Archive

Columns

• Winterval Starts Here Birmingham didn't ban Christmas, don't be silly

• Up Bournville Boulevard In which Cadbury merge with Kraft and I go to a village meeting.

• Tufty Shit I look at some PR bollocks about a squirrel

• Take That legal system Super injunctions, you don't hear much about them anymore

• Tag Nuts A conversation with a Graffiti Writer

• Surge Domine et dissipentur inimici tui et fugiant qui oderunt te a facie tua Thinking about the Staffordshire Hoard

• Sabres of Paradise I go to a thing and get angry.

• On The Buses About buses surprisingly enough

• On Holiday By Mistake In which I get sent to Coventry

• Is Mr Egg Beaten? I talk about a Birmingham landmark

• Grit and Wisdom Who doesn't love a day off school?

• Glam Racket I love glam shit

• Blues and Me football football FOOTBALL footy FOOTBALL - nah I don't get it either

• Big City Culture Birmingham bids for City of Culture - spoilers: we didn't get it

• Backstabbers Guide to Wolverhampton I coat off Wolverhampton (a bit)

• A Christmas Carol in which I review a nativity play

Interviews

• Gardening In The Shadow Of Giants: Indie Comics And The Geeks Who Make Them I talk to people at a comic convention

• Luke Haines Spikey but charming

• Richard Hawley My first ever interview, he was such a nice guy

• Jim Lea Slade and whatnot

• Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Getting to interview them was amazing

• That Inking Feeling I talk to Kurt Marlow about getting ink done son

• Skinner In The Underworld Possibly one of my favourite things I've written. A review of The Streets' final Birmingham gig

Travel

• Your Money's No Good Here Sir I go to Lewes and look at their "micro-currency"

• Sleepless In... Venice: 24 Hours In The City Of Masks I stay awake for a day and night in venice

• "I'm Totally Allowed To Sit Here" And Other Dog Lies: A Housesitters Guide To Oxford I move to the suburbs for a while

• Colonial Ghosts Of Popular Alchemy trying to find a Gin and Tonic in India was damn near impossible

Articles

• Politeness And Nodding On The Chap Trail '14 I go hunting for "Chaps" and drink Pimms

• I Was A Teenage Tagging Vandal I wrote on walls and you should too

• Cross My Palm: 2015 A Road Map can the tarot predict 2015? no probably not.

• Batman And Me batman has been in my life since I can remember

• 2014: What Our Kids Think I ask some young people to review the year.

• Remember Remember Fireworks and religious terrorism.

• Teaching Assistants - Prospects Magazine Sirrius article about becoming a Teaching Assistant.

• Taking Your Mom To A Festival "Glamping" on a budget

• Tribes Of Birmingham sub-culture is dying

• Top 5 Place I Have Been Sick yep

• Body Language short piece about speaking without words

• Love - Valentines Day Valentines Day done right

• Gin & Tonic beginnings of the article "Colonial Ghosts Of Popular Alchemy"

• After Work Pint Ode to the most important drink of the day

Miscellaneous

• Prospects Job Blog 2

• Prospects Job Blog 1