In Strasbourg I go to the 7:30 Mass in a small chapel at the back of the Cathedral. Although it is only a ‘low’ daily mass, the priests there sing it with great reverence. It is a fine mass and worth getting up for.

I was asking a question of the Prime Minister of Georgia. We have just witnessed the peaceful handover of power in an ex-Soviet bloc country. But things, particularly with the judiciary, are already slipping.