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First of all, can I say that I thought the Was it a cat or a hat or a cat who was a hat ? Call Dr Seuss..... If the interview in the Guardian had been that picture, with a couple of paragraphs on how great the extended edition of Bona Drag is and a few words on the reissue of Every Day Is Like Sunday, then no harm would have been done. Throw in a couple of slaggings of unlikely targets like Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys (he called him an "NME creation" - what, like ?) and a general grump about how other singers stretch their talents far too thinly across a career, and you would have had an entertaining interview with a very witty Mancunian.Ìý It's as well Morrissey isn't in the government or he'd have had to resign by now, after making the comment about the Chinese nation and how he regards them.
"Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies"
He was giving an interview to the poet Simon Armitage, a self confessed Smiths and Morrissey fan. I think Simon himself was a bit taken aback and there's been some reaction to the comment, most appropriately from the organisation Love Music Hate Racism, who said they wouldn't be able to accept any future donations from him. But when I read the paper on Saturday, I thought this would be one of the big news stories of the weekend. It wasn't. A few of the papers tried to keep it going but I don't think it has the legs to make it to this coming week. Does that say more about Morrissey's ranking in the industry of human happiness than it does about our attitudes to both animal welfare and racist comments ?