Despite what certain scurrilous publications have said about him, no doubt to foment discord in an otherwise harmonious party, I really am indebted to Christopher Pyne for his recent statesmanlike contribution to the political debate. His performance in the Cherry Bar in Sydney was not, as some of those publications have malevolently contended, simply a piece of undergraduate gloating about the triumph of the darlings of the left over the dark satanic forces of conservatism.