Ignoring the Plebs

In the early hours of Thursday a huge fire engulfed a building site in Peckham, in south east London. It quickly spread to the flats nearby where hundreds of people had to be evacuated, many in their nightclothes. A large number of these flats were badly damaged or destroyed.





By midnight the story had disappeared from BBC radio news. This morning, my "quality" newspaper, The Guardian, made no mention of it at all.

It found room for the problems in the playground of the rich, Dubai. It managed to dedicate half a page to this dreadful Belle de Jour woman. Not even half a column inch for Peckham.

The floods in Cumbria a week ago are still in the news. Peckham hasn't even made it in.

Peckham is a deprived and densely populated inner city area with a multi-cultural population.

Make of it what you will.

Thankfully - and miraculously - no one died.