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Roast Peanuts, how Charlie Brown introduced me to girls

By timdawsn Posted on September 28, 2017 Posted in Culture
Roast Peanuts, how Charlie Brown introduced me to girls

June 1976 What I enjoyed about ‘Peanuts’ is hard now to say.  Charles Shultz’ strip cartoon appeared in The Observer’s colour magazine, which my parents bought on Sundays, and each week, I devoured the four-panel tale. Snoopy’s fantasy’s life as …

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Better by design

By timdawsn Posted on September 28, 2017 Posted in Culture
Better by design

With nearly eighty bicycles on display, in the Design Museum’s Cycle Revolution exhibition, enormous variety is the initial impression.  Even among those created with a single purpose in mind – going very fast around a track for a short space …

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BMW security let down by guards

By timdawsn Posted on April 7, 2017 Posted in Culture, National Union of Journalists, The practice of journalism
BMW security let down by guards

Article first appeared in Amateur Photographer 8 April 2017 WITH A COUPLE OF HOURS between meetings one afternoon last summer, I walked the perimeter of BMW’s Oxford plant. My hope was to take a photograph that somehow conveyed the idea …

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Photo cuts wound communities

By timdawsn Posted on April 7, 2017 Posted in Culture, National Union of Journalists, The practice of journalism

This article first appeared in Amateur Photographer in December 2017 WHEN MY BROTHER DIED unexpectedly at the age of 40, my family was distraught. Like others struck by grief, we flapped around searching for ways to celebrate a life cut …

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#defendpressfreedom

By timdawsn Posted on November 13, 2016 Posted in National Union of Journalists, The practice of journalism
#defendpressfreedom

In Hollywood blockbusters (and countries run by despots) attacks on the free press see journalists dragged to prison, presses smashed and tv stations forcibly shut. In Britain’s liberal democracy, undermining our ability to investigate, and to express freely what we …

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Shopping drama: retail divas RIP

By timdawsn Posted on October 30, 2016 Posted in Culture
Shopping drama: retail divas RIP

A tribute to Pete Burns, and many others Late ‘70s Leeds was monochrome, hacked apart by urban motorways, choked with disused factories and fringed with bleak system-built housing. It was a metropolis of lost purpose – at least in my …

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Heavy weather: climate change divides the TUC

By timdawsn Posted on September 16, 2016 Posted in Culture
Heavy weather: climate change divides the TUC

Much of the time, Trades Union Congress’ annual get-together is reminiscent of a revivalist meeting – true believers gathered in the certainty of salvation.  Nearly every motion is endorsed by unanimous acclaim, the General Council’s opinion on each proposition is …

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Rigged competition: how EU law works against freelances

By timdawsn Posted on September 11, 2016 Posted in Culture
Rigged competition: how EU law works against freelances

“To know better your enemies is to better chances of your eventual victory”, wrote Sun Tzu in the Art Of War.  So an eyeball-to-eyeball encounter with one of the European Union’s competition tzars provided provided a rare chance to understand …

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Camera wobble: Sky’s photo contest misses its subject

By timdawsn Posted on September 6, 2016 Posted in Culture
Camera wobble: Sky’s photo contest misses its subject

“Taking a picture is to take away, not to put in, otherwise it is mediocrity”, the gruff Oliviero Toscani barked at a contestant on Sky Arts Master of Photography last week.  It is a gnomic gem he has dished it …

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Bank failure: my involuntary Cam dip

By timdawsn Posted on August 23, 2016 Posted in Culture, Swimming
Bank failure: my involuntary Cam dip

Reaching the riverbank in Grantchester, my instinct was to first test the water’s temperature. The grassy bank is nearly two feet above the lapping surface so I inched forward from a sitting position before fully committing.  It wasn’t to be. …

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