Jade Goody's dead

Please don't oversimplify this by implying it's a class issue. It's easy to suggest the vitriol is purely a middle-class response to a working-class person 'getting above their station', but there are so many variables - none of which can be put down to class.

In the nicest possible way, you can do better than that.

I stand by my comment in the other thread that Jade Goody is effectively the chav equivalent of Boris Johnson (the Duke of Edinburgh would be another good comparison). Both have public personas based entirely on gaffes, ignorance and casual racism.

Jade's big mistake was apparently her failure to learn Latin aphorisms.

Having said that: I thought that Will's comment in the other thread about misogyny was stretching it a bit at the time, but after all the "fat" and "ugly" that's been thrown around on here I'm revising that view.