Maud Newton has a great interview with A.L. Kennedy today.

The only quibble I have with the Guardian is when they try to get me to write less about Iraq than I’d like to. They’ve never toned me down. Then again, they do like pieces with edge and, frankly, will publish frothing nonsense, so long as it might annoy someone – so I don’t really sit back and think that my burning truth is irrestible and sweeps me into their pages by right. (Plus, our news climate is still less conservative than yours – although ludicrously hidebound if your read European papers or watch European TV) I don’t have to wait to be angry – I get news by email for the US/Israel/Sudan/Iraq/etc every day – so I’m angry every day. People dying for no good reasons really annoys me for some reason.