When I was very young one of the picture books I enjoyed – favourably reviewed, so I see now, even by the New Yorker – was Richard Scarry’s What do people do all day? Set in Busytown, there was a pervasive sense of activity and, well, busyness. I don’t think the book had a separate entry for government policy advisers, but the book came to mind as I reflected on a Treasury guest lecture I went to yesterday.
A recently-retired MBIE official had been invited by Treasury to share her experiences of 10 years in the regional economic development wing of MBIE (or its predecessor the Ministry of Economic Development (MED)), and the title of the lecture was “The Great Cat Muster”. At the start of the lecture she asked us to observe Chatham House rules, by which she meant that anything she said could be reported…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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