Politics Growing into silk boxer shorts In a working-class suburb of Manchester, Val's made-to-measure boxing outfits inspire local lads to By Geoffrey Beattie
Unquenchable, except by death As the razor wire went up in Drumcree, the loyalists prepared to re-fight the Battle of the Somme in By Geoffrey Beattie
Sex and Viagra and rock’n’roll Geoffrey Beattie hangs out with club bouncers and doormen, and finds them very insistent that he sho By Geoffrey Beattie
In cold, driving rain, a brief burst of sunshine Geoffrey Beattie, in the divided Belfast of his youth, finds an extraordinary attempt at reconciliat By Geoffrey Beattie
Working flat out for £20 and a Kit Kat Low pay, no security, backbreaking schedules: Geoffrey Beattie experiences the casualisation of labo By Geoffrey Beattie