"A word on Lynn Barber" - the thing I found so strange when I first read her MF interview (in the Observer, I think) was that Lynn used to be my boss/editor many years ago (in the 1970s) & I always found her very likeable. She certainly was kind to me. She didn't suffer fools gladly, but that's the only quality I noticed which might possibly make her short-tempered, and doesn't explain why she was so ticked off with MF. Lynn treated the Anglo-American comedienne Ruby Wax almost as badly.

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