Filth

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If the BBC were an organization with any respect for decency, Jonathan Ross would have been sacked on the spot, and Russell Brand blacklisted for life. Once upon a time, a man caught doing anything half as dishonourable would have been quietly approached by colleagues and left alone in a room with a tot of brandy and a loaded pistol.

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The extent of things wrong is just staggering. They attacked poor Sachs because he would not appear on their show. They attacked an older man, in defiance of the universal norm that the elderly are to be respected. They attacked someone who is genuinely loved - Manuel is enduringly popular - and for good reason. They did so in the crudest, most villainous manner imaginable: where I come from, only thirteen-year-old schoolyard bullies say "I fucked your sister" as an insult. Nobody stopped for a minute to wonder about the sense of it, let alone the dencency or the point. And on and on...