{"id":1249,"date":"2010-05-03T19:45:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terenceblacker.com\/New\/comment\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2010-05-03T19:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:45:30","slug":"the-mayor-of-london-rips-off-the-counter-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terenceblacker.com\/New\/the-mayor-of-london-rips-off-the-counter-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mayor of London rips off the counter-culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How excited Barry Miles must have been when the news reached him that his new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/London-Calling-Countercultural-History-Since\/dp\/1843546132\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1272912150&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0\">London Calling: A Counter-Cultural History of London since 1945<\/a><\/em> was to be a full-page review \u00a0in a popular Sunday newspaper, the Mail on Sunday, and by a blue-chip reviewer, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly for Barry, it was a classic ego-review \u2013 that is, \u00a0an opportunity for a celebrity to earn some pocket money by sounding off about a favourite subject while pretending to review a book.<\/p>\n<p>Boris would rather have liked to be a hippy: that was the burden of these 1000 words. The book over which Barry Miles has been researching and writing, probably for \u00a0years, \u00a0deserved\u00a0 not a single mention. Indeed, it is tempting to assume that the reviewer only opened the book in order to lift a few stories and facts that he could present in the article as his own.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the only mention of the author in the piece,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;London today has nothing like the Indica Bookshop (after cannabis indica, nudge nudge), set up in 1965 by the author of this book, Barry Miles.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup. That\u2019s it \u2013 as near to a judgement \u00a0on his book as Barry Miles is going to get from the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s view of \u00a0the counter-culture, in case you\u2019re interested, is that it was \u201cstifled in the lilac-scented bosom of the Establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is something he should know about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How excited Barry Miles must have been when the news reached him that his new book London Calling: A Counter-Cultural History of London since 1945 was to be a full-page review \u00a0in a popular Sunday newspaper, the Mail on Sunday, and by a blue-chip reviewer, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Sadly for Barry, it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/terenceblacker.com\/New\/the-mayor-of-london-rips-off-the-counter-culture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mayor of London rips off the counter-culture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[394,372,177,395,396],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-barry-miles","tag-book-reviews","tag-boris-johnson","tag-counter-culture","tag-mail-on-sunday","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Mayor of London rips off the counter-culture - Terence-Blacker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/terenceblacker.com\/New\/the-mayor-of-london-rips-off-the-counter-culture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Mayor of London rips off the counter-culture - Terence-Blacker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How excited Barry Miles must have been when the news reached him that his new book London Calling: A Counter-Cultural History of London since 1945 was to be a full-page review \u00a0in a popular Sunday newspaper, the Mail on Sunday, and by a blue-chip reviewer, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. 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