Is it for charity?
I once persuaded quite of lot of people to spend 11 hours on a bus: a trip that would leave them pretty much where they started after three or four times roundRead More…
Pier inside
It’s not out until 11 February, but Danny and I received advanced copies of Pier Review — the book which we had the idea for back in 2010 — just this week.Read More…
Some things I wrote this year
Just pulled this list of pieces together to test something on Facebook. It’s not everything I wrote this year: but hopefully some of the more interesting bits. Hope it might fill aRead More…
Bon voyage, Pier Review
We’ve just completed and sent away to the publisher via our agent the text that is to become the book Pier Review. We signed with Summersdale a few months ago, and theyRead More…
Telegraph line
A comment piece in the Daily Telegraph today, with some hopefully fresh angles on Birmingham accents. It looks much nicer in the paper, than anywhere you can read the 150 or soRead More…
Some recent writing
Pluralistic ignorance and the modern condition – on social phycology and group behaviour. Ol’ Red Eyes: Marxist TV reviews – a tumblr full of the Marxist television writing I’ve been commissioned toRead More…
Some latest bits of writing
Along with the usual Paradise Circus and Pier Review work, here’s a few things I’ve written in the last month or so. Lolitics: The power of civic satire, which is about howRead More…
Local Shops: a short story about memory and place
I published it on Paradise Circus as it was inevitably set in Birmingham. At around 1600 words it’s not too long to be read in a few minutes.
Reviewing Saltburn Pier
Forty two piers in to our circumnavigation of the coast of England and Wales we arrived bleary in Saltburn-by-the-sea one morning. Luckily the breathtaking coastline and the warming sun perked us up.Read More…
I saw The Light
Well, phoned the singer up. I interviewed Peter Hook (Hooky, of Joy Division, New Order, Revenge, Monaco and now The Light…) a little while ago for Fused Magazine. They’ve just put itRead More…