It’s a man thing

SARAH VINE is wrong to berate Jeremy Paxman for setting up home with a woman half his age. She naively asks: ‘What are you going to do, Jeremy, when she wants a baby?’ Get real: she’ll have the baby. Just look at 69-year-old Ronnie Wood, happy doting dad of twins thanks to his new 38-year-old wife.

Men can father children in their 80s and beyond, but it doesn’t quite work the same way for the opposite sex. Women struggle to give birth after 40. Madonna, for example, has had a succession of toy boys but can no longer give birth, so she’s chosen to adopt twins.

There’s a whole generation of single mid-30s women who were sold the ‘having it all’ myth and now find themselves childless. Many have no qualms about setting up home with someone else’s older, faithless husband. Sarah Vine warns these men that there’s ‘a very high price to pay’, but there is in fact almost no price to