Elle Macpherson says secret of eternal beauty lies in short-sightedness At 48, Elle Macpherson is one model who isn't worried about the passing years. "My eyesight started to go just about the same time as the elasticity in my face," she explains. So I don't see myself, I just see a blur and it's fantastic. As long as I don't put my glasses on, I'm good. David Cameron may have written Dennis Skinner off - he has called him a "dinosaur" and suggested that he take his pension - but there is life still in the Labour MP for Bolsover. After putting away his bicycle during a period of ill health, Skinner has lately remounted. I saw the old class warrior cutting a sedate path through Kensington Gardens - 12 miles or so from his home. His conveyance is an old boneshaker, and not, needless to say, a Boris bike. "I think of them as Ken bikes, anyway, as it was his predecessor's idea," Skinner tells me. My hip replacement operation has been a help. I like to cycle by nice flowers. Sadly, the roses I saw at Hyde Park Corner were a bit of a disappointment.