Thank you Alastair McLellan. The Health Service Journal's editor has jolted me out of my Yes Minister politician's syllogism conceptual reverie.

We are not in Yes Minister territory: that's far too tightly plotted.

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We're in Monty Python's Life Of Brian terrain, as reimagined by Andrew Lansley.

We've now got the Roman invasion imagery, with the creation of clinical senates.

The White Paper and the Health And Social Care Bill were the badly-written graffiti of "Romanes enunt domus"; now being corrected by Centurion Cameron to "Romani ite domum".

The factionalism between the Coalition Government's parties (which is not purely along party lines) ressembles the People's Front Of Judea / Judean People's Front animosoty. So too, in a less obvious but very present way does the eternal 'you're arrogant' 'you're thick' GP-consultant dynamic.

Lansley, obviously, is Brian - the man mistaken for the Messiah. Telling people "you're all individuals. You've all got to think for yourselves!"

I'm not quite sure where the crucifixion bit comes in, but then, we're not at the end yet.