Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb on Nick Kent versus Julie Burchill

When it comes to the NME myth-making process – and hating in others what they despise in themselves – Julie Burchill and Nick Kent take the cake"Karma", as the Dalai Lama has never actually been heard to say, but could certainly be forgiven for thinking, "is a bitch." One of the articles of faith outlined in Nick Kent's self-confessedly unreliable memoir Apathy for the Devil is that rock journalists have a professional duty to be "right there in the scrum as wilful participants".Ke...

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