A night to remember – The Dowager Viscountess Rothermere’s charity, The Lady R Foundation, gave a concert and dinner for 300 supporters of Veterans Aid at St John’s Smith Square. Lady R and Angela RIppon serve the services. A very eclectic gathering of haves and have-nots – and a tribute to two exceptionally ‘hands on’ charities.

If the Taliban return . . .

Glad to see The Observer giving column inches to this – described to me by a number of commissioning editors as ‘old news’.   We don’t want out burqas back

I wrote this in 2007! A woman among warlords