Daily Telegraph jounalist, Tom Utley, on the Moss mess:

I’m afraid I wouldn’t last long as a reporter on the Daily Mirror. If I had spotted Kate Moss taking what looked like cocaine at a party, it simply wouldn’t have occurred to me that I was witnessing front-page news in the making – still less that I should tell my editor to hold pages one to five every day until further notice. “Supermodel scoffs doughnuts” – now that really would be a story. But “Supermodel snorts cocaine” ranks somewhere between “Dog bites man” and “Gardener mows lawn” on the Utley Scale of Earth-Shattering Revelations. Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, takes a more serious view of the Daily Mirror’s scoop. He announced on Wednesday that he, personally, had been instrumental in launching an investigation into the paper’s allegations. “We have to look at the impact of this kind of behaviour on impressionable young people and, if there is evidence, something should be done about it,” he said…I am not even sure if it is true that Moss is a role model for “impressionable young people”. Certainly, a great many fashion designers are convinced that women look at what she is wearing and think: “If I bought that frock, then I, too, could look like Kate Moss.” But does anybody actually believe, even on a subconscious level, “If only I took cocaine and hung out with junkies, then I, too, could be slim and beautiful and earn millions of pounds every year”? I reckon Moss is no more a role model for the impressionable young than Sir Ian is a role model for middle-aged men. After all, very few of us go around in expensive, showy-off half-moon spectacles, demanding the power to administer summary “justice” to our fellow citizens, just because the Met Commissioner is so often on the telly.

The full piece has plenty to say about the other failures of London’s top cop, a man who shares more than a surname with the UK’s prime minister, in the paper’s opinion section).

And even the lovely Catherine Deneuve, it seems, is an Ayatollah. The Daily Mirror reports this:

>”But veteran actress and model Catherine Deneuve – a former face of Chanel No 5 – backed Kate and insisted she had done nothing wrong.The 61-year-old French star said: “She’s a great model. If she’s ruining her personal life, that belongs to her.”What she does in her private life is very private. She does what she wants with her person and her body. It has nothing to do with her work.”