When news of her tour reached us, celebrating 40 years of her greatest hits, BBC Women’s Hour wondered if, “at her stage in life”, she wouldn’t prefer to stay home and count her money

She would have been 14 in February — 98 in dog years — which for a German Shepherd (or indeed anyone) is ancient

What’s interesting about Harry’s book and interviews is that he has punched a hole in the accepted narrative

I try to imagine offering Almond Mum advice to my own daughter, and the response I would get. She’d pity me, as she reached for the jar of almond butter to slather all over her toast, and suggest that I get a life

When you start running, going to the gym or giving up booze, you are the sole beneficiary of your endeavours, but when you do something that benefits yourself and the wider world, the incentive to keep going is stronger

"Still processing that one."

The worst thing for an Irish person to be thought of is mean. The English don’t seem to mind it too much, but we would rather die than have someone call us tight.

So adept is the scapegoating machine at distraction, that instead of giving this PPE scandal the full force of our focus, we are directed towards an American actress and her princely hubby on Netflix

"The cult of presenteeism has been ruining workers’ lives since the Industrial Revolution. We have long been brainwashed with the idea that those who work savage hours are to be emulated, admired, held up as some kind of Stakhanovite ideal..."

Amid the distraction of FIFA threatening European players with yellow cards if they wore One Love armbands was the extraordinary bravery of a team whose protest went far beyond the risk of a yellow card