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What have parents learned from Myleene Klass’s attempts to bring reason to the debacle surrounding children’s parties? That speaking up gets you into trouble with the school principal.

Catherine O’Mahony
Catherine O’Mahony

I have become weirdly obsessed with “former pop star” Myleene Klass in the past couple of weeks. In case you haven’t a clue, she used to sing with Hear’Say and has since made millions from being a radio and TV presenter and other things that make you prime tabloid fodder.

Anyway that’s all dull; what’s interesting is that she has more or less driven a coach and horses through the brittle, finely-balanced etiquette ...