
Whatever your politics, your philosophies or your musical tastes; however critical or curmudgeonly you are, it would be impossible to hate Dolly Parton.
She is a rainbow, a sunflower, an angel in human form. Even if you loathe country music and feel violent every time you hear Islands In The Stream, you cannot loathe Dolly. The woman has just donated $1 million to aid research into paediatric infectious diseases after shelling out a previous $1m to fund the Moderna vaccine rollout way back in the darkst of coronavirus times.