http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/geoffrey_beattie en http://www.newstatesman.com/200009180022 http://www.newstatesman.com/200009180022 Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:00:00 GMT Geoffrey Beattie In a working-class suburb of Manchester, Val's made-to-measure boxing outfits inspire local lads to dream big. Geoffrey Beattiereports

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200007170007 http://www.newstatesman.com/200007170007 Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:00:00 GMT Geoffrey Beattie As the razor wire went up in Drumcree, the loyalists prepared to re-fight the Battle of the Somme in their own land. Geoffrey Beattie watched them

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200006260026 http://www.newstatesman.com/200006260026 Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:00:00 GMT Geoffrey Beattie Geoffrey Beattie hangs out with club bouncers and doormen, and finds them very insistent that he should try some little blue tablets, at £25 a time

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200005220026 http://www.newstatesman.com/200005220026 Mon, 22 May 2000 12:00:00 GMT Geoffrey Beattie Geoffrey Beattie, in the divided Belfast of his youth, finds an extraordinary attempt at reconciliation

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200001170026 http://www.newstatesman.com/200001170026 Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:00:00 GMT Geoffrey Beattie Low pay, no security, backbreaking schedules: Geoffrey Beattie experiences the casualisation of labour

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912060023 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912060023 Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT Geoffrey Beattie When "the most violent man in Britain" provides the evening's entertainment, the only safe jokes are about Gary Glitter

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