I worked with Didi when she was Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources and she was instrumental in the success of the World Toilet Summit 2022 in Abuja. The fact is, he didn’t actually say, we live in a world that has suitcases of wine, and those bottles need to be opened by people with corkscrews, using words like vintage, covid-secure bar, and wine fridge. No historical monster is beyond the pale; my wife has had to learn to share our home with the villains of my collection. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

Above left: Osama bin Laden Spitting Image puppet – a similar one sold at Sotheby’s in 2001 and the cash was split between Afghan refugees and victims of the World Trade Center attacks. At least one government cleaner, instructed to keep coming in to work during lockdown, contracted Covid and died.Furious locals have hit out at a phone mast disguised as a tree – as it resembles a giant toilet brush. Hundreds of pictures of your fun will appear in the newspapers that you can cut out and keep in your album – and all for absolutely free! I invited problems with security by carrying Bin Laden to Dublin in my hand luggage, which was scanned.

Highlights of my collection include a brass portrait of a glowering Saddam Hussein bought in Baghdad after the end of the eight-year war with Iran. I laid what can only be described as a 4 wheel drive bazooka poo in the bowl, turned to my right, grabbed my friendly BJ toilet brush and got to work. I was working with a Guardian colleague, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, and someone told us rebel forces had taken over a state mukhabarat (secret police) HQ. Above left: busts of Juan Perón, president of Argentina from 1946-55 and 1973-74, and his wife, Eva, a working-class actor and accomplished speaker, immortalised in 1976 in the rock opera Evita and the song Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.

For example, if you asked him the way to the Co-op, he’d say: “Ah, humph, it’s quite simple, cucumber, I’ve had their cucumber, I have been there many times, habeas corpus, coitus interruptus. A close second is a large doll of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben‑Gurion, with his long, messy hair. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. Friends and family gathered, guiltily, in car parks outside crematoria to pay silent respects in breach of the regulations, because they weren’t allowed in the chapels.

APPEARANCE - The toilet brush is based on the current UK PM Boris, with his face at the end of the handle. He did seem to want a medal for this, as though he had done well in the circumstances to keep it to just the 126 fines.But he is not alone: Vladimir Putin, generating global headlines because of his widely condemned invasion of Ukraine, exists in the formal plaster or bronze bust commemorating Soviet-era leaders from Lenin and Stalin onwards – as well as in traditional matryoshka (“little matron”) dolls that have been available of Russian leaders since Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in perestroika. Above left: plaque of Hafez al-Assad, autocratic Syrian president from 1971-2000, whose son Bashar suppressed the Arab spring uprising and still rules. GAG GIFT / HOUSEWARMING/ SECRET SANTA ITEM: You will make someones day with this ideal housewarming accessory. Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill globe cup celebrating the 1941 Lend-Lease agreement to provide support for the allies before the US entered the war.

Figurines of Marianne, models of the Eiffel Tower and tricolore-draped bric-a-brac were ranged on shelves looking out over the Seine on my visit in 2018. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. A reporter asked on behalf of his mother why the premier never appears to brush his hair – even when representing the country abroad. From the mid-1980s I made several nerve-racking trips to Iran, where the conflict with Iraq was always billed as a western-backed conspiracy against the Islamic revolution.A working singalong, while people whose actual job was to sing along to Abba songs in theatres weren’t allowed to do it. Now at 67, I realised that there is less than 5,000 days I can spend with my wife, the person who took care of everything while I was away building my career and trying to save the world. Trump Will not disappoint as he puts his glorious golden faux-locks to work to drain that porcelain swamp.