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Waterstones, Patrick Jones and Stephen Green again

14Nov08 – 5:46 pm

by Padraig Reidy

Caspar Melville of New Humanist has an update on the cancellation of a poetry reading in Cardiff after threats of disruption by Stephen Green of Christian Voice.

Gerry Johnson, Managing Director of Waterstone’s, has been in touch to explain the chain’s position. He claims that poet Patrick Jones deliberately set out to create controversy.

Read Johnson’s comments here.

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2 Comments

Posted 15Nov08 at 10:13 am | Permalink

HP Sauce

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7730396.stm

Further reporting. Difficult to know what the exact truth in all this is.
Posted 18Nov08 at 3:30 pm | Permalink

HP Sauce

Now a Welsh Assembly issue…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/betsanpowys/2008/11/blasphemy_rhetoric_and_profani.html?moduserid=movabletype82_43548&pid=71855516&upm=False&asb=False&pmp=False#dnaacs

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