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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 1d

"In 62 years, in that far-off future space year 2082, would the children of Generation Epsilon — in between school trips to the moon & daily downloads of every book ever written — be called upon to learn about Lockdown?"

@finlay24.bsky.social on forgetting👇

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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?

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 2d

"The pandemic is already consigned to the same memory black hole as Swampy, Cat Bin Lady and freakshakes."
@finlay24.bsky.social 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?

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 2d

"Politicians will happily drone on & on about the wrecked economy, the absent schoolchildren, the broken NHS and the rise of extremism but never — never — do they dare utter a word about the cause. They cannot."

@finlay24.bsky.social returns to DECADE👇

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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?

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 3d

"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."
@finlay24.bsky.social on the covid lockdowns of 2020.
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/d...

Decade: Lockdown (2020)

Do you remember the covid lockdowns? asks FINLAY McLAREN. Of course you do. So why have we chosen to forget?

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Finlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · 3d

Here's something I wrote! It's about Lockdown, lapses of memory and looking the other way.
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/11/d...

Decade: Lockdown (2020)

Do you remember the covid lockdowns? asks FINLAY McLAREN. Of course you do. So why have we chosen to forget?

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Finlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · 3d

Decade 2020 will be with you all tomorrow morning!

Finlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · 12d

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 15d

Coming next in DECADE: 2020 – in which @finlay24.bsky.social rips the 😷 off lockdown Britain.

Catch up with his ongoing cultural odyssey below, and find out where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going...

Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · Sep 13

"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 we’ve been and where we’re 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 Bowie’s album Blackstar.

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · Sep 13

"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 we’ve been and where we’re going. (1/10)

thelionandunicorn.com/2025/08/03/d...

Decade: Blackstar (2016)

In a new series on 10 cultural works from the last 10 years, FINLAY McLAREN assesses David Bowie’s album Blackstar.

thelionandunicorn.com

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · Sep 12

Nice to be mentioned in this:

Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · Sep 10

"At its best, the podcast sounds like Desert Island Discs in the style of anarchic 1990s TV; at its worst, it’s like being sat next to a stag do on an eight-hour flight"

In the latest instalment of Decade, @finlay24.bsky.social goes OFF MENU👇

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Decade: Off Menu (2019)

Podcasts were meant to be better than this, weren’t they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.

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Finlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed!

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Chinny Honk @chinnyhonk.bsky.social · Sep 12

Great article. Don't really know the cooking podcast but the argument against 'new media' is excellent.

Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · Sep 12

"This isn’t really ‘new’ media at all. It’s the same faces, the same anecdotes, the same cultural chokehold, just on Spotify instead of the BBC. A gerontocracy with AirPods in"

@finlay24.bsky.social decries the 'cultural landlords' who bought up podcasting👇

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Decade: Off Menu (2019)

Podcasts were meant to be better than this, weren’t they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · Sep 12

"This isn’t really ‘new’ media at all. It’s the same faces, the same anecdotes, the same cultural chokehold, just on Spotify instead of the BBC. A gerontocracy with AirPods in"

@finlay24.bsky.social decries the 'cultural landlords' who bought up podcasting👇

thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/d...

Decade: Off Menu (2019)

Podcasts were meant to be better than this, weren’t they? asks FINLAY McLAREN.

thelionandunicorn.com

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Finlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · Sep 12

Gorg!!

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