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Positive about The Negatives

By timdawsn Posted on October 26, 2018 Posted in Culture
Positive about The Negatives

Watching BBC’s Informer last night a snatch of music unearthed deeply buried memories. The song was ‘We’re From Bradford’ by The Negatives – a band who were together for less than a year, never performed outside Yorkshire and who released one …

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Chill factor: Tooting Bec’s million gallon antidote to overheating

By timdawsn Posted on July 23, 2018 Posted in Swimming
Chill factor: Tooting Bec’s million gallon antidote to overheating

After the longest hot stretch in recent memory, I had expected a pulsating throng at Tooting Bec Lido. Instead, it was a surprisingly select gathering of refugees from the sweltering Smoke who assembled at the venerable south London oasis on …

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Message in a bottle save

By timdawsn Posted on July 12, 2018 Posted in Culture

There are two empty jeroboams in my friend Neil’s wine cellar the labels of both of which are covered in signatures and bon mots from the diners who enjoyed their contents. My name is on both. We drank the wine …

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No saviour at Godless West Ham

By timdawsn Posted on February 21, 2018 Posted in Culture
No saviour at Godless West Ham

A memory of Billy Graham on the occasion of his demise in his 100th year. A version of this piece originally appeared in Nearly Reach The Sky by Brian Williams (Biteback Publishing 2015) My one visit to Upton Park left …

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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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