That's not a defence of Morrissey.
He says there's a war against Morrissey, when really there's just been a long line of really shitty things said by Morrissey with a few people in the press saying "Hold on, Morrissey. That's quite shitty of you, actually..."
It's a long article where he doesn't mention most of his objectionable statements, downplays the rest and then kisses his arse. At length.
This is partly the problem. The amount of people who kiss his arse in print far, far outweighs those who object to all the shittiness, but those who kiss his arse always go out of their way to paint themselves as being in a minority of one against a tidal wave of unfair and unjustified Morrissey-bashing.