None of these qualities necessarily stop you wanting things, knowing what you enjoy, and being able to weigh up how to decide.
The final article in our series argues that while the primary focus should be deficit reduction, there may yet be room to make life a bit easier, particularly for the poorest.
Our mini-series this week revealed points of broad consensus and points of approaching conflict on the centre right in terms of how the tax burden is distributed.
The underlying motive for this tradition, though now often dressed up in quasi-medical language, is as much aesthetic as sanitary.
And there are other policies she could pursue. More nurseries in primary schools. Tougher school discipline. Longer sentences for child abuse.
The policy risks more than 4,000 jobs but will only reduce calorie intake by five calories per person, per day.
Demonising one product surely cannot be the answer.
Small retailers will be hit hard.
This is about encouraging industry to reduce sugar content, improve school sport and empower parents, not abolish individual responsibility.
The TPA identifies 325 taxpayer-funded public health employees. Combined with Public Health England’s budget of around £3.6 billion, this is an expensive and powerful lobby.
Now that Osborne has gone, so too should this un-conservative levy.
Only ten years ago we’d have been mid-table, but since 2007 single-issue campaigners have struck a string of blows against lifestyle freedom.
Plus: Contrite Soubry. Ashcroft’s Party. The Chancellor’s forecasts and the OBR’s admission. P.S: Re those Clarke memoirs, I admit that I can’t wait to read them.
A commitment to social justice has always been at the heart of conservatism. Now we need to do more to support families, health and relationships.