Let’s give ugly Uggs the boot
JoANNe CATheRALL, of eighties band human League, says she’s outraged because Qantas refused to let her wear Ugg boots in its business lounge at Melbourne airport.
hurrah! Quite when or why these glorified sheepskin slippers ended up being the staple footwear of choice for people who can’t be bothered to get dressed in the mornings is hard to say — but the fact remains that they have no place outside the back porch. KIRSTIE ALLSOPP tells Good Housekeeping magazine she desperately wanted to be a stay-at-home mum — before going on to profess herself a passionate feminist who has no plans to retire.
These statements may seem madly contradictory, even a little deranged; in fact, she could hardly have expressed more eloquently the daily chaos that reigns inside the mind of a working mother.
It’s brilliant, and typical of one of the few famous women who has ever been honest about what it means to have both children and a career. FIRST GQ magazine, now celebrity gossip weekly Grazia. Jeremy Corbyn is reinforcing his credentials as a serious contender for No 10 — which he confidently predicts he will be occupying by the end of next year — by doing interviews with all the serious political publications. What next, Elle Decoration? I DON’T understand how the accuser in the collapsed rape case against Liam Allan — now suing the Metropolitan Police (more wasted taxpayer money) for failing to disclose vital evidence — has her identity protected, while he has to suffer the public glare.
Either there should be anonymity for accused and accuser in sexual assault cases — or the latter should lose anonymity if the accusation is false. And face prosecution for wasting everyone’s time. The Remain lobby probably think they’ve struck gold in getting millionaire Labour peer Lord Malloch-Brown to lead the fightback against Brexit. i don’t doubt his intelligence or ability — but can’t they see that de haut en
bas unelected figures like him telling voters what’s best for them is precisely the sort of thing that ended up swinging the vote in favour of Leave in the first place?