The Daily Mail has managed to set new standards in insensitivity, publishing a Jan Moir column on Stephen Gately's untimely death that is a torrent of innuendo and  supposition.

Despite a coroner's report that found Gately's death was due to natural causes, Moir has seen fit to take issue with conventional medicine and draw her own spiteful conclusions.

The article is quite simply disgraceful, finding time along the way to criticise a dead man's musical ability, assume all gay men are innately promiscuous and  question the validity of civil partnerships.

Somewhat ironically, the same newspaper that cornered the market in moral indignation over Sachs-gate seemingly has no qualms about offending a grieving family with hypothetical tittle-tattle. It's difficult to single out a quote, but this bizarre sub-Jilly Cooper line takes some beating: 

'In the morning, a body has already turned cold before the first concerned hand reaches out to touch an icy celebrity shoulder. It is not exactly a new storyline, is it?'

It's not a 'storyline'. It's the unfortunate death of someone not yet buried, which has been desecrated for no good reason.

The pick of the laudable media backlash against this insidious piece has to be Charlie Brooker's piece in The Guardian, replete with link to the Press Complaints Commission along with the suggestion that this breaches sections 1, 5 & 12 of it's code of practice. Over one thousand complaints have been received to date.

Make it more.