Seaside sex symbol, lover of the lurid and ludicrous
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Have been quite glum about the state of the nation, the world & X formerly known as Twitter lately but have had a call to remind me that I am needed to make all 3 chuckle
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love playing the "what didn't the Irish like about this one?" game
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All the best people are reading it. Don’t be left out!
NEW ARTICLE by me about mid-60s Britain on TV. You can read it if you like: thelionandunicorn.com/2026/0…
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When your father’s just been murdered and you can’t concentrate
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NEW ARTICLE by me about mid-60s Britain on TV. You can read it if you like: thelionandunicorn.com/2026/0…
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Erm, I don't think I require someone with a besmirched character and an unsightly refrigerator to rate microwave repasts. Thanks all the same.
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"Trevor Philpott asks the pressing question: ‘Would you let your daughter marry a man who trod the streets crying “rag-bone”?’"
In his latest article for Lion & Unicorn, @hellothisisivan goes deep into the Sixties👇
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/0…
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The BBC will shut down all their foreign news bureaux rather than stop commissioning identikit chuntering podcasts.
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What were they investigating exactly? There hasn’t been a joke on HIGNFY for years.
The BBC has been accused of wasting licence fee payers’ money after spending almost a year investigating a joke.
Read more about the joke here ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
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"Stripper Annette dashes between four Soho clubs each night ‘with the expediency of a fireman answering an alarm’ in order to provide for herself & her boyfriend Colin, a ‘poet, painter & designer of Aztec jewellery’"
@hellothisisivan is deep into the 60s
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By me!
"Pauline, with her big eyelashes, blonde Vidal Sassoon hairdo and loudly patterned clothes, has a go-ahead job with one of the new boutique chains revolutionising the country’s fashion"
The latest piece from @hellothisisivan on the BBC's MAN ALIVE👇
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/0…
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This is excellent stuff about mid-60s Britain on TV by @hellothisisivan and I thoroughly encourage you to read it:
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/0…
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Oh, hello!
Yes, it's me for the Times(!) reviewing The Man Who Was Private Widdle by Roger Lewis, a biography of Carry On star Charles Hawtrey.
thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
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We were not in it for the money!
Gutted @antoinedecaunes & @JPGaultier didn’t make the new Euro notes.
Absolute cultural ambassadors for Europe!
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People think this is overreacting but I think if you walk into the “don’t use your phone room” during the “don’t use your phone time” and then decide to use your phone we should probably put you down
Immediately blocking anyone who defends cell phone use in a movie theater as the movie plays. There is no defense, there is no rationality, just the selfish, whiny tantrums of adult children who don’t think they live in a society
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