A letter from Stoke Newington
This landed in my inbox last night. It made me smile.
I was just Googling Nando’s to see if they do take-aways (they do) and came across your piece on the smug campaign to stop them opening. Great stuff, you echo my thoughts precisely. Stoke Newington was already pretty self-righteous when I came here 18 years ago, and bringing up a child here I have witnessed some appalling behaviour and mind blowing hypocrisy among the middle class. Over the years I have found myself being on the periphery, there through having a child with a bit of a funny name, being white and working in the media, of various mean spirited little groups. The trickle of children from state into private schools, and the reasoning given, as parents desperately tried to cling onto shreds of credibility to bolster their self images as socialists and unconventional, ranged from downright lies to pathetically transparent, to the offensive ‘a boy like Tarquin can’t stay at that school’ (sub-text… my son is brighter, more sensitive than yours, and we’ve got the money). I hope I can look forward to another such fine piece of writing about the annoying aspects of this place some time soon.
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Published on 4th October, 2008
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