Posted by Peter H on November 02, 2000 at 21:35:03 from 62.7.11.130:
In Reply to: Re: Ransome the British Spy posted by Alan Hakim on November 02, 2000 at 00:11:25:
We seem to be going out of bounds into a ‘TARS controversy’ area here, but as I am replying to the Chairman of the IWP no less, surely I can be granted a special pass? Alan, you are being a bit disingenuous about MM. I can well imagine the current editor, Joy Wotton, accepting a competent piece assessing AR as a gifted but flawed children’s writer, but can you honestly (come on now) imagine any of her predecessors doing this? And even if they did, would Tarpaulin have approved? Yes, I know Nicholas Tucker’s article was published in the Lit Weekend Papers, but that is not the point here. What I am saying is that the Tucker piece was accepted readily by Tim Johns, but would not have been allowed to go into MM lest it frighten the horses.