ANNE DIAMOND 19TH NOVEMBER

Today is World Toilet Day. Perhaps it’s celebrating something most of us take absolutely for granted – until you’re somewhere far flung on holiday, traipsing around the Pyramids or visiting the bazaar in Mumbai and get caught short and cannot find a loo, or find one of which you’d rather not partake even though you’re desperate. There are millions of people (it’s reckoned one in four of the global population) who literally do not have access to what is nowadays seen as a basic human right – and two million children die every year from diarrhoea, a condition that’s totally preventable and would be immediately improved dramatically by the building of more toilets. So snigger ye not when you hear more about World Toilet Day – it’s an issue not to be sniffed at.