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Ian Blair is a dick. However, his recent comments about the PR given to the Soham murders and Tom ap Rhys Price compared to the murder of Balbir Matharu are almost sensible.

Almost, not actually. The reason for the difference in coverage isn’t race, it’s prettiness and class. Newspapers like to be able to run pictures of cute children or pretty-boy twentysomething lawyers, and they like stories of “enormous potential destroyed”. Pictures of fat now-dead middle-aged working class blokes don’t sell papers.

However, black victims who live up to the pretty-and-potential stereotype do: indeed, Damilola Taylor and Anthony Walker’s murders got blanket coverage for precisely this reason. It’s not about the race, it’s about the fit and the posh…