Andrew Collins made a good call in his blog when he called this saga the broadsheet equivalent of Jade Goody's demise ( http://www.wherediditallgoright.com/BLOG/ - Mon 9 March).
In neither case is it any of my business, but one can't help but see some of the media coverage. For what is worth the son seems like an unpleasant an exploitative individual but he would appear to have learnt this from his grotesquely solipsistic mother.

...interviewed her the other night on Newsnight and gave her the full eyebrow. I can't believe that this is a story, but oh yeah, doesn't she know lots of journos, work for a broadsheet, and live in a certain part of South London where all these media types also live, therefore it's a story? This happened to a vicar's daughter (yes, really) I knew up north but I don't remember that getting in the papers.

as Paxo touched on was - if, as she claims, her son's 'addicted' to skunk and is not himself anymore how can the permission she claims he gave to her writing about him be worth anything? The fact that she's paying him (for some of his poetry included in the book) makes it all the more tawdry. It's very hard to see her as a concerned, supportive mother when she's raking in so much publicity (& ergo sales)about something that really shouldn't be a marketing tool.

... G2 printed an article from someone, not Myerson, talking about writing the Living With Teenagers column yesterday or the day before. Were they lying? That's sets an awfully bad precedent for a newspaper. I may have to switch to The Times.

... When I tell people I "read" The Guardian, I may sometimes exaggerate.

Never read any Myerson. Always struck me as smug and a bit too pleased with herself. No writer who has been seen in public wearing a pashmina should be read by right thinking people. Plus I bet I was far more obnoxious then her son was when I was 17. Good job my mum and dad aren't middle class metropolitan liberal types or I'd have been well up the creek.

I'm far nicer now obviously.