A small round of applause

Hadley Freeman sticks up for Kate Moss in today's Guardian, and in the course of it says this:

I’ve heard and read plenty of tut-tutting about Moss’s alleged former drug use, with much headshaking about the global damage done by drug users and so on, and that’s just grand: well done on your “virtue signalling”, to borrow a useful term coined by the New Statesman’s Helen Lewis. Strangely, though, I very rarely hear such qualms expressed about, oh, let’s say, Noel Gallagher, who has talked frequently about his former cocaine abuse and yet now seems on the fast track to national treasure status, despite writing songs so boring I honestly believe they should not be played on the radio out of concern for drivers falling asleep at the wheel.

SuperDitto: do you mean superficial?

Well done, eveybody: Victoria Newton reveals some 'gossip' this morning:

I’VE heard a bit of GOSSIP about BETH DITTO’s next move – she's heading for the CATWALK.

The heavyweight singer has been asked to model for top London designer CHRISTOPHER KANE.

Where on earth did Newton pick up a red-hot exclusive like that? No, really - where was she that she found a copy of The Guardian from June 29th where Hadley Freeman first reported this? Has Newton started scouring the newspaper collection at the British Library for her news?

This is fascinating on another level, too - now, would this Swarovski Rocks Fashion event where Ditto is going to be modelling be in any way connected with the gay-man-dominated fashion industry that Beth Ditto is so disgusted with?

And could Christopher Kane be the same Christopher Kane who designed for TopShop, the TopShop which Beth refused to work with because of the chain's lack of plus sizes?

Consistency!