Forget Normal-for-Norfolk and Essex Girl – it’s time for East Anglian Man to be recognised

Forget Normal-for-Norfolk and Essex Girl – it’s time for East Anglian Man to be recognised

When Norwich was said to be favourite in the race to be the UK’s first City of Culture, I wrote a blog which was not entirely supportive of my local city. “How the heart sinks. As the region’s mighty cohort of arts administrators and creativity facilitators prepare their power-point and pitches, sharpening up the requisite… Continue reading Forget Normal-for-Norfolk and Essex Girl – it’s time for East Anglian Man to be recognised

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Nostalgia tends to conceal hypocrisy

A small lesson in the way history smooths the sharper edges and corners of the past is being played out at the Cannes Film Festival with the help of that much-loved father figure of the alternative establishment, Sir Mick Jagger.   A soon-to-be released documentary on the making of the Rolling Stones 1971 album Exile… Continue reading Nostalgia tends to conceal hypocrisy

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