How easy it is to score a century from the pavilion. I wish I had a penny for every time I heard that adage at Westminster. I heard it again in my imagination as I thought of the Home Office trying to absorb the Church’s latest pronouncements on penal reform, set out in A Journey of Hope, a report commissioned by Bishop Richard Moth, the lead bishop for prisons in England and Wales. Some of its content is sound common sense but there is also a lot of starry-eyed idealism, which should have been balanced by some very practical considerations but which was not.