Last night was the third Raconnaissance – a regular storytelling night run by my friend Chris Lochery.
Those wishing to take part were given ‘work’ as a starting point, because what could be more fun than listening to a load of soft-palmed writers complain about their years scraping up chicken fat and stacking rotten cat food [...]
Well, what the hell. In for a penny, in for a pound.
I’ve tackled race, military intelligence, knife crime, rising unemployment; why not go for broke and rake over the ashen coals of the BBC licence fee to see if there’s just enough heat there to sustain a critique of David ‘call me Dave’ Cameron.
David [...]
My black in fashion article has been published on journalism.co.uk.
Read it HERE
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Nell Frizzell
I wrote this a little while ago for Little White Lies, and totally forgot to tell you all.
Follow the link here to see it with comments.
Let us throw caution to the wind here. Let us take our life in our hands. Let us stare down the barrel of the sexual stereotyping shotgun and make some [...]
I am taking part in a work themed Raconnaissance on Wednesday, so have spent the last few weeks at work desperately trying to glean any amusement, insight or ROFL-worthy anecdotes from my daily grind.
Instead, I found myself trying to wordlessly convince my colleagues that the fart-like noise that just emerged from my corner of the [...]
When a man with a beaten up Ford fiesta full to the roof with oranges wants to give you some free citrus, you pretty much know you’ve made it as a pop star.
Now, I’m not too up on my Georgian car makes these days, so it may not have been a Ford Fiesta, but this [...]
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God, I hate American Apparel.
I hate their lazy misogyny, their smug manipulation of the hipster youth, their poisonous advertising, their bullshit self-promotion and their total lack of respect for women, for their customers (the clothes are about the same quality as those from Matalan and about 10 times the price) and for the people they [...]
Does it strike anyone else as a little odd that professional killers are appealing for the universal ‘right to life’.
Nell Frizzell
Another short fashion piece for The Leeds Guide.
Christina Aguilera has brought several fashion wonderlusts into the public eye over the last ten lipglossed years, including the casual wearing of chaps and transvestite makeup. However, the warbling wonderbra is also to blame for this season’s ugliest trend.
Allow me to explain. Aguilera’s 1999 hit ‘Genie [...]
Naomi Campbell has been on the cover of British Vogue nine times. Kate Moss has been on the cover of British Vogue twenty six times over the same period. Both models are seen as scandal magnets, both began their careers at the same age (fifteen), both are British. But, as you will have no doubt [...]