Know Your Enemy

"Her death is as sad as the death of any young person but it's not the passing of a martyr or a saint or, God help us, Princess Di.

When we clear the media smokescreen from around her death, what we're left with is a woman who came to represent all that's paltry and wretched about Britain today.

She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know both drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile.

Then she was projected to celebrity by 'Big Brother' and, from that point on, became a media chattel to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died".

Something's clearly riled the normally mild-mannered Parky, if his extraordinarily splenetic anti-Jade Goody rant is anything to go by...

Incidentally, I heard her referred to as "a candle in the wind - a racist, blowjob-under-the-duvet-giving candle in the wind" the other day. A review of that Richard Herring show, 'The Headmaster's Son', to come.