Another day, another Tory using an absurd racist phrase. This time it’s Lord Dixon Smith, who used the term “n— in the woodpile” in a debate about the Housing and Regeneration Bill in the House of Lords on Monday. The comment, and his apology, is recorded in Hansard.
Looking at the Hansard excerpt, I noticed something [...]

Finally, Morrissey has opened his gob about the NME interview on the Guardian blog (where else?) It’s delightfully long-winded but immensely pleasurable to read.
Predictably, he denies wholeheartedly the trumped-up charge of racism and launches into a spectacularly single-minded tirade against the “new NME” and, most mercilessly, its writer, Tim Jonze.
I do not mean to be [...]

Turns out Tim Jonze, the NME journalist who interviewed Morrissey, didn’t ask for his byline to be taken off the piece because it was an anti-Morrissey stitch-up by the NME - but because NME wanted to tone it down!
Writing on Comment is Free last night, he says:
…it’s been something of a PR coup for Morrissey’s [...]

There’s an interview with Morrissey in this week’s NME that’s credited in a way I’ve never ever seen before.
It says:
Interview: Tim Jonze
Words: NME
How? What? HUH?!!! It turns out that Jonze, the writer of the piece, conducted two interviews with Moz but the NME decided to rewrite his copy. Jonze says “virtually none of [the resulting [...]