You can’t win. On the one hand politicians are told they’re all spin and never say what they really think and then when the PM shows a bit of leg at Easter time in asserting that the UK is an essentially ‘Christian country’ he gets slammed for being divisive.

Well, the PM’s right.

I’m not remotely apologetic, especially in this season, for at least aspiring to be a Christian or for asserting that this is a generally Christian country. Furthermore, my friends and associates of other faiths would be somewhat bemused at suggestions to the contrary and, I suspect, troubled by them.

However, I expect tolerance and mutual respect with a secular expression of the law under which all are reckoned equal.

My friend Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, is correctly reflecting public opinion in insisting that we curb the ability of rich London lawyers prospering at your expense from interminable technicality-based judicial reviews and legal aid funded challenges by non-British nationals in claims against the Government.

I’m pleased he’s seeking to limit legal aid to those that have at least been resident for a decent stretch.

We are lucky to have good schools locally and some very dedicated teachers.

However, I do so hope strike action, supported at this week’s National Union of Teachers conference, isn’t taken since students and parents will suffer.

Most of us in the public sector have seen at best a real terms pay freeze since 2010, including MPs and ministers, because the paymaster was stony broke.

The economy is now picking up so teachers, and everyone else, can expect better times, but striking won’t help and will lose the profession sympathy.

I’m in Gallipoli this week as the PM’s special representative for the centenary of the Great War.

The 100th anniversary of the Dardanelles campaign next year will be an important waypoint in the four-year centenary and one that, with our partners, it is important we mark appropriately.