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Let’s appoint a Ministry of Scandalous Ideas

Plus: Miliband could solve all his problems by appointing Ed Balls to be his grilled tomato

3 January 2015

9:00 AM

3 January 2015

9:00 AM

My children have a phrase called ‘fomo’ — which stands for ‘fear of missing out’. It is a constant, mildly paranoid anxiety, exacerbated by social media, that all your friends are having a much better time than you are.

There is a related problem in government, I suspect, called FODM — or ‘fear of Daily Mail’.

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