EVERYONE’S in a bit of a frenzy over the phone hacking scandal which shows no sign of calming down yet.

Irrespective of all the invective that’s flying around, amid the setting up of judicial and parliamentary inquiries and calls for Rupert Murdoch to be hung, drawn and quartered, we ought to keep a sense of perspective.

Yes, it’s a scandal and those who were responsible should pay for their misdemeanours in whichever way is appropriate. But it’s not a disaster, in the way the crisis in the horn of Africa is – a disaster which isn’t getting a look in right now.

And let’s not get too worked up about the moral outrage of politicians who themselves use every dirty trick in the book as they climb the greasy pole. Not least on each other, using the media as their weapon of choice.

• This may come as surprise to you – but the pressure to look like a model is driving men to develop dangerous eating disorders according to experts. GPs have been warned to be on the lookout for the potentially fatal conditions, including anorexia and bulimia, after a 66 per cent rise in hospital admissions for male eating disorders in the last decade.

The problem, it was thought, mainly affected teenage girls. Medical experts blame the latest surge on an obsession with looking good by having bulging biceps and a six pack stomach. Clearly something I am never going to have to worry about.