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Richard Benson

June 2023

  • 11 Tom and me in the back of Dads pick-up

    Book of the day
    Rural by Rebecca Smith review – a personal study of working-class life in the countryside

    Her timely defence of blue-collar rural communities works best when the Cumbrian author explores how urban money severs the links between locals and their landscape

September 2019

  • Ryan Gander and Tony Chambers with OTOMOTO life 1

    Observer Design
    Ryan Gander and Tony Chambers: how we redesigned the kitchen sink

    Artist Ryan Gander and creative director Tony Chambers want you to love doing the dishes and enjoy using wall hooks. Their new venture OTOMOTO tries to make mundane objects pleasurable. The first product: a kitchen sink…

August 2019

  • From left, Jona and Mary Conway with their children, Ambrose, Foxglove and Fabian. They run a four-acre smallholding, Purple Patch, at Watercress Farm.

    Food after oil: how urban farmers are preparing us for a self-sufficient future

    Bristol is at the head of a food phenomenon that is helping residents better connect with their cities and each other

February 2019

  • pigonline

    Put out to grass: when animals are allowed to grow old

    Isa Leshko’s portraits of ageing animals are a tribute to creatures too often dismissed as mere livestock – and a poignant reminder of our own mortality
  • Punters at VidCon in Melbourne, 2018

    Is video killing the TV star? VidCon London heralds a YouTube revolution

    The arrival of the popular US festival for vloggers in the UK is a reminder of the powerful forces changing children’s television
  • me & tricia school, 1973

    Book of the day
    When I Had a Little Sister: The Story of a Farming Family Who Never Spoke – review

    Catherine Simpson’s memoir of being brought up in enforced silence and its impact on her troubled sister is riveting

December 2015

  • Easington Colliery

    Life after coal: how one Easington Colliery family survived the closure of their mine

    Taken during the miners’ strike, this picture of the Handy family came to signify the era. But what happened to them? As the last deep mine in Britain closes, Richard Benson finds out

December 2014

  • Normcore at Prada's Milan show and Larry David, rated as the embodiment of the normcore aesthetic.

    2014: what happened next?
    Normcore: how a spoof marketing term grew into a fashion phenomenon

    Richard Benson: A term coined for a tongue-in-cheek ‘trend predictions agency’ has exposed the media’s insatiable appetite for trends, imagined or otherwise

June 2014

  • Michael Eavis

    'Why haven't you booked me for the Pyramid stage?': Michael Eavis answers famous festivalgoers' questions

    John Humphrys wants to get some sleep, Kelis is looking for the best festival food, and Jarvis Cocker has some unfinished business to do with Rod Stewart …

May 2014

  • Tanker Sunderland Dock Yard

    Rereading
    The unmaking of the English working class

    For much of the 20th century, British workers knew that, while life could be grim, they could determine their own history by acting together. In a post-industrial age, can that camaraderie be reawakened? By Richard Benson

March 2013

  • A landscape that inspired David Hockney's Yorkshire Wolds paintings

    David Hockney's world in the Yorkshire Wolds

    David Hockney's paintings of the Yorkshire Wolds sing out with sweet-shop colour, says Richard Benson, capturing views worth visiting at any time of the year

January 2013

  • Damon Albarn sports an Intercity logo on his T-shirt

    Why industrial chic is back in fashion

    Richard Benson
    Fashion is looking to the 1984 miners' strike for inspiration. Politicians hark back to an era of co-operation. In style and values, is an old working-class Britain making a comeback?

November 2006

  • Doing quite nicely, thank you

    While newspapers panic in the face of the internet, the magazine industry seems to be doing well. That's because it hasn't lost sight of what's most important, says Richard Benson.

October 2006

  • From cockles to custard tarts

    Lincolnshire has the cosiest restaurant with rooms. Cumbria is home to the Queen of Puddings. Richard Benson and friends explore the hidden corners of foodie Britain.

  • The foodies' secret map of Britain

    Suffolk has the best fish and chip shop by the sea. Wales boasts the perfect bacon sarnie. And if you're in Scotland, do drop in to Britain's most remote restaurant ...

  • One man went to sow

    It was to be a fitting tribute to his family's farming heritage. But when Richard Benson set about turning their remaining field into a haven for wildflowers he got weeds and more weeds.

February 2006

  • Do you remember the pigs?

    If you're trying to unravel your family history, says Richard Benson, forget the big events and concentrate on all the little things that happen when no one's looking.

January 2006

  • A fresh chapter in the trainer wars

    Richard Benson: Bad news has struck the sportswear giant Nike.

December 2005

  • When we were heroes

    Think of Liverpool and you think of the Beatles. South Yorkshire's bleaker touchstone is the cult film, Kes. Today, Barnsley's grim colleries have been replaced with shopping malls. So why are the locals pining for the past? Richard Benson talks to Barry Hines.

November 2005

  • The last of England

    Richard Benson goes in search of perspective in an extract from his Guardian First Book Award shortlisted The Farm.

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