Also this babyish insistence on someone being either a saint or a sinner is so stupid. It's possible to be slightly annoying and also very badly wronged, for eg. It's not either/or 🙄
"The UK media is not bigoted and will not be swayed from its vital role holding the rich and powerful to account following the attack on the press by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex": Robust statement from
@EditorsUK
following Meghan and Harry's interview
Hard to overstate how passionately much I loved Bat Out of Hell when I was at school and ever since, even when I was pretending to like cooler stuff. I still know every single genius lyric. RIP Jim Steinman
If I were the palace I would be very careful about putting out any more mimsy, petty statements about things that supposedly happened years ago. That interview is devastating.
And if you're looking forward to The Pursuit of Love tonight, you might like to pre-order DARLING, my 21st century version of it. Nancy Mitford's estate asked me to write it and it's out next summer from Penguin Fig Tree. I'm quite pleased with it.
#ThePursuitOfLove
Happy new year! Here's my last comment column, about what Michelle Obama has to say about marriage. I'm starting a new food column in the magazine in 2 weeks - home food, not restaurants. Food and life, food and pottering, useful kitchen things.
Am I missing something or isn't it true that Chris was the biggest enabler of all time - all they did together was drink - and that his self-pity and moral judgement are just really gross?
#thearchers
Also once at the Sunday Express I rang every single hip person I could think of - fashion designers, the editor of The Face, etc etc - to ask them what they thought Meatloaf drew the line at in I Would Do Anything For Love. SHORT SHRIFT.