Miller argues that other Sure Start programmes are "only scratching the surface of what Sure Start can and should offer".
Robert Millar, the U.S. coach in the first World Cup, in 1930, looked jauntily Continental in his tweed overcoat, suit, and what sure looks like a beret.
"One of the oldest plots in the human story is child follows parent," he said recently, with what sure seemed like authentic boredom.
They have to have known that he was talking nonsense, that his numbers didn't remotely add up; and some of them made what sure look like patently disingenuous arguments about taxes, the business cycle, and more.
In May the stop-and-start hospital sitcom "Scrubs" had what sure looked like its final episode: parade of past characters, teary walk-off, blooper reel, production shots of the lead actors doing their "series wraps".
On one recent night, the playlist included, at pulverizing volume, Lady Gaga's "Applause," the inescapable "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke (at this point, no, we don't want it), Nicki Minaj's "Starships," and somewhere in there what sure sounded like a commercial for a Nissan "Drive and Save" sale.
The government is eager to know whether Sure Start "works"; and as it nervously awaits the answer, there is a temptation to issue more and more directives about what Sure Start programmes should do, despite the fact that the process of building a parent's trust and confidence, or nurturing the all-round development of a child, cannot be learned via a manual.
To Google, obviously, for being forced to come to terms with what sure looks from the outside like a culture of pervasive sexual harassment by a massive employee walkout in the same year its plans for a new censorship-friendly China search engine leaked.
