity Refugees at Home helps volunteers with a spare room to lend take in people who have sought refuge
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘They just want a better life’: the UK households who host asylum seekers
New blog post up featuring a trip to Moseley Folk Festival to see the brilliant @waterboysmusic.bsky.social plus a fortnight in France and my weirdly behaving cancer latest. @mickpuck.bsky.social www.petesprogress.com/post/reasons...
September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New blog post up featuring a trip to Moseley Folk Festival to see the brilliant @waterboysmusic.bsky.social plus a fortnight in France and my weirdly behaving cancer latest. @mickpuck.bsky.social www.petesprogress.com/post/reasons...
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Proud to stand with @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social in their campaign showing the support refugees receive across Scotland. Let’s keep building a country where everyone feels safe and welcome🧡
Be #PartOfTheBiggerPicture - buy their new t-shirt and help make Scotland more inclusive: ow.ly/JSXt50WmPoj
Be #PartOfTheBiggerPicture - buy their new t-shirt and help make Scotland more inclusive: ow.ly/JSXt50WmPoj
July 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Proud to stand with @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social in their campaign showing the support refugees receive across Scotland. Let’s keep building a country where everyone feels safe and welcome🧡
Be #PartOfTheBiggerPicture - buy their new t-shirt and help make Scotland more inclusive: ow.ly/JSXt50WmPoj
Be #PartOfTheBiggerPicture - buy their new t-shirt and help make Scotland more inclusive: ow.ly/JSXt50WmPoj
The new album by @bccamplight.bsky.social is something special. Can’t wait to see him live in Manchester later this year. Here’s my For Folk’s Sake review: shorturl.at/po2r5 @bellaunion.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The new album by @bccamplight.bsky.social is something special. Can’t wait to see him live in Manchester later this year. Here’s my For Folk’s Sake review: shorturl.at/po2r5 @bellaunion.bsky.social
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Thankyou for the music, melodies and inspiration Brian. I imagine you now restored to the place they all came from, a place on high.
June 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Thankyou for the music, melodies and inspiration Brian. I imagine you now restored to the place they all came from, a place on high.
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Got the new iOS 26 running
June 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Got the new iOS 26 running
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For most Jews, Israel was not about settler colonialism. It was supposed to be a safe homeland for a traumatised generation post-Holocaust. It was, in the Jewish consciousness, a homecoming to a land we’d been expelled from. What it’s become fills me with grief, rage & shame I can’t even articulate.
June 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
For most Jews, Israel was not about settler colonialism. It was supposed to be a safe homeland for a traumatised generation post-Holocaust. It was, in the Jewish consciousness, a homecoming to a land we’d been expelled from. What it’s become fills me with grief, rage & shame I can’t even articulate.
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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage
On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She cla...
www.bbc.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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The Guardian: Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop cancer returning #TomorrowsPapersToday
June 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Guardian: Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop cancer returning #TomorrowsPapersToday
Crap theme parks, Mike Peters, Miley Cyrus and re-purposed trees….new blog post up 🥸
www.petesprogress.com/post/stabs-o...
www.petesprogress.com/post/stabs-o...
May 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Crap theme parks, Mike Peters, Miley Cyrus and re-purposed trees….new blog post up 🥸
www.petesprogress.com/post/stabs-o...
www.petesprogress.com/post/stabs-o...
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Standing with @GuyPearce in calling for conscience over silence. The suffering of men, women and children in Palestine is a humanitarian crisis we must address. Let’s voice our disdain and act to stop this atrocity. #StandForHumanity #Palestine #ConscienceOverPolitics
May 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Standing with @GuyPearce in calling for conscience over silence. The suffering of men, women and children in Palestine is a humanitarian crisis we must address. Let’s voice our disdain and act to stop this atrocity. #StandForHumanity #Palestine #ConscienceOverPolitics
I loved chatting to Mike Peters as a young journo 26 years ago in Wolverhampton. He’d just got through his 1st bout of cancer. His, and Jules, brave battle with the disease has inspired me during my own cancer journey. RIP Mike.
”The more I know the more liberty I feel."
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”The more I know the more liberty I feel."
tinyurl.com/uvhkrktu
April 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I loved chatting to Mike Peters as a young journo 26 years ago in Wolverhampton. He’d just got through his 1st bout of cancer. His, and Jules, brave battle with the disease has inspired me during my own cancer journey. RIP Mike.
”The more I know the more liberty I feel."
tinyurl.com/uvhkrktu
”The more I know the more liberty I feel."
tinyurl.com/uvhkrktu
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RIP Mike Peters. Terribly sad news - thinking of his friends and family. Photo taken when The Alarm played Birmingham Poly in May 1983
April 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
RIP Mike Peters. Terribly sad news - thinking of his friends and family. Photo taken when The Alarm played Birmingham Poly in May 1983
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Rock in peace, Mike Peters. First sighted with The Alarm, Dingwalls, 1982, the night Johnny Thunders came on for Sylvain Sylvain's encore. Last connection - the happy and optimistic email he sent me a month ago, still full of life and good feeling. Travel on well, Dude.
April 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Rock in peace, Mike Peters. First sighted with The Alarm, Dingwalls, 1982, the night Johnny Thunders came on for Sylvain Sylvain's encore. Last connection - the happy and optimistic email he sent me a month ago, still full of life and good feeling. Travel on well, Dude.
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RIP Mike Peters - one of my first English language gigs at 14yrs was the Alarm at the massive Astra, Llandudno, Maffia Mr Huws opened. He was a pop superstar & had an ultra positive force, a spectacular gig. Me &BF thought we’d get our heads kicked in by punks but it was good vibes all round.
April 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
RIP Mike Peters - one of my first English language gigs at 14yrs was the Alarm at the massive Astra, Llandudno, Maffia Mr Huws opened. He was a pop superstar & had an ultra positive force, a spectacular gig. Me &BF thought we’d get our heads kicked in by punks but it was good vibes all round.
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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
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This #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth, you can help someone by sharing your story on @bowelcanceruk’s story wall. bit.ly/4iolti6 #PassItOn
April 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth, you can help someone by sharing your story on @bowelcanceruk’s story wall. bit.ly/4iolti6 #PassItOn