Category: Business

• January 14, 2026

  Art and culture, Business, Education

  The impact of the EEC on UK farming in the 1980s – and the call to buy local produce today

  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…
• July 28, 2025

  Business, Journalism, News reporting

  Open Letter on journalistic integrity to be sent to the editor of my local newspaper

  By HILARY GAVIN TO BE HONEST, I’m not feeling particularly like a Grumpy(old)woman tonight because I’m happy to be left to my fate, whatever it might be. That’s not to say I don’t have worries, everyone does – but there isn’t much I can proactively do if strangers (neighbours) have passed judgment on me summarily…