It felt like there was a real difference between the night and day. In the evening you couldn't get a table at a restaurant but in the day you would be looking at shops that had probably been doing alright a few years before but were now closed." Deftly weaving history and politics, The Full English is a love-letter to England, written in Maconie’s inimitable style. Travelling through towns and cities, by Megabus and Avanti train, we meet a rich cast of characters and delve into the seldom-explored crevices of our national psyche. Amar Latif to be appointed as President of the Ramblers". Ramblers. 29 March 2023 . Retrieved 11 July 2023. Amar will succeed writer and DJ Stuart Maconie, who held the position of president of the Ramblers from 2017 to 2023. Stuart Maconie will continue his support of the charity in the role of life vice president. The Full English: Sunbeam Rapiers being made in Coventry in 1955. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton/Getty

Join Stuart Maconie on an enlightening, entertaining journey through England, from Bristol's Banksy to Durham's beaches, from Cotswolds corduroy to Stoke's oatcakes. Having just read, 'English Journey,' by J.B. Priestley, which was published in 1934 and involved the author travelling around the country, I was interested in this title by Stuart Maconie, retracing Priestley's steps. Diane Abbott made ‘terrible mistake’ by saying Irish people did not suffer racism, says Labour grandee ] English Journey is warm, funny, tender. But tough. There is steel here too. J B Priestley’s elegant and readable prose, written for a mass audience, is just as forensic a reading of a changing England and just as passionate a call to arms as anything in Orwell’s bleak masterpiece. Moreover, it both captured and catalysed the public mood. But it’s more than this. It’s a love letter, albeit an exasperated one, to a country that he loves and yet finds unfathomable. We are pleased to announce that Stuart Maconie's new book, 'The Pie at Night: In Search of the North atLaing, Rob (22 February 2023). " "It's the usual, s**t stirring, ill informed nonsense" – Roger Waters denies calling David Gilmour's Pink Floyd guitar solos on Dark Side of the Moon "horrible" ". MusicRadar . Retrieved 27 February 2023.

There are sections which are really good, interesting and enjoyable. There are also sections which read like filler, which I think should have been edited out. There are also several bits where he references his previous books which I find a tedious thing done by any writer, to be honest. He does also come across as grumpy more than usual, and not in a funny way, and it felt jarring. Alan Davies As Yet Untitled recommences on Dave on Tuesday 2nd February with the wonderful Bob Mortimer around the table What would the Rees-Moggs and the Boris Johnsons have to do to get people to wake up and see that they are not your friend? The People's Songs Gallery". British Music Experience.com. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013 . Retrieved 12 July 2013. The Full English: a man sits on a doorstep in Boston, in northeast England; the town registered Britain's strongest support for Brexit in the 2016 referendum. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP via Getty

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a b Maconie, Stuart (2009). Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192650-2. Stuart Maconie’s highly anticipated latest book, THE PEOPLE’S SONGS has just been published by Ebury I honestly expected Maconie's version of this trip round an eccentric English itinerary to be better than Priestley's, and in some ways it is. I prefer Maconie's writing style and (after all) he is from Lancashire rather than Yorkshire. The best of Maconie shines through when he tears apart the terrible mine owners of the Victorian North East (and suggests very reasonably that statues of these 'noble' buffoons should be torn down). But, for me, this is the weakest of all Maconie's socio-travel books. It feels like something that seemed like a good idea when it was commissioned, but that proved hard to make work in practice.