I know that ‘column inches’ are literally used to calculate the media impact of certain stories. Occasionally you see counts where rather than inches, specific words are counted instead. This week the adjective du jour
appears to be ‘troubled’. Which of course means heavy-drinking/ drug-abusing/ victim of abusive spouse/mentally ill or all of the above.

This week’s ‘troubled’ celebrity appears to be Amy Winehouse, whose descent into drug hell (as the papers love to describe it) is neatly summarised here. Claims abound that Ms Winehouse is ‘clinically diagnosed with manic depression’ but has chosen the self-medication route rather than succumbing to the medical model. Anyway, here’s a picture of Amy not looking a state, because I’ve seen enough of those this week and frankly they served as neither a warning nor a source of morbid fascination.