Meghan Markle is followed around by controversy like it's her own personal scent

It was only a matter of time. The Duchess of Sussex has been threatened with an £8million lawsuit from a woman who says she was left with catastrophic burns after trying the homemade bath salts recipe from Meghan's Netflix Show.

Diabetic Robin Patrick says the salts are dangerous and should have come with a warning. Netflix says Mrs Patrick has no claim and should have known the risk for diabetics of using Epsom salts. Whatever the truth of it this is just another example of the fact that everything Meghan touches turns to you-know-what.

Controversy follows her around like a bad smell!

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Why the hell has an worker been paid £30,000 in compo just because workmates likened her to Star Wars' villain Darth Vader in a team bonding exercise. Yes, DV was feared and hated throughout the galaxy, but he doesn't actually exist so why the hell are we wasting vital NHS funds that could be spent saving lives just because blood donation supervisor, Lorna Rooke, got upset at being compared to a fictional character?

She told a tribunal the insult made her feel "unpopular". Well maybe instead of claiming money that could have gone to sick people, she should accept the possibility that she just might be. And she doesn't deserve compo for that.

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has spent most of her time bleating about the £22billion black hole she says she inherited from the Tories.

Now the National Institute of Economic and Social Research says HER taxes are about to blow a £57billion black hole in public finances and will cause way more damage than Trump's tariffs ever will. So Rachel from Accounts does have a way with figures after all - she can triple debt in record time.

Not exactly the kind of "growth" she was after!

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When 's son Bear was born he said: "My life now is his, my money is his."

Those touching words suggested the star, who plunged to his death from a hotel balcony last year, was overwhelmed with love for his newborn son with Cheryl Tweedy.

What a tragedy then that this young man who had fame, money and a son he worshipped chose drugs over them all!

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After 60 years, Weight Watchers has filed for bankruptcy because of the rip roaring success of weight loss jabs. Of course it has. Who wants to bust a gut losing a couple of pounds a week - and spending fortunes on WW food and merchandise - when on the jabs you can lose five times as much in half the time - and no merch!

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Can someone please tell me what's so special about David Beckham reaching 50? There's been wall-to-wall media coverage of his week-long birthday celebrations.

Are we really surprised that a good looking, super-fit bloke who looks after himself has managed to make it to 50? Or is all the fuss just an excuse to run glam pics of Posh and Becks and speculate on the family rift that caused Brooklyn and his tricksy wife, Nicola Peltz, to snub all the birthday parties?

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This week's VE Day celebrations have thrown up a lot of strong emotions in me but one very unpleasant thought crept in this week - I was just thinking what a good job it is that Yvette Cooper wasn't in charge of the D-Day landings.

The outcome could have been very different.

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ITV's £2.5million bid to turn David Tennant into one of its biggest stars with new gameshow, Genius Game, has been one of its biggest ratings flop in years. There's one very simple reason for that - no one likes the sanctimonious Tennant. He's woke, he's weird and he loves himself way more than any of us ever could.

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I cheered this week when, in the first salvo of the Reform revolution, newly-elected councillors refused to take part in training for diversity and climate change.

Good. It's a start. But they need to go much further and in councils where they're in charge they must get rid of all diversity and climate change jobs. Both are taking money away from where it's needed - to pay for vital local services and looking after those people whose taxes are being spaffed up the wall.

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In the week we've proudly celebrated the valour, the heroism, the fearlessness of the lion-hearted men and women who fought and died for this country, a new poll says half of Brits wouldn't fight for Britain. Which doesn't just make them gutless and selfish it also makes them hellishly shortsighted. Because if a dictator attacks Britain - just like Putin did in Ukraine - they won't have a choice.

But this attitude is because schools, universities and the Left are teaching young people to believe there's nothing about Britain worth fighting for, that patriotism is akin to nationalism and that this is an imperialist racist country which should be sneered at, not celebrated.

Surely, if we believe in the values we're supposed to hold dear - democracy, freedom of speech, actual freedom - we have an obligation to defend that? And the woke snowflakes who say they wouldn't shouldn't avail themselves of the privileges people braver than them died to give them!