Geoffrey Beattie
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Growing into silk boxer shorts
- 18 September 2000
In a working-class suburb of Manchester, Val's made-to-measure boxing outfits inspire local lads to dream big. Geoffrey Beattiereports
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Unquenchable, except by death
- 17 July 2000
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
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Sex and Viagra and rock'n'roll
- 26 June 2000
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
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In cold, driving rain, a brief burst of sunshine
- 22 May 2000
Geoffrey Beattie, in the divided Belfast of his youth, finds an extraordinary attempt at reconciliation
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Working flat out for £20 and a Kit Kat
- 17 January 2000
Low pay, no security, backbreaking schedules: Geoffrey Beattie experiences the casualisation of labour
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My night with Mad Frankie Fraser
- 06 December 1999
When "the most violent man in Britain" provides the evening's entertainment, the only safe jokes are about Gary Glitter
