Calm exchanges at PMQs as all sides decide not to face the Ukrainian elephant in the house

Does the prime minister agree with me," asked Labour's Alex McIntyre, "that we are delivering opportunity for the next generation?"

- Zoe Williams

The soft-soap question from your own team is such a well-worn convention of PMQs that it was previously impossible to imagine anyone bringing anything new to it, but McIntyre was so trite and banal, with so much incongruous passion, nay, fury, that it was genuinely diverting. Good job, that man. Someone put a sticker on his suck-ass chart.

The real business was the PM's trip to Washington; and what a vast amount of business this encompasses. It's three years this week "since Putin's barbaric invasion of Ukraine", Keir Starmer reminded the house, and that grinding war still holds a unique place in the chamber - the issue on which every serious person is agreed.

Every party is proud to support Ukraine, proud of the generosity of the British people in opening their homes to refugees.

Kemi Badenoch and Starmer do not meaningfully disagree. And on the one hand, you might think that's fair - it's a war of aggression, and naturally all decent people side with the aggressed. But on the other, you think: why the hell not?