Finlay McLaren
Writer for the Lion & Unicorn and the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for
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- 'I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace'
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- 'Really Anne, you without a Bluesky account. I don't know how you manage.'
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- Yes, it's ANOTHER Substack. Only this one is mine, so it's best! First piece due out soon ⏬Link below to subscribe⏬
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- David Bowie's last album Blackstar was released ten years ago today. Here's me on the record and how Bowie's death marked the beginning of the end for post-war Britain. ⏬Link Below⏬
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- Reposted by Finlay McLarenIn "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.
- Reposted by Finlay McLarenI rewatched A Matter of Life and Death last night, what a strange & wonderful film, it seems to find your own liminal spaces & speak to them – the fog, the stairway & those pink rhododendrons. It is both here & it is not here – as one reviewer wrote the “too-muchness of it all is exactly the point”.
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- Reposted by Finlay McLarenActress Voliet Carson, who most famously played Ena Sharples in Coronation Street, died #OTD in 1983. Here's our @finlay24.bsky.social on the very first episode of Corrie, in which "The height of drama comes when Ena storms in to complain about a bad egg". thelionandunicorn.com/2025/12/26/l...
- Ex-situationship just posted a song on their story that *could* be construed as being about me.
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- Here's me on Coronation Street and the disappearance of working class Britain from TV thelionandunicorn.com/2025/12/26/l...
- A very merry Christmas from all of us here at Finlay Towers!
- I have an essay about the first episode of Coronation Street coming out on Boxing Day, Fin-Fans. Hope you'll all enjoy!
- What? No Ian Watkins?
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- Fifty years ago today, Leo McKern made his first appearance as defence barrister Horace Rumpole in an episode of Play for Today by John Mortimer. Here's something I wrote about the resulting Rumpole series Rumpole of the Bailey. thelionandunicorn.com/2025/07/13/l...
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- Reposted by Finlay McLarenTonight on Dailymotion, BBC ghost story for Christmas 'A Warning to the Curious' (1972). @finlay24.bsky.social and I are agreed: Clive Swift is Britain's Paul Giamatti. www.dailymotion.com/video/x7cl5bv
- Two days off work, Fin Fans, so I've officially started on a brand-new piece. Can't wait to share it with you all!
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- Happy 65th to the best loved street in the nation
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- I wrote this article about BBC Archive and nostalgia for pre-digital Britain thelionandunicorn.com/2025/12/04/l...
- And in this week's episode of the Beatles Anthology, the part of Paul McCartney will be played by Mr Chow Mein
- Fixing a Hole (in the Great Wall of China) Let it Be-ijing The Long and Winding Silk Road Chairman Mao-donna
- That was only the first day!
- 'What do you do for an encore, Corbyn?'
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- Have just finished the first draft of my next piece! It's about highland crofters, pub pianists and the morning commute. Expect it to arrive sometime next week, Fin-fans!
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- A new Finlarticle coming to you all soon!
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- Pointing at straight people
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- A new @lionunicorn.bsky.social piece from me about Parky and Kenneth and Jimmy Reid thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/23/l...
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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...
- Decade 2020 will be with you all tomorrow morning!
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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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- 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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- No Decade piece from me this week folks, but I do have something a bit special coming out tomorrow instead.
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