While once again on the streets of Westminster, a minute or two from the Houses of Parliament, I was asked about Finland. I looked at the man, an intelligent man who works for various think tanks and prides himself on his thinking. Take his thinking away from him and you deprive him of his means of making a good living. Yet he is asking about Finland.
“Sod Finland.”
When I said this – out of frustration, not out of reasoned thinking – he looked at me, discombobulated.
“But they say Finland is the answer. They don’t
