BY ANDREW MOODY Anybody in their mid thirties to forties will remember the glory that was Danny Boyle’s extraordinary adaptation of the Irvine Welsh novel Trainspotting. The sequel, T2, arrived twenty years later, purely as a money making operation by what’s left of Hollywood in the age of CGI McMovies. One morning on the breakfast show on Absolute Radio all the DJs sighed and said … Continue reading T2
BY ANDREW MOODY Iconic Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who once referred to himself as so famous and wealthy he was essentially “upper class”, called the anti-Semite psychopath (and potential UK Labour prime minister) Jeremy Corbyn “as the best of a bad bunch” in August 2017, shortly after the hung parliament. One of the most influential writers of the past twenty years, Welsh began life as the … Continue reading Welsh
