Opinion

Big Brother farce

January 23, 2007 Edition 1

Editorial

Wars can be triggered by seemingly small incidents. Witness the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian on June 28 1914 which sparked World War 1.

British casualties are rising almost daily in Afghanistan, Iraq is drowning in blood, inflation in the UK is at its highest for 15 years … yet everyone there is fuming about their Celebrity Big Brother, in which Briton Jade Goody reportedly abused Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty. About 40 000 complaints about Goody's behaviour have been lodged.

Must have something to do with the English weather.

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