Funnily enough, in 25 years of regular writing I only ever once had a piece sent back for rewriting (rather than for very minor questions or clarifications from the editors). It had some fairly obnoxious comments attached to it about being too liberal and not hard-nosed enough and was from the The Economist Far East Review (heaven only knows why I agree to write what I seem to remember was a brochure for them. I think it was via a design agency). Not my favourite journal at all.

I did not rewrite it and told them what they could do in a manner that Sir jOhn from Hull9 would have approved of. I felt all the better for it, the lesson being that one should always stick to what one believes in!

Peace

moo