Leeds v Manc, Government & BBC Bias. The Economic Truth
Should you wish not to wade through my chuntering rant, the economics are highlighted in red below. Prologue: What follows is the script...
Mick’s Grandma’s Curtains Jacket.
I could barely understand mi Grandma, she was a farmer’s daughter, lived all her life in semi-rural Wakefield outskirts, around Netherton...
We are **** Leeds - The Guardian
Mick's Guardian piece on how Leeds helped the world to swear properly. 'Leeds obsessive (and why not?) Mick McCann ponders his home...
The arts class war starts here for 'We Are Poets' and Leeds Young Authors
Mick's Leeds Young Authors anti high arts funding rant that stayed in the top 5 Guardian most viewed web articles for a couple of days...
How the BBC rewrote history to disrespect Leeds... again
Mick slaps the nut on the BBC, it's disrespect for Leeds and it's re-writing of history. For the Guardian. Read it here #MickMcCann #BBC...
'Leedsness' and Our Hidden Writing Heritage
Leeds has had a huge influence on national thinking and writing that it appears to know little about. In this Guardian piece Mick McCann...
Taiwanese lass hunts cool in Leeds and exports it all over the world
Shang Ting Peng's thoughts and pictures about her adopted city have gone viral. Deservedly so, because they spring from a fresh and...
Leeds, The Promised Land - We can Create It, Despite London
Mick reviews the staging of Anthony Clavane's award-winning book The Promised Land and breaks into a pseudo-working -class hero, northern...
Mick's Trilogy of Culture Vulture Articles
Mick explores the nature if 'Leedsness', Leeds literature past, present and future, based around a Waterstones' event featuring Ian...
Punk publishing - a clarion call from noir-est Yorkshire
Getting out tales of darkest Leeds isn't easy, here Mick talks about the complexity of indie publishing and explains some of the Armley...
