Corpus Christi - Trimble

Could it be that one of the symptoms of the degradation of this country is the way we treat those who are intelligent and pretty? Certainly, it is interesting to compare the media reporting of Jade Goody, an unattractive, boorish, ignorant chav whose sole "claim to fame" is to have accidentally become a millionaire and then to do something we all do, die; with that of Gail Trimble, who more-or-less won University Challenge single-handed for Corpus Christi. Bouquets for the former and brickbats for the latter make no sense in a rational world. Still, at least Goody has done one thing for the world she is leaving; there are queues of women in doctor's surgeries requesting cervical smears.