Head in the clouds and a mouthful of pie
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"Certainly our suggestion that Mystic Meg be entrusted with economic forecasting couldn’t have been any worse than leaving it to the Treasury"
@DrAlwynTurner remembers his time as ghost-writer for Screaming Lord Sutch👇
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The Burnham regime already having its effect on the graffiti of London #gravy – at Hammersmith, London
When I wrote this piece on life as a former prime minister in 2019, there was about to be a record-equalling 5th livimg ex-PM. That number is about to become 9 (only 1 behind Italy) thelionandunicorn.com/2019/0… – at United Kingdom
Paul Saffer retweeted
"‘Politics and the Liberal Party will be gayer for his leadership,’ declared the Daily Mirror."
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It's 30 years since Bovril tycoon James Goldsmith officially launched the Referendum Party in his usual modest fashion - and eventually changed British politics, but not in the way you think (me for Lion & Unicorn) thelionandunicorn.com/2025/1…
Worth pointing out that Kenneth Williams switched sides to ITV for his political punditry in the 1980s thelionandunicorn.com/2018/0…
"Watch the pauses, the hesitations, the small courtesies between people who disagree but still want to understand. These old debates aren’t relics; they’re reminders that intelligence & civility once shared the same studio space"
@fin_lay24 backs chat👇
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It's been 10 years of the Lion and Unicorn blog ... and a decade of, er, interesting times in British politics thelionandunicorn.com/2025/0…
Paul Saffer retweeted
"Farage may hate many things, but he at least does not seem to hate himself – no wonder his self-confident Reform has proved more attractive to those who would usually look to the Tories when dissatisfied with a Labour government"
From @PaulSaffer1👇
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The Football Governance Act has done something that ministers from Rab Butler onwards dismissed as unthinkable - legislative regulation of soccer. Here is how we got here ....
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As @LionUnicornNews turns 10, a look back at a decade of my articles for the site in a decade of British sporting boom - chronicled through Jimmy Hill's goldfish, Leicester City inspiring Brexit (kinda) and sport explaining ... everything thelionandunicorn.wordpress.…
@LionUnicornNews is currently in @X jail for mysterious reasons but 10 years of all sorts from @AlwynTurner, @samkarlharrison and many others (and me) can be found here thelionandunicorn.wordpress.…
How to put music on TV - the programme that makes Later... with Jools Holland look like Cheggers Plays Pop 🇯🇵 youtu.be/eQxMwFYLId8?t=167
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After almost exactly 10 happy years on @X, the @LionUnicornNews account has been suspended.
While we await the outcome of our appeal for release from @Grok Gaol, I'm using this new personal account to promote our wonderful writers.
Give us the loving by sharing & following.
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As we watch a Nations League final in Munich followed by a Club World Cup in the USA and Women's EURO in Switzerland, let us salute the man who, if not the father of modern football, was at least its midwife - Blue Peter and Kick Start's @purves_peter 👇
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Yes I do mean the playwright Woodrow Wyatt, who dabbled in politics before finding his true calling in the theatre thelionandunicorn.wordpress.…