IT’S NOT A PIECE OF CAKE

Remember Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong who invented ‘economical with the truth’ at the farcical 1986 MI5 Spycatcher trial? As Lord Armstrong he’s economical with dates. In a House of Lords debate he said the Wiltshire police investigation into ex-PM Sir Edward Heath’s alleged paedophilia began in 1915. Er... 2015, m’lord?

New rules insisting children are taught about same-sex relationships will be the icing on the cake for gay activists.

But it’s the icing not on a cake which could stop it happening.

The Supreme Court ruled that Northern Ireland Christian bakery Ashers did not break discrimination laws by refusing to ice a cake with the slogan: “Support Gay Marriage.”

Schools minister Nick Gibb, above, says teachers must “explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships”. A consultation on how they go about that closes in 17 days. But if teachers in religious schools refuse, they could cite the Ashers case as justification. And that would be a pity.

One of the bravest political acts I’ve witnessed was David Cameron choosing the 2011 Tory conference to announce legalising same-sex marriage, knowing his audience’s homophobic hostility.

It will take similar courage to ensure children learn what it takes to forge good relationships, including same-sex ones. Not many MPs know this. Cheery German Bodo Friesecke, who serves them at Commons cash tills, played a sinister cable car man in Spectre with Daniel Craig (inset). He also had a part in Netflix series The Crown. Judging by reviews, his other roles should have MPs quaking. The Stage noted his “unenviable task of playing Nazi guards and officers”. And the Jewish Chronicle praised Bodo’s “jack-booted Nazis played with unnerving realism”.