Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Philip Davies MP, the parliamentary spokesman for the Campaign Against Political Correctness, made my cry.

It happened while watching a recording of Parliament’s Backbench Business Committee, which is enough to reduce anyone to tears of boredom, but it was the words of Philip Davies, known affectionately by colleagues as a sexist troglodyte, that made me weep.

It is the second year running that Davies, who thinks “ feminist zealots want women to have their cake and eat it ”, has argued that because Parliament has a women’s debate on International Women’s Day, there should also be a debate on men’s issues, for International Men’s Day.

Last year, Davies was eventually granted a debate in Westminster Hall, parliament's overflow room. Happily, I've just heard that this year he's gone one better. His motion been successful: there will be an historic debate on men's rights in the main chamber.