Wiggins Of The Night

Academic and self-proclaimed "obscure private intellectual" Steve Wiggins has been at it again. We have edited out of this new Wiggins' article about Highgate Cemetery and its past vampire history his unashamed promotion of a hate site run by Anthony Hogg and Erin Chapman that concentrates on attempting to undermine and misrepresent Seán Manchester. Steve Wiggins was sufficiently impressed by their lame attacks that he linked to the site despite having already been provideed with a rational explanation by Seán Manchester in the comments below an earlier Steve Wiggins' article. 

Wiggins  explains:

"The [Hogg/Chapman] article investigates claims made in Seán Manchester’s book on the subject (reviewed elsewhere on this blog), demonstrating that his locations, photographs, and narrative don’t add up. ... Now I’ll sleep more securely on my next visit to London. I hope." 

"The conclusions are disputed," he admits, but is unwilling to publish why the conclusions are disputed by Seán Manchester whose previous comment beneath an earlier article Wiggins appears to be completely oblivious about. Or is he? Maybe he simply doesn't want to stretch his supposed "intellect" beyond linking to what a pair of trolls have on offer? Why would we say such a thing?

At 4.33am on August 29th (today, in fact), Seán Manchester addressed the claims by repeating his counter-claim. His comment was awaiting moderation and did not appear. However, at 8.35am on August 29th, Hogg commented by thanking Wiggins, plus a link to yet more anti-Seán Manchester propaganda. Hogg's comment was published straight away. Seán Manchester's comment is yet to appear and, many hours later, still awaits moderation by "obscure private intellectual" Wiggins.

Worry not, the unpublished comment made prior to Hogg's follows the expurgated Wiggins' article.

Steve Wiggins eventually briefly published Seán Manchester's comments, and then promptly deleted every comment he had made on Of The Night, and all comments on Staking A Claim save for the first three that were inviting some dialogue with Wiggins. Hogg's links to malicious sites remained.