Resistance is futile. Obviously Big Brother is all anyone really cares about anymore and Jade Goody now vies with Nick Griffin for the title of Britain's most notorious racist. If you really care what I think, read it here. But for my money Simon Hoggart gets the balance just about right in his article in today's Guardian.
Simon's one of my journalistic heroes: his parliamentary sketches are brilliantly droll and insightful. When the press rumbled his affair with Kimberly Quinn it threatened to derail his career for good, but he handled the situation with enough humility and contrition to win back some of the respect lost. I guess being at the centre of one media shitstorm probably enables you to take a more generous line on someone else in a similar situation, no matter how unsympathetic a character they appear to cut.
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Sigh. Nobody is coming out of this very well - certainly not me, who didnt see any of the worst of it at the time, but certainly had no time for Shilpa and the self-satisfied air of elevatedness that she carried on with and is now making me wonder whether I too am racist? Not Jade and the others obviously. And not the tabliods who used words like 'piggy' to describe the features of a mixed-race woman with pale skin in the same breath as calling her racist.
All this has done is highlight what a cancerous regime Big Brother has turned into. IN BB5 after the boring previous year the whole ad slogan was 'Big Brother Gets Evil', with Davina queening around the house to show all the clever ways the house had been tweaked to make it even more psychologically pressuring. They were admitting to being proud of this. Then the studio audiemce became a braying mob. Something like this was going to happen sooner or later. Yes the class tension was probably more a factor than the race tension, but its all kind of irrelevant now. Is this what a civilised society passes for entertainment?! I really don't see how Big Brother can continue now
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