I've read some bollocks in my time but an article by James Caan that I saw in the Evening Standard this evening is up there with the best.

Just why the hell do we have to put up with this airbrushed garbage?

Names, please

More importantly, who the hell at the Evening Standard thinks this content is good enough to run in London's top paper?

I want names, I really do.


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I used to be a journalist myself and the only way I'd have run something like this is if you jammed a Luger into my temple and held a cracked bottle of Holsten Pils under my nutsack.

Platitudes

Here are just some of the platitudes that I counted.

Wait a minute, I'm pretty much copying and pasting the whole goddam article!

Stick with what you know

But more to the point, James' answer, if this wasn't just some piece of mindless PR (rich, I know), would probably (hopefully) be:

Dear James

To wrap up, I've got a question for you, James.