Category: TELEVISION

• September 22, 2025

  British Humour, censorship, HISTORY, Journalism, Second World War, Second World War feature, TELEVISION

  Absurdity of Second World War: British Humour against Hitler

  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…
• August 5, 2025

  Education, Movies, TELEVISION

  How watching Shetland on telly has whetted my interest for philosophy

  By HILARY GAVIN I’D forgotten how gripping old movies and telly shows can be until I re-played the first series and beginning of the second series of Shetland on BBC iPlayer over the weekend. Now, I’m not sure why the BBC decided to feature crime writer Ann Cleeves’s third novel Red Bones in Series One…
• June 18, 2025

  Chichester District Council, HISTORY, Journalism, News reporting, Parish council stories, TELEVISION

  Wellington’s scum of the earth: Are we repeating history by writing-off modern-day “undesirables” as anti-social drunkards?

  By HILARY GAVIN IN THE Napoleonic Wars Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington branded his own common British soldiers as “the scum of the earth.” The Duke was venting his anger in a dispatch to the High Tory Earl Bathurst as his troops began looting in the aftermath of the joint Spanish, Portuguese and British…