In an earlier post my colleague Stephanie Moncrieff remarked that she would not cross the road to buy the Morning Star, while respecting that the Star was doing a good job flying the (red) flag for poetry. Fair enough. But on Monday the Morning Star's editorial office was burnt out - no relation to the previous post on book burning, and Stephanie is not an arson suspect as the fire was caused by a good old-fashioned electrical fault. With the usual cheery/grim determination little publishers have the Star did not miss an issue even though the subs office was relocated to someone's front room and the editors office was squatting somewhere else. This perhaps led to the excellent combination on the front page of unrelated headings under the masthead announcing the office being gutted and inviting people to look inside for "some rare good news". The paper is a bit thinner for the moment - running without phones and files must be hard. The office contents are of course insured, but everybody knows that something like that costs a lot more than the price of replacement equipment. The way to help is to buy the Star for a week. It may be a bit thinner than normal, but that's fine. You don't have to read it. Just a little bit of publisher solidarity. 60p a day.