Michael Fordham
Whatever happened to the Likely Lads?
Those rebels had a cause — It's all kicking off in France. Euro 2016 is in full swing across French towns and cities, with violent clashes between supporters. The Brits are taking centre stage, but these aren't the well-dressed and working class hooligans at war of decades past.
Written by: Michael Fordham
Long Read: Ed Templeton’s Suburban Scenes
A day in Huntington Beach — Artist, photographer, skateboarder and chronicler of Southern California Ed Templeton gives Huck an access-all-areas insight into his creative world. Here is our four-part interview from The Ed Templeton Issue, guest edited by the Tempster himself, featuring his own artwork and iconic photography sitting alongside fresh illustrations, created exclusively for Huck.
Written by: Michael Fordham
Video: The Father-Son duo dedicated to the love between man and machine
Analogue lifestyle — In a smart tech era, Anthony and Alistair Devall have built a temple to custom vintage motorbikes at the Pembrokeshire Classics workshop.
Written by: Michael Fordham
Video: Surfer Sophie Hellyer chases the icy chill of North-Atlantic swell
No California dreaming — Atlantic waves are in surfer Sophie Hellyer’s blood. In this beautiful short, she travels from her birthplace in Devon to her adopted home in the cold-water surfing community of Ireland’s County Clare.
Written by: Michael Fordham
One Weekend: Four Dispatches from the front lines of Britain's Class War
The lines are drawn — The FUCK Parade turned East London's Cereal Killer Café into a battleground, but as Michael Fordham discovers, the class war is alive and well across the country: from a Somerset rugby match, to a Sheffield benefit office and the scene of a shooting in Hackney.
Written by: Michael Fordham
Could Jeremy Corbyn become the world’s first crowdsourced premier?
Public schoolboy politics on the way out — Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will carry out his first Prime Minister's Questions with suggestions crowdsourced from supporters. Has a new way of doing politics begun?
Written by: Michael Fordham
Drone strikes and a handful of refugees: the UK’s Syria policy is shameful
Deus Ex Machina — When David Cameron announced yesterday a successful drone strike on a British-born target in Syria, was he cynically playing to both the hawks and the doves while conceding little in the way of true humanitarian responsibility?
Written by: Michael Fordham
Shark attacks Mick Fanning during a surf comp. But do we have ourselves to blame?
Beware of sharksploitation — Champion surfer Mick Fanning was lucky to escape with his life after a shark attacked him in the finals of the J-Bay Open this weekend. But with shark attacks on the rise globally do we need to accept some responsibility?
Written by: Michael Fordham
Huck’s intergalactic sounds playlist
Space jams — As Nasa’s New Horizons probe beams back images from its Pluto flyby, we dig out the artists cruising the outer reaches of the sonic universe - featuring Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra and more.
Written by: Michael Fordham
Behind the scenes on Surfer Magazine’s ‘Big Issue’
Words, waves and works of art — Surfer Magazine's Art Director James Newitt on their fantastic new Geoff McFetridge illustrated cover and if surf magazines still shape the culture.
Written by: Michael Fordham