The rich must be wired differently

If £295,000 for a handbag sounds reasonable to you, perhaps you need to take a good long look at yourself.

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Joss Stone: she might have a point

The British soul singer Joss Stone isa life-long vegetarian. She has never eaten an animal and she once sang Amazing Grace to cows. "She's also blonde and pretty", says the Daily Mail, so it wasn't "entirely surprising to see her joining the endless procession of stars who have stripped for PETA". The militant animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals "shamelessly plays the sex card by having its more beautiful supporters disrobe for its adverts".

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