Author : Chris Arnot

Chris Arnot has been a national freelance feature writer for 18 years. A regular contributor to the Guardian, he has also written for the Daily Telegraph , the Independent and the Observer. He has a monthly column in Candis Magazine, Starting in October, 2009.

Shocking for fun

By Chris ArnotPosted on November 24, 1999Posted in Guardian G2

First came the teddy boys, terrorising the staid society of post-war Britain, then the punks, vampire goths, fetishists and piercers – all making statements by the way they dressed. Now they all get together for parties. Chris Arnot meets the revellers and the man who takes their photographs.

Flavour of the month

By Chris ArnotPosted on July 28, 1999Posted in Guardian G2

Rustie Lee, the bouncy TV chef with the set-shaking laugh, is back in the limelight after seven long years. But this time there’s not a saucepan in sight. She talks to Chris Arnot

The sexy sins of Saint Shula

By Chris ArnotPosted on August 12, 1998Posted in General Features

The Archers, an everyday story of . . . randy folk? Passion is certainly rampant in dear old Ambridge. And, golly, it’s a pillar of the community causing it. Chris Arnot meets the woman who’s adding spice to Britain’s longest-running soap

Why Julie can look robbers in the eye

By Chris ArnotPosted on May 22, 1996Posted in The Daily Telegraph

Bank clerk Julie Bains had a shotgun pointed at her face. For two years shewas traumatised and unable to sleep. Nowsheworks in a jail trying to get criminals to consider the human cost of violence, reports Chris Arnot ‘Even after the ones who raided my bank were locked away, I didn’t feel safe. My mind was frozen with fear’

Coasting along towards Cagliari

By Chris ArnotPosted on August 27, 1994Posted in The Independent

Chris Arnot learns how to drive like an Italian, then takes his family on a tour of the beautiful bays and idyllic beaches of Sardinia

Taking The Bull By The Horns

By Chris ArnotPosted on April 3, 1994Posted in General Features

Chris Arnot meets Archers editor Vanessa Whitburn, whose life has painfully imitated the deft art of the soap

Arrivederci to Brum’s bit of Italy

By Chris ArnotPosted on January 19, 1994Posted in The Independent

Chris Arnot remains unconvinced that plans to glass over the arcade of Corinthian columns outside Birmingham’s Town Hall will not lessen the building’s grandeur

Malcolm X in the Black Country

By Chris ArnotPosted on March 3, 1993Posted in The Independent