The source of his objection was the language - Blake Morrison estimated that HLIWHL contained almost 4,000 "fuck"s (www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...) - so it wasn't really literature. But I thought that the Booker Prize committee was a better judge of that than James Barber.

And in Lancashire

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...