[West Ender]

The Trevor McDonald programme on ITV tonight was very interesting. The Muslim girl who was in "The Apprentice", very Westernised but still a good Muslim, tried wearing a niqab for a while and hated it. She also talked to women who do wear it and got their reasons, most of which didn't make a lot of sense to me.

She's a young woman I can admire. She dresses in Western clothes and doesn't cover her head but it doesn't interfere with her religious beliefs. She's smart and intelligent and she has a mind of her own. She would make the perfect role-model for the sheep-like women who are now following extremist dictation and, effectively, oppressing themselves due to a misplaced sense of religious identity.