Nadira talks here about why she is taking part in The Vagina Monologues in aid of V-Day.

http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/offwestend/?p=1036

Being a male fuddy-duddy I worry a bit about the stresses of stage performance for someone six months pregnant! She seems to be relishing it though, and looks great to me.

Nadira has developed a whole life of involvement with women’s issues and charities quite separate from me, and still continues to surprise me after six pretty dramatic years together.

I see from the same site that Deep Cut is coming to the Tricicle Theatre from 11 March. I couldn’t get a ticket for it in Edinburgh, but those who saw it tell me it is riveting theatre, as well as an expose of one of the weirdest cover-ups of the New Labour years.