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Michael Fordham

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

Filmmaker switches perspective on Afghan conflict — Documentary gets deep inside the motivations of a small band of embattled Afghan brothers

  • Film
  • Michael Fordham

Gore! Custom Bikes! Hairy Bears!

Maxwell Paternoster's art draws together disparate threads of weirdness — Machines, freaked out beardy daddies and gore are the subject matter for the UK based artist who has been popping up at the unexpected intersection of motorbikes, skate and surf culture. We shoot the breeze with Maxwell....

  • Culture
  • Michael Fordham

Geoff Rowley's words of wisdom from a life in skate

Things I Learned Along The Way — When Geoff Rowley came to skate culture consciousness in the early 1990s he was a byword for gnarly. He went bigger than everybody. He went harder than everybody. The whole package came with that trademark scouse accent, the ragged dental rack and wispy moustache and an attitude that encompassed the street skate aesthetic of the time.

  • Film
  • Michael Fordham

Stone Roses Gig: 25th anniversary of a seminal moment in rave culture

Spike Island 25 years on — 25th anniversary of Spike Island – a gig in the Mersey Estuary where house and indie culture fused.

  • Music
  • Michael Fordham

Incredible points, reefs and beaches along a bloody stretch of Irish coast

Surfing in former battlegrounds — Prince Charles visits Mullaghmore, a new spot for Irish surfing, and we consider its troubled history.

  • Surf
  • Michael Fordham

The BBC's click-bait footage of an ISIS attack reeks of propaganda

Iraq coalition mission near Mosul — Helicopters bomb Northern Iraq and we're all meant to feel great about our new government?

  • Opinion
  • Michael Fordham

Is democracy a religion that has failed the poor?

The illusion of empowerment — After the disappointment of the UK's election result, Dr Giles Fraser wonders if elections are just an elaborate charade to maintain the status quo.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

England’s Dreaming: Reflections on the UK General Election

Where WERE the politics? — Huck’s editor-at-large Michael Fordham reflects on an emotional election day journey around London, finding politics altogether absent.

  • Activism
  • Michael Fordham

Photographer Dennis McGrath on Skateboarder Lenny Kirk

New book: Heaven — Photographer of the demonised Dennis McGrath releases new book Heaven about skateboarder Lenny Kirk.

  • Photography
  • Michael Fordham

What is Russell Brand doing interviewing Ed Miliband?

Labour chief appears on The Trews — Michael Fordham explains this unlikely meeting shows how fragmented our political circus has become.

  • Opinion
  • Michael Fordham

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