"Deep Sea Skiving" and other 1980s album titles...
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"Deep Sea Skiving" and other 1980s album titles...
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In the Mood for Something Rude? It's @alwynturner.bsky.social's eighty favourite album titles from the 1980s.
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From Let It Bee to Filth Hounds of Hades, the eighty best/worst British album titles of the 1980s.
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"The election broadcast was Goldsmith alone, staring unblinking into the camera for a full 5-minute address, his intense demeanour and ominous message resembling a Bond villain explaining an apocalyptic plan..."
James Goldsmith was born 26 Feb 1933.
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"To accompany their panoply of arresting visual images, Tony Garnett and Roy Battersby wanted intelligent, experimental music. They sought advice from John Peel..."
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"Harold Smith becomes notorious when, demonstrating what most people believe to be harmless conjuring tricks in a care home one afternoon, he accidentally stops three heart pacemakers, killing the people concerned."
Happy 89th birthday to Sir Tom Courtenay.
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"Things reach a rousing, and rather noisy conclusion with a gynecologically explicit childbirth scene during which Waters, and his Pink Floyd colleagues rock out with ‘Give Birth to a Smile’."
"The Body" is a very odd film.
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"Ray’s father is himself little more than a boy in character - though that may just be what you get from casting Kenneth More."
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From the archive, ten years ago: What was going to happen to 3 million jobs if we voted to leave the EU?
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"Terrible things started happening to boys who wandered on to bombsites in British films..."
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"Terrible things started happening to boys who wandered on to bombsites in British films..."
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From the archive, ten years ago: What was going to happen to 3 million jobs if we voted to leave the EU?
thelionandunicorn.com/2016/02/23/c...
"Things got so bad that not even an adult Richard Attenborough was safe; he is seen on a bombsite by a nosy neighbour and as a result later accused of murdering a child."
@lordbonkers.bsky.social on the dangers of bombsites in post-war British cinema.
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On the centenary of Kenneth Williams's birth, let's celebrate his encounter with Glaswegian socialist Jimmy Reid, "a reminder that intelligence and civility once shared the same studio space and that we were all the richer for it".
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"So dangerous did bombsites become for boy actors that Jon Whiteley ventured on to them twice and got caught up with a murderer both times."
I've written another piece for Lion & Unicorn blog: @lionunicorn.bsky.social
"You’re late."
"I had things to do. With the boys."
"But you’re always with the boys..."
@lordbonkers.bsky.social on the excellent 1958 movie Innocent Sinners.
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"The claim that ‘no one voted for mass immigration’ has been heard for decades. Is it true?"
@alwynturner.bsky.social on 60 years of promises on immigration.👇
"People who have come to the UK to work make a substantial contribution to our economy, our public services, and our communities."
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"Our larder isn’t sticking in you, is it?"
Happy birthday to Mike Leigh, who's 83 today.
Here's @benfinlay74.bsky.social on his classic play "Nuts in May".
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#AShellshockedNation by @alwynturner.bsky.social is out today!
A fresh and inventive social history of interwar Britain, from Armistice and the Spanish flu to the announcement of war.
'Alwyn Turner is the master of funny, engaging social history' Sunday Times
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"Our philosophy is simple: if you are ready to work hard and there is work for you to do, then you are welcome here…"
A guide to what every incoming government since 1964 said about immigration in their manifestos.
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Look out for new articles from me on Central Bylines and Lion & Unicorn very shortly.
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"Our philosophy is simple: if you are ready to work hard and there is work for you to do, then you are welcome here…"
A guide to what every incoming government since 1964 said about immigration in their manifestos.
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/18/i...
"There will be no further large scale permanent immigration..."
A quick guide to the manifesto promises made on immigration by each government elected in 1964-2024.
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A happy 65th birthday to Food Security Minister, Angela Eagle.
Her career hasn't always run smoothly: "Blair forgot Home Office minister Angela Eagle existed, gave someone else her job and effectively sacked her from the government by mistake."
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These and many more are to be found among my 70 favourite album titles of the 1970s.
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"For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night"
@alwynturner.bsky.social selects his 70 favourite album titles from the 1970s.
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"For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night"
@alwynturner.bsky.social selects his 70 favourite album titles from the 1970s.
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/14/a...
"Never trust a man who owns a sex guide. There are some things you should know how to do without reading a manual."
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