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The Guardian says, sanctimoniously as usual but probably rather fairly in this case, on Jane Goody: "The individuals smashing her windows or leaving her vindictive voicemail messages are the attack dogs of those commentators and politicos who described Goody as the face of "ugly thick white Britain". Edwina Currie called her a "slag" on Question Time. The News of the World decided to turn her into an object of "national fury". The paper also published a piece by Trevor Phillips of the Commission for Racial Equality, in which he accused Goody of "vicious racial bigotry" and "hate-filled abuse". Next to a photo of Goody crying, Phillips wrote: "Crocodile tears won't wash away her guilt." No, she had to cry real tears - and now she has. Is that better, Trevor?

We can frown on those issuing the death threats or promising violence against Goody and her family. But let's not forget that their actions have been legitimated - more than that, inflamed - by the "national fury" whipped up by the tabloids, the broadsheets and political and quango leaders."

IMO: Trevor Phillips should consider resignation if he can't do better than that, but of course for all I know, by now Phillips may also be a victim of the media on the issue.

Anyway, the bright side is that the UK police probe new Big Brother racist claims, apparently made subsequent to the present commotion. Maybe some of the Directors of Channel 4 will end up sharing a cell with Tony Blair. They should help him to empty the slop buckets of urine and excrement as coming from Channel 4 they are even more used to worthless crap than Tony B. Liar. Perhaps not as much as unfortunate inhabitants of Mumbai are, some of whom, as pointed in an earlier blog, have to share one toilet between 1440 people. Though unlike those worthless UK criminal fat cats, they are decent people who have done nothing wrong. And the police should put Trevor Phillips in the cell with them indefinitely, for his anti-white descrimination.