Based on the citation I delivered, conferring on Mike Holderness NUJ membership of honour. Mike Holderness might look like a mild-mannered, middle-aged anarchist – but the man we have before us is a warrior. For the past quarter century, he …
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Review of ‘Suitcase’, Harwich International railway station – 29 Nov 2013 Seventy five years ago – almost to the day – the first 196 ‘Kindertransport’ children arrived in Harwich, Essex. Most had been residents in a Jewish orphanage that was …
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For as long as anyone can remember, Eddie Rose has promoted and fronted up his summer show in Pitlochry town hall. Accompanied by a piper, an accordionist, a dancer and a fiddle player, ‘A Scottish Night Out’ is a showcase …
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Article, originally published in The Sunday Times on 17 September 2006 It is a quarter of a century since Lord de Saumarez last used his best tableware, but his memory of the occasion is still fresh. “We probably should not …
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From my seat behind the glazed front of ‘The In Plaice’ fish and chip restaurant, opposite Bradford Town Hall I have a good purview of the urban centre. The outlook is over Centenary Square, a relatively recently-engineered public space at …
It would be easy to imagine the autobiographies of Patti Smith and Tracey Thorn exploring common themes. The authors are among the relatively few women associated with punk, both apply a poetic sensibility to song writing and both have enjoyed …
Forty years ago, Kraftwerk were prophets who took digital music beyond known frontiers and synthesized songs that celebrated machine-age icons – Autobahn, Trans Europe Express and Tour De France, for example. Today the Düssedorfers cater for our nostalgia for a …
Had I blinked, I would have missed it. We approached the German-French border at nearly 100mph, and our speed dipped not one jot as we drove from one country to the next. The Rhine, still watched but no longer warred …
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Originally published in The Sunday Times 17 August 1997 Tim Dawson dons his wet suit, takes to a dinghy and gets a lesson in how to stay afloat. I have got a mouth full of salt water. My wet suit …