I was lucky enough to be a judge for the Women's Hour Power List and spoke to the BBC about the judging process and how we decided on our top 20. Click Read more to see the clip, and click here to take a look at the full list of 100 amazing women.
Being an MP...
If you want to know what it was like being an MP, this is my 8 years as an MP reduced down to 15 minutes. Read more...
DIVERSITY - IS IT BETTER TO BE MIXED RACE?
Sometimes being mixed race is like having a cloak of invisibility. The most remarkable hour of my life came when I put on a head scarf and went out alone to witness riots on the 'Arab street' in the Gaza Strip in June 2003. If the thousands of young Palestinians had known I was a Jew with an American and British passport, and an MP to boot, at best they would have kidnapped me, at worst killed me on the spot.