
MUCH consternation has been displayed by the panjandrums who are responsible for organising the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Their annual gathering for aspiring artists has been disrupted by performances by the popular music combo, Oasis. The council organisers have complained that the Oasis fans were undesirable loutish types who would desecrate their sacred festival. A self-professed comedienne called Kate Smurthwaite, apparently a BBC regular, went on to Instagram to moan that no one wanted to watch her show because of the disruption caused by the Gallagher brothers.

When it comes to a typical psychopath, the suited and booted Patrick Bateman from the novel American Psycho might spring to mind, but, according to one expert, the number of women with the neuropsychiatric disorder could be far greater than previously thought.
Well, now I know what it’s like being the full-time psychiatrist of a hyper-narcissistic celebrity. No, I haven’t gone to med school, been a psychiatric resident, and hung out a shingle. I’ve just read Elliot (formerly Ellen) Page’s memoir, Pageboy, which, indeed, of all the books I’ve ever encountered, comes the closest to reading like a transcript of the overwrought ramblings, on some shrink’s couch, of an extraordinarily neurotic and self-absorbed 

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