Wednesday

EU Select Committee in the morning. Lunchtime at Caroline Cox's meeting on Shari'a in the UK. Party meeting at 14.00. Question at 15.30. Debate on migrant domestic workers at 16.45. Mort Sklar and Sarah arrived to stay for a few days in the evening.

Tuesday, to Oxford for meeting of the Maurice Lubbock Memorial Fund Trustees, followed by a tour by the trustees of Balliol's new archive centre in the redundant St Cross Church, Holywell Manor, given by Dr John Jones, who was the driving force behind the creation of the centre.

Then to the Engineering Department for their Open Day, see www.soue.org.uk/events/open2011.html, and for the Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture, given by Professor Thomas Hofmann, see below.