i stewed on it. i decided to write an article for the guardian's women's page and they lapped it up. presumably you were paid? yes, but i used a pseudonym because i didn't want to get in trouble. it taught me the power, if you need to speak truth to power, like the college authorities, there is a way of doing it. you were foreign correspondent at the ft, joined the times and then became only the second female editor of the sunday times, so does being a woman make any difference? these days, no, not really. i imagine my management style is different to some of my predecessors. it may not be a gender thing? it may be in an era thing. when i was younger, i was asked to cover the soft stories, the social affairs stories, stories seen as female. it is not like that now. genuinely, my entire newsdesk is run by women.