16 April 2009
I have been rightly castigated by a blogfan for my blogatrophy; nothing since early March when I went off to Crete. Simply pure indolence.
However today the Guardian has published one of my letters (in truncated form), so I am putting the full letter on the blog. It was a response to an article on 11 April headed "Let the circus begin" by Blake Morrison, the writer and journalist, our Blackheath neighbour, on a subject on which he is a real authority since in 1993 he wrote up the Bulger case, the demonisation of youngsters by the media and public. This time it concerned the two young brothers charged with the attempted murder of two other young boys. Blake deserved plaudits for drawing attention to the current case. So I reproduce in my blog my letter as sent:
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