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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

‘Lazy caricature’: St Austell reacts to Tim Smit’s rant about Cornish people

Art dealer Simon Carter said Smit was a ‘good businessman’ with some ‘odd ideas’.
Art dealer Simon Carter said Smit was a ‘good businessman’ with some ‘odd ideas’. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian

He saw it as a relaxed chat for a local podcast about social issues in the place he has worked and lived in for more than three decades and so, by his own admission, was a little unguarded.

But Sir Tim Smit, the co-founder of Cornwall’s Eden Project, has become embroiled in a furore in his adopted homeland after suggesting that the Cornish could be “a bit more fucking articulate” and were too fond of looking backwards to “good old days [that] never were the good old days”.

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