Back in the 1980s, the story went that there were three properly powerful women in Britain: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Queen, and Esther Rantzen.
Only one of them, as far as we know, celebrated her 50th birthday by running stark naked around the garden, save for a large hat. And only one would openly delight in being a thorn in the side of the Establishment.
Dame Esther Rantzen, who died yesterday at the age of 86 after a long battle with cancer, had planned to end her life at Dignitas, the Swiss assisted dying clinic.
She announced she had joined Dignitas in
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