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About Me

I am a writer and live in London.I have a website at www.iainaitch.com .I will write for money, food or spite.

We're British, Innit Citizenship Test!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Readers. Writers. The rich but stupid. People who buy their round. The obsessive and the obsessed. People who don't have hourly chimes set on their digital watches.

My Blog

My new Britishness blog

I now have a daily Britishness blog to tie in with my new book, which is up at http://britishinnit.com/wordpress/.Pop along and comment if you like. Entries on Orwell, Noddy and the 'Limpics already u...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:23:00 GMT

Book available to pre-order and website updates

It is all going on at www.iainaitch.com at the moment. My new book WE'RE BRITISH, INNIT is available for pre-order at a bargain £6.99 (£3.00 off) via the site and you can also read a slew of articles ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:33:00 GMT

Reading on Sunday

Hello people, I shall be making a brief reading from my new book We’re British, Innit at the Sun and Doves on Coldharbour Lane in Camberwell on Sunday 6 April from about 5pm. It is all part of a...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:51:00 GMT

We’re British, innit

So, my book title and launch date have now changed. It is now called WE'RE BRITISH, INNIT -- AN IRREVERENT A to Z OF ALL THINGS BRITISH and is out on October 6th, just in time for you all to buy it fo...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:50:00 GMT

Crass VS Jeffrey Lewis

My piece about Crass, Jeffrey Lewis and the rows about a Crass revival is in today's Guardian . This was a difficult birth and a case of trying to cram a lot of information into 1600 words, so I am p...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:57:00 GMT

My new book

My new book will be out on May Day 2008, or thereabouts. It is called Turned Out Nice Again and is a lexicon of Britishness, or an 'irreverent A-Z of all things British' if you want the full subtitle....
Posted by on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:21:00 GMT

All these things are Top of the Pops

It is very important that you watch my friend Rhodri's pop video and keep it top of the music pops on Youtube and then make him top of the music charts by spending 79p on the song on ITunes or via the...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:59:00 GMT

Petitions and rollercoasters

There are currently two petitions on the Downing Street website that I have signed.One is to ask that the funding gap for the 2012 Olympics does not, as proposed, mean cuts from Lottery funding for th...
Posted by on Sat, 05 May 2007 03:38:00 GMT

Skinheads, Shangri-Las and summer

Today's Guardian has a piece by me about being a skinhead at the age of 12. Not sure about that headline. Oh well. Tomorrow sees the fruits of my New York trip, in the shape of an interview with Mary ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:50:00 GMT

Interview with me, pink vomit, my tax plans.

There is a brief interview with me on new London social networking site Friday Cities this morning. There you can read what I like about London, my proposed new taxation regime and pink vomit. As it h...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:58:00 GMT