SundayMail Far fetched Word up The life journey Wear your heart on of one of café your clothes with culture’s pioneers statement Tshirts 4 22 JULY 1218 Furniture given a second chance The two cousins turning unwanted items into trendy homeware WIN two tickets for Carmen live 02 THOUGHT Taylor Swift and friends in the Bad Blood video contents People: A long journey for café 04culture pioneer to return to Makarios Ave From Rihanna to Taylor, the rise of Revenge Pop 07 hen you’re a pop su- All revenge tracks are than seeking revenge directly on the perstar, revenge goes man, Rihanna spends most of the vid- Lifestyle: Two up a notch. No need to not received equally eo torturing his innocent girlfriend cousins giving sew prawns into suit- - a privileged white princess with a linings, release a trio of says ROSAMUND handbag dog. The girlfriend, played disused items a Wpiglets marked “1”, “2” and “4”, or to by model Rachel Roberts, gets a good new lease of life fi ll in MI6’s psychological profi les as URWIN, and neither are 210 seconds of being abused; we don’t your nemesis to land them on secret even get to see the grisly death of service watch lists. Instead, you can their videos Mads Mikkelsen’s money man. put it all on fi lm: an eye for an eye, a Rihanna, an incredible singer brutal catfi ght for backing-dancer “She basically tried to sabotage an whose voice has nonetheless been al- theft, torture porn for an (allegedly) entire arena tour. She tried to hire a tered to sound like chipmunks mat- misbehaving money-manager. bunch of people out from under me.” ing on a mattress with a squeaky Rihanna’s latest track is believed Perry hasn’t turned the other spring, kidnaps and strips Roberts. to be the chart’s latest dose of ven- cheek. Instead, she tweeted about She strings her up naked in a barn. geance pop. In the video for Bitch Bet- Swift: “Watch out for the Regina A henchwoman hits Roberts over ter Have My Money, which came out George in sheep’s clothing...” (she’s the head with a bottle to prevent the last week, the Bajan singer portrays referring to the villain played by Ra- police rescuing her. Then they half- a woman seeking retribution on her chel McAdams in Mean Girls). And drown her in a swimming pool un- arch-enemy - a man who she claims there are rumours Perry is making der an infl atable fl oat. The man - the left her penniless. It just so happens her own revenge track, although her titular bitch - keeps his clothes on, of Rihanna once fi led a lawsuit against representatives have denied she re- course. her ex-accountant Peter Gounis, the corded a song called “1984” - a refer- Both Bad Blood and Bitch Better fi rm Berdon and its former partner ence to Swift’s album 1989. Those Have My Money feature woman-on- Michael Mitnick, accusing them of sporting “Team Katy” T-shirts are woman violence. But Swift’s is of the fi nancial mismanagement and charg- still waiting for the track they can use cartoonish, superhero-movie, kapow!- ing “exorbitant” commissions. Gou- to drown out the omnipresent Bad style punches and kicks – despite the nis, meanwhile, blamed Rihanna’s Blood, then. title, no blood is spilled. There are also spendthrift ways for her “near-bank- But Perry should take note: all re- no connotations of sexual assault and ruptcy”. Rihanna dropped the lawsuit venge tracks are not received equally. humiliation. Rihanna, by contrast, is last year. While Swift’s video - starring Cara, discharging super-sexualised sadism, Rihanna is following in the foot- Karlie, Ellie, Gigi and other famous directed at a woman why exactly? Oh steps of Taylor Swift, who assembles friends whose names also end in vow- yes, as a way to make a man suffer. Whatson: Aglanjazz festival brings an all-woman army to take on a back- els - was mostly well-received, and has Rihanna isn’t obliged to make stabbing ex ally in her Bad Blood vid- even been adopted as the battle cry of “feminist” videos. But when she old and new tunes eo. The inspiration is said to be Swift’s a girl with leukaemia, Rihanna’s has produces something as misogynis- 17 feud with Katy Perry. Though Swift been met with opprobrium. tic as Bitch Better Have My Money, has never uttered KP’s name, she has What has (understandably) an- shouldn’t she be called out in the criticised a rival singer in interviews: gered some feminists is that rather same way male artists are? UK royals’ visual 22 greatest hits By Sam Leith Fashion: Wasn’t the British royal christening Wear your eccentric? Royalty is all about tradi- heart on tion, obviously. But wheeling