If I Ruled The World Sheila Hancock

Dame Sheila Hancock is the multiple Sunday Timesbestselling author, and one of Britain's best loved actors of stage and screen

- Dame Sheila Hancock

All showers would be the same.

Every hotel or house you go into has a different shower and, invariably, you have to find which is the overhead one, and which is the hand-held one. I hate water coming on my hair because it ruins it, and it’s a nightmare. If all showers, even the ones in homes, were exactly the same, you would always know how to work them.

Couples over 60 would be forced to learn what their partner does around the house.

Women would know how to change a lightbulb, and turn the fuse off, while men would be able to do things like cook and sweep the floor. So, if your other half dies, you won’t end up in that awful situation where you don’t know how to do the finances, what your insurance is, or perhaps just starve to death because you’ve never cooked anything beyond a cup of tea.

We would stop politicians talking in superlatives.