James McConnachie is an author who was nominated for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2008 and has reviewed non-fiction for the Sunday Times ever since. He has presented TV programmes for the BBC and Channel 4, and has given talks and lectures at the V&A;, Cambridge Wordfest and Southampton University, among other venues. I would therefore argue that is notable since the BBC News article itself adds to his notability. That being said, I think McConnachie is arguing that, despite the 1977 Times article, it is only recently that the mainstream media has been increasingly reporting on it. Regardless, as you should know, the threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth — what counts is whether readers can verify that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true.