FEELING JADE-D

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.