The news that health boffins advising the Government have rejected a call for mass prostate cancer screening sent a shiver down my spine.Not least because two of my closest male friends now have the disease at a fairly advanced stage after missing out on early routine tests.It is the same with Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, who was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2023. He bitterly regrets not getting an early test and is spending his dying years campaigning to increase screening.Last year, prostate was declared the most common cancer in the UK, killing 12,000 men a year. Yes, 12,000. Yet the UK’s National Screening Committee ignored calls from Sir Chris and others for a programme of routine tests.The NHS already has a national screening programme for women’s cancers. Only last week I arranged a routine mammogram through my GP. No lumps, no signs of problems but I was booked within weeks. My regular cervical test was also promptly arranged. So why not prostate? Why are we not throwing everything at early detection of a disease that kills one man every 45 minutes in Britain?How did we get to a position where women’s health is deemed more important than men’s? True, men’s reluctance to talk to a doctor or even their partner about their prostate doesn’t help, but this is no excuse for what I see as a systematic neglect of men’s needs, their health and their lives.Surely one of the founding principles of the NHS is to treat everyone the same. The decision not to introduce mass screening does the opposite. It treats men as second-class citizens – and thousands will die needlessly as a result. Last year, prostate was declared the most common cancer in the UK. It kills 12,000 men a yearAfter a desperate search for Lee Andrews, her missing husband of four months, Katie Price joyously declared she’d found the alleged conman and that during their two-minute phone call he revealed Dubai authorities had detained him for being a spy. Didn’t she mean for being a spiv?Love eludes Maya Buxom Maya Jama appears in pink latex for the launch of her new Love Island series. Yet if this social experiment is all about finding love, why hasn’t Maya discovered it?She has enjoyed high-profile relationships with footballer Ruben Dias and singer Stormzy among others, yet after three years on the show, she’s still not alighted on The One.As for new contestants like Sean, 25, a Galway footballer who says, ‘My strategy is play forward and if it’s not on, pass it back, eventually you’ll score’, just pass the ‘ick’ bag! Buxom Maya Jama appears in pink latex for the launch of her new Love Island seriesAddressing the 1.422 billion members of the Catholic Church, the Pope quoted Tolkien’s wizard Gandalf from Lord of the Rings: ‘It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set.’ With all due respect to his Holiness, the better quote is when Gandalf urges Frodo to show courage for his quest: ‘All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’ Who could disagree?Harper should swap sidesIs there any moment when the Beckhams aren’t actually monetising their brand?The latest example is pictures of Victoria and daughter Harper, 14, both wearing a floral dress, thought to be from mum’s new VB range, on their ‘private’ Ibiza holiday aboard the Beckhams’ 130 ft, £16million superyacht (named Seven after dad’s famous footie shirt).How long before Harper realises she, like estranged son Brooklyn, is just a pawn in their media game and swaps sides to become friends again with her eldest brother?What’s not to love about the Britain’s Got Talent 2009 runner-up Susan Boyle who, after a stroke that temporarily robbed her of her voice, is back at the age of 65 as a glammed-up blonde, reviving her singing career by recording a new album.Gives hope to all us women ‘not 40 any more’ (as my friends would say) that we are never too old to get gorgeous. Susan Boyle is back at the age of 65 as a glammed-up blonde, reviving her singing career by recording a new albumDesperately promoting her 10th rom-com movie, Office Romance, J.Lo says her latest love interest, Brett Goldstein of, er, the hit Apple TV football series Ted Lasso, is the best kisser of all her lead roles ever. Oh, dear. Brett’s a bit of a comedown from your former rom-com beaux Richard Gere, Ralph Fiennes, Owen Wilson and Matthew McConaughey, isn’t he, girl? Scuttling Sturgeon Promoting her memoir Frankly, after learning her estranged husband Peter Murrell had embezzled £400,000 from the SNP’s coffers, Nicola Sturgeon told a literary festival in West Ireland that this had been ‘one of the worst weeks’ of her life.Sky News filmed the former First Minister as she scuttled from reporters at the hotel venue, refusing to answer questions about Murrell, and left through the kitchens – no doubt pausing wistfully by the deluxe coffee machine on her way out.All hail Maximus Crowe's new lookShocking for us Russell Crowe fans to see our hero at the French Open looking portly, puffy and a thousand years old.Apparently it’s because he’s preparing for a role in the historical action film The Last Druid, in which he plays an ageing warrior figure brought out of retirement to save the world from annihilation.Whatever. If it’s Maximus Crowe they wanted, they’ve got it. Shocking for us Russell Crowe fans to see our hero at the French Open looking portly, puffy and a thousand years oldIn his book What Would Maggie Do?, Michael Maslinski explains why he moved into a care home with his wife, despite being fit and well. A beautiful story and the same as my dad’s. After being separated from Mum, he found it unbearable and moved into her care home, where they died together.Yet I’ll go to my grave regretting I didn’t move Heaven and Earth for them to die at home.Richard Madeley draws mockery for his Channel 5 documentary Inside The World’s Mega Prison, which is located in El Salvador. In his film he argues tough justice is working for the country, where the murder rate has fallen from 6,656 in 2015 to just 82 last year. Laugh if you wish, but everyone is talking about it, and he has ignited a proper debate on the subject.I’ve known Richard for years, as well as worked with him, and in the cut-throat world of TV, he is one of the kindest, hardest-working people I’ve ever met.The beautiful, tearful game Before she died, Jilly Cooper told producers of Disney+ series Rivals not to make her macho men cry too often.Sage advice, but I doubt it would work with Premier League footballers who blub if they win or lose. Thankfully, in Spurs’ case, we won this week, avoiding relegation – but that didn’t stop players crying a river longer than the Tiber.