success in holding to account these so-called journalists Just wanted to comment so Clare Balding can see she has a lot of support - what was written was awful, and the response by the editor even worse for trying to justify it!! If anything it just proves how far we still have to go to achieve the world that John Witherow appears to believe we're living in - and this guy edits the Sunday Times? If it had been the Sunday Sport I might have been more willing to just put it down to a narrow view of the world, but I thought in order to edit a broadsheet you had to be aware of things like current events?!?! I wouldn't have expected anything less from AA Gill - after all writing such drivel is how he has somehow managed to create a career for himself. I am surprised at the comments of Mr Witherow. The first line of his response was amply dealt with by Clare's first paragraph. This only acts to remind us all that the battle for full acceptance/tolerance has not yet been won. The use for decades by the ignorant and prejudiced of "faggot", "shirtlifter", "dyke"etc as abusive and bullying words means that their use now cannot be shrugged off as being flippant or harmless by so-called intellectuals under the cover of a more enlightened society. The Sunday Times is surely the paper for aspiring Sun readers It's just daft to compare sexuality with dress sense.