Rosamund makes a marvellous monster
WANT to know what happens in a world where people believe there is no ultimate justice so they can do what they like? A savage, brilliant new film will explain it to you.
Rosamund Pike, a beautiful and intelligent actress, is marvellous in the very dark comedy I Care A Lot. She does care, too, but not necessarily about anyone else. Her character, right, loosely based on a real monster who preyed on the old and defenceless in Nevada, sees herself as a wolf among lambs and is afraid of nothing because she is sure that death is the end of all things. Practical atheism at work.
Former It Girl Lady Victoria Hervey believes the Covid vaccine is all a plot by Bill Gates to depopulate the planet and says she would never have it. And yet in the same breath she cheerfully admits to having Botox. To recap: no to a vaccine that will save thousands of lives; yes to injecting poison into your forehead. Genius.
THE other day I decided to rewatch Kind Hearts And Coronets (one of my favourite Alec Guinness films) on Sky. Up pops a warning informing me: ‘This film has outdated attitudes, language and cultural depictions.’ Dur. Why else do you think I was watching it?
I THINK my husband is the only man alive who, when he reads that Tom Jones had an affair with Mary Wilson, says: ‘I didn’t know he knew Harold Wilson’s wife.’
THE Duchess of Sussex wears a pair of £500,000 diamond earrings gifted by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a country with one of the most gruesome human rights records. The Duchess of Cambridge wears a £5 pair of hoops from Accessorize. Say no more.
● IT’S true that £200,000 does seem like rather a large decorating bill for No 10. That said, I’ve never really understood why everyone thinks the Prime Minister should live in some sort of student bedsit and eat out of a skip. He works 24/7 for about £150,000 a year, which, when you do the maths, amounts to about 17p an hour. Surely he deserves a couple of nice lampshades and the occasional takeaway?
NOT sure about the Government’s masterplan to get secondary school pupils to do their own lateral flow tests.
They do know they’re dealing with teenagers here, don’t they? Literally the most irresponsible, silly and unreliable species on the planet.
I wouldn’t even trust them to flush the loo properly, let alone carry out a semi-medical procedure and ‘self-report’ to test and trace.