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Saturday, July 30, 2005

Associated Press and Sky News



I'm fascinated by the press reporting that two of the suspects captured yesterday were located in "Notting Hill". That bit of North Kensington is one of the poorest and most dangerous areas of London. "Golbourne Estates" is in the top ten worst areas of the UK.

However, it is technically part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and is only a fifteen minute walk from the northern most bit of Notting Hill so if you wanted to bias a report to make it communicate something like, oh, "even the best communities harbour brain washed Islamofascists" then you might rather enjoy calling the location "Notting Hill".

By the way, isn't 'Wormwood Scrubs' a fabulous name for a prison? Michael Collins spent a short time there, but that's for another post.