Finlay McLaren
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'Our purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse. Nothing serious, nothing political.' đŠ: @fin_lay24
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Here's something I wrote! It's about Lockdown, lapses of memory and looking the other way.
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Decade: Lockdown (2020)
Do you remember the covid lockdowns? asks FINLAY McLAREN. Of course you do. So why have we chosen to forget?
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/decade-lockdown-2020/
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Lion & Unicorn
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"In 62 years, in that far-off future space year 2082, would the children of Generation Epsilon â in between school trips to the moon & daily downloads of every book ever written â be called upon to learn about Lockdown?"
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on forgettingđ
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Decade: Lockdown (2020)
Do you remember the covid lockdowns? asks FINLAY McLAREN. Of course you do. So why have we chosen to forget?
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/decade-lockdown-2020/
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Lion & Unicorn
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"The pandemic is already consigned to the same memory black hole as Swampy, Cat Bin Lady and freakshakes."
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on the Lockdown that Time Forgot.
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Decade: Lockdown (2020)
Do you remember the covid lockdowns? asks FINLAY McLAREN. Of course you do. So why have we chosen to forget?
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/decade-lockdown-2020/
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Lion & Unicorn
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"Politicians will happily drone on & on about the wrecked economy, the absent schoolchildren, the broken NHS and the rise of extremism but never â never â do they dare utter a word about the cause. They cannot."
@finlay24.bsky.social
returns to DECADEđ
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Decade: Lockdown (2020)
Do you remember the covid lockdowns? asks FINLAY McLAREN. Of course you do. So why have we chosen to forget?
http://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/decade-lockdown-2020/
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Lion & Unicorn
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"The biggest domestic upheaval since the war has been wiped from memory. Poof. Gone. Evaporated. We were barely out of our masks before we decided never to mention them again."
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on the covid lockdowns of 2020.
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Decade: Lockdown (2020)
Do you remember the covid lockdowns? asks FINLAY McLAREN. Of course you do. So why have we chosen to forget?
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/decade-lockdown-2020/
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Here's something I wrote! It's about Lockdown, lapses of memory and looking the other way.
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/d...
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Decade: Lockdown (2020)
Do you remember the covid lockdowns? asks FINLAY McLAREN. Of course you do. So why have we chosen to forget?
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/decade-lockdown-2020/
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Decade 2020 will be with you all tomorrow morning!
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Lion & Unicorn
16 days ago
Coming next in DECADE: 2020 â in which
@finlay24.bsky.social
rips the đ· off lockdown Britain. Catch up with his ongoing cultural odyssey below, and find out where weâve been, where we are, and where weâre going...
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Lion & Unicorn
about 1 month ago
"Bowie was always looking ahead. He had an uncanny ability to predict the next big thing. This is why in 2016, he chose to die" DECADE by
@finlay24.bsky.social
presents ten cultural artefacts, telling the story of where weâve been and where weâre going. (1/10)
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Decade: Blackstar (2016)
In a new series on 10 cultural works from the last 10 years, FINLAY McLAREN assesses David Bowieâs album Blackstar.
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/08/03/decade-black-star-2016/
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Goon Pod
about 1 month ago
Nice to be mentioned in this:
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Chinny Honk
about 1 month ago
Great article. Don't really know the cooking podcast but the argument against 'new media' is excellent.
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Finlay McLaren
Lion & Unicorn
about 1 month ago
"This isnât really ânewâ media at all. Itâs the same faces, the same anecdotes, the same cultural chokehold, just on Spotify instead of the BBC. A gerontocracy with AirPods in"
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decries the 'cultural landlords' who bought up podcastingđ
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Decade: Off Menu (2019)
Podcasts were meant to be better than this, werenât they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.
http://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/decade-off-menu-2019/
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Finlay McLaren
Lion & Unicorn
about 1 month ago
"Youâre not listening to the scrappy outsiders â the people who first made the space and who would actually benefit from your support â but to cultural landlords who now own the space"
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takes on the podcast industrial complexđ
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/d...
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Decade: Off Menu (2019)
Podcasts were meant to be better than this, werenât they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/decade-off-menu-2019/
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Finlay McLaren
Lion & Unicorn
about 1 month ago
"At its best, the podcast sounds like Desert Island Discs in the style of anarchic 1990s TV; at its worst, itâs like being sat next to a stag do on an eight-hour flight" In the latest instalment of Decade,
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goes OFF MENUđ
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Decade: Off Menu (2019)
Podcasts were meant to be better than this, werenât they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/decade-off-menu-2019/
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Here's my podcast polemic where I'm very rude about lots of celebrities.
