Dear Readers, our weekly rendezvous, via this column, is drawing to a close this month. It seems fitting, therefore, to comment on our Prime Minister's verdict on his Government's most dramatic domestic intervention - its childcare strategy.
Tony Blair invoked Sure Start to inaugurate his Let's Talk initiative, his failing Government's latest device for messing about with public services, and setting his agenda for his party before his party has the temerity to set its own agenda.
That aside, his comments last week are instructive for two reasons. First, he repeated the fiction that Sure Start has failed; second, he mobilised childcare not as an issue in and for itself, but in the service of something else.
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