All hail Adele for committing the music industry's worst sin

Is Adele the bravest, craziest, most downright wonderful star in the history of pop? After what she has just told Q magazine on the subject of tax, I think she might well be.

Here's what she said: "I'm mortified to have to pay 50 per cent! [While] I use the NHS, I can't use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are ––––, and I've gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from [her album] 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire."

The reaction from Guardian readers online has been typically unpleasant: "£4 million is nothing compared to the money the NHS needs for the psychological damage her painfully bad excuse for…

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