Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
Not sure if there is a link for it anywhere, but it's about the drug problems and St Agnes Place eviction.
Anyone else seen it?
Anyone else seen it?
Hatboy's letter in Evening Standard
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Donna Ferentes
jubliado
No, but here's a funny thing - the Standard phoned me up yesterday and asked if I'd like to write them a letter on the subject of policing in Brixton. I said I no longer lived in Brixton or indeed in Lambeth and didn't read the Standard ...
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Blimey, he's been busy! He's got an article about the yuppification of Brixton in this month's New Internationalist and all...turning into a regular little Keith Flett isn't he?
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
i always thought keith flett was the name of a group of letter writers, kind of like italian anarchists all call themselves luther blissett.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
No, he's a real person because I met him at an Index on Censorship thang that Sheena McDonald was chairing at the Ritzy a few years ago (unless he was an imposter, of course).
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
some years ago, i encountered a senior standard journo. the chat turned to the letters page, and i was told that on occasion they made them up.editor said:Glad to see him putting his considerable energies to constructive use.
Mind you, we've seen how desperate the Standard is for letters here!
although i hope that that insidious practice has now ceased, it does indicate that they're not exactly flooded with correspondence.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no, he's a big cheese (or a cheese, at any rate) in the world of socialist history.bluestreak said:
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
I can't find a link, checked TIL site but they don't put the letters on there.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Pickman's model said:
Or they just get letters they don't want published...well done to HB though.
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
You will have to go and buy it!pooka said:
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
is it 20p today?Stobart Stopper said:You will have to go and buy it!
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Pickman's model said:
and there was me thinking he was just an unemployed leftie with too much time on his hands.
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
No, 40p I'm afraid, you tight bastard, anyway it's too long for me to type up and I am not sure it's allowed anyway, they could do the Editor for copyright I think.Pickman's model said:
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
That is a funny thing indeed - they could do it themselves. Surely the Evening (sub) Standard are quite talented in making stuff up, since they do it every single day?Donna Ferentes said:
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
I have the standard, and will type the whole thing up here, when i have time, prolly tomorrow as I have a zillion CVs to look at and techies to torture etc.
dogmatique
merde alors
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
it's a good letter. makes sense.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
The other letter is appalling.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
Hatboy again! How the fuck did one person manage to offend so many people?!
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
he also did a lot of good stuff here once, and started The Thread Which Made U75 (briefly) Famous - see 'guns/crack/brixton etc'zenie said:Yes indeed a good letter - seems like he's doing things right for a change as I only ever heard bad stuff about him on here
I take it there's no comment on it though?
aurora green
Tectonic
It's a brilliant letter. Well done Hatboy!
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