Is Andrew Gilligan suffering some form of identity crisis? Monkey only asks after it was suggested that the London Evening Standard scribe and Ken Livingstone tormentor-in-chief might be commenting on internet blogposts under a different name. It's called "sockpuppeting", as if you didn't know already, and uncanny similarities have been drawn between things written by Gilligan and comments left by someone calling themselves "Kennite". Not so, said Gilligan, who told readers of Dave Hill's London Blog that Kennite was his "partner". Gilligan continued: "Is that allowed? I've always been perfectly happy, as you acknowledge, to point out the shortcomings in your journalism under my own name." When other readers just wouldn't let it lie, Gilligan retorted: "I have very seldom read a series of posts so pompous, so lacking in proportion, and so determined to ignore the basic fact - Kennite ain't me." At least, we think it was Gilligan. Perhaps it was Kennite pretending to be Gilligan. Or … no, we'll leave it there for now. This really is Monkey writing this. Honest.
