Last night I dreamt I was the leader of an activist group, fighting against a new state law requiring all high school girls to wear dresses as uniform and banning schools from allowing girls to wear shorts or pants.

My winning debate strategies were these:

• Making intelligent, well formed points that brought a tear to the eye of the watching audience about the systematic repression of women.
• Biting anyone who tried to remove me from the platform really, really hard.

I still think that if Parliament was to adopt these habits, everything would run a lot smoother than it does now.