Hatboy's letter in Evening Standard

Stobart Stopper · #1 02-12-2005, 12:35

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?

Donna Ferentes · #2 02-12-2005, 12:37

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 · #3 02-12-2005, 12:48

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 · #4 02-12-2005, 12:51

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 · #5 02-12-2005, 12:59

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).

rednblack · #6 02-12-2005, 13:01

if he was a chubby bloke with a beard it was keith, he drinks in my local

editor · #7 02-12-2005, 13:01

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Originally Posted by Mrs Magpie

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?

Glad to see him putting his considerable energies to constructive use.

Mind you, we've seen how desperate the Standard is for letters here!

Pickman's model · #8 02-12-2005, 13:04

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Originally Posted by editor

Glad to see him putting his considerable energies to constructive use.

Mind you, we've seen how desperate the Standard is for letters here!

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.

although i hope that that insidious practice has now ceased, it does indicate that they're not exactly flooded with correspondence.

Pickman's model · #9 02-12-2005, 13:05

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Originally Posted by bluestreak

i always thought keith flett was the name of a group of letter writers, kind of like italian anarchists all call themselves luther blissett.

no, he's a big cheese (or a cheese, at any rate) in the world of socialist history.

Belushi · #10 02-12-2005, 13:06

Anyone got a link to Hatboys letter?

Stobart Stopper · #11 02-12-2005, 13:07

I can't find a link, checked TIL site but they don't put the letters on there.

Kid_Eternity · #12 02-12-2005, 13:09

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Originally Posted by Pickman's model

although i hope that that insidious practice has now ceased, it does indicate that they're not exactly flooded with correspondence.

Or they just get letters they don't want published...well done to HB though.

pooka · #13 02-12-2005, 13:24

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Originally Posted by Stobart Stopper

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?

Good for hatboy...what did he have to say?

Stobart Stopper · #14 02-12-2005, 13:26

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Originally Posted by pooka

Good for hatboy...what did he have to say?

You will have to go and buy it!

Pickman's model · #15 02-12-2005, 13:27

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Originally Posted by Stobart Stopper

You will have to go and buy it!

is it 20p today?

bluestreak · #16 02-12-2005, 13:28

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Originally Posted by Pickman's model

no, he's a big cheese (or a cheese, at any rate) in the world of socialist history.

and there was me thinking he was just an unemployed leftie with too much time on his hands.

Stobart Stopper · #17 02-12-2005, 13:32

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Originally Posted by Pickman's model

is it 20p today?

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.

Brixton Hatter · #18 02-12-2005, 13:49

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Originally Posted by Donna Ferentes

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 ...

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?

WasGeri · #19 02-12-2005, 13:57

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Originally Posted by Pickman's model

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.

I had the opposite - a letter I'd written got turned into a full blown article! It made it sound like they had interviewed me.

Streathamite · #20 02-12-2005, 14:03

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.