Richard Littlejohn says Diana would be on Twitter today. When Elvis left the building for the last time in 1. RCA record company executive is said to have remarked Great career move. Twenty years later, I felt exactly the same way about the death of Lady Di. Like Presley, Diana was on a downward spiral, living on past glories. After her divorce from Prince Charles, she insisted she was going to continue as an independent member of the Royal Family. As I can remember writing at the time, it was a bit like Bianca Jagger announcing, after she split up with Mick, that she would remain an independent member of the Rolling Stones. Diana owed her position in life to the man she married. Once shed produced an heir and a spare, the Windsors spat her out. Charles went back to the love of his life, Camilla. Well, I say went back. He never really left Camilla, even after they married other people. Lady Di was seen as convenient breeding stock, thats all. Im not denying that she was treated badly by the royals, but she knew the deal if not when she joined, then certainly by the time she broke their code of omerta with her self pitying Panorama interview. When Elvis left the building for the last time in 1. RCA record company executive is said to have remarked Great career move. Twenty years later, I felt exactly the same way about the death of Lady Di picturedOn the day she died in Paris, her stock was at an all time low. She had been cast out by the aristocracys A list and was reduced to the far less salubrious circuit of moneyed chancers and dubious Euro trash who flit from casino to super yacht in private jets. Get the guaranteed lowest prices, largest selection and free shipping on most Guitars at Musicians Friend. Watch Cutaway Online Fandango GiftAs the 2. Last nights documentary by her sons was the official opening of the 2. Princess of Hearts tribute tour. Among the many benefits of mass immigration has been the influence of exciting new cultures on our stuffy society. For instance, a 1. Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is believed to be the victim of a so called honour killing. This is just one of the cultural practices imported from the Muslim world, along with ritual female genital mutilation and forced marriage, which have done so much to enrich us. In other news, a London knife gang member has told the Evening Standard In the past ten years, since the Somalis and the Congolese came to London, they taught us a whole new level of violence. Good to see the locals raising their game in the face of the competition. The official merchandising is already on sale. Get your Lady Di T shirt and digitally remastered Greatest Hits album here. I dont blame William and Harry for wanting to honour their mother, even if they havent been able to resist yet again using it as an another excuse to invite us to feel their pain. It only seems about five minutes ago that they were airing their mental health issues in a series of interviews. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Love makes people do dumb stuff. But there are practical, easy steps we can take to maintain our privacy during romantic relationships, and changing one simple. RICHARD LITTLEJOHN If Lady Di had lived she would be on Twitter. Strictly. By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail. Published 2035 EDT, 24 July 2017. Its increasingly difficult to do anything on your phone nowadays without sharing your geolocation information. Certain Snapchat filters, Facebook status updates. A 54yearold reader has lost all the hair on their head and body. They have been sent for blood tests to check thyroid and iron levels but nothing is unusual. Jem and the Holograms rock their way to the big screen in this liveaction adaptation of he popular 1980s cartoon. Nashville star Aubrey Peeples takes front stage as. I suppose in that respect, they really are their mothers sons. Diana popularised the cult of confession and the modern addiction to self indulgent vicarious grief, which began with the unseemly sobfest in the wake of her death and now attends the demise of everyone from drug addled pop stars to innocent victims of road accidents and terrorist atrocities. Shes the poster girl for the Portashrine generation. Thats her real legacy. Diana is often credited with dragging the Royal Family into the modern era as if thats a good thing. Frankly, if we are going to have a monarchy, Id prefer them to be seen and not heard. Diana left owed her position in life to the man she married. Once shed produced an heir and a spare Harry, right, the Windsors spat her out. Charles went back to the love of his life, Camilla. I dont want the heir to the throne spouting psychobabble and baring his innermost feelings on prime time television. His job is to appear on the stamps, wave a bit and look good in uniform. Maybe we should cut out the middle man when Her Maj departs this mortal coil and give the job to Claire Foy, who played the Queen in the popular Netflix drama, The Crown. A future series of The Crown could explore what Diana would have become had she lived. Some think she might have done a Jackie Kennedy and married a billionaire. Madame Onassis had nothing on her. Failing that she could have conquered America, perhaps joining Elton Johns Red Piano Revue in Las Vegas. Come to think of it, shed fit in nicely at Donald Trumps Mar a Lago resort in Palm Beach, the land that taste forgot. In fact, last year Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy revealed in the Mail that The Donald was quite taken with Diana, sent