PLATELL'S PEOPLE: A mother's 自殺 that shames all of us...?

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The grainy images of Charlotte Bevan leaving hospital cradling her four-day-old daughter are too haunting for words.

Still wearing white hospital slippers and only a flimsy T-shirt and leggings, she 投機・賭けるd into the 氷点の night from Bristol maternity hospital with her tiny child inadequately wrapped in a baby 一面に覆う／毛布.

The に引き続いて night, her 団体／死体 was 設立する one-and-a-half miles away, 負かす／撃墜する a cliff at the 底（に届く） of the Avon Gorge. Hours later, police discovered her dead baby Zaani Tiana nearby.

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Charlotte Bevan, pictured leaving hospital with four-day-old baby Zaani Tiana

The CCTV images will haunt nurses and doctors who will wonder if they could have done more to 保護する this 攻撃を受けやすい young mother with a history of mental illness.

The hospital staff are （刑事）被告 of failing her and an 調査 has been 始める，決める up to 調査／捜査する. But surely we can’t lay the 非難する on an over-stretched NHS.

Charlotte left the hospital at 9pm and walked through streets teeming with people. How could anyone have failed to notice she should not have been out at that time of night with such a 攻撃を受けやすい little 存在 in her 武器?

Why did no one approach her? Why did no one call the police? We have no idea whether she was visibly 苦しめるd, but the very sight of her should have sounded alarm bells.

STORM IN A £74 TEACUP

A mother says she was ‘humiliated’ after 存在 asked by a waiter at Claridge’s to use a napkin to 隠す her chest while feeding her baby daughter.

Lou 燃やすs (権利) says she was 減ずるd to 涙／ほころびs when told it could 原因（となる） offence to other g uests.

率直に, I’d be 減ずるd to 涙／ほころびs if asked to 支払う／賃金 Claridge’s £74 for a cup of Earl Grey and a few scones. At least she got her extra napkin for 解放する／自由な.

Everyone who saw her on that last 旅行 let her 負かす／撃墜する. But then, as a society, we have a real problem with our 態度 に向かって mental illness. Too often we turn a blind 注目する，もくろむ, perhaps because we have no idea how to を取り引きする those who を煩う this stigmatised 条件.

苦しむ they do. A new 調査する 明らかにする／漏らすd that one in five young people are afflicted by 不景気, and women like Charlotte are 特に 攻撃を受けやすい. From the little we know, her 激烈な／緊急の 不景気 was 複雑にするd and 誘発する／引き起こすd by her father’s sudden death.

But 不景気 can 影響する／感情 people from all backgrounds, and be brought on by all manner of circumstances. So why is it talked about in whispers?

So often, as in Charlotte’s 事例／患者, mental sickness can be controlled by 麻薬s ― and it is 特に poignant that she had stopped her 薬／医学 so she could breast-料金d her baby. Why don’t we approach it as we do other illnesses that 答える／応じる to 麻薬s ― like 糖尿病, for instance?

Perhaps, if we did, those who saw Charlotte and her baby on that bitter night would not have passed by on the other 味方する of the road.

A 調査する showing a ４半期/4分の1 of all poor children are obese brings 前へ／外へ the usual 自由主義の 手渡す -wringing about poverty gaps and a need for 税金s on sugary foods and fizzy drinks. No talk about parental 責任／義務 or healthy home-cooked meals, which cost いっそう少なく than eating junk. It’s not 欠如（する） of money that’s the problem, but a poverty in parenting.

So Mary was 権利 all along

勇敢な of Julie Walters to 収容する／認める finally Mary Whitehouse’s family values （選挙などの）運動をする was 権利. She now believes the 9pm watershed Whitehouse （選挙などの）運動をするd for is a good thing ― and that it is 存在 廃止するd by stealth with explicit content 存在 空気／公表するd earlier.

The actress 収容する／認めるs she was a 反逆者／反逆する in the 早期に 1970s who despised all Whitehouse stood for. ‘We hated her because we were part of the 革命,’ Walters says.

It’s just a shame that, like so many erstwhile 革命のs, 64-year-old Walters took so long to understand the dangers of broadcasting gratuitous sex and 暴力／激しさ to a younger audience.

Say what you will about Edwina Currie, she is now my poster girl for the older woman. With her いつかs cringe-making 発覚s on I’m A Celebrity, Edwina 証明するs that women of a 確かな age still enjoy sex, and that you don’t need cosmetic 外科, nor to be a size 10, to have a healthy and 耐えるing appetite for intimacy.

