The right to bare arms
I recall reading an interview with actor Richard E Grant, in which he explained why he was leaving California. Although living in Hollywood at the height of his fame –
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Isle of Wight
It’s not all anti-social media
The blame for some of society’s ills has been laid at the feet of social media. Cyber-bullying, Brexit, the success of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the dissemination of nudie photographs;
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Going Underground
There’s this film by Martin Scorsese called ‘After Hours‘ in which a yuppie office drone Paul Hackett (played by Griffin Dunne) gets drawn into the nocturnal activities of New York‘s
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Bring on the usherettes
The big Christmas cinema release was Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I, along with countless others, escaped the tedium of over-eating in front of the telly with bickering or snoozing
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Long live the high street
This month’s column comes to you from Oxford. As the Isle of Wight double-knots its bonnet ribbon in preparation for gale force winds, I’m sat in a coffee shop in
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Wake up and smell the coffee
Back in the day, I studied industrial design. I learned how to do technical drawing, made prototypes of products in a well-equipped workshop and was taught about the history of
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Is there life on Mars? Who cares?
One sunny Sunday in 1969 I was participating in a leapfrog competition when my mother popped out of the house and made her way across to us bouncing children. I
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Living in electric dreams
When I was a nipper, there was much talk of pollution and acid rain, damage caused by aerosol propellants and litter. Inspired, I started a Womble Club to encourage my
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Living in Groundhog Day (and tomorrow we’ll do it all again)
You all know that joke by now. Q. How many folks from the Isle of Wight does it take to change a light bulb? A. CHANGE?? We don’t like change!
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A swelling organ and a hamper of parsnips
On the evening of Wednesday 10 April 1991 I went with my landlady to All Saints Church Hall, Ryde to hear the Isle of Wight Electronic Organ Society’s guest organist
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