By Ed King. Follow him @EdKing2210 So a week and a day ago, Simmer Down Festival ’14 happened; an alleged 20,000 people turned up to Handsworth Park, for the fifth festival from our friends at The Drum. And whilst we wait for the official pictures and press release to corroborate these numbers, the last thing to swallow is […]
By Althea Patterson – first published on 07.01.14 / http://foxhunter7.wordpress.com _____________ “The terraces on floors four and seven are closed due to adverse weather, thank you.” I laughed wryly as the broad, thick Birmingham accent boomed over the public address system. I’m sat with coffee, notebook and pen in the fairly pricey cafe in the […]
By Ed King Your name is wrong. In fact, it’s your biggest problem. I watched your first episode on Sunday morning, as a 1am repeat, and kept asking the screen “what’s this have to do with benefits?” Yes there was a young couple under investigation for benefit fraud, and the subject of rescinded claims was […]
By Ozzy Styles My name is Ozzy Stylez and I am one of Birmingham’s many, many “benefits scroungers”, the likes of which you have no doubt seen or heard about on Channel 4’s hot new documentary Benefits Street. I had hoped to appear on the documentary myself, as I have always harboured ambitions of fame […]
By Ed King I’m acting like a child. And this conversation is losing me friends. It’s alienating colleagues, polarising peers, and upsetting a family who just want to chat over tea. And I keep having it. I keep stamping my feet. By the end of the year I could be in this room alone. But […]
