Sheridan must accept blame

I WAS left somewhat bemused and bewildered by Mark Fisher’s preview (The Week, 29 July) of Ian Pattison’s play 
I, Tommy. It was not so much the preview’s title of “Tommy teaches us all a lesson” but the claim by Pattison that “We 
are as much to blame as he 
is to blame” for Sheridan’s downfall.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Aug 2012, 01:00 BST

As the biographer of Tommy (Tommy Sheridan: From Hero To Zero? A Political Biography), I can assure Ian that this is not the case at all.

Tommy was very much the author of his own fate 
by launching a defamation 
action against the News of the World.

Many advised him against these actions but he would not listen to this sound advice.

Professor Gregor Gall, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield