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There is, of course, a TMI (Too Much Information) moment during my interview with Cherie Blair. It happens when I ask how she and Tony spend time together, when they're both back home in Connaught Square after a hard week bringing peace to the Middle East (him) and setting up a further studies scholarship programme for African legal practitioners (her). Do they go out for dinner, catch up on geopolitical opinions, go for a walk? Cherie smiles even more widely than normal. 'Tony and I have been married 31 years and known each other more like 35 years, and even after 35 years,' she gurgles with laughter, 'he still excites me, in all possible ways.' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I RECENTLY attended an inspirational event at St James's Palace at which campaigners and Commonwealth diplomats called on their leaders to ensure all schoolchildren have access to affordable eyecare by 2030. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WE LIVE in one of the world's most vibrant cities. From its history and art galleries to Theatreland, restaurants, bars and shops, it's not hard to see why Londoners are envied the world over. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

INTERNATIONAL Women's Day has trained peoples' minds on the question of progress. Where are we on women's rights? How far away is gender equality? Are we in the grip of a feminist revolution or a sexist backlash? It's hard to shake the feeling that we are slipping backwards. Last year the World Economic Forum warned that economic equality is a shocking 170 years away. In the US — and worldwide — there are growing threats to women's reproductive freedoms, while in the UK, campaigners are concerned that Brexit could undo legal protections for part-time workers, the majority of whom are women. Looking back on my own life throws up more bleak examples. When the Equal Pay Act came into force in 1975, I assumed that pay inequality would be 'fixed' in a matter of years. Beware the optimism of youth. Government figures show that at today's rate of progress, parity won't be reached until 2069. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS WE mark International Women's Day tomorrow, we've been reminded yet again of why the event remains important. This week's headlines over the lack of women in the boardroom underline both the distance we still have to travel to reach true equality of opportunity and the price we are paying for failing to close the gap. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS FORMER President George W Bush knows, I rarely waste an opportunity to press the case against the death penalty. In his recently published memoirs, he recalls a heated debate between us over capital punishment which, to my husband's discomfort, threatened to derail an informal dinner at Chequers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT'S hard not to come away depressed when you talk, as I did recently, to teenage Londoners serving prison sentences for knife crime. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT'S hard not to come away depressed when you talk, as I did recently, to teenage Londoners serving prison sentences for knife crime. They seem very tough. Indeed, the governor of the young offenders' institution said they made inmates from Bristol, for example, look like children. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]