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/d...
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Decade: Off Menu (2019)
Podcasts were meant to be better than this, werenât they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/decade-off-menu-2019/
about 1 month ago
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Finlay McLaren
Lion & Unicorn
about 1 month ago
"If this is supposed to be ânewâ media, why all the old faces?" asks
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thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/d...
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Decade: Off Menu (2019)
Podcasts were meant to be better than this, werenât they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.
https://thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/decade-off-menu-2019/
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Lion & Unicorn
about 1 month ago
"The Soup Dragon burbles & gurgles, like a BBC Radiophonic Workshop arrangement of 'Teach Yourself Heath', promising free soup for all but none for Froglets. The Froglet candidate counters with a manifesto pledging the opposite"
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on 'the' 1974 electionđ
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Last night on YouTube: Clangers
FINLAY McLAREN casts a vote for Froglet in the October 1974 general election.
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Here's something I wrote! It's about the Clangers, cosmic charm and a much-needed moment of calm.
thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/l...
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Last night on YouTube: Clangers
FINLAY McLAREN casts a vote for Froglet in the October 1974 general election.
https://thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/last-night-on-youtube-clangers/
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Lion & Unicorn
about 1 month ago
"A joyous, yet melancholic and wholly original vision of what the world, and television, could be."
@finlay24.bsky.social
pays tribute to the Clangers.
thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/l...
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Last night on YouTube: Clangers
FINLAY McLAREN casts a vote for Froglet in the October 1974 general election.
https://thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/last-night-on-youtube-clangers/
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No Decade piece from me this week folks, but I do have something a bit special coming out tomorrow instead.
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Morris_Oxford
about 2 months ago
Buckle up, this is the start of the corrie storyline GOAT.
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I want to thank Jane for her continued promotion of my piece on Paddington 2. It's much appreciated!
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Henry Jeffreys
about 2 months ago
wrote a thing about alcohol and fiction
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Drink and fiction
âThere was always, sooner or later, bad news that had to be broken, comforting lies to be uttered, pink gins to be consumed to keep misery away.â
https://henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/drink-and-fiction
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Coates is Odd This Day
about 2 months ago
At about 4.10pm on this day 54 years ago, something weird started happening on Scottish Television. There was no announcement, and no credit was given to the person who had created them, but strange short films suddenly started popping up in the schedules
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But don't just take Jane's word for it folks! My dangerous right-wing polemic on Paddington Bear and the rise of Be Kind Britain is available to read here:
thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/d...
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Lion & Unicorn
about 2 months ago
"This raw, aching testimony of a couple stripped of everything except one another never shakes the faint whiff of artisanal sourdough. The Winnsâ hardships are relayed with the bemused smugness of a minor royal touring a sub-post office"
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Decade: The Salt Path (2018)
FINLAY McLAREN on the cultural phenomenon of The Salt Path, and how it sold us what we deserved.
https://wp.me/p6lzJb-7B9
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Henry Jeffreys
about 2 months ago
"What is surprising is that, despite all the sales, the acclaim, the award shortlists and the column inches, The Salt Path is almost unreadable. "
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Decade: The Salt Path (2018)
FINLAY McLAREN on the cultural phenomenon of The Salt Path, and how it sold us what we deserved.
https://thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/decade-the-salt-path-2018/
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Morris_Oxford
about 2 months ago
Oh here he is, with his wry, sideways look at life (with tongue firmly in cheek).
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Gillian
about 2 months ago
Not only is this a glorious account of how weâve all been admiring the Emperorâs new clothes, it also provides me with a delectable new bio.
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Bouba's Delivery Service
about 2 months ago
If you have schadenfreude tendencies, you'll like this one.
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Nick
about 2 months ago
Ooffftt! ââŠRaynorâs efforts simply render the magnificent landscapes of Devon and Cornwall as joyless, grey backdrops to her own ceaseless complaining. The South West Coast Path should sue for defamation of character.â
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Stephen Graham
about 2 months ago
Fun read, this.
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Here's something I wrote! It's about The Salt Path, stories, and the stock exchange of human suffering. Hope you enjoy!
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about 2 months ago
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Ben Finlay
about 2 months ago
A brilliant read -
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Keith Frankish
about 2 months ago
I do like an elegant literary evisceration, and this one's a corker.
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