Where have all the Bad Girls gone?
Where have all the Bad Girls gone? They used to rock up regularly at the Love Island villa – now…
Glastonbury sums up everything there is to hate about rock music
‘Glasto’ – the diminutive makes me shiver with distaste; like ‘Peely’ – as his fans affectionately called the late DJ…
Kim Kardashian is a better role model than Marilyn Monroe
When Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress to the Met Gala recently – the shimmering, crystal-studded, second-skin gown in which…
The punk paradox of monarchism
It seems incredible that, 45 years ago, a pop group – the Sex Pistols – could release a record on…
The witch trial of Amber Heard
For the first few weeks of watching Johnny Depp and Amber Heard attempt to turn each other into twelve cans of…
Is Harry Styles really the new David Bowie?
There’s something ludicrous about old people trying to understand the pop music preferred by youth. Mind you, youth is relative…
The rise of the wimps
I was extra pleased to have swerved the modern curse that is Wordle when I read that ‘sensitive’ words have…
How the word ‘woman’ became taboo
When I was a little girl, my mum told me that I shouldn’t use the word ‘woman’ – but rather…
Get out of my way, Lycra warriors
I know that all must have prizes in the Victimisation Olympics these days, but when I heard a bicycle-rider on…
Unpopular opinion
Why I love to be hated
Billie Eilish is right about our porn-sick society
You could have knocked me down with a snowflake when Billie Eilish slammed pornography on the Howard Stern Show this…
The life of the party
Readers of this magazine will have enjoyed Joan Collins’s diaries, and her Past Imperfect was one of the funniest showbiz…
Sell-by date
Christmas adverts have become unbearable
Meghan has been found out
‘Speaking her truth’ has been one of Meghan Markle’s USPs – and what an absolute disaster it’s been, leading inevitably…
The latest celebrity must have? A trans child!
Hard luck, Madonna, your lovingly assembled rainbow family is no longer the most cutting-edge crew on the showbiz block. If…
The sultans of sulk
Many negative qualities are ascribed to politicians — name-calling, absenteeism, drunkenness — but you rarely hear of my favourite political…
Sally Rooney’s novels don’t deserve to be translated into Hebrew
I recently had to read a book by Sally Rooney in a work capacity, and my goodness that was half…
Fatal attraction
Why do some women find killers irresistible?
AOC, the Met Gala and the misery of fashion
You’ve probably already seen that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rocked up at the Met Gala – where individual tickets are $35,000 (£20,000)…
Moaning luvvies have a lot to learn from Brigitte Bardot
I missed Brigitte Bardot mania; by the time she retired from film-making at the age of 40 to concentrate on…
The X Factor made all the right people cross
On hearing that the X Factor is no more after our 17 years together, I reflected on what a journey…
There’s no such thing as ‘woke coke’
Have you heard about ‘Woke Coke’ – ‘Wokaine’, if you will? Apparently drug dealers are now targeting the WaWs (Woke…
The problem with Palestine’s showbiz supporters
One of the many reasons I hate wokers is because they indulge so shamelessly in what Bebel coined ‘the socialism…
Not my type
Who needs role models anyway?
Nag, nag, nag
What an awful title. Something we hacks are forever saying (along with ‘Make mine a double’ and ‘Is it still…
