‘Beethoven?” “Black!” “Mozart?” “Black!” “William Shakespeare?” “Undoubtedly black, without question”. Henry VIII was black, too – although the jury remains out on Abraham Lincoln. This scene from an episode of Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends is now more than 20 years old, but in some ways it might as well be 200.
The list of tweakments that men are secretly (or even openly) opting to have in the hope remaining youthful gets longer by the day. It makes my own ‘work’ seem tame, says Simon Mills