With a 2100 three-line whip on the cards, I remained in my Dorset office dealing with constituency matters until mid afternoon. I rode my motorbike to London and with light traffic was at the Commons in reasonable time. Plenty to get on with. Votes on the Public Order Bill, which I support, came just before 2200. The Housing Secretary fiercely criticised Britain's biggest social landlord, Clarion, for not meeting "fundamental housing standards", as he warned the organisation must improve. The number of monkeypox cases rose by 36, bringing the total number of cases confirmed in England since May 7 to 56. And a Russian soldier who admitted murdering an unarmed 62-year-old Ukrainian civilian was sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of the conflict.