{"id":2554,"date":"2019-05-25T04:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2025-08-09T02:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:28:17","slug":"morrissey-morass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/25\/morrissey-morass\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey Morass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Given my commentary regarding Morrissey in my posts here I can\u2019t ignore his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/morrissey-says-he-despises-racism-and-fascism-in-open-letter-supporting-far-right-party-2298189\">support<\/a> for what\u2019s described as the &#8220;far-right political party&#8221; For Britain. I haven\u2019t delved into this but am reminded of how filmmaker Derek Jarman, with whom Morrissey collaborated,<span id='easy-footnote-1-2554' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/25\/morrissey-morass\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2554' title='As was &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/morrissey-and-milkshakes\/#div-comment-6324&quot;&gt;noted&lt;\/a&gt; by a reader of my subsequent post, &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/morrissey-and-milkshakes\/&quot;&gt;Morrissey and Milkshakes&lt;\/a&gt;, Jarman NEVER collaborated with Morrissey.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> sounded the alarum of Britain&#8217;s demise. And there\u2019s other stuff. Again, I won\u2019t ignore this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Morrissey - Bengali in Platforms\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2UyCNWlD1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Note<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s with Morrissey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,390],"tags":[365,441],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-polemics","tag-morrissey","tag-nationalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paF2cn-Fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10648,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/10648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}