On Friday I read a columnist in the Evening Standard where the journalist, in an avuncular, supposedly comic style, gave out the opinion that people from London are more glamorous and attractive than people from Manchester. This being an avuncular and supposedly comic style, there was no analytical element to his pronouncement, no explanation that money and class plays a huge role in this random observation. The columnist himself was from Manchester, which makes the bald naivety of the statement perhaps even more offensive. Making a statement like this is the equivalent to saying that black people are more criminal than white people without considering that some of the areas where black people live are the most under-privileged in the country. Imagine the outcry if he had said such a thing. An editor should look at his piece and say, sorry, this is just too thoughtless to put out.

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