In our more dyspeptic moments we end up insisting that the Town and Country Planning Act, the entire idea of the Green Belt, is simply to make sure that none of these awful working class people, those proles, get to do anything in those rolling and admittedly lovely green acres of England.

So, everything should be nationalised and run as an economic democracy. This is the rallying call at least.

So British governance is edging toward economic reality then.

As rather the originators of the privatisation idea - based upon the clear observation that the British State could not succeessfully squeeze a wet teabag - it is possible for people to question the idea.

This thought that we should endow governance with the powers to do really useful cross-cutting strategic planning with strict conditionality.

As we all know we’re told that we should live more like Europeans. In flats. You know, stack-a-prole worker flats because that’s communal, social, and that protects our precious natural countryside.

We do take this to be a part of how the whole capitalism, markets, technological cycle works. We have some reasonable solution to a perceived human need or want. Businesses start up to provide that solution.

Apparently we’ve one of those economic crimes calling out to the very heavens for rectification.

The essential premise of the economic proposals of Professor Mariana Mazzucato is that if we get all those really clever people in government to really think hard and do stuff to us then we’ll be better off.

We know that Guardian readers are being told this - look, it’s right there in the newspaper - but whether they’ll make that mental leap to know it is unknown.

One of the proofs that we are not a party political organisation is that we welcome good policy wherever it stems from.

Last week we pointed out that to solve the Birmingham binmen strike it is necessary to pay teaching assistants more.