Peter Bowker

@andydawson.bsky.social @tftimemachine.bsky.social
Deep dive?

Screen Two - The Firm Drama about Bex, an estate agent with a seemingly respectable family life who is also a football hooligan leading a vicious 'firm' of thugs.

This aired 37 years ago today.

Gary Oldman is untouchable in it.

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True Dat. #TheArchers

The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.

Tomorrow I am doing a clowning workshop and will still somehow be more serious than our government

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Countdown to the Farage argument that the only way to remove the risk of “family voting” from elections is to impose a ban on women voting.

It’s a rotten result for Labour who are going to have to suck it up and prepare for a really rough Spring, but to hear Karl Turner refer to it on the Today programme as the “worst possible outcome” was nonsense. Any time the fascists lose is never bad news. Victor’s speech was naive idealism.

A ‘bunnikins’ style illustration of a mouse in red coat boots high up in a tree with a black bird. He has lost his family and the blackbird is helping him to a good vantage point.

Ladybird book in the spotlight.
Lost at the Fair, 1948
Artist: A Macgregor

Loved both this and your searing analysis.

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Farage like all posh boys pretending he’s a man of the people referred to United as “Man U”. Tells me everything I need to know about the man. I hear he’s a bit racist too. #Ratcliffe

We might be going to the Sound of Music, we got our anoraks at British Home Stores.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sathnam Sanghera: what Jim Ratcliffe got wrong about immigration Britain is a multicultural country because it ran a multicultural empire. Would he undo the sacrifice my ancestors made?

Feels like I am going to have to keep writing this piece every other fortnight, forever. @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/article/e624...

The mayor in jaws

‘I’m sorry if you feel your child was eaten by a shark’

Manchester United team photo (without any immigrants).

Sorry for his choice of language. Can he just apologise for speaking untruths. His immigration figures were wrong and “colonisation” of the UK by immigrants has not happened. He clearly does not understand what the word means or he does and was using it provocatively. #Ratcliffe

PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland

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Everton press conference first question:

"Hi Michael, since your last match Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said the UK has been colonised by immigrants. How do your overseas players feel about those comments?"

Fucking depressing but not surprising. Pretty rich for him to be complaining about the cost of benefits when he is lobbying for a Government handout to build a stadium which will make him even richer.

Ep 175 with Robin Ince (Part 1) Podcast Episode · What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel · 02/02/2026 · 56m

Hello, here is part one of me talking to Mark Steel about many things as usual though I think we eventually got on to neurodivergence

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Small Prophets was absolutely lush. Going to have to rattle through the whole series on iPlayer.

Carol Tregorran stiill alive!!! #TheArchers

How much is the farm worth? On paper? How big is it? Anyone know? #TheArchers

Like Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney helped deliver electoral victory but, in doing so, debased and subverted everything his party claimed to stand for.

Only one dame in Torquay and she is going with some body.

But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?

Finally detailed, mixed media illustration of an overgrown kitchen garden in front of a Manor House set in wooded, rising ground

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
'The Old Farmyard, Findon Place'
Artist: SR Badmin

Thank you for p_____s they are lovely.