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I am sometimes informed by reading George Monbiot's column in the Guardian, a journalist perhaps better known in these columns for being the grandson of a famous restaurateur, a Belgian who operated in London. A foodie's Poirot as it were. And today I was surprised by Google who instructed me to remove the 'n' from the restaurant keeper word, an instruction which is, as it turns out, confirmed by Collins. I am also moved to issue a correction.

Three years ago I happened, quite by chance, to pick up a fat book in Tooting Broadway Oxfam about a child abuse witch hunt in North Wales by one Richard Webster. A tale which was disgraceful less for the child abuse that was indeed involved, than for the way that some of those involved were hounded by press & police & uncletomcobleyandall and for the way in which disturbed young adults were, in effect, paid to make serious and life-changing allegations about their former carers, some years after the events. See January 17th 2009.

As a result, I think that the way that Monbiot mentions North Wales in yesterday's piece is inappropriate. I thought of commenting online to the Guardian but this requires registration pack drill but then found that one could comment privately with no pack drill at all to his very own web site (http://www.monbiot.com/).