As any good Spectator subscriber knows, Joan Collins is a national institution. The Hollywood star took centre stage at last night’s big Thatcher Centre bash to mark one hundred years since the Iron Lady’s birth. Boris Johnson reminisced about Collins’ diaries when he edited this august outlet some twenty years ago. But it was left to Sir Conor Burns, the former MP for Bournemouth West, to deliver the best line about the Golden Globe winner. Having joked that any future autobiography ought to be called ‘Dominated by Blondes ‘, given his friendship with both Thatcher and Johnson, he introduced Collins thus:

Her performances are known, I imagine, to everyone in this room… The Wayward Bus , the Bitter End , Tales from the Crypt , Seven Thieves , Rally Around The Flag Boys , the

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