Archive for February, 2007

Dr StrangeChav, or: How I Learned to Stop Gardening and Love Accademia

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

I wrote an article on Chavs in 2004 for www.chavworld.co.uk The purpose of this was to quickly get across to a wide readership the awful authoritarian views which were being articulated through this underclass stereotype. It was the perfect forum, being accessed by students and those perpetrating these views. In taking this ‘democratic’ route I […]

New story publication

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

I went to a magazine launch of Transmission (www.transmissionhq.org) on Wednesday 1st Feb 2007 at Sandbar in Manchester, an old haunt of mine from my days living in the city. Transmission’s remit is to publish work of up and coming authors and recently won the Inc writers award. They now have a readership of 600 […]