idleness can be a form of extreme, long-distance bad luck

Queen of spleen: The acid tongue of Julie Burchill - Independent Online Edition > Media

Much has been made of David Beckham's alleged dimness over the years - we don't expect our intellectuals to be great footballers, but for some reason we expect our great footballers to be intellectuals. But when it comes to having one's life "sorted", as the young folk say, he is in a class of his own

[The Beckhams] are a pair of beautiful social barometers, lithe litmus tests who highlight the sad failings and desires of their critics. Between them, they have inadvertently managed to reveal more about the plagues of sexism, snobbishness and plain old-fashioned envy that disfigure Blair's Britain than Germaine Greer, Dennis Skinner and Snow White's wicked stepmother put together. I believe that those who hate the Beckhams do so because they so very obviously made it all by themselves. We pay lip-service to meritocracy, but its rare reality disturbs us, makes us aware of our own idleness or bad luck - and of course, idleness can be a form of extreme, long-distance bad luck.

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Shocked community pays tribute to stabbed brother of EastEnders star

Shocked community pays tribute to stabbed brother of EastEnders Shocked community pays tribute to stabbed brother of EastEnders star nlnews@archant.co.uk 30 June 2008 Ben Kinsella HUNDREDS of tributes have poured in after the teenage brother of an ex-EastEnders star was stabbed to death in Holloway. Ben Kinsella, 16, the younger brother of actress Brooke Kinsella, 24, died after being knifed in York Way shortly after 2am on Sunday. Police are now investigating whether Ben was involved in an argument with a group of men in the street after he came out of Shillibeers pub that night. After the assault, Ben was taken to The Whittington Hospital in Magdala Avenue, Archway - but could not be saved. The killing comes on the anniversary of the fatal stabbing of another Islington teenager, 14-year-old Martin Dinnegan, who was knifed to death in Holloway on June 26 last year. Ben, who lived with his family in Lonsdale Square, Islington, had just finished his GCSEs at Hollo...

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