a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskA-juUerC2yNNt__zbPUBoyexv2k3hv61IUmQDefmm4cKnyz1D58dMqhAUuw2sMbaPsQwX4TZVxXeyoSdrO0Vy2EFWclXjbOLtQW8-m-4U5tu2DL2BTWHThMK-r-u8Sr0yS7NVmRieRz/s1600-h/trains.jpg"img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363995496285583410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskA-juUerC2yNNt__zbPUBoyexv2k3hv61IUmQDefmm4cKnyz1D58dMqhAUuw2sMbaPsQwX4TZVxXeyoSdrO0Vy2EFWclXjbOLtQW8-m-4U5tu2DL2BTWHThMK-r-u8Sr0yS7NVmRieRz/s400/trains.jpg" //aIn one of my much mourned (by me at least) columns for the a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/law-and-reform/2009/01/trainspotting-world-threat"New Statesman/a website I wrote that in a just world Nicholas Whittaker's Platform Souls would have done for trainspotting what Fever Pitch did for football.br /br /The book was also a strong influence on Professor Strange when he gave his thoughts on a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/05/trainspotting-autism-and-what-it-means.html"trainspotting and autism/a.br /br /I have just discovered that the whole of a href="http://www.nicholas-whittaker.com/ps/psindex.htm"Platform Souls/a is available on the web, so you can enjoy it for yourself:blockquotepIn December 1994 a man found guilty of stealing rare bird eggs was described by the prosecution as a kind of `railway spotter' - one more step in the demonisation process and a rather sinister one. It's one thing to make fun of a man for liking trains, but to use him as a stereotype for a criminal is surely dangerous./ppThe trouble is, people have never forgotten that Michael Sams, the infamous kidnapper/murderer, was a quiet man whose hobby was trainspotting. Such things sink into the collective subconscious and stay there.../p/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-572692508900375065?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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