First Joanna Lumley gives the Government what for, and then M&S  – facing an army of angry, well-endowed women looming over the horizon – does the sensible thing and drops its £2 big bra ‘tax’.

It’s enough to make Mrs Pankhurst proud.

Ms Lumley – still something of a New Avenger when it comes to the Gurkhas – ambushed the immigration minister yesterday.

She forced him to set out exactly what the Government was going to do over allowing former Gurkhas the right to live in Britain.

Poor old Phil Woolas. It must have been like being picked out by the headmistress at school assembly.

As for the bra issue, it’s been out talking point for the past few days and has attracted a number of comments. Click here to read more.

M&S said the extra material and extra engineering involved (engineering? I don’t imagine Brunel or Telford spent hours awake on that one) in making a larger bra meant it was justified in charging £2 more than it would for a smaller bra.

“Hang on a minute, that’s not fair,” said several thousand women. They got together internet petitions and rounded on M&S managers.

Those managers – sensibly enough – decided the game was up. “It’s clear we’ve got it wrong this time,” said M&S chief executive Sir Stuart Rose.

So, is this a new era we’re entering, one in which women call the shots and dictate policy?

It certainly seems so. Apparently ministers are even considering putting women in charge of the major banks – they’re less reckless than men, you see, not so at the mercy of testosterone.

As they say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

And if you really want to make her angry, try and overcharge her for a bra.