Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
7th August
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London Beard Week 2021: Karl Marx & Michael Rosen voted Best Ever London Beards
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that as part of London Beard Week which marks the continued growth of beards in the Capital, Karl Marx and Michael Rosen have been voted Best Ever London Beards in an on-line poll.
Karl Marx topped the vote in the Classic London Beards category while Michael Rosen won the Contemporary London Beards poll.
It is the second year the two beard wearers have jointly topped the poll.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the Best Ever London Beard is not about the length of the beard or its style but the positive impact that the follicles of the wearer have made on London life. Clearly Marx and Rosen are amongst the most well-known hirsute Londoners of the modern era, although so far only one has a statue
The campaigners say that aside from the many more beards seen in workplaces, shops and pubs, there is also a growth of specialist beard care shops and hairdressers offering beard trims and treatments, although the BLF advises against beard trims in barbers shops.
London Beard Week is a celebration of London, now one of the most beard friendly Capital cities in the world, and of London’s great hirsute heritage from Charles Dickens to Karl Marx through to modern day beards such as England football captain Harry Kane and author and Arsenal fan Michael Rosen.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, London is striking a decisive blow against pogonophobia, the irrational dislike of facial hair. It’s now respectable to wear a beard in London but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for hirsute rebellion as well.
London Beard Week poll to find London’s Best Ever Beard.
Charles Dickens, author
Karl Marx, philosopher and activist
Michael Rosen, author & broadcaster
William Morris, socialist & designer
William Cuffay, Leader of London Chartism
Bernie Grant, London Labour MP
Tim Dunn, railway historian
Billy Bragg, musician
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