■ ARCH-FEMINIST

Germaine Greer has moved into a care home, after returning to her native Australia last year. And I hear the author of The Female Eunuch, 83, is already provoking rows. When residents gathered to play a game of ‘word bingo’, they had to ask her to stop, because she knew all the answers. ‘I’m supposed to win, aren’t I?’ she says. ‘I’ve got a PhD from Cambridge. I had to sit there, while they groped their way to the quite obvious answer. Probably they hated me. That’s fine, I’m here to be hated.’