Innovation is the result of iterative learning processes as well as environments that encourage experimentation, criticalinquiry, critical debate, and accept failures as a necessary part of the process.
To be sure, matters are complicated by the steady stream of new information from court cases and evidence to the Leveson inquiry, but irritation levels are clearly reaching critical and the committee seems to be becoming more and more polarised.
There are moments in politics where opinion reaches a critical mass and Estelle Morris may have fuelled that this morning by announcing an inquiry not just into what went wrong with this year's A-level grades but into the whole question of whether A-levels are "not what they used to be".