Lily Allen: consistency

Lily Allen's position on those who hold up being wafer-thin as the only form of human perfection couldn't be clearer:

, “Fashion editors can fuck off. Lots of them are responsible for the skinny issue. If fashion editors put bigger models in their magazines, then maybe girls wouldn’t be sticking their fingers down their throats so much.

“It makes me so angry, they should think more about what they’re doing to the younger generation.

“It’s in the magazines’ and advertisers’ interests to make girls want to be skinny and feel shit about themselves because then they will go out and buy their products. It’s just another part of the capitalist, materialistic, evil world that we live in.”

Indeed. And - however much her music might consist of spiteful nursery rhymes set to a Madness covers band backing track - at least Lily's unequivocal rejection of the demand that all role models be sticks is something of which she can be justly proud.

Oh, hang on a moment. The Daily Mail is excitedly announcing that she's dropped from a size 12 to a size 8:

Allen, 22, is delighted with her new look and said: "After the hypnotism, I want to go to the gym every day, otherwise I feel really bad.

"I just want to get more toned and healthy. I'm really good about everything at the moment - I've never been happier."

Aah, so it's alright, then - she's not dieting, like the way those evil capitalist magazines want, she's getting toned. So, erm, that's alright then.