I remember a series of Two Ronnies sketches in the 1980s entitled The Worm Has Turned.

The basic premise of the sketches was that Britain in 2012 was being run totally by women. Their leader, played by Diana Dors, ruled with an iron fist. She and her leather clad bevy of blonde stormtroopers strutted around with total contempt for males. The two housecoated Ronnies, leaning on their mops and buckets, looked on in complete resignation and subjugation. I laughed at it then.

Move on to this week when I decided to catch up with the first three episodes of the new BBC drama The Bodyguard. A basic storyline of anti-terrorism with an interesting twist.

The first scenes are of a female suicide bomber on a train. Stormed by armed police, the first frontline gun-toting officer in charge, is a woman. The sniper wanting to get a clear shot, a woman. The police officer disarming the bomb, a woman. The Home Secretary, a woman. The head of Personal Protection of VIPs, a woman. The head of Counter Terrorism, a woman. All competing to spit out the ‘F’ word with more gusto than the previous.

What visionaries those Two Ronnies were.

W J Drummond,

Ings View, Tollerton