Fucking magnets, how do they work?

There’s a distinct air of the Victorian freak show in today’s Daily Mail. First of all the paper openly supports the mocking and humiliation of the woman who drunkenly urinated near a war memorial, then there’s the surprise that a gay man might want to get a civil partnership, and, most freakish of all, there’s a human magnet.

Looking on the bright side, she should never lose her keys.

But for mother-of-one Brenda Allison, her mysterious ‘power’ that means metallic objects stick to her body has long since lost its attraction.

Dubbed ‘the human magnet’, Miss Allison says she is often embarrassed by the effect, which she has been told is down to a heightened electromagnetic current running through her body.

Except…

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