Calling all ex-Fleet Street journalists! A blog, GentlemenRanters, has been launched today to enable old hacks to reminisce about their days of wines, headlines and deadlines. It's a cyber replacement for the pubs of the past - such as the Mucky Duck, Stab, Poppins, Barneys, Auntie's, Harrow, Wine Press, Tipperary, the Cheese and El Vino's - so that the veterans can rant, recount and recant.
The "editorial board" includes Paddy Byrne (freelance photographer), Ian Skidmore (freelancer), Paul Bannister (Daily Mail), Geoffrey Mather (Daily Express), and Revel Barker and Alasdair Buchan (Mirror group). Barker's opening words to his first posting give a whiff of what to expect: "I am old enough to remember the days when..."
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