I was in Asia when a Newsweek cover pronounced 'Cool Britannia', and I knew the country's cultural decline was now assured. The minute the pols believe their own PR and, worse, try to spin it themselves, they are on the long slippy, slope that only trying to be the first to be second can confer. You are not cool if you say you are. You are cool by being it.
And so it is with innovation.
This - UK falls from innovation elite - saddens, but does not surprise me. And it may make an interesting study for Mr. Brown to commission. First create a few thousand more (750,000 on his watch, apparently. All index-linked and gold-plated) unproductive, public-service, but grateful, beholden voters. Then get them to look into the relative rise of quangos and initiatives supposedly designed to promote innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, plus the amounts that get spent on admin and doling out the money, and what actually gets anywhere helpful. Then relate to the above fact.
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