! Goody Or Baddy? A Varifocal View

Turning over the pages of the national newspaper half-alert, this morning, shock-horror! A full-page photo of, can it be? Jade Goody, the motormouth invited back to Big Brother for obvious reasons, who’s caused world-wide repercussions for abusing an equally cunningly chosen Muslim of compassionate intellligence..so, controversy; a troublesome flea in the charmpit of the body politic.. oh, no - it’s a model who just looks like her, advertising at huge expense, Specsavers’ ‘Varifocal’ glasses… ah! that’s the word we need – varifocal… and aren’t we all? sometimes we focus on the short-range, sometimes on the long; Jade; TV producers; media; politicians; motormouths the lot of us; one day we hate the Muslims or the Christians next door, and their perpetual cooking smells of curry or of vinegared fish-and-chips; next day we are on our varicultural best behaviour, almost, but not quite, inviting them to eat with us; it’s called freedom of speech, integration, democracy.. Even as I speak, varifocal editors of varifocal media are preparing balanced feature articles by varifocal feature writers entitled ‘Jade Goody – true voice of Britain? ’ and we’ll pour the milk on our breakfast fodder and slip on our varifocals with the other hand.