I have, in a grim week, some good news for you. Not just good, but clear, concise and practical news. It is the publication yesterday of some important recommendations which don't involve spending trillions the country hasn't got in the first place, and which will improve the lives and futures of a huge proportion of the population. Fast.
The - perhaps unlikely - stars of this published report are our public libraries. Not, you might think, an immediately sexy subject. But it can be. And if the panel of yesterday's Sieghart report on the future of libraries has its way, it will be. In England, more than a third of the population visits their local library. In the poorest areas of the country - and at least 20 per cent of the population have no digital technology at home - that number rises to a half.
