I'm married. I'm very happy with this arrangement. But sometimes things crop up, things out of your control, that make you question the nature of your relationship. That make you think, are we doing the right thing?  Would it be better, perhaps to get divorced? 

I refer, of course, to the Tories' proposed tax break for married couples and civil partners. 

The government mooted this when they first came into power, and at that time I signed a pledge to donate any money we got as a result of the tax break to charities that support LGBT people or single-parent families. It's still an idea I like. There were lots of reasons I got married and not one of them was about the possibility of getting a little bit more money (or the promise of, we'll come to this in a minute) off the state.

Usually I write about what I want. A while ago I wrote about UniLads and was informed that giving them the oxygen of publicity wasn't going to help shut them down. Of course the oxygen of publicity probably did up UniLad's site stats, but it also drew sponsor's attention to the content of the site and a complete overhaul was required. A half-assed warning on the site regarding content that the easily offended might hackle at is not a triumph for those who rallied against the UniLad content. But it is a reaction. Had everyone kept schtum  their lips pursed as a prudish hen's arse, the blog would still be going, with no indication that it was unacceptable.