PUBLIC DISGRACE DAVID WORBOYS THINKING ALOUD

IF those privileged celebrities in the public eye can’t contribute to the betterment of our planet, how can we expect those lacking the advantages of education, to change their behaviour?

As I understand it, Jeremy Clarkson publicly expressed a dream of seeing Meghan Markle paraded naked through the streets of London being pelted with excrement. Apart from being an American of mixed race, marrying the grandson of the Queen and seeking a life free of the constraints of Buckingham Palace, what harm does he think she has ever done to him to generate such personal hatred? Are there perverted sexual frustrations involved here?

Too many celebrities have shown us how unpleasant they can be by their actions. Yet, so frequently the public forgives and forgets and they are able to pursue their careers unimpeded.

with a show on ITV. The confrontational Roy Keane committed a deliberate careerending foul on Alf­Inge Haaland, boasting about it afterwards and showing no remorse. For many years, he has been an uncharismatic punter with ITV and, more recently, Sky Sports.

Maybe Clarkson, who prides himself on a controversial image, should better direct his venomous dreams to somebody like Putin. Assuming he disapproves of the Russian’s actions, I’m sure he would have plenty of support. Unlike Meghan Markle, this dictator has wrought death, suffering and destruction. But parading even him naked through the streets of London and pelting him with excrement would solve nothing. Except perhaps gratification of the fantasies of an immature mind.

It seems, however, that people cannot differentiate between somebody they disagree with (or don’t relate to) and one who inflicts mental or physical hurt.

Jonathan Rwoss (sic) claimed in a tasteless voice message to Andrew Sachs that Russell Brand had fu(bonked) his granddaughter. He has long been welcomed back

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