I mean, come on, she’s practically the poster child for Schadenfreude. She’s vapid, vain, has a voice that makes you want to punch her, she’s a total attention whore, is famous for no reason, and she’s not a particularly sympathetic person, quite the opposite, and lots of people hate her.

Kim Kardashian went to the Sorbonne?

I’m afraid I have more important things to care about than a multimillion dollar, vacuous reality TV ‘star’ having some property stolen from her.

I’m black after all, and only have so much power.

Carole’s “I’m above all this” act is beyond hypocritical. I get that she finds these women ridiculous (they are), but girl...you are one of them.

So if a white person tans, it’s because they want to give the appearance of leading a life of luxury - and that’s true across all white people in all societies since the Industrial Revolution?

lol

I’m just aghast that in 2016, American universities force students to share their bedrooms with others. And you guys pay ridiculous amounts of money for the privilege!

When a white person tans, they are trying to achieve the look of someone who has the funds and leisure time to vacation/play in the outdoors.

It’s like referring to an airplane as an aeroplane

I hope they get Tamal, the fab gay British-Asian trainee anaesthetist from last series, in to present.

I actually quite liked Shriver’s speech (!). It was a lot more thoughtful than I feared it would be given its representation in Abdel-Magdied’s article (which I read first). The Guardian published the whole thing. That said, I still think Nesrine Malik raises interesting and worthwhile critiques of Shriver’s speech…

Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s article was dreadful - and rightly taken apart by the Guardian commentariat! It was criticised by the fabulous Nesrine Malik (also in The Guardian) today, even though she was also highly critical of Shriver.

I think she’s an iconoclast, which doesn’t seem to go over too well in the US. Her speech was a lot more complex than a rant about ‘PC’, but I guess clickbait and faux outrage is what Gawker media makes its money from.

Her speech was actually pretty good. The Guardian published the whole thing today, after they published a poorly thought-out thinkpiece criticising her, which was excoriated by their commentariat.

I don’t know who is recognizing her as a black woman, but they can stay away from me.

If Dolzeal can take off that wig, can take out that weave, and get rid of the braids, and she will be seen as a regular white woman with all the privileges that go with that.

Fair enough.

Her heart was in the right place

I think the appropriate analogue would be Justine Sacco or another similar person who entered the collective consciousness through a specific event (marked by their own stupidity) rather than an on-going series of clangers and mishaps by someone in the public eye, a la Corey Lewandowski.