Hello, and welcome back. This week I tell MTV off for living in the past. Then I spend the rest of the newsletter on Rocky III, Diana and Dolly Parton. I know. I KNOW.
In my defense, the past did keep making news. Stallone finally answered the steroids question at 80, and said something braver the headlines will miss. Thirty years on, William and Harry are pulling in opposite directions over their mother's story. And Ed Sheeran's worst fortnight shows exactly why Dolly's old playbook still matters.