Returning to prime-time U.S. television in The Taste, Nigella Lawson’s dress was so low that her breasts bulged out of her frock like over-熟した melons. ‘I had no idea やめる so much d?colletage was on 陳列する，発揮する: mortified,’ she tweeted oh-so bashfully. How disingenuous! And how sad talented Nigella seems to think they’re the only 資産s she has left.

Nigella Lawson's low 削減（する） dress 原因（となる）d やめる a 動かす during her return this week to U.S. prime-time television

Russell Brand has won the Plain English （選挙などの）運動をする’s Foot In Mouth prize for comments like: ‘People don’t realise that the 未来 is just now, but later.’ The way he 泡，激怒することs from his lips these days, it could be foot AND mouth he’s 苦しむing from.

Ola's no ice maiden

Ola Jordan (pictured) is leaving 厳密に Come Dancing to 参加する the reality TV skiing show The Jump

厳密に Come Dancing bosses must be distraught that sexy Ola Jordan is leaving to 参加する ITV’s reality skiing show The Jump 始める，決める in the アルプス山脈 (or should it be 改名するd The Lump now bruiser マイク Tindall is taking part?). Ola’s so hot she’ll melt the ice.

Two women giving birth using wombs 寄付するd by their mothers was 先触れ（する）d as the greatest gift a mum could give her daughter. Perhaps. But the greatest gift my mum gave me when I 設立する that I couldn’t have children was to 安心させる me that a life without a child could be as 実行するing as motherhood. She told me then what I’d discover later ― a childless life is only as barren as you make it.

Daniel Craig was 37 when he filmed his first 社債 movie, Casino 王室の, and 現れるd from the sea in those budgie-smuggler trunks.

Eight years later, he turns up at the cast 開始する，打ち上げる for the next 社債 movie with three chins and wearing grey flannel trousers and a blue woolly pullover he must have borrowed from Alan Partridge’s Oxfam 寄付 box. His millions of 女性（の） 信奉者s will be shaken, but certainly not stirred.

A Harley Street fertility 専門家 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs women should be 申し込む／申し出d ‘menstrual leave’ for three days a month to 改善する their work 業績／成果. Next, they’ll be 申し込む／申し出ing men leave for PMT (pre-match 緊張), for the two days before their football teams play.

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While the 政党s posture over how to 基金 the 病んでいる NHS, can I 申し込む／申し出 a simple 解答? 同様に as banning new migrants from receiving 利益s for four years, we could stop them walking into our hospitals and GP 外科s as soon as they arrive. 特に as we’ve just learnt that a ４半期/4分の1 of all births last year were by foreign mums.

In a transparent attack on Ed Miliband, ex-PM Tony Blair says the ‘遺伝子 pool’ for decent political leaders has shrunk because too few MPs have ‘real-life experience’. Does he 除外する from such 批評 his son Euan, 30, already on 労働’s 候補者s 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） for MPs having only ever ‘worked’ for his dad’s political friends before spending two years in 十分な-time 雇用?

Desperate to distance himself from the ‘汚い’ Tories, Nick Clegg chose Stonehenge to publicise a road 投資 programme. What better 発生地 could there be for the leader of the Lib Dems, likely to be wiped out at the next 選挙, than a 先史の monument to extinct, sandal-wearing weirdos surrounded by hundreds of burial 塚s?

Former BBC 経済的なs editor Stephanie Flanders was once 先触れ（する）d as an anti-Tory prophet of doom for her 暗い／優うつな 財政上の 予測s. Now she’s joined JP Morgan, she’s never off TV and 可決する・採択するs a more 懐柔的な トン. Apart from no longer having to live with her Leftie 会社／団体 bosses, perhaps it has something to do with the £400,000 she earns with the City bank.

A true first lady

まっただ中に the eulogies as Gordon Brown 発表するd he was standing 負かす／撃墜する as an MP there was one gaping 穴を開ける ― 尊敬の印s to his wife, Sarah.

Gordon Brown pictured during his 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in which he 発表するd he was standing 負かす／撃墜する as an MP

A successful businesswoman before they 結婚する, she supported him unswervingly at every turn, speaking memorably during one 労働 会議／協議会 to 支える beleaguered Gordon.

When he was （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長, the couple lost their daughter, Jennifer, soon after birth, then later received the 破滅的な news that their son Fraser had cystic fibrosis. How a mother can 対処する with two such 大打撃を与える blows is beyond comprehension, yet Sarah’s courage and devotion to her family saw her through.

She is wedded, too, to her 労働 values and, though I 同意しない with them, her かかわり合い to 社会主義 is hugely impressive.

Sarah never 抗議するd that she 行方不明になるd her own 独立した・無所属 career, nor milked political 関係s like other No 10 spouses. She was truly a First Lady of politics.?