Peter Rhodes on healthy minds, secret voting and happy hunting for Harriet

So, hands up, anyone who is surprised that nobody put their hands up. Thought so; nobody.

Ms Bruce would probably have got another no-hands results if she had asked who voted Tory at the last General Election, who smacks their kids and who looks at porn on the internet. You'd get a slightly different result, however, if you asked the same questions in the privacy of a voting booth.

Now, after the Appeal Court setback for the Rwanda plan, some Tories are proposing a national referendum on whether Britain should quit the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), to give us greater powers to chuck out bogus asylum seekers without those pesky Euro-courts interfering.

In effect, it would be a referendum on migration, with a secret ballot and no-one knowing how you voted. I'm fairly sure the UK population would vote to quit the ECHR with a big majority, while future members of the Question Time audience would swear blind they never voted for it, honestly.

It's been a good time for Harriet Harman. Last month, as chair of the Commons' privileges committee, she had the satisfaction of seeing Boris Johnson “convicted” of lying to Parliament. A few days later, as chair of the Fawcett Society, she rejoiced as the press watchdog Ipso denounced Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column on Meghan as “sexist”.

That's two middle-aged male scalps in a couple of weeks. For a feminist it doesn't get any better.

The ideal young man possesses, in the old Latin maxim “Mens sana in corpore sano”, a healthy mind in a healthy body. Today's gym culture tends to overlook the first bit.

This may explain why a young, handsome and beautifully toned fitness instructor from Bristol not only carved his and his girlfriend's names on a wall of the Colosseum in Rome but was happy to be filmed doing it. A perfect body - but not much going on between the ears: Mens thicko in corpore sano.