Benedict Cooper

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    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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    In pictures: Paris

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    Photography: head in the clouds

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    Photography: London Zone 1

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    In Pictures: Lace Market, Nottingham

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  • Journalism,  Photography

    In Pictures: Hockley, Nottingham

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    In Pictures: Clerkenwell

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    In Pictures: London Z1

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    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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  • Journalism,  News,  Photography

    Some shots of Mick & Miread Philpott leaving court pre-sentencing

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    Photography – North Wales, Autumn 2012

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Recent Posts

  • Mar 31, 2022 These fake George Orwell quotes are everywhere online, my mission to fix them is deeply ironic
  • Mar 30, 2022 Drifting from the truth: debunking fake Orwell quotes
  • Mar 12, 2022 Nottingham historian thinks only NATO can stop ‘Satan’ Putin
  • Mar 02, 2022 Putin is the abuser who would kill rather than let go
  • Jan 09, 2022 Afghan refugee embracing life in ‘peaceful’ Notts village after fleeing Taliban reprisals
  • Oct 17, 2021 Lockdown’s guilty parties harmed community relations in Nottingham, but so did the careless blame game
  • Sep 14, 2021 Hitting rock bottom after life in the military – how one Nottingham soldier found his way again
  • Jan 21, 2021 Hospitals must give staff better ‘psychological PPE’
  • Jul 21, 2020 Care homes ‘working blind’ after potentially unsafe coronavirus test kits pulled
  • 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
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