her a bunch of flowers and once boasted that he could have nailed her had she lived. A five year old girl who set up a stall selling lemonade at 5. East London was given a 1. Tower Hamlets council official. Of course, its not as if theyve got anything else to worry about in Tower Hamlets, apart from drug dealers, prostitutes and gangs of Sharia law vigilantes, who roam the streets confiscating alcohol, threatening off licence owners and harassing homosexuals. The fixed penalty notice has now been rescinded and a spokesman said We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense and to use their powers sensibly. Why Nobody else does. How many times have I told you that if you give anyone any modicum of authority, they will always, always abuse it At the time, when he was still just a sleazy property developer, she rejected his advances. If shed have known hed go on to become President of the United States, she might have warmed to him, maybe even accepted an offer to become the latest Mrs Trump. First Lady Di has a nice ring to it. Certainly trumps Duchess of Cornwall. You can just imagine her turning up at Buckingham Palace for a state visit. Camilla would have been washing her hair that night, guaranteed. Diana, like Trump, would have embraced the age of Twitter, posting Liz Hurley style selfies in a slashed swimsuit, holding a hosepipe. Long before the internet took off, Lady Di was the mistress of the moody photo opportunity, whether sulking outside the Taj Mahal or posing reflectively on the diving board of a Mediterranean yacht. Im sure Philip Green would have been more than happy to give her a summer berth on one of his boats. She could even have become an ambassador for Topshop, along with Kate Moss, hobnobbing with Naomi Campbell in the kind of restaurants favoured by Russian oligarchs and their bodyguards during London Fashion Week. The danger is that these days shed look more like Patsy, from Ab Fab, as the years in royal exile took their toll. Diana would have revelled in the reality show era. Obviously, shed be a bit leathery for Love Island, but shed be a shoo in for Strictly, skipping the light fandango with Bruno, turning cartwheels across the floor. And she could name her price for Im A Celebrity. It wouldnt have been particularly dignified, but it would have been a good living. Sadly, well never know, so were left with the myth of the Princess of Hearts and the doting mother, even though when she died she hadnt seen her young sons for over a month and was gallivanting round Europe with an Arab playboy. Still, like Elvis, who will always be The King to his legions of fans, she will not grow old as we grow old. Great career move. This gender fiasco goes from bad to Wurst The inexorable march of trans rights continues to gather pace. Equalities minister Justine Greening has announced that in future anyone will be entitled to choose any gender they want, no questions asked. Is this really one of the burning issues which prompted record numbers of people to vote Conservative in June the right of men to use ladies toilets and changing rooms simply by identifying as a womanDR MARTIN SCURR answers readers health questions. I have gradually lost all the hair on my head and body. My doctor has sent me for blood tests to check my thyroid and iron levels but nothing is unusual. A dermatologist gave me steroid cream, which has not helped. I am 5. 4 and menopausal. Is there anything else I can doT. Rayner, Great Dunmow, Essex. This must have been very upsetting for you. The kind of hair loss you have experienced is a form of the autoimmune disorder alopecia areata, which causes patches of baldness usually on the scalp. You have a variant known as alopecia universalis, in which all head and body hair is completely lost. About one in 5. 0 of us develops the type that affects the scalp, but the alopecia universalis variant is rarer. A 5. 4 year old reader has lost all the hair on their head and body. They have been sent for blood tests to check thyroid and iron levels but nothing is unusual. Steroid cream has also not helped. The disorder occurs when the immune system starts to attack the hair follicles. Why this happens is unclear, but the fact that a fifth of affected people have a relative with the condition suggests a genetic link. Patients with the disorder are also more likely to have other conditions caused by a faulty immune system, such as thyroid problems and pernicious anaemia where the cells in the lining of the stomach that secrete intrinsic factor, essential for the absorption of vitamin B1. Your doctor quite rightly carried out tests for these, which perhaps should be repeated in a year. You might assume that because its an autoimmune condition, suppressing this reaction might help, yet the results of the few available studies on this kind of approach are mixed. Dr Martin Scurr says they have a variant known as alopecia universalis, in which all head and body hair is completely lost. About one in 5. 0 of us develops the type that affects the scalp, but the alopecia universalis variant is rarer. One treatment option is steroids in the form of prednisolone tablets, a powerful immune system suppressant. But even though this may induce hair growth, there is a high likelihood of relapse, and the drug has side effects including sleep disturbance, high blood pressure and a risk of diabetes. However, one study did find that combining steroids with minoxidil, a drug that can help stimulate hair growth applied as a lotion or cream, can prolong the results. Other immunosuppressive treatments have been disappointing. Azathioprine, for instance, produced 7. Topical immunotherapy has been shown to improve symptoms by 4. This highly specialised treatment, carried out only by dermatologists, involves painting the scalp weekly with a chemical that induces an allergic response, causing inflammation, redness and skin blistering or dermatitis. This usually subsides within two weeks and hair can start to regrow within three months. Exactly why this helps is unknown, but it is likely that the allergic reaction disrupts the inflammation that is damaging the hair follicles. Many other remedies have been tried including laser treatment thought to boost circulation around the follicles, bexarotene a form of chemotherapy and botulinum toxin injections but to little or no avail. Interestingly, in a study of 2. Write to Dr Scurr To contact Dr Scurr with a health query, write to him at Good Health Daily Mail, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5. TT or email drmartindailymail. Dr Scurr cannot enter into personal correspondence. His replies cannot apply to individual cases and should be taken in a general context. Always consult your own GP with any health worries. We dont yet know the mechanisms or the full extent of this treatments possibilities, but there is no doubt it is safer and less toxic than all the options described earlier. I hope and expect you will at least have a six month review with the dermatologist to discuss what lies ahead. A recent blood test showed that my platelets were not right, but my doctor did not know why. A second test showed my platelets were still a bit low. Could I have something seriously wrong with me, such as cancer Mrs J. Thornton, North Yorkshire. Platelets, which are produced in the bone marrow, are fragments of cells that play a role in blood clotting. A low count thrombocytopenia has many causes. When deciding the diagnosis, we first have to consider whether the patient is otherwise healthy, with no symptoms as in your case or whether they already have a condition or are acutely ill. The normal platelet count is 1. Mild thrombocytopenia is 1. More than 2 per cent of healthy adults have a level below 1. Your doctors advice that your platelets are still a bit low implies that you are in the mild category, which is reassuring. So what causes a lower platelet count The most common reason in otherwise healthy people is immune thrombocytopenia, when the body creates antibodies to the platelets. Blood clots in the system may also be using them up e. Another possibility is that fewer platelets are being produced in the bone marrow. If the cause is a bone marrow disorder, this will affect other types of blood cells as well yet your tests didnt appear to show any other abnormalities. Viral illnesses such as German measles, mumps, chicken pox, hepatitis C and glandular fever can also lower platelet production, but usually this resolves as the patient recovers. Importantly, almost any medication can lower the platelet count either by damaging production in the bone marrow or triggering platelet antibodies. These include many antibiotics, some epilepsy drugs, paracetamol, ibuprofen and even quinine, found in tonic and bitter lemon drinks. There are also herbal preparations and foods that can have the same effect, including some Chinese teas, walnuts, sesame seeds and cranberry juice. Cancer can cause thrombocytopenia, but only when the disease is widespread essentially the tumour displaces the bone marrow, so be reassured that a low platelet count is not a cause nor a sign of cancer. Ask your GP to repeat the count in six months if the level falls to 1. But I would suggest there is nothing seriously wrong. By the way. Diesel cars What about planes and trucks Have you noticed the smell of aircraft fuel when boarding a plane, or even when driving near an airportIts unmistakable and this is, give or take, the same set of hydrocarbons found in the diesel we burn in the cars we drive. Gardiens De L`Ordre Movie Watch Online. Yet, everything you read about pollution relates to the vilification of diesel vehicles and, chiefly, to the motorist. Its true that the burning of diesel used in many cars has exacerbated pulmonary diseases, including asthma and emphysema, heart disease, cancer and possibly dementia. But what about aircraft And what about trucks, buses and ships Certainly alternatives to these are going to be much more difficult to engineer than nudging the public towards hybrid, electric and hydrogen fuelled cars. In fact, the death of the traditional car came a step closer last week, with the announcement from Volvo that after next year, all its new cars will be fully electric or hybrid. But in light of all this, why are we still talking about a third runway at Heathrow Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing Was any of that science about oxides of nitrogen and particulates components of pollution thought to be problematic for our health taken into account in the airport runway deliberationsI doubt it. So give me Boris Island any day, and consider the health of the people of the South East. TRY THIS  Freaks of Nature desserts 2. They are made from only plant based ingredients and contain no dairy, gluten or eggs. Flavours include Cocoa Loco and Mango Fandango. THE PILLS DONT WORK Why your pills might not be effective. This week Painkillers. Opioid painkillers including codeine and tramadol can help with severe pain from conditions such as arthritis, but they wont work for around six million Britons. Thats because up to 2.