I fear for the health of the policy gurus at Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice. Their seeming long hours and late nights dedicated to keeping us informed of the continuing tremors along the fault line of broken Britain appear to be inducing a form of amnesia.
This is what the controversy was about.
Will he cut or won't he cut? And, if he does cut, where will he cut?
I thought these days had been consigned to history: when psychotherapists attempt to convert gay men (but not lesbians, curiously) to a life of heterosexuality.
Perhaps when, in 1999, Labour pledged to halve child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020, the party leadership thought this grand aim would have been forgotten 11 years later.
Aren't public sector workers doing well? Private sector employees may have that impression after mulling over earnings figures released by the Office of National Statistics last week.
Seldom does the letters page of the Daily Telegraph carry words of praise for social workers.
David Cameron used Prime Minister's Question Time yesterday to flag the Conservative Party's policy on publishing serious case reviews in full - and left Gordon Brown accusing the leader of the opposition of being "isolated" from the experts.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's likely decision to deny a new drug to NHS patients with rheumatoid arthritis has been described as a postcode lottery.
It was only a matter of time before the burka debate spread across La Manche. And so at the weekend UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, seized its chance.
