I didn't put my foot in it, Lizzie, because it was nothing I wouldn't happily repeat in front of anyone. If, on the other hand, I were hiding my identity and making personal attacks on people from behind a veil of anonymity (not to mention leaving a trail of website addresses all over the web which flaunted my infidelity, when my husband was known to people on those very boards), I might have a lot more to feel embarrassed about.

Your racism, as you well know, was a completely different issue arising from your assertion that I couldn't appreciate certain aspects of English culture because didn't "have England flowing through every part of me" - in other words, I'm too foreign to get it. You made slighting references to my non-Englishness on two other occasions, as well as an ill-informed and vicious attack on American culture. You also rhapsodised about and hearkened back to a fictionalised version of chocolate-box England which didn't acknowledge cultural diversity in any way. THAT's why I called you a racist. Not that I think you're in the BNP or anything - I think you're racist in a poorly-educated, ignorant, Jade Goody kind of way.