5 Feet of Fury

Julie Burchill: more (real) celebrities would equal no riots

Take note, nepotistic Canadian media:

One marker of the reversal of social mobility which has been a highly unwholesome – and dangerous – feature of this country over the past decade is that the children of the famous have become far more likely to become feudally famous once more, gaining automatic entry into their parents’ trade no matter how talent-free they may be – trades ranging from modelling to journalism.

Every time a cushy job was handed to an insider, in my opinion, a rioter was born. What we need are more celebrities – from scratch, on merit, not because of who Mummy and Daddy were – not fewer. Nepotism, not celebrity, truly does rock the cradle of chaos.