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Less jingo, more bingo

posted: Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

I was pleasantly surprised to see the front page of The Sun today going with a headline and image I would normally have expected to see running in the corduroy-wearing, sandal-footed Independent:

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It’s a bold statement on the contradictory success and failure of British multiculturalism. It’s riding the wave of interest in the subject generated by Shilp Shetty’s racist, or not, treatment in Celebrity Big Brother, which has dominated the news cycle across both qualities and tabloids for the past 10 days

And all this as the Independent turns into an outraged parody of itself…
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