2017 has barely got off the ground, but already the bananas in pyjamas have poked their heads above the duvet parapet and are back to outrage public decency. Jan Moir says although many of them make for better-covered customers than men in low-slung jeans or woman with heaving cleavage, the nature of shopping or doing the school run in nightwear show the wearer couldn't be bothered to get washed, dressed, flossed or groomed to face the excitements of the world. ...read
Jan Moir for the Daily Mail's recent articles
Take cover! JAN MOIR'S giving both barrels to her... Bores of the Year: Make way for the windbag and the wearisome who have made 2016 such a trial for us
In October, pop star Lily Allen, 31, visited The Jungle in Calais, France, and apologised to an Afghan refugee 'on behalf of my country' and said: 'I'm sorry for what we have put you through.' ...read
A festive fairytale? No, this Christmas is grim! JAN MOIR says world events are casting a shadow over this year's festivities
It is not too fanciful to think that the weight of world events are playing their part, casting a long shadow over any putative festivities. Trumpageddon, a prowling Putin, a refugee crisis, acts of terrorism, transport strikes, the horror of Aleppo (pictured). All this has a bearing on how we behave. The world seems particularly vulnerable and insecure right now — and there is little comfort to be had when the essential religious message of Christmas seems to get lost in a commercial blur that starts in mid-November and sickens everyone before advent is halfway through. ...read