{"id":33040,"date":"2026-03-27T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=33040"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:32:34","slug":"my-financial-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/my-financial-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"My Financial Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I met Malcolm Peters at the FGX and then he was gone <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty years previously he had exposed corruption <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within the highest levels of government <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three politicians were assassinated by three radicals <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I poisoned the Prime Minister it was a quiet assassination  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not violent and showy like the rest but just as deadly <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sham the Vocalist had arranged our meeting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Mists of Avelon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Island of Glass and the Rose and Crown <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He signed in as Ynys-witrin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we were being hunted <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fifteen minutes later he was gone <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was also living on borrowed time <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But escaped with seconds to spare <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have since changed my name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now work invisibly on a local rag <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the farming correspondent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigel G Stokes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wife Jackie is also a journalist <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She works in Fleet Street<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Nigella G Stokes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agony Aunt to the Stars <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She recently interviewed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Prime Ministers widow <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The irony of this meeting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was absurd in the extreme <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Malcolm Peters at the FGX and then he was gone Twenty years previously he had exposed corruption Within the highest levels of government Three politicians were assassinated by three radicals I poisoned the Prime Minister it was a quiet assassination Not violent and showy like the rest but just as deadly Sham the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33040"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33049,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33040\/revisions\/33049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}