Black cabs – they’re a symbol of safety

Whatever Worboys did, it will still be glad confident evening again for all women across the capital. Of course, his violent, pervy career was terrible. But it was so much worse to read the reaction of some women who wrote pieces saying that the black cab - symbol of safety on London streets - could no longer be a port in the storm for women alone, late at night.

I find this incredibly irresponsible. The truth is, if the police had appealed to all the black-cab drivers for help, it is likely that Worboys would have been caught years ago. Given the alternatives - drunken drivers, unlicensed minicabs, night buses, long walks in unlit streets - it would be a catastrophe if this sick loser caused even one woman to avoid taking black cabs.

Black cabs are one of London's top brands. Black cabs are brilliant. They are safe and recognisable. Cabbies always know where they're going, and are the only men I know who can make my day by calling me blossom. They need our fares and our faith in their trade. Taxi!

* Has thuddingly literal US-style advertising (Take Advil! It works!) come to London? Reason I ask - the cabs that are currently cruising about advertising a special type of flatulence pants called Shreddies. Now I know more than I need to about package enhancement, odour filtration and scrotal - am I allowed to say this? - support. Still, the direct approach works. Ordering mine now.

* This last spot is reserved for totty and, therefore, who better to drool over than French rugby's Sebastien Chabal? I don't know what it is about this beardie's Cro-Magnon brow, whipping manlocks and taut thighs straining against the combined weight of the entire England team but whenever I see him I get a terrible "You Tarzan, Me Jane" rush and feel like crawling back into the cave, clad only in a fur loincloth. It's odd that he's had to channel a look fashionable at about the time that men ran with mammoths to achieve this devastating effect but, frankly, we women don't care. The Caveman. He's just so hot right now.