NEW LABOUR

Butcher, bricklayer, time machine maker: across the UK, the dust is being blown off roles steeped in years of tradition - we journey to the farms, brickyards and kitchens to trace the rupture, and meet the people bringing moves to a mad country

JACK MILLS

There’s a moment in Annie Jones’s career that she calls “the turning point”. She had joined a small, family-run meat merchants in the Derby Road area of Ipswich for milk money at the age of 13, and was finally ready to butcher her first loin. Shop-owner George Debman - the kind of gentle surgeon general you see propping up any typical English meat counter - presented her with a pork steak to carefully bone and carve for the day’s service. Staring down, Annie felt an affinity with the steel work top decorated with bloodied ribs and marbled pig dorsal, realising, she recalls, that this was “finally where I am supposed to be”. Now 21, Annie is three weeks away from finishing an apprenticeship qualification at an Ipswich meat college when…

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Dazed & Confused (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2023

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