Dua Lipa is, in case we forget, a pop star. “My day job,” she says with a grin. It is a post that has grabbed her six Brits and three Grammys. But she is restless and so, to fill time, runs a passion project website that commissions pieces with headlines such as “How the West enabled Putin and his oligarchs to safeguard billions”. Which is a world away from her sassy, snappy mega-hits that bring festival crowds to their feet.
Is there anything Lipa doesn’t do? Singer, publisher, interviewer: last month she launched a range of clothes with Donatella Versace. Next she makes her acting debut as a mermaid in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. She has even started a book club and, at just 27,