I found the recent controversy regarding the racist remark made by someone on Strictly Come Dancing rather interesting. For me it highlighted the huge divide between classes in the UK. When the reality TV contestant Jade Goody made exactly the same remark she was labelled uncouth and so on. When an upper class male says the same thing it is almost laughed off. So if you say a certain word and you are from a working class background you are racist but if you say the same word and from "better stock" then there is no problem.

The furore over the HEY HEY racist sketch is quite understandable but being from there doesn't surprise me. Just the other week on ABC's Media Watch program it showed another TV 'presenter', Sam Newman, was shown to call an Asian man a 'monkey' and showed a photo of him and Serena Williams to prove his point. This is also a highly rating show. There are also innumerable examples of right week extremist radio presenters spouting blatant hatred against minority groups. For anyone not from Australia type Alan Jones into Youtube and you will hear. The problem is the extremely weak media watchdogs who are next to useless. I can't see it changing anytime soon unfortunately.

By Noam Chomsky

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."