Pete Davies
@pete-davies
Guinnarcho-syndicalist/ Class struggle 👍 party politics 👎/ Cardiff City FC/ Chair Cardiff County Unison/ Books (mainly SF)/ Plant eating cat butler/ Da bedeirgoes, drwg dwygoes/ Save pubs FFS!
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring. 1943 oil on canvas, by Laura Knight. It depicts a young woman, Ruby Loftus, cutting the screw of a breech-ring for an anti-aircraft gun. Commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to encourage more women to work in factories.
Beautiful image from this CIA propaganda film www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzu_...
"I've never read Marx's Capital, but I've got the marks of capital all over my body." (Big Bill Haywood)
Retired Admiral Baron West was on Radio 4 just now saying that if we didn't spend much more on defence we'd have Russian and Chechen soldiers rampaging through British streets raping women. And this explains why we need to cut welfare spending.
6,000 year old Tinkinswood Burial Chamber has the UK's largest capstone I believe. A picture enhanced by the modern day pylon in the background, both complementing and contrasting with the ancient features in the landscape.
Radical History School, part of the annual Nye Bevan Festival in his (and mine) home town of Tredegar.
The little guy outjumps the big guy. That's the definition of anarchy! ✊
Startling football factoid that the manager has shared the nationality of the winning team in every World Cup to date. Looking at the teams and managers competing this time, it looks like Brazil (Ancelotti) are the only ones who might break this historic run. I wouldn't bet on Brazil winning though.
wonderful to see today's antisemitism demo totally not conflating Israel with Jewishness
Lager before breakfast. Sunscreen slathered. Feels like summer has arrived in Cardiff! Glamorgan v Leicestershire 4 dayer.
Lammy wants to get the Strait of Hormuz open. Does he actually realise why it's been closed, or who is actually blockading it now? Just embarrassing.
It's mad that this isn't being treated as the national scandal that it is, nor being addressed as a massive brake on economic growth.
You can walk from there to St Lythan's burial chamber too, which is also really worth seeing - it's about 15 mins walk.
He's been phenomenal lately. Column on 2nd right is appearances. He's played half the games of the others on the list and 2/3 of the rest.
Quality sleuthing from top Welsh journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social exposes Tory politician Janet Finch-Saunders's yearning for Elon and his incredible new Tesla phone (the latter I think is probably a hoax, the former sadly does exist).
Back in the day the basket looked more like this - a plastic wicker abomination.
As someone who's been a Unison member since NUPE merged with NALGO and COHSE over 30 years ago, I can't even begin to describe how refreshing these comments from Andrea Egan are.
South African test player Paul Adams had a hell of a bowling action and a respectable record of 134 wickets in 45 tests played between 1995 and 2004. Great picture of the contortions his action entailed.
Cardiff City v Arsenal, 1927 FA Cup Final. Charlie Buchan and Billy Hardy compete for the ball, and that's probably City captain Fred Keenor looking on.
The Fraud - Paul Holden's expose of Starmer, McSweeney and their crew is brilliantly researched and written. He's going to be in Cardiff talking about the book with the admirable Beth Winter and Andrew Feinstein on Monday 19th Jan.