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Letter to DoubleSpeak

I’m sure I’m not the only person amazed to find DoubleSpeak and then have the joy of having something published in the magazine.I must have found it on Google. I’m always Googling about something or other. 

I’m a 76-year-old ‘semi-retired’ journalist in SE London. I write the Mercury Man column (https://greenwichwire.co.uk/author/mercuryman2000/) for the excellent online news service The Greenwich Wire. Like DoubleSpeak, I do it for free. Every ‘post’ is positive, promoting some activity, group or individual in SE London. My short stories follow the same line. I have no time for anything ‘dark’. The world is dark enough already, and you don’t need any examples. 

So keep up the great work!

Best wishes,

Peter

Lee, London

Peter is a semi-retired journalist who edited the South East London Mercury in Deptford. He was involved in the Mercury’s seven-year campaign with fans to get Charlton Athletic FC back to The Valley in 1992. With musician Carl Picton he wrote ‘One Georgie Orwell’, a proletarian musical tribute to George Orwell. He also played football for VPS in the Finnish Premier Division in 1975/76.