Well, I suppose they always have done, & maybe the BBC has always used this form of words to announce the new policies that are the result of all this thinking, but this week it has been grating on me
So far we have had the benefit of ministerial thoughts on
- the best way to treat a heart attack
- a new 5-a-day regime to maintain the health of our minds, to go with the one for our bodies
- how to teach children from 5 to 19 about adult things – sex, relationships, finance
I pin my hopes on the newly re-fashionable idea that governments should regulate markets. Then perhaps ministers will stop thinking that neo-classical endogenous growth theory means regulating us, will remember that education means drawing out, not cramming (either with facts or into a mould)
