Why there was nothing 'human' about Jan Moir's column on the death of Stephen Gately | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 5.0 star rating

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir

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The funeral of Stephen Gately has not yet taken place. The man hasn't been buried yet. Nevertheless, Jan Moir of the Daily Mail has already managed to dance on his grave. For money.
It has been 20 minutes since I've read her now-notorious column, and I'm still struggling to absorb the sheer scope of its hateful idiocy. It's like gazing through a horrid little window into an awesome universe of pure blockheaded spite. Spiralling galaxies of ignorance roll majestically against a backdrop of what looks like dark prejudice, dotted hither and thither with winking stars of snide innuendo.

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Created by DrPot on 16 October 2009

DrPot's thoughts:

Charlie Brooker on the same loathesome homophobic article.

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