View Full Version : Sam Leith is At It Again
It takes something special to make me feel protective of the aggressive beggars in Brixton. But trust Sam Leith of the Daily Telegraph to provide it. Judge for yourself....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/08/28/do2803.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/08/28/ixopinion.html
brixtonvilla
28-08-2006, 16:47
What did he say that was bad, exactly? Considering that it's from the Telegraph, I was expecting something far worse.
memespring
28-08-2006, 16:56
Bit of a pointless article - it seems to be saying "I live in Brixton Don't you know? It's awfully ghetto."
Errol's son
28-08-2006, 17:00
Bit of a pointless article - it seems to be saying "I live in Brixton Don't you know. It's awfully ghetto."
I couldn't understand the article's point either...
But that Sam Leith writes lots of crap columns.
The other day he wrote one about how fucking stupid he was because he did not know the M1 and the A1 (M) are two different roads.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/08/21/do2104.xml
What does this story tells us other than Sam Leith is some fucking moron?
slightly patronising I guess, but aside from that, so what?
For me it's the tone. Leith is a kind of poverty tourist. I hate that his kind of journalism observes the phenomenon and cares not a fig for the origins of the problem. Who are these people? Why are they there? Why isn't there anyone helping them? Or is there, and why isn't it working? Leith's kind of hackery doesn't bother with any of these questions. Instead we're left with a description of how someone bummed his lighter. Lazy, slightly contemptuous, Leith is a bad taste in the mouth.
Donna Ferentes
28-08-2006, 18:53
Is he related to William Leith? I always hated him.
gaijingirl
28-08-2006, 18:57
Or Prue Leith?
RushcroftRoader
28-08-2006, 23:37
OK confession time. I am actually a journalist for the Sunday Telegraph (I have never written about Brixton) and I am sick to death of Sam Leith's bollocks articles. What was the point of that article?? If you are going to write about Brixton at least say something original. Fucking moron. I am going to email him and let him know what a prick I think he is.
:mad: :mad:
It follows from his article about Brixton's Woolworths in which he sniped at shop assistants who would consider themselves fortunate to be on a quarter of his pay. What does he want, a medal for living among us?
:mad: He's clearly completely lacking in inspiration or imagination, and just dashed off that article in a few minutes after his visit to the Ritzy.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
29-08-2006, 18:06
He knows nob-all about cricket as well.:p
tarannau
29-08-2006, 18:29
It's shit and inaccurate too...
...anyone local knows him as Mr FivePENCE (shout the last syllable) anyway...
;)
linerider
29-08-2006, 18:50
It's shit and inaccurate too...
...anyone local knows him as Mr FivePENCE (shout the last syllable) anyway...
;)
It's gone up to tenPence or at least it had on Sunday.
it is badly written as well. considering he is a journalist.
Mrs Magpie
31-08-2006, 12:12
OK confession time. I am actually a journalist for the Sunday Telegraph (I have never written about Brixton) and I am sick to death of Sam Leith's bollocks articles. What was the point of that article?? If you are going to write about Brixton at least say something original. Fucking moron. I am going to email him and let him know what a prick I think he is.
:mad: :mad:I am so glad you posted that.....I knew who you worked for (iirc it was someone who lives in the same street that mentioned it) and when I saw the opening post my heart sank in case you'd written the article because I like your posts.....
the fine spinach retailers near the Number 3 bus stop were having a good old moan about the 'irish men are batty men' fella yesterday.
i think he is bad for business :D
but they did point out if it was a mad white fella wandering about saying that about black guys he wouldnt last 30 seconds.
brixtonvilla
31-08-2006, 20:21
the fine spinach retailers near the Number 3 bus stop were having a good old moan about the 'irish men are batty men' fella yesterday.
i think he is bad for business :D
but they did point out if it was a mad white fella wandering about saying that about black guys he wouldnt last 30 seconds.
Often thought the same thing myself.
Fucking moron. I am going to email him and let him know what a prick I think he is.
:mad: :mad:
You've got to share his reply. Or better still send him over this way and he can reply himself!
5p?
He always asks for 20 I thought.
He needs to be told not to harrass people queing in the bank. He came into the Abbey National the other day. Really fucking annoying.
Plastic Bathmat
01-09-2006, 17:28
Quite frankly, after having lived in Glasgow for 7 years I found the beggers down here a breeze of fresh air. They're not overly pushy and by and large not too rude if you tell them no.
Fully agree with Hendo - it's the tone of the article that grates.
RushcroftRoader
01-09-2006, 18:01
You've got to share his reply. Or better still send him over this way and he can reply himself!
Found out a bit more about Mr Leith. It turns out he is Pru Leith's nephew. I have a mate who is a friend of a friend of his who said that basically Sam is a dye-in-the-wool Cameronite Tory who lives in Brixton to maintain his warped idea that he is keeping it "real" in some sort of boho urban chic way.
Anyway, let us just say that he has been made aware of certain issues with his piece.
Donna Ferentes
01-09-2006, 18:02
Is there such a thing as a "dyed-in-the-wool Cameronite Tory"?
Gixxer1000
01-09-2006, 19:30
lives in Brixton to maintain his warped idea that he is keeping it "real" in some sort of boho urban chic way.
.
Never heard of anyone doing that :rolleyes:
My gut feeling about Sam Leith's article is that one reads far more entertaining and thought-provoking stuff about Brixton in some of the posts on here!
With feature-type journalism, I divide it up into 'that's a really interesting angle on such and such an issue - wow!' and '"kin "ell, I could have written that myself & got paid for it!' schools of thought. I reckon half of Urban could have done a more interesting piece on living in Brixton than that. :rolleyes:
Nepotism alive and well, eh? Not that anyone, here or elsewhere, would believe otherwise!
I did quite like the bit on Charlotte Church, for its sentiments - (although 90% of the article was a quote from Charlotte herself, or 'Miss' Church as he calls her!)
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