He is right to want to do his research, but he must understand that the vagaries of the rhetorically winning one-nation formula will not provide shelter for long.
There will be a knock-on effect to Stormont departments via the devolved nations spending formula.
As cultural norms and laws in the United States shift, more women are breastfeeding, and a plateau in the market for substitutes has left manufacturers turning to developing nations, where formula is sometimes viewed as a healthier alternative and thus a status symbol by a growing middle class.
The nation's favourite formula one commentator is responsible for creating that fabulous rhyming slogan uncannily similar to "An apple a day keeps the doctor away".
Shanghai became the biggest, richest, most globalised mass of modernity in China, home to the most luxurious boutiques, the tallest buildings, the nation's first formula one track, the biggest auto companies, the second busiest port in the world and a gathering horde of international salesmen trying to sell the American consumer lifestyle.
Those pushing for a no vote said its £2,115 spending on health per person in 2012-13, compared with England's £1,912, showed how the UK helps its devolved nations through the Barnett formula – arguably at the expense of England.
As with the Conservative pledge, a proportion of the extra money would be allocated to the devolved nations under the Barnett formula.
Competing nations are using the formula that we developed to beat us at our own game.
As we tinkered with our once winning formula, other nations, continued teaching math in much the way as I learned it back in the 1950's and 1960's, are whizzing past us.
The classic formula of nationalism, to make "every nation a state and every state a nation," results in what Minorities Section Director of the League of Nations P. de Azcarate described as an international "crisis".
Since the figures prompted predictable calls for more sentences, longer sentences and tougher jails, let's look at a nation where exactly that formula has been applied.
