Fifty is a breeze... It’s seventy that hurts

I’M SO pleased Gwyneth Paltrow says she’s feeling ‘amazing’ as she turns 50. I felt amazing at 50, too, with no assistance from Gwynnie’s Goop, just a cheery acceptance that age is inevitable.

IT’s hardly surprising that a secondary teacher, enoch Burke, found it difficult to address a pupil previously a boy, now a girl, as ‘they’. The grammar! But his cancellation has gone further than what has happened to a number of gender critical professors who simply lost their jobs. Having been suspended by his school, Mr Burke refused to stay away and has now been incarcerated in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin for contempt of court. Whatever next?!

It was 70 that was a bit of a shock — the ‘inevitable’ aches, pains and stiffness in the morning. Still here though, and that’s pretty amazing.