I heard earlier today that A teenager who became Britain’s first youth police and crime commissioner (PCC) has apologised for her inappropriate comments on Twitter. She had apparently made homophobic and racist comments. My initial reaction was, of course, to dismiss her as yet another youngster who now thinks it is somehow clever to resort to homophobia and xenophobia: I get the sense that, in certain communities and sub-culture, to spout such crap is to show oneself to be a free thinker, free from the much-maligned dogma of political correctness. I therefore muttered ‘stupid bitch’ and thought no more of it.

But then I saw who printed the story, and my blood boiled.The Mail on Sunday, the very paper which, along with it’s weekly counterpart, is leading this abhorrent trend against immigrants, benefit claimants and which is feeding the ostracisation of any other minority; the very rag which rails against political correctness, had deigned to hypocritically pounce on the poor girl. Have you ever heard such sickening hypocrisy? Such a appalling display of seizing a moral high-ground it had no right to. My sympathies instantly fell with the little girl: for the mail to attack this girl for being xenophobic and homophobic, when they are one of the principal forces behind the resurgence of xenophobia in this country, tells us all we need to know about this two-faced little tabloid.