Novelisation Doesn't Imply The Truth.

Even If People Do Wrong, We're Social Animals, So What Can We Do About Stopping Them Doing The Same Things In Future? Saying People Are 'bad' Or 'evil' Is Just An Unwillingness To Engage; An Unwillingness To Try To Empathise. That Sanctimonious Attitude Doesn't Help Anyone

Crime Fiction Is The Fiction Of Social History. Societies Get The Crimes They Deserve.

Journalism Is A Darwinian Process.

In The 'garnethill' Trilogy, People Always Forget That Maureen O'donnell's Dad Was A Journalist And She Did Art History At Uni And Her Brother Did Law, But No-one Ever Thinks They're Middle-class - They're Just Working Class Because They Speak With Accents.

My Upbringing Was Middle-class But My Parents' Families Were Both Working-class So I Had This Odd Combination Of Working-class Background But In A Privileged Position.