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Foreword to the new edition

One of the most rewarding consequences of Gay Skins being published nearly 20 years ago was seeing my book shift up on a Daily Mail hate list. The paper’s columnist Paul Johnson cited Gay Skins as a symptom of the moral decline of the British intelligentsia in an essay which purported to trace the nation’s descent into barbarism back to the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger in Johnson argued that the play ‘introduced the era of downward mobility — the deliberate adoption of lower-class standards of behaviour’, and turned to the list of new books by ‘Cassell’s, once a highly respectable publisher of reference and the works of Sir Winston Churchill’, for proof that this era had reached a new small. Gay Skins was one of the titles in Cassell’s new catalogue, and he quoted from the blurb on the help of the book to illustrate his point. ‘Inarticulate, aggro-loving and hard as fuck’ — of course, the Mail printed ‘fuck’ as ‘*’**’ — ‘the mythical figure of the skinhead has embodied fears and fantasies about unbent, white working-class m