the baby princess out in the same Millson pram your T-shirt used for her great uncles Edward and with the Andrew half a century previously? And meanwhile dressing her older brother in latest the same costume her father wore when statement he was a toddler visiting her uncle in designs hospital? It’s royal ceremony as collage or selfquotation: a time-travel accident, or a visual greatest-hits album. Actually, sort of funny and sort of wonderful. SUNDAY MAIL• July 12, 2015 03 The rich are always with us By Richard Dickenson of its contents and any profi t ac- cruing must be declared. Mas- Even among the seriously sive tax avoidance schemes, as wealthy there is at least a sprin- opposed to deliberate tax eva- kling of decent, good people sion, carry no illegal status. It is who have peerless integrity. I merely regarded as selfi sh, ugly, was a medical consultant in manipulative and deserving of Harley Street for over ten years low esteem. It is the rich paying and I met lots of them. However, sharp accountants to prevent I recall thinking that they com- them having to pay tax where prised far from a majority. If all they have earned their wealth, a power corrupts I would include privilege not available to the or- great wealth as it appears of dinary tax payer, while still en- similarly dangerous potential. joying all the services for which It commonly acts as a menacing tax has not been contributed. creator of options. By all means then supervise So called ‘old money’ that the fat-cat major political con- has been in the family for gener- tributors and those who openly ations, creates ab initio a sense donate millions to charities. It of remoteness and insulation is naïve of us to think their mo- from many of the hazards of tives are always honourable or the world. Concern for possible themselves worthy of respect. consequences takes a back seat These wealthy donors have no and it can become hard to dis- fears of dishonour or loss of self- tinguish negative realities and esteem. They’ve been through their relevance. Hunger, cold, all of that before on their way to need are worries that seldom the top of the gold piles. They’re affect those born into wealth Money really after public respect, a knight- and position. It’s not that these does seem to hood or peerage perhaps and people are wantonly cruel or ap- make the world a reduced vulnerability to ever athetic. It’s that they just don’t go round being held to account. Of course notice the ‘trivia’ that affect the if you save yourself a few million lives and actions of most of us. in tax it is an investment to give The wealthy think the most im- a million to the politicians and portant thing is love. The poor thereby incline them to be, in know it is money. return, grateful and kindly dis- If anything ‘new money’ is posed. even worse. I venture to suggest My warning then is this - it is that rarely is great new wealth those who feel themselves to be acquired through the exercise powerful enough to act selfi shly, of self-respect a nd integ r ity. The immorally and illegally who fi nd majority of massive new wealth themselves faced with choices comes as a result of combining necessary. Therein germinate political parties that we should have not tried to bring the odd too tempting to resist. The business acumen with luck and the seeds of corruption. My con- scrutinise for suspicious and little something surreptitiously Jimmy Saviles and Gary Glit- so on, of course, but its arrival tention is that wealth does not possibly illegal practices. through customs without pay- ters, the kiddy-fi ddling school- may also result from ruthless always merit trust and respect Recent months have seen ing the tax duty. Few, too, have masters, the christian priests, lack of concern for niceties like - not by a long chalk. It is not a one political benefactor after not indulged in a little cash ministers, popes and the whole fair play and legalities. huge step from there to suspect- another accused of, for exam- transaction or two the gains grizzly gang of molesters seem Summing that up, old mon- ing or realising that the wealthy ple, tax avoidance. Now, how- from which never appeared on not even to consider that they ey has been brought up to feel are at least as likely as anyone ever the morals of avoidance an income tax return. Both of might be caught. I go further. I bullet-proof and indifferent else to be dishonest, grasping are viewed, it is certainly legal these, however trivial, are cat- feel that careful scrutiny should while new money’s experience and corrupt.