Jab boosted my anxiety levels

I HAD my first vaccination last week. And although I was desperate to have it, I was still a bit nervous. But it was all over so quickly I had to ask the doctor if she’d actually done it.

Being the hypochondriac I am, I spent the rest of the day waiting for the after effects to hit – the dead arm, the nausea, the flu symptoms that so many of my friends had experienced.

But they never came. Yes, at about 9pm I felt dog tired – like I’d been hit with a bat – but I feel like that most Friday nights after a couple of glasses of rosé.

Now I’m worried that there’s been some mistake and there was no vaccine in the syringe that went into my arm.

You see that’s what fear around this pandemic does to a person...

MADONNA has signed a deal with Netflix to give us a behind-the-scenes look at her life.

Please God No! Why do we need to watch the decline of woman who used to be an international megastar but seems to have turned into a dotty old woman whose stage appearances are embarrassing (remember Eurovision?), whose face bears no resemblance to the one she had five years ago and who seems to spend her life posting crazy, half-naked photos of herself. Let’s remember her as she was….

WHY is the BBC messing about giving amnesties to those over-75s who haven’t bought a TV licence. One in seven still haven’t (I’m cheering them as I write) and the Corporation has announced that because of the pandemic it won’t prosecute them.

So what’s it going to do when it’s over – route march thousands of them into court?

It wasn’t a good look when they first announced they were scrapping the free licence last year. It’ll be an even worse one if they criminalise half of the elderly population just as they’re coming out of lockdown.

It’s time the Corporation held its hands up, said “we cocked up, and totally scrapped the licence for over-75s. It’s the right thing to do, if the BBC can still remember what that is.