Big ho-hos on Terry Wogan's Radio 2 show on Tuesday morning over who should be the fairy on the BBC Christmas tree. A scratch-your-eyes-out tussle was forecast between Dale Winton and Julian Clary. Then Sir Terry proposed Christopher Biggins, fresh from his triumph in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
I found nothing amusing in these exchanges. Name-calling about gays can only be tolerated from gays themselves. In a similar way, only a black person can use the 'N' word and only a Jew can properly tell Jewish jokes. This is not political correctness but good manners.
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