Angela Rayner and snout-in-trough officials are the worst kind of socialists

Snout-in-the-trough officials in Angela Rayner's Housing and Local Government office have racked up enough air miles to fly around the world 13 times. In February Rayner herself was slated when she went to Ethiopia and Ghana and asked Home Office bods if she could use taxpayers' cash to go on a private safari.

Call me stupid but why does the Minister for Housing and local Government need to be jetting round the world? This is the same Angela Rayner who, when the Tories were in power, accused Rishi Sunak of "jetting around the world on taxpayers' money like an A list celeb". Which is precisely what she's doing now.

Also, she has moved into a grace and favour apartment in Admiralty House (where Churchill lived) and last week spent £7,000 on two beds for it. Was there really nothing cheaper? Of course, there was but Ange, from the council estate, clearly thinks it's OK to live like a celeb on the taxpayers' dollar.

Rayner and her ilk are THE worst kind of socialists. They rant and rave about the rich until they're in a position to live like them, then they grab at it with greedy little hands. The difference is that, unlike the rich, Rayner hasn't earned her A-list lifestyle. She's living it on the backs of skint taxpayers!

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Friends say they're worried about "fragile" Sharon Osbourne in the wake of her beloved Ozzy's death. They shouldn't be. Sharon was married to Ozzy for 43 rock'n roll years. She adored him but he was still one of the wildest, craziest, unpredictable, most uncontrollable men on the planet and not only did she handle him she stayed happily married to him. Ozzy once said of her: "She saved my life every day."

Sharon Osbourne had a lifetime of loving and looking out for Ozzy and while she might look fragile after her massive weight loss, women with her kind of strength never crumble!

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I'm betting Isla Fisher is riddled with regret having left her husband of 13 years, Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Borat and Ali G). Because, without warning, he has morphed into a drop-dead gorgeous Hollywood heartthrob. He's said of his transformation: "Some use Ozempic, some use private chefs, some use personal trainers - I did all three,".

Well, whatever he did - it worked!

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The BBC has decided to broadcast the new series of MasterChef with Greg Wallace and John Torode. So, to hell with all the women Wallace is said to have harassed and upset. And if Torode saying the N-word nearly a decade ago in a private conversation was so heinous he was fired for it, why is it OK to put both men back on our screens?

I'll tell you why, because the BBC don't really care that Torode might have said the N-word or that Wallace abused women - all it really cares about is money. And it didn't want to lose shed loads off it by scrapping the series.

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So, Meghan's Netflix cookery show has bombed. It was so bad it didn't even make the streamer's top 300 and was outstripped by reruns of Suits.

And the reason's simple - people see through her. They see she's a 24-carat, narcissistic fake and want nothing to do with her faux, perfect world where everyone uses flower sprinkles and makes ladybird canapés. So now, not only has the show been canned, its looking like their $100million deal with Netflix has too.

Which would explain why Harry's been desperately trying to crawl back into the royal fold. He knows he and Meghan can't sustain their multi-million-dollar lifestyle in Montecito because people are no longer interested in throwing big money deals at the couple a senior Spotify exec once branded "F***ing Grifters."

I'm betting a safe, secure life within the confines of the royal family is starting to look very attractive to the couple. Although I'm still hoping the royals will tell them both to do a running jump. They wanted to fend for themselves - let them do it!

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Is it my imagination or is the media treating the fact the Lionesses have got to the Euro finals like it's no biggie? If the men's England team even get close to the quarter final of anything (which isn't often) its wall-to-wall media coverage.

The Lionesses play stupendous football, get to the final and get just a few column inches in the main body of the papers. Proof positive that football is still a man's game (even if they're bad at it) and women have a long way to go before they get close to being seen as their equals.