RAISING POUNDS TO SPEND A PENNY

LILY Allen does not come across as a particularly sympathetic person: somewhat entitled, a bit self-obsessed.

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But you have to feel a little for her: her marriage to David Harbour has broken down, on the grounds that he was unfaithful. But what have we here? It was an open marriage. Of course it was all going to end in tears.

Ladies, a word. Open marriages do not work. Nor does swinging, which some people these days seem to equate with something as innocuous as a round of golf.

A generation of women in the 1960s was sold a dud steer and it's happening again. Put bluntly, if a man wants to have sex with you, you have every right to demand exclusivity and deny him access to your body if he doesn't agree.