"I name this lead balloon Big Society." I assume that is what David Cameron yesterday told delegates at the Conservative Party conference, such was their muted reaction.
Has David Cameron dropped the biggest hint yet that changes are afoot for Sure Start?
Some have lived in hope since day one of the coalition government that, sooner rather than later, some detail of policy will be enough to tear it apart.
It's a new dawn, as Tony Blair once said: in this case, we can now be part of David Cameron's Big Society. Trouble is, short of running a museum during the evenings in Liverpool, many of us are struggling with the idea.
I blame man-of-the-moment Nick Clegg. The Lib Dems' leader started it by calling calling Gordon Brown a "desperate politician". He could equally have levelled that charge against David Cameron, because two of the Conservatives' campaign moves this week have the mark of the last-chance saloon.
Will he cut or won't he cut? And, if he does cut, where will he cut?
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.
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