Month: December 2025

• December 11, 2025

  Art and culture, Memoirs and travel feature, Music

  Instant Karma: Remembering John Lennon’s impact 45 years on

  CRIKEY, two WordPress blog posts in a matter of two days. Mind you, this post is simply a hyperlink to the Facebook message I’ve just written this morning about John Lennon’s tragic death in New York in December 1980 when I was a still a teenager. I’m not going to expand on my memory here…
• December 10, 2025

  Art and culture, Feature writing, Journalism, Movies

  Behind the scenes of journalism: Recognising unsung heroes

  OVER the past decade or so, during my self-imposed early retirement, I enjoyed going to the movies with a friend who would insist on sitting through the credits at the end of a film. Of course, this was an alien concept to me and to our fellow filmgoers at our New Park picture-drome in Chichester,…