So Morrissey is back in the headlines again – this time because his autobiography, the suitably titled Autobiography, was published at midnight. Scores of hacks clearly spent all night pouring over its 457 pages, including the BBC’s entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson, who rushed into the Today studio at dawn to discuss its contents. Just like its author, Morrissey’s book has its own inimitable style. It has no chapters and no ...keep reading
It seems another world now but my first job in journalism was as a reporter for a small weekly newspaper in the West Country. Golden weddings, flower shows, parish councils, you name it, the news team had to turn the comings and goings of country life into scintillating copy. Well, do our best, anyway. After two years I escaped to London and became a feature writer on a women’s magazine. ...keep reading