Retro_George 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🕊️

Freelance scribe, would-be paperback writer, retro lover and blogger of articles, reviews and images of 1960s, '70s and '80s culture. You're welcome, Internets.

[Retro_George 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🕊️ @Retro_George]

Blighty has always been renowned for its sense of humour (and, let's face it, we all need one nowadays) but when it comes to maybe its finest comedy exponent - the great British sitcom - what sits atop the tree? Find out my #1 pick here... 📺🇬🇧🤣👏👍

https://t.co/11vjFPdDnR

[SophieSpring97 @SophieP25397]

If Keir Starmer, Ed Davey or Zack Polanski or even Badenoch took a £5million bung or used the language Farage has twice..

They would be GONE. The media alone would have hounded them out of their job within a week.

There's your two tiers alright.

And it is the media.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.

It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.

A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.

At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.

Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.

On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

No, of course not.

Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

Yes, of course he was.

He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.

His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.

Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.

This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.

And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.

END RANT.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

If only someone in the media would expose Farage's incitement yesterday via performative utterance in the same way that Jonathan Miller humiliated Enoch Powell and his grubby little racism.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled by MPs as he calls on Keir Starmer to end "two-tier policing"

Starmer: "His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who lost his son & asked for this not to happen... it shows exactly who he is"

#PMQs

[Retro_George 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🕊️ @Retro_George]

@SaucySeventies "Papillon was here" 😆

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The opposite of a man of the people.

Tax dodging crook running of tax dodgers money.

They think they can buy the country with money they saved dodging tax.

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

John McGinn, Tammy Abraham and Tyrone Mings 📈

The first players in history to win the Championship play-off final and a major European trophy with the same club 💜

[TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 6x💉 @BettinaSRoss1]

So what happens when Reform take over your local council?

This.

#KentCountyCouncil

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

44 YEARS IN THE MAKING. 🏆

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

It really happened. 🏆

[Prime Video Sport UK @primevideosport]

Aston Villa have won more games in European competition than any other side in the last three seasons 🔥🤩

[John McGinn @jmcginn7]

Good morning villains 💜💜 🏆

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

A brand-new addition to the trophy cabinet 🏆

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons

“I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Proof that Dr. Who loves a Garibaldi biscuit! At least the 3rd Doctor did, not sure what the others preferred.

Baking Your Cake and Eating It (1973). The Co-Op recipe book with a celebrity appearance by Jon Pertwee.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

LOUIS ARMSTRONG on a visit to West Yorkshire in 1968.

[Retro_George 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🕊️ @Retro_George]

@SaucySeventies Yes, Baker was a forceful figure BTS on Who, it seems. But, like Pertwee, it was because he cared about the show and its integrity so much. And probably because, again like Pertwee, he was an eccentric. Both of them are utter legends, were very funny and I love them to death.😀

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Comedy palate cleanser. Robert Jenrick about to grandstand but reminded of his defection from one party to another this year is gold. The timing. First line great. Second line superb but crowd not recovered from the first to fully appreciate it 😊