Category: Art and culture
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PIC: The schoolchildren at East Marden with my Nan Mrs Davies on the right-hand side and my late Mum in the centre looking rather mischievous. Please see my post-script to this blog. By HILARY GAVIN WHEN our late Mum Enid Gavin died ten years ago my sister penned the most moving eulogy for her funeral…
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Thames TV YouTube clip from July 1983 By HILARY GAVIN THERE’S no denying that I felt quite superior donning a scientist’s white coat for my holiday job at the EEC Food Intervention Board’s grain mountain in Tangmere, West Sussex, in the summer of 1984. Of course, I would have appeared even more imposing to strangers…
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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…
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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,…
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By HILARY GAVIN https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61567727942481 IF YOU’D asked me whether I’d ever dream of going back online to face the gauntlet of social media as a journalist a few years ago – I’d have confidently told you: “Not on your Nelly.” There’s no doubt that Facebook, and other social media sites, are cesspits of bad language…
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By HILARY GAVIN LAST WEEK I posted a Facebook message for my friends to read after discovering that the author, former BBC journalist and MI6 self-confessed Cold war “asset”, Frederick Forsyth had sadly passed away earlier this month in his early eighties. Now, if you don’t recognise Freddie Forsyth by name, you’ve probably heard of…
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By HILARY GAVIN STROLLING along Whitehall from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament in London and – I, for one – am always conscious of the centuries’ old stand-off between Britain’s Royalists and Westminster’s die-hard Parliamentarians. At one end of our capital’s thoroughfare – and seat of the UK Civil Service – stands its…
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By HILARY GAVIN I CAN’T speak for you, but I’ve been a fan of Thomas Hardy’s novels since studying them for my English Literature A-level in the late Seventies and early Eighties. As you know Hardy, himself, was most prolific as an author in late 19th-century Victorian Britain, however, for me, his rich descriptive prose…
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YOU can’t clone creativity – so why is the British PM condoning Big Tech copyright? Hope you enjoy reading my unique take on safeguarding our individuality.