OK, here goes, I'm treading a well worn path (As Sir Paul said on the Wedding Night) and might be about to annoy womankind (As Sir Paul etc, etc) but...

I've been trying to find a quote about equality and alimony, I'm sure I read it in a book of quotations I've got but for the life of me can't find the book and it's been unfindeable on the net...

I can't say who said it and even if these were the exact words but it was something along the lines of:

"We'll never have true equality of the sexes
while the practice of Alimony goes on."

I'm sure it was much more eloquent than that but you get the drift, and I know alimony works for men too, but it's a rarer case.

Now, using the current debacle... Paul McCartney made most of his fortune by being a Beatle, long before She-Who-Shall-Remain-Shameless entertained her first client.

Now she, a woman who has her own money and ways of making money (some even legal outside of Holland...) has received 25 million for being married to a guy for a typically-celeb period of time.

OK, so here goes...

Why is she worth this?

Why is she worth ANYTHING?

It's true some of it is for a house where she and poor Beatrice live, fine, fine, all well and good.

But Macca is paying the child's school fees and other miscellaneous items, he will, no doubt, be taking her on holidays which he'll pay for.

And yet the Less-Than-Fab-One is still whinging, she wanted 125 million pounds... Well, here's a question, how did you earn this? How did you earn a mere 25 million? (this is rhetorical, 'sex' as an answer does not need to be commented...)

We can but guess what she wanted such extravagance for, maybe she's under the misguided belief her face-pulling and ranting antics will still prove to be newsworthy when the case vanishes so she needs a lot of jetting air-fares for all the worldwide interviews.

Well, I hate to be one of the many to break it to you Miss Mills-Insert-Next-Rich-Guy-Here (I see that tattooed on her thigh with an arrow...) but we don't care.

You've been a figure of ridicule, the butt of many a one-legger-liner, the hated scrunched up face of a golddigging witch.

Your final act of throwing water over Sir Paul's lawyer may have been your attempt to strike a blow for "womanhood" but I think you'll find that was what she was doing.

She was trying to ensure one less case of women being degraded by people such as you, who think it's your right to earn massive amounts of money for lying on your back being "happily" married to a rich man for barely enough time to let the ink on the certificate to dry.

In my view, and hate me if you like, she was doing her best to remove that one last really negative stereotype of women AND men in an increasingly open minded world.

That of the gold-digger attaching themselves groinally to a rich person in a hope of creaming off the cash.

You've got your money, I truly hope you spread some of it to your "charities".

But now, I think I speak for many of us when I say...

Go away and stay away.