Our thanks to the supporter who’s just emailed us the following link along with the comment, ‘I thought you might (dis)like this’:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/10553572/Emma-Thompson-calls-for-more-actresses-to-be-cast-in-male-roles.html

He continues:

How absurd. What’s wrong with women these days? I wouldn’t fancy going to the theatre to see a man play Jane Austen, Queen Elizabeth I, Margaret Thatcher, Florence Nightingale, Boadicea, Joan of Arc, Eva Peron, or Mother Theresa… who would? I propose Emma Thompson for your next ‘Whiny Woman of the Month’.

Well, that’s Emma Thompson in the frame for the award next month, along with Jo Swinson MP, who’s been proposed by a number of supporters. She’s whiny even by the soul-crushingly dismal standards of Lib Dem MPs. There are, of course, many female Labour MPs who might be in contention this year, obvious candidates being Harriet Harman, Yvette Balls (née Cooper), the teeth-gratingly whiny Eagle sisters…