Nothing To Herald

David Cameron is, at his own request, interviewed in this week's Catholic Herald, out tomorrow. Don't get too excited. By all accounts, it is the usual rubbish.

Claiming to support marriage while in fact proposing vague or minimal benefits for every imaginable combination of bodies and babies, the latter a related but nevertheless different public good for which other provision rightly exists already.

Supporting a negligible reduction in the upper time limit for abortion, though not in the cases in which Thatcher extended that limit to partial birth.

Opposing assisted suicide, welcome in itself, though nothing to distinguish him from Gordon Brown, as for some reason Cameron seems to think that it is.

And supporting the retention of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, Catholic anger at which gave his party Gwyneth Dunwoody's seat, and which provides for human-animal hybridity, for the creation of babies as spare parts, for the registration of two women as the parents on a birth certificate, and for the registration even of two men neither of whom could possibly have given birth.

The sex education thing has thankfully been lost in the wash up, anyway. Doesn't Cameron know that?