Benedict Cooper

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I am a freelance journalist and copywriter with fifteen years’ experience covering politics, social affairs and business for national newspapers, consumer publications, travel magazines, trade journals and online. To discuss feature and news shift commissions, or copywriting contracts, you can get in touch via the links below.

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  • Features,  Journalism,  Photography

    Ay up me Dutch!

    The fascinating story of the ‘twinning’ between one of Nottingham’s most famous boozers and a wonderful real ale pub in Amsterdam. I wrote it up for Nottingham cultural magazine Left Lion. leftlion.co.uk The Lincolnshire Poacher’s Brother From Another words: Benedict Cooper “Oh! You’re from Nottingham!” the smiling, bearded barman bellowed as he loomed over my table, the tang of some powerful herb tingling my nostrils. “I went to the Poacher last year!” Sitting in an alley on the edge of Amsterdam’s red-light district talking about the Lincolnshire Poacher has a surreal kick to it, especially when you’re getting passively stoned. We all know it’s one of Nottingham’s magic little corners:…

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    Photography: head in the clouds

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    In Pictures: London Z1

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  • Photography

    In pictures: Hoxton Street

    Fifty metres back from the trendified beardified playgrounds of Hoxton and Shoreditch lies a funny little place that hipsterdom has mercifully forgotten.  A market stall here, a little cafe there, some nice pubs, a couple of convenience stores, a funeral parlour and a few splashes of more unusual colour, Hoxton Street is somehow utterly down to earth but unselfconsciously vital. It’s a unique bubble; it feels like a normal place where normal people live and work. In a city of self-conscious style and early adoption, it’s a cheery trip down normality lane. Tweet

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  • Jul 16, 2020 Coronavirus tests pulled over safety fears supplied by firm who donated £160k to Tories
  • Jul 14, 2020 Our motives for quoting George Orwell must be as scrupulous as he was
  • Jun 15, 2020 Orwell and the ILP
  • Jun 10, 2020 The future of regional journalism is “being looked at” by the BBC. It would be a fatal error to cut such vital community ties.
  • Apr 03, 2020 The Hunt shows how little we understand Orwell today
  • Apr 03, 2020 Talk of the town: On the road in Worksop with Lisa Nandy
  • Jan 27, 2020 Byline Times: Can Labour fight against infighting in its leadership contest?
  • Oct 07, 2019 The school protest bigots in Birmingham would love Labour to trigger Jess Phillips
  • Sep 27, 2019 Driving the winds of change
  • Jul 13, 2019 ‘The Ministry of Truth’ at Five Leaves Bookshop
  • Jul 07, 2019 Lost children of Empire
  • Jun 10, 2019 Farwell, The Maze
  • Mar 29, 2019 “F**k’em”
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