I normally just publish troll-action because, although it is generally vile, I find it amusing. You are the only troll I have ever bothered to email directly, precisely because you *are* a hack (which I know because you left your email address), have accountability to the public, and I felt it important to address the difference between a personal blog and a news report, which, in your comment, you seemed to not understand.

You also failed to note that I was talking about the past, and made assumptions about me which, if you had bothered to read it properly, would have obviously been in error. (The haircuts were because my father was in the industry, and the breakfasts were work meetings.)

I’m sorry that you think eating and getting your hair done are part of a ‘facile life’ but unfortunately I think you’ll find that most of the population indulge in both.

As you’ve already told me you won’t be returning, there is no need to ask you to take your casual misogyny elsewhere, ia there?

Dear readers: this is the man whose sole response to my email was to tell me he thought me ‘a bit of a div’, and who then told me on Twitter to go off and watch re-runs of Sex & The City’.

I do wonder what the fashion & lifestyle department colleagues on The Independent think of this man, who seems to hold everything they do in such contempt.

LLG