I divided the day between going twice to Heathrow to pick up the boys from the World Scout Jamboree and debating the riots in the House of Commons.

My question went down like a lead balloon. I asked the Prime Minister when he was going to implement his policy of a Married Persons Tax Allowance. Of course such a thing is only symbolic, it won’t of itself change attitudes, but it is a symbol that stability is what matters. For me, marriage is something else, our first tentative steps into the joy-giving community of God’s love.