“Emu Man Dies.” The obituary headline that the late Michael Parkinson dreaded, as recalled by Richard Littlejohn.
Scientific modelling suggests that Bonnie Prince Charlie was not such a good looker, after all. In fact he was a bit of a chinless wonder with blotchy skin. On the other hand, he was a magnificent horseman, as his doomed Highlanders observed in 1746 when he realised he was on the losing side and swiftly exited the battlefield at Culloden. Galloping Prince Charlie.
Let us hope Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner was exaggerating at the Edinburgh Fringe when she boasted of all-night drinking binges and her fondness for a vodka-based cocktail called Venom which she mixes in a bucket. Because if she isn’t joking, what she was describing would easily fit the NHS’s definition of problem drinking. Rayner may think that admitting to binges makes her appear cool, unstuffy and a woman of the people.
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