{"id":3739,"date":"2017-10-18T20:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:42:30","slug":"the-dream-thats-lasted-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/the-dream-thats-lasted-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorted 10 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To celebrate Sorted magazine\u2019s tenth birthday, editor and founder Steve Legg chatted with columnist and sci-fi author Alex Willmott about the journey so far.<\/p>\n

As I reflect on a decade of Sorted magazine hitting the shelves, I\u2019m reminded of how it all started \u2013 with a conversation in the school playground with my accountant, Leigh. I hasten to add that we both had kids at the school and weren\u2019t just meeting there to go through my tax return. He was telling me how his ten-year-old son\u2019s mates were bringing lads\u2019 mags into the playground and we wondered about how great it would be if there was an alternative that was a good read, but didn\u2019t objectify women and tell young men to merely follow their animalistic instincts. He said that you would need to be bonkers to start something in that industry, I thought \u2018at last something I\u2019m qualified for\u2019.<\/p>\n

I knew it was going against the tide of culture and print sales, and that there were doubters right from the off. But then when I heard some...<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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