A good old gossip is medicine for the soul
After a year of lockdowns, what the nation needs is a bracing chinwag
28 April 2021 • 6:00pm
Gossip is good for you. Who knew? Apart from every woman on the planet. Except we consider it, far less pejoratively, to be a crucial line of communication; of facts and fictions, opinion and mood. Gossip, you see, is about people rather than things, which makes it the most valuable of social currencies. To paraphrase Churchill; a scurrilous rumour will get halfway around the world before the snoring, boring truth has had time to put on its boots.