Everything Taylor Swift needs to know about the Cotswolds

For all the columns, radio hours, and social media whining devoted to Taylor Swift, the woman herself remains something of an empty space.

She's the biggest star in music, a self-made 34-year-old billionaire, currently on the European leg of a stadium tour that has broken more records than a rogue elephant in HMV.

Nevertheless, what we know of her inner life is largely projection.

No one could blame the woman who named her most recent album The department of tortured poets of using a switchblade when a sledgehammer was available.

She enjoys a glass of rosé with her friends, short ...