We seem to live in a world where priorities take on different meanings for different people depending on their circumstances.   Woke up this morning feeling fine, with something special on my mind, to quote Herman and his Hermits.  And immediately my senses are invaded and thrown off course by the latest disclosures about an alleged `party` that might or might not have taken place in Downing Street on 18th December last year, when the country was supposed to be in lockdown.

It`s going on a bit - nonstop reports, `analysis,` comment from all parts; perhaps most tellingly from those who lost loved ones to the Pandemic at the same time as the `party` might have been in full swing.  It`s all very troubling and I may not be the only one who is waiting for Prime Minister`s Questions at high noon to see what Boris has to say for himself.  If it`s all true then maybe, just maybe, this might be the beginning of the end for Boris and all his eccentric blustering because what we really need, especially now, is some proper good old fashioned principled, honest leadership.   (There`s a Cabinet member from Southampton who might do nicely?)

But while all this is going on there are, of course, perhaps more pressing matters that should be concerning Parliament - the Covid pandemic, of course, the scandals emerging about the evacuation from Kabul, the threats emerging around Ukraine, the continuing migrant crisis and on and on they go.  And I woke up to the news that England had been dismissed for 147 in the first Test against Australia in Brisbane.

It reminded me that, when besieged by the stresses and strains of fighting the Tory leadership contest back in 1997, John Major took time out to write a Daily Telegraph obituary for his boyhood hero, Denis Compton.  Maybe he had his priorities right after all?