Letters to the Spalding Guardian editor: February 18, 2021
Unwise to alert criminals to an empty building
We rightly place tremendous value on the freedoms inherent in our press. However, such comes with responsibilities. Journalists et al need to bear in mind the likely consequences of their words.
By example, the recent article in The Guardian that appeared to poke Bruce Wainwright, landlord of the Bull at Pinchbeck, in the eye over his management choices of said hostelry. I wrote in reply to that suggesting, somewhat tongue in cheek, that those quoted in the original article may have been serving a personal agenda in putting such ânewsâ in the public eye. (My contrary view was developed after a Parish Council meeting at Pinchbeck library many months before, rather than at any recent meeting.)