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 Yes there was a young couple under investigation for benefit fraud, and the subject of rescinded claims was […]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 […]
By Ann Sulaiman Things on my bucket list, number 2400 – 2403: – Finish my first comic – Explore Norway – Go to the Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands – Buy a winged horse and name it Fluttershy “My, Ann, what an odd list!” ”The horse?” ”The festival! What is this – ‘Roadburn’? Why would […]
