Can’t help feeling Enid Blyton has lost touch with her core audience
martin kelner
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martin kelner
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Writer, broadcaster, third most famous person in Wakefield, legend on Substack, former Fighting Talk champion, didn't walk the Salt Path, memoir on the way.
- I always wait for Gary before I decide on any political issue. But situation so grave now, I need to know the thoughts of Kevin Sheedy, Ian Snodin, & other members of the 1985 Everton squad before making up my mind.Yep, get on with ‘it’...whatever the ‘it’ is...regardless of how bad the ‘it’ will be. 👍🏻
- Not to disrespect achievement of the Lionesses, undoubtedly team of the year. But Ben Stokes is clearly #SPOTY, going from where he was to where he is. But the BBC wouldn’t dare.
- If ITV had a shred of patriotism they’d hand extra time over to the BBC
- Hey, here’s an idea. Let’s not boo the Italian anthem tomorrow. It achieves nothing. It doesn’t upset the opposition. It just makes us look shitty. Let’s be classy for once
- Andrew ‘bollocks’ Castle: ‘This is building into a final we had no right to expect to see.’ Why? They’re the world’s two best players.
- Deputy PM Dominic Raab says the Government’s about to join the war on drugs. Given the incompetence with which they’ve handled everything else - the pandemic, levelling up etc - I’m backing drugs.
- Blimey, nearly forgot. Hans Christian Andersen, Sandi Toksvig, Le Manneken Pis, Lars Von Trier, Brigitte Nielsen, Aqua, your boys….
- Vincent Van Gogh, Ruud Gullit, Golden Earring, the little mouse with clogs on, Audrey Hepburn, Van Der Valk, Eddie Van Halen, Johann Cruyff, Paul Verhoeven, the girl with a pearl earring, your boys….
- Impressed with all the pics of people with the late great Pele. I never met Pele, so here’s one of me with Carlton Cole
- The nuttiest thing you’ll see today. Not entirely sure why she’s wearing sexy retro Hibs kit
00:00 - Here we go, the story of my sacking from BBC Leeds, & a plausible plan for local radio's future martinkelner.com/martin-kelners…
