Emma Watson hints at writing career Rattling cages Good for my old pal Lord Prescott for putting some clear red water between himself and the Twitter "trolls" who went berserk about Lady Thatcher after the television premiere of The Iron Lady. "We might have disagreed with her policies - and I did repeatedly - but we should wish any ill person a full and quick recovery," he admonished them. With some under-statement, the Tory MP Stewart Jackson noted that the showing of the controversial film about the former prime minister's life had brought out the worst "Leftist pond life" in the blogosphere. Incidentally, "Leftist" hirelings of The Financial Times resort to more Luddite-like methods to get their views across. One of its theatre critics spoke with pride the other day about how, when he went to see a production at the National, he had the words "Still hate Thatcher" emblazoned across his ample bosom. Age concern Wilbur Smith told The Daily Telegraph that he had reached an age when he was aware that he had "a definite term" left to enjoy what life had to offer. No surprise, then, that the novelist was less than happy when John Humphrys casually cheated him of a decade when he claimed on the Today programme that he is almost 90, when, in fact, he is almost 80. Diplomatically, the gaffe is redacted for the version available on BBC iPlayer. And Humphrys, I might add, is almost 70.