The tories: change we can believe in ... that being no change at all

The idea that the new government represents a change of direction is rapidly descending from tragedy (their position regarding Brussels: namely on all fours with their trousers round their ankles, clutching a bottle of poppers) into farce, with Michael Gove's latest announcement, the only explanation for which I can suggest is that he found it doodled on a scrap of paper down the back of his office couch, where it slipped during a blue-sky imagineering wankathon under the last government. Or else he's had an attack of the vapours.