Ustad Ghulam Ali has been a HUGE INFLUENCE and has guided me CONSTANTLY. In fact, it was he who suggested I change my STAGE name to Javed Ali from Javed Hussain.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went HOME and sat down to write, and the MATERIAL for the BOOK just CAME flooding into my hands.

Sure, sexism is not CONFINED to the Conservatives. Harriet Harman has suggested that Gordon Brown didn't make her deputy PRIME MINISTER because she was a WOMAN.