So, is it fair to blame Jade Goody for saying things that many people say all over the UK every second of every day? Probably. She acted abysmally in the Big Brother house and she's made a fortune for being stupid, so she probably deserves everything she gets. (Well, £4mn worth any way - Jade's estimated fortune).

Jade got caught, the fact is that most people who say that sort of stuff don't get filmed for TV, and have the Chancellor of the Exchequer on tour in India at the time. We wonder what would have happened to this story had Gordon Brown not been in India last week, or that the victim of the bullying, Shilpa Shetty, was not one of the most famous (and loved) people in India.

Jackie Stallone was bullied in Celebrity Big Brother last year, who then said a thing?

What happened this year on Big Brother was the usual bullying but with a few completely unacceptable racist things being said.

Racism is disgusting, it must be wiped out, and it will be, but it is still common within the UK today, much more than the media normally shows. The media and government seem to be taking a welcome lead, but they act far more liberally than the vast majority of people in the UK.

Channel Four should not be punished too much for broadcasting these comments. We should all see this as a very uncomfortable wake up call. Let's have an open debate about racist comments, criticize racism, demean racism, but let's not try to hide it under the carpet or make out it doesn't ever happen.

The first step will be for Shilpa Shetty to win Big Brother. Shilpa has a dignity and a poise that we have fallen in love with. Channel 4 - the least you can do for now is to show us a good Shilpa Shetty film in prime time.