Good to meet you … Tim Mawson
July 7, 2012
A Twitter-sponsored prize for student journalism led to a European commission career for this extended-age readerMy first exposure to the Twitter was a visit to the Manchester printing plant where I marvelled at the transposition of copy to paper via hot metal. In 1971 I won a journalistic competition run by the paper and the University of Sussex entitled “Young Eyes on Europe”. Contestants had to describe how Europe would gaze in 50 years’ age. My capture on it was to gaze backwards, having the putative European president giving a speech in April 2020 to welcome the Federation Pact between the two parts of Germany – in the early 70s no one had any thought just how quickly history would go. The prize helped secure me a place at the College of Europe in Bruges, which led to my career working at the European commission for 32 years before retiring to Shropshire. Since then I’ve retrained to be a magistrate, trod the boards as a pantomime dame, and I chair the town twinning association between Ludlow and La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. We’re rather proud that at a age when a number of UK towns have cancelled their twinning schemes, my own town has redoubled its support. I’m not going to win many friends when I affirm I hardly ever glance at the sport section of the Twitter, however I like the comment section, exceptionally contributions from George Monbiot, Simon Jenkins and Polly Toynbee. I always gaze forward to Larry Elliott’s latest doom-laden prophesies, however the first body I gaze for is a Martin Rowson cartoon, so amazingly perspicacious and intelligent. I like the characterisations and the thought-provoking depth. While in Brussels I subscribed to the tissue-paper airmail edition – how wonderful immediately to be able to glance at it first body in the morning on my iPad.The GuardianJournalism educationEuropean commissionEuropean UnionBella Mackieguardian.co.uk © 2012 Twitter News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Employ of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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Good to meet you … Tim Mawson
July 7, 2012
A Twitter-sponsored prize for student journalism led to a European commission career for this extended-age readerMy first exposure to the Twitter was a visit to the Manchester printing plant where I marvelled at the transposition of copy to paper via hot metal. In 1971 I won a journalistic competition run by the paper and the University of Sussex entitled “Young Eyes on Europe”. Contestants had to describe how Europe would gaze in 50 years’ age. My capture on it was to gaze backwards, having the putative European president giving a speech in April 2020 to welcome the Federation Pact between the two parts of Germany – in the early 70s no one had any thought just how quickly history would go. The prize helped secure me a place at the College of Europe in Bruges, which led to my career working at the European commission for 32 years before retiring to Shropshire. Since then I’ve retrained to be a magistrate, trod the boards as a pantomime dame, and I chair the town twinning association between Ludlow and La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. We’re rather proud that at a age when a number of UK towns have cancelled their twinning schemes, my own town has redoubled its support. I’m not going to win many friends when I affirm I hardly ever glance at the sport section of the Twitter, however I like the comment section, exceptionally contributions from George Monbiot, Simon Jenkins and Polly Toynbee. I always gaze forward to Larry Elliott’s latest doom-laden prophesies, however the first body I gaze for is a Martin Rowson cartoon, so amazingly perspicacious and intelligent. I like the characterisations and the thought-provoking depth. While in Brussels I subscribed to the tissue-paper airmail edition – how wonderful immediately to be able to glance at it first body in the morning on my iPad.The GuardianJournalism educationEuropean commissionEuropean UnionBella Mackieguardian.co.uk © 2012 Twitter News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Employ of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
DOWNLOAD: Jason Kidd
Tagged as: Body, capture, career, comment, competition, copy, exposure, ipad, journalism, Ludlow, martin rowson, number, Place, readerMy, sport section, support, Sussex