Bob Geldof doesn't like your clothes

Bob Geldof. Remember when he was a punk?

He almost certainly doesn't.

Bob Geldof upset fans at a festival when he launched into a rant about Brexit and wearing clothes from Primark.https://t.co/E4QZHcPmX7

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) July 22, 2016

There's something touching about Bob Geldof, a 64 year-old multimillionaire, instructing people how they should dress for a "rock and roll concert", as if he was Billy Fury in his pomp.

Primark to make HMV's life more miserable

A couple of weeks ago, I was in BHS - it's a handy cut-through to shops you might use - and noticed they've gone big for CD sales. Not just the sort they've done for a while, cheapo compilations, but actual chart CDs and to such an extent that you could probably expect to get what you were looking for, if you weren't too fussy and not after catalogue.

Now, Primark is getting in on the CD retailing business. Again, it's going to be better for you if you want Lady GaGa rather than Cate LeBon, but it's a surprising spasm of life from a declining product.

It's also a bit of bad news for HMV, who hadn't exactly been doing well as the only CD retailer on the high street. Now, the clothes shops are going to cherry-pick off customers who want the top-selling albums; the few people who don't shop online are already buying from supermarkets. Now the market will be further split by those adding an Ellie Goulding album to a quick couple of bras and some socks.

Why are Primark doing it, though?

Primark, which has 242 stores across the UK, decided to trial entering the music market as "fashion and music have always been synonymous", a spokesperson told BBC News.

"Primark has a strong relationship with licensed product and the CDs are a natural complement to Primark's merchandise," they added.

No, neither of those explanations seem that convincing.

The idea of music and fashion being synonymous is passable, but it does rather assume that fashion and Primark are synonymous, doesn't it?

Posh bosh and no clickers

The Mail's got a point when it suggests that the original push of Beckham fever in the US seems to have come to a dead stop - presumably the "and what do you actually do?" question caused problems. Oddly, once Victoria isn't stood next to Tom Cruise, nobody in America seems to even be able to see her.

Having said that, the paper is just trying it on with this:

If imitation is the best form of flattery, Victoria Beckham should be feeling very flattered indeed. Within weeks of her appearing in a fitted silk bomber jacket, Primark has produced its own leather-look version. And it is flying off the shelves.

Now, we know very little about fashion, but - aside from both being black and having arms and zips - in what way is the Primark leather jacket a "copy" of Beckham's? Beckhams looks less like a leather jacket, and more like some sort of velour leisure suit. It's probably just lucky that it wasn't brown.