Backward people

Oh dear: looks like poor ol’ Boris has got to do one of his famous apologies again. The not terribly good American singer Kelis claimed she was racially abused at Heathrow Airport, when, in the manner of primped up little divas, she jumped a queue. Someone in the queue called her a “slave”, allegedly, and “kunte kinte” (although she may have misheard this, I suppose). Nobody stood up for her and an immigration official merely smiled and shook his head, she complained – and added that Britain was an incredibly backward country.

The Mayor of London, doing a passable imitation of an albino Martin Luther King, said he was appalled and wrote a stern letter of admonition to Heathrow. But now the half-witted popstar has confessed that the incident took place not at Heathrow, but somewhere in Spain. So who is incredibly backward? The Spanish, the British or Kelis?