Wait, a Lord Spiritual actually did something?!
I like to think that they were all sitting down to afternoon tea in the gardens of their respective Bishops Palaces when all of them heard (no doubt on Radio Four) that the government intended to include child benefit in the cap. And that then, and all at once, they spat out a mouthful of tea in horror. There would probably also have been the audible clinking of fine bone china as the cups were put down, and faster than normal, in their respective saucers. Heads would have been shaken, and perhaps they would also have been put off their Madeira Cake, at least for that particular moment. Something, the all thought to themselves, simply must be done.
Man, I belong to a really great religion.
