“Christopher England” was born in the mid-1970s when I, the man behind “Christopher England”, first needed a name other than my own in order to pursue a career on the dark side. Ok, it was only pirate radio, not quite as dark as darkness from darkland, but it would have been a folly to have used my real name, obviously. Nobody did. I liked the combination of the whole word “Christopher” alongside “England” and felt it was good. Cue that rock’n’roll nodding thing that people do in films.At first, “Christopher England” was just me on the radio, but it wasn’t long before I realised that “Christopher England” had a larger than life personality of his own and since he was no longer real, “Christopher England” could be anything “he” wanted to be, almost out of the control of his creator, poor little me. I sat back watching all these terrible things happen not unlike how Rod Hull looked on in terror as his Emu attacked Michael Parkinson.
People sometimes find it hard to understand the separation between the man in the background and “Christopher England”. I think the best was to explain it is to give Alan Partridge or Keith Lemon as examples of ‘living’ characterisations that exist and can remain in character despite only being somebody else’s character. The public never get to know the real people, just the characters they play. Had anybody ever seen Frank Sidebottom without his comedy head on? Inside there was a man who was really different to the Frank Sidebottom you saw on the outside. ”Christopher England” is similar (except for the lack of a comedy head). Make sense? No? Ah. It might do eventually.
Christopher England flirted with land based pirate broadcasting, and, like almost everybody in the 1970s / 1980s, even tried a bit of offshore radio broadcasting, becoming known mainly to the enthusiasts of piratical radio rather than the real public who just weren’t listening. The Christopher England claim to fame was the pioneering of alternative talk based pirate broadcasting. Initially this was the more serious “community-access” format, and eventually became the Christopher England centric talk about nothing yet everything for hours at a time format. For a while Christopher England even had his own satellite radio station on which to become even more Christopher England than the previous Christopher England!
As adventurous radio died across the UK, the options for Christopher England became very limited and so he turned to a life on the internet. His words were no longer in audio, but written. For decades now, Christopher England’s view on the world, especially media, has spewed forth from various keyboards. He writes about things he knows and understands. Some of the things he writes upset those who don’t necessarily want to face the truth or prefer fluffy versions of history, especially when it comes to radio.
As Christopher England evolves so will the targets of his witterings, however he likes to express his many issues with religions and prejudices, and is a strong advocate of the protection of children from the abuse, indoctrination and lies from their parents. This includes the abuse of the lie of Father Christmas, let alone the lie of gods and religions.
From the relative safety of his ivory tower, Christopher England laughs and points at the failing radio industry, and media in general. He is a man of solutions though, so not just there to sneer. He understands the public and what they want and will often offer up the answers that would correct the wrongs he reports on.
Christopher England has sussed the way news media manipulates people and isn’t fooled by trends of rule-by-fear, like the current one labelled ’Global Warming’, or, since they’ve been unable to prove any substantial warming, ‘Climate Change’. There’s always a reason why somebody wants somebody else to believe something, and the truth is usually irrelevant, as is regularly pointed out in Christopher England’s musings.
Today, as always, Christopher England polarises people. Many are uncomfortable which the accuracy of the things he says. Many have their agendas as to why they try to belittle and barrack him, and these become more transparent the more they ‘attack’. But a lot of people can see that a lot of the words of Christopher England make sense.
The majority of people agree that Christopher England should be shot, but a few agree that he should be given a seat in the House of Lords for his wisdom. Where you stand on this will depend on how free thinking you are.
Behind all this, very rarely are people who know of “Christopher England” allowed to get to know the man behind him, in other words, me. I fiercely and quite rightly protect my family and my private life from the gaze of what Christopher England correctly describes as the mad people from madland, a lot of whom wish “Christopher England” harm as their road-rage style way of disagreeing with him. Only a few from my real life and work actually know I am also the evil “Christopher England”. This allows me to get on with whatever it is I do when I’m in my Peter Parker or Bruce Wane role, ie real life…!
Does this make Christopher England a superhero similar to Batman or Spiderman? Hmmm. You decide. It certainly seems to attract the mad people from madland who are obsessed with trying to give away hints about the man behind Christopher England rather than dealing with the public character they’ve decided they loathe or the things he’s said. But maybe when they react, Christopher England has them exactly where he wants them. Aha! Sometimes it’s very confusing being Christopher England.
“Christopher England just said that!”
(Or did he?)
England's England 
That explains a lot.
BTW – you've clearly changed blog hosting company. Your last one was much better.
I use a feed reader (FeedDemon) to read your stuff – and it will only show me the first four lines of what you've written. While I can, when I have plenty of time, simply go to your website, this is often inconvenient. I use the feed reader so that I can do a quick update of all the feeds I read before I leave the house – and then can read them all on the train without having to mess around with mobile internet signals.
Yes, it is true that I am naturally resistant to change and conservative with a small c. But in this case, it's justified. And I wouldn't normally say that. Honestly.
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Ah now, you see, you clearly demonstrate that you are not resistant to change – you use a feed reader. Not many folk do that. And your reason for using them and how you use them makes perfect sense to me, and would be lost on those truly resistant to change!
Anyway, I swapped back to Blogger for blogging, away from Tumblr, and didn't consider the implications of the feed changing. I realised it would change, but sort of dismissed it as unimportant, fool that I am.
Also, the default on the feed is to provide a 'tease'. However, I have now discovered that I can make this a full feed, so, with a bit of luck, full service has been returned to you and you can return to reading my rubbish on the train without further problems. Well, apart from the actual content, I guess.
Sorry to have messed you about, and thanks for bothering to let me know. You are a star!
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