Category: censorship
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By HILARY GAVIN WELCOME, folks, to my round-up of last week’s Facebook posts -which is once again a day late and is as should be, I suppose, with Sundays quickly becoming my day of rest. To be honest, I’d not realised how prolific I’d been writing up my own and commenting on shared Facebook posts…
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1384558033141754 By HILARY GAVIN THIS is simply a brief WordPress blog to introduce you to my Facebook commentary site as there’s a break in the weather and I’m keen to get outside in my back garden. As you can see I’ve posted a link to this Facebook page beneath the screengrab of it so you…
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By HILARY GAVIN I’M SORRY to say but I doubt that many of our youngsters living in our divisive po-faced nation today are aware that the British were once renowed worldwide for their legendary sense of humour. In fact, I’m certain that some people who stumble upon this blog post of mine nowadays will take…
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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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As a child, I knew what I wanted to do in life, I wanted to write, because that’s all I did in my free-time apart from playing outside with my friends or hitting a tennis ball against our garage door with an oversized racquet. By my teenage years, I’d made up my mind that my…