As well as fronting Channel 4 News four nights a week, Cathy Newman makes documentaries, is an ambassador for various charities and has just published a book, Bloody Brilliant Women

For someone whose job is to interrogate newsmakers, the Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman is talented at inserting her own name into the headlines, however inadvertently. Earlier this year, her interview with the controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson went viral (12m views on YouTube). His supporters crowed that their hero, who remained unruffled throughout, had thrashed Newman in their argument about the differences between men and women; the encounter became a parable for the mutual incomprehension of the alt-right and metropolitan bien-pensants.

“I enjoyed the interview and Jordan Peterson enjoyed the interview,” Newman says doughtily. Really? “Well, obviously, there were things I might have done differently; I was a bit repetitive in my questions and there were arguments where I didn’t feel qualified to