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Posts by Tony Barrell

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WHERE’S NEXT? Pete Townshend has sold up and moved out of the Wick, his famous house in Richmond. So is this the end of the Georgian property’s dazzling rock’n’roll story? ROCK HOMES, OCTOBER 2021 Pete Townshend su...

Pete Townshend lived here. So did Ronnie Wood. Hayley Mills grew up here, and the Rolling Stones and Monty Python's Flying Circus recorded here. Where am I?
#rocknroll #TheWho #MontyPython
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A photo of the front cover of issue 1673 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.”
The main headline reads “HUNGARY: ORBAN LOSES HISTORIC ELECTION.” The central image shows Viktor Orbán standing on stage alongside JD Vance, both raising their arms in front of a cheering crowd with Hungarian and US flags in the background. A speech bubble reads, “Who says America can’t achieve regime change?”
A strapline at the bottom reads “HUGE TRIUMPH FOR MAGA (SURELY MAGYAR? ED.).”

A photo of the front cover of issue 1673 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “HUNGARY: ORBAN LOSES HISTORIC ELECTION.” The central image shows Viktor Orbán standing on stage alongside JD Vance, both raising their arms in front of a cheering crowd with Hungarian and US flags in the background. A speech bubble reads, “Who says America can’t achieve regime change?” A strapline at the bottom reads “HUGE TRIUMPH FOR MAGA (SURELY MAGYAR? ED.).”

Hungary: Orban loses historic election

The new Private Eye is out now.

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A wonderful 38ft mural of the late great KURT VONNEGUT - who left us 19yrs ago today - in his hometown of Indianapolis.

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Disphits?

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Cartoon by Nick Anderson.

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I'm sorry the world has lost Glen Baxter. One of a kind. #GlenBaxter #farewell

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I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

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There's a FACE in this knot, seen on the wooden wall of a Cornish restaurant. Is it David Bowie? I'm calling it "Knot On Wood".
#Face #Bowie #spooky #knot #Cornwall

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Definitely. Where is he at the moment? Hopefully suiting up for Uranus.

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This is a long-established right-wing Christian position. I once heard a sermon in Roswell, New Mexico (of all places), in which a preacher identified aliens as demons or biblical "Nephilim".

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Not the best title for a children's book.
#Space #childrensbook

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What's that smell?

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WIDE-EYED AND WEBLESS ‘Mummy, what was it like before the internet?’ Tony Barrell looks back to the Pre-Online Era OCTOBER 2015 There are millions of young people walking around today who never knew the world before the in...

Here are my memories of "life before the internet". What are yours?
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I can't drive either. I don't have the skills and I need to keep the roads safe for others!

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I've resolved to do this every day now – starting today.

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DID ELVIS VISIT LONDON? Did the singer Tommy Steele give Elvis Presley a secret tour of the UK capital in 1958? Tony Barrell investigates APRIL 2021 It was once a universally accepted fact that Elvis Presley never set foot i...

Did Elvis Presley visit London secretly in the 1950s?
Here is the truth. #Elvis #London #spooky
www.tonybarrell.com/did-elvis-vi...

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After I buttered some bread, I suddenly saw this face in it!
It wasn't just me: when I took the picture, my phone suggested I "try Portrait Mode".
#face #bread #spooky

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Utterly fed up with people "doubling down" on this, that and the other. I double over whenever I hear it now. It won't be long before people are tripling and trebling down, and I'm going to quadruple down on all of them.
#doublingdown #doubledown #doubleplusgood #doublebubble

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MISTLETOE AND SPIES How can we add some Christmas sparkle to the James Bond films? Tony Barrell mulls it over  DECEMBER 2025 The trouble with James Bond films is that they don’t have enough tinsel, reindeer, mistletoe or...

James Bond films need to be more Christmassy! Here's how...
www.tonybarrell.com/mistletoe-an...

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Were you ever naughty like this?

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SQUAWK OF THE TOWN Bright green parakeets are now an established feature of London. But where did these noisy birds come from? Tony Barrell explains OCTOBER 2025 As I walk around the green spaces of southwest London, my...

Read all about the parakeets of London... and elsewhere.
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Seen in Teddington... A New Career in a New Town?

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It's a good day for big points in Blossom!
#Blossom #game #bigwords

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Questionably, too.

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Here's a recent email that "got me barnacled". What??!??
When I read it, I was "in extraordinary eudaemonia and upper intoxicant". What???!
It's all "written" by Artificial Stupidity, of course.

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POP FACT: La Isla Bonita is of course Madonna’s tribute to the lovely and fragrant Isla St Clair.

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It is a coincidence that ‘emoji’ and ‘emoticon’ sound alike.

‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”).

‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’

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