Red Nigella?

Was I the only person whose jaw dropped as Nigella Lawson prepared Christmas treats while a piano tinkled the tune of The Red Flag on her dreadful television show last night?

Here was one of the country's richest women fluttering her eye lashes and pouting along to one of the mightiest anthems ever penned.

Please, pedants, don't point out that the tune is actually that of an old German song - today it resonates because of its links with the socialist movement.

What next? Delia Smith cooking a souffle to the strains of the Internationale?