We have been spoilt in recent years. Hugely complex issues, with persuasive arguments on both sides, have been reduced to simple slogans. “Take Back Control” and “Get Brexit Done” both tapped into the dominant psychological dynamic of our age to outmanoeuvre facts, experts and reason. Whether you agreed or not, they worked. “Stay Home” was equally compelling, an invitation to indulge in the terror posed by a rampant pandemic and confront it with blanket bans, mass restrictions and universal prescriptions. We never tried a scalpel – this was sledgehammer time. Yet even within the comparatively clear parameters of the Government’s original advice, in the process of passing the policy on we ended up with police drones, and local coppers curating our weekly shop.