"International Women's Day"

I tried not to, honestly I did.

Who cares how many women MPs there are? Or black or Asian ones, for that matter? What matters is not a politician's sex or ethnicity, but that politician's opinions. That is where the real lack of diversity in Parliament now is, and where it is about to become even worse. Quotas for women lead to Margaret Thatcher. That was how she was ever made a Minister, and that was how she was ever brought into the Cabinet. The "gender pay gap", meanwhile, is explicable entirely - have you got that? entirely - by time off to have children.

LabourList today features numerous articles about "International Women's Day". And ConservativeHome has one by Theresa May, who has also popped up in the same vein on Comment Is Free. But neither says a word about Commonwealth Day. This is simply jaw-dropping to anyone who knows anything about the history of either party, right down there with the LabourList article defending Thatcher's abortion up to birth against the successors of John Smith and of those trade unionists and early Labour activists who resisted schemes to abort, contracept and sterilise the working class out of existence.

But then, who does know anything about the history of either party, these days?