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From: blp Category: Life Date: 30 January 2007 Time: 11:57 AM Review: A particularly nasty witch-hunt. The wrongness of racism is not in dispute (cue self-congratulatory pats on the back for the Great British Public - we knew you haditinya!) and what this shows is not that we all need to batten down the hatches against a BNP groundswell, but that racism is now so beyond the pale that even in a relatively ambiguous form it's enough to render the bearer anathema. But what's the good, when it all just becomes another way for jerks to emit bile? Nobody loves to hate like the tabloids and now they've found what they think is the perfect excuse. Never mind that what they're supposedly hating was hatred. Never mind that Goody's previously been subject to snickering class prejudice or that Shetty, the victim in this cycle, in an unsporting display of empathy and good grace, has forgiven her tormentors - 'We all make mistakes. God knows I do.' The tabloids don't care, any more than they care that their hounding is in danger of literally driving the accused women mad. What I want to know is, when do we get to see a tabloid editor's life ruined? Now there's a lynching I'd consider attending.