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Fine piece.

I distantly recall Thatcher with Keith Joseph exhorting cabinet colleagues to read Samuel Smiles.
The Cameroons reading Hill and Booth? I fear not.
But were Clegg, whose opprobium among his colleagues can hardly increase, to suggest reading William Beveridge (on want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - in that order, and wherein architects can make a major impact on points 2, 3 and 4), well we can dream...