What with a bunch of crotch-grabbing women locked up by Endemol, fighting for the delights of a man who willingly applies blond highlights to his hair and the name "Ziggy" to his personage, and the indomitable Katie from The Apprentice battling it out with a lady who makes push-up bras, there just aren't enough women around setting back the feminist cause, don't you think?
So thank heavens for Petronella Wyatt, taking on the might that is Hazel Blears "(all 4ft 10in of her!)" in the Daily Mail today. Petsy's opening questions - "Do you mind being so short?" - quickly establish her as the John Humphries of our age, and when she informs Blears that she (Blears, obviously, never La Wyatt) used to resemble "a member of a female Soviet tank corps", well, one can only cheer at the influence Trinny & Susanna have had on the Spectator staff. The closing image of Hazel teaching Petsy how to tapdance - "Shuffle with your shoe, Petronella, front to back" - is the final proof on the Angela Merkel, Hilary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi pudding that proves women are at last being allowed to take advantage of the opportunities finally open to them.
