On one of those days when I was feeling quite proud of my ability to string a few words together, I decided it was high time I stopped depriving the United Kingdom’s quality national newspapers of my talents, and started to prepare a cheeky-but-endearing email to each of their editors.

I’d written a four-hundred word article on the politically sensitive but prominent issue
of the alleged agreement between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the
Exchequer Gordon Brown to effectively time-share the position of Prime Minister in
order to resolve a personal feud – a bizarre and highly questionable arrangement, yet
one which the UK media seemed quite happy to let go unchallenged.

Knowing how seriously accuracy is taken in the industry, I ran my article through a
spell-checker a dozen or so times, and, certain beyond any doubt that it contained not
a single spelling error, I published the article on my website, whose address I then
included in my cheeky email.

Several days later, while watching the news, I was reminded that the new leader of the
Conservative Party – the second largest political party in the United Kingdom – was in
fact called David Cameron, rather than David Campbell.

I haven’t yet heard back from any of the newspapers yet, but I imagine they’re
probably just very busy at the moment.

Seb Carroll

http://sebcarroll.blogspot.com/