Sorry to hear that, Doctor. If it's any consolation, I got conned out of a grand and a half a few years ago, and recently was contacted by a lady who had just been scammed (and threatened apparently) by the same prick.
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, I'm going to say that Morrissey grinds my gears something rotten these days (though of course I am sorry to hear about his mother - it was her passing that made me think of him).
The Smiths were already finished when I became, er, cool, and he was going solo - I haven't followed anything he's done on his own, but the Smiths were brilliant. Which makes it all the more heartbreaking that their frontman is now a far-right troll, thinking that his audiences give a flying fig about the woman who was passed over for UKIP leadership, and being praised by her new party of racist fuckwits for his support. I bet Grant Morrison regrets wanting to be him now.
'Everyone ultimately prefers their own race' - well, Steven, you boring old tit, I'm white and Irish too, and I prefer the vast majority of black and brown people I've met to you. Retire and shut up.