A couple of weeks ago I noted my confusion. Posting from one email address someone claiming to be Mark Brewer had left a comment. Posting from another email address someone claiming to be Mark Brewer claimed the first person calling himself Mark Brewer was an impostor.
Mat Wardman had the brilliantly obvious idea (well, obvious once [...]
Despite the facts that
St Stephen the Great Charitable Trust appears to be a company which is applying (very dubiously) for chapter 11 protection in the US, although a registered charity in the UK, and
The licence for St Stephen the Great to use the SPCK name was withdrawn as of November 1st 2007
as of the time [...]
If you’re new to the ongoing SSG / SPCK saga, start here. Otherwise, read on.
Sam Norton first took the step of retrieving and republishing some of Dave Walker’s blog posts, which Dave had removed following the receipt of a cease and desist letter. In turn he received a cease and desist letter himself. Yesterday Sam [...]
This is the Worcester former SPCK bookshop. The photo was taken yesterday morning, some nine months after the licence to trade under the SPCK name was removed.
However, as the title of this post (nicked from Virgil, and the bit normally paraphrased as “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” – I’ve no idea what the Latin for [...]
Reading the petition of the official court trustee seeking to prevent the Brewers filing for chapter 11 is well worth it. Ministry of Truth has the (low quality) PDF and A single blog has a summary. The main thrust is remarkably common-sensible for a lawyer, which is that the company, the assets, and the creditors [...]
Two good places to keep up with the ongoing saga of “Rich Texan lawyer threatens to sue Lambeth cartoonist”.
Matt Wardman’s site. Matt is promising to keep this one going.
David Keen is keeping, well, a keen eye on things
Note also this post from Iyov, where he reveals the secrets of resurrecting posts from Google’s cache.
For those [...]
Dave Walker has been threatened. The person doing the threatening is Mark Brewer. The basis for the threat is Dave’s “people’s journalism” exposing and highlighting the awful saga of SSG/SPCK and the slow destruction of a much respected chain of booksellers. The threat, of a libel action, appears to be an empty threat. Unfortunately, having [...]
This is all a bit bizarre. A couple of weeks ago I posted the sad news of the death of former Worcester bookshop manager Steve Jeynes by his own hand. This followed a long saga of exceptionally bizarre management of the former SPCK bookshop chain by the Texan brothers Mark and Phil Brewer
A comment was [...]
My previous posts on the tragic death of Worcester bookshop manager Steve Jeynes have attracted a number of visitors. I note here a brief summary of today’s memorial service in Worcester Cathedral, especially for those who would like to have attended but couldn’t.
First, the Order of Service
Welcome
Hymn: At the name of Jesus
Opening Prayers
Memories of / [...]
Today’s Worcester News features a front page story about Steve Jeynes’ death. I’m afraid I’ve been out all day so slow off the mark in linking to this story in which I and others are quoted paying tribute to Steve. (As always Dave Walker managed to be very quick off the mark.)
Both the front page [...]
