How tedious. A young homosexual pop star dies and a Daily Mail hag hack takes the opportunity to indulge in a bit of gay bashing.

In case you haven’t seen the internet storm currently raging around Jan Moir’s article on Stephen Gately’s death allow me to fill you in.

Entitled, ‘A strange, lonely and troubling death…’ Moir argues that there is nothing natural about a 33 year old man climbing into his pyjamas and going to sleep, never to wake up again.

Oh yes there is, Ms Moir, if the man in question has a congenital heart condition.

But Jan is obviously on a mission and despite admitting in her column that Gately’s post mortem showed that he died from acute pulmonary oedema (a build up of fluid on the lungs) she seems intent on linking this with his ‘sleazy’ gay lifestyle.

Forgive me for appearing a little naive here, but how in God’s name can being gay somehow cause pulmonary oedema?

But according to Moir this is not the only ill gay partnerships cause. She goes on to cite the recent suicide of Matt Lucas’ partner as another incident ‘raising troubling questions about what happened’ to Gately.

Eh?

So heterosexuals never kill themselves after the break-up of a marriage then?

Of course, this type of ‘journalism’ is not new to the Mail. I remember several years ago they published a piece by another bile oozing old crone – this time making fun of the former Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam because she had put on some weight.

Mo Mowlam was actually suffering from cancer at the time but had wanted to go through the trauma of her treatment with a bit of dignity and minus a media circus, so hadn’t told anyone.

I can only assume that Jan Moir is not a parent.

Her crass lack of respect for Gately’s grief-stricken parents is astounding.

She ends her piece with the line, ‘the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see.’

I would suggest that the only thing oozing and seeping right now is the poison from Jan Moir’s pen.