Insulting behaviour...and other misdemeanours - Wynford Hicks

• Introduction

Part one: CATHOLIC CHILDHOOD

• Chapter 1: Sevenoaks to Seaford by way of Bexhill and Wadhurst
• Chapter 2: surviving Stonyhurst, the Jesuit college, a very military public school

Part two: ANARCHIST YOUTH

• Chapter 3: Christ Church, Oxford, drinking, drugs and debating with Etonians
• Chapter 4: CND, Charlotte Fawcett, the Committee of 100 and prison
• Chapter 5: Notting Hill anarchists, Stuart Christie’s story, Anarchist Youth magazine

Part three: “ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN”

• Chapter 6: Paris in 1960, hedonism & hitchhiking, the Daily Mail & Top of the Pops
• Chapter 7: Swinging London, Ready, Steady, Go!, pirate radio & Spurs
• Chapter 8: a gap year – up the Nile to Kampala, Mombasa, India & the hippy trail

Part four: WORK, PLAY AND POLITICS

• Chapter 9: 1968 & all that, Freedom, Cornmarket Press, Enoch Powell (by Paul Foot)
• Chapter 10: Welcome aboard (BOAC), features & subbing for Radio Times, a stint at the TLS
• Chapter 11: the Alternative dummy, the Ink fiasco, Inside Story & Wildcat

Part five: EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION

• Chapter 12: the comprehensive revolution: theory (Anthony Crosland) and practice (Pimlico)
• Chapter 13: the English question, “more will mean worse”, Garnett College of Education, English for Journalists, the “fronted adverbial”

Postscript

• A visit to Mallorca

Wynford Hicks was schooled by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst College and won a scholarship in history to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was secretary of the Oxford Union debating society and chaired the university Labour club; joined the anti-nuclear Committee of 100 and co-founded the Oxford anarchist group; taught in east London schools for a year; worked for the Daily Mail, Radio Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer magazine, Police Review and Cornmarket Press where he edited BOAC’s inflight magazine; wrote a column for Freedom, the anarchist weekly; founded and edited the alternative news magazine Inside Story; and taught journalism from 1978 to 1996 at the London College of Printing, City University and various publishing companies. His books include English for Journalists, now in its fourth edition, and Quite Literally, both published by Routledge.

Originally published at http://www.hicksinfrance.net/