Geoffrey Beattie

Articles by 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

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

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

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

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

My night with Mad Frankie Fraser

  • 06 December 1999
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When "the most violent man in Britain" provides the evening's entertainment, the only safe jokes are about Gary Glitter

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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