The Independent - London, June 27th, 2001
LET US not get drawn into the unpleasant spat that has developed between The Sun and its much-tattooed social critic Garry Bushell. Our business is to look at the big picture. Garry decided, like his fellow columnist Richard Littlejohn, that the time had come for him to write a novel. When his leering, sexist tale of right-wing paranoia (please don't expect me to be fair) appeared in another newspaper, Garry was fired.
It is an odd business. Over the past few days, all three tabloids have been aggressively serialising novels. It seems that Bushell's sin was not just that he appeared in a riva...
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