A comedy of errors

I have to confess to having zero interest in the libel trial brought by Rebekah Vardy against fellow WAG Coleen Rooney – two women seemingly obsessed with destroying one another.
But don’t the events that are currently unfolding in the High Courts of Justice in London expose the shallowness of our world, one that's obsessed with the cult of 'celebrity'?

Two women, who are at war with one another about the leaking of false information, seem to be more important news than the state of our economy, the war in Ukraine, millions of starving people in Afghanistan – or oodles of other things that are so much more important than this tawdry state of affairs.
IN TATTERS: Rebekah Vardy, who brought the libel case, has seen her reputation suffer.
Yet the public at large is lapping it up. Rarely is it off the front pages of our national press, or not being commented on by our national and regional broadcasters.

Not so many years ago, this sort of case would never have created such head...