Second-generation rapper

Megan Pete – aka Megan Thee Stallion – was inspired to become a rapper by listening to her own mother rapping. “It was normal,” she told Yomi Adegoke in The Guardian. “It was: OK. Ladies are rappers. This is what my mom is doing.” But when her mother found out what she was doing – after one of her videos went viral – she was shocked by Megan’s explicit lyrics, and she refused to let her go into the business until she’d graduated. Now 25, Pete has two top ten hits to her name – and the degree her mother made her finish. “I want to tell that story to people that, even though I was chasing my dream, I still was able to get my education,” she says. “I really want young girls to want to go to college. My grandma and my momma will be so proud too.”

From the moment he joined Good Morning Britain, Piers Morgan seemed to revel in picking pointless playground fights, says Decca Aitkenhead in The Sunday Times. One minute, he was describing Daniel Craig as “emasculated” for carrying his baby in a papoose; the next, he was railing against vegan sausage rolls. “Did I really, really feel in my heart of hearts that the great hill I was to die on was the Greggs vegan sausage roll? No. But was there anything else to get my teeth into at the time? No, not particularly.” But lately, he has stopped baiting his traditional targets – woke liberals, millennials and “snowflakes”, along with assorted celebrities – to focus his attention on the Government’s response to the pandemic. He has been relentless in interviews with ministers; he has even turned on his friend Donald Trump – so much so that Trump has unfollowed him on Twitter. It has won him some unlikely admirers: Labour activist Owen Jones is among those to have praised his efforts to hold the Government to account. But the biggest change is in his own outlook. He admits he went too far in the past; and it’s time to tone things down. “We’ve all now been given the biggest possible wake-up call,” he says. “Let’s put all the stupidity and the nonsense and the silliness and the point-scoring and the culture wars behind us. We have to put all our concerted energy into being different people coming out of this. Better